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Comedy legend, playwright and author Ben Elton is to host a special evening of stand up comedy for disability equality charity Scope. Ben Elton's Comedy Night for Scope is at The Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Saturday 21 December 2019.
The full line-up is still to be announced.
Comedian Ben Elton has given an intriguing interview to the Guardian in which he talks about his early days in stand-up, his decision to embark on a new tour at the age of sixty and the problem with being accused of selling out.
Here's an old clip of Stewart Lee talking about Ben Elton.
Watch Stewart Lee on Ben Elton below.
Ben Elton is to return to stand-up with his first major tour in over a decade.
Elton promises to try and make sense of a world which appears to have gone stark raving mad in the new show.
The veteran comic says: "The last time I toured I was still smarter than my phone. Things have definitely taken a funny turn."
The 53 date tour starts in Dublin on 27 September and currently finishes in Torquay on 30 November.
In a wide-ranging talk, given at the BBC as the inaugural Ronnie Barker Comedy Lecture, comedian Ben Elton has spoken out in defence of mainstream studio sitcoms such as Mrs Brown’s Boys and talked about his own career at the BBC from the Young Ones and Blackadder through to Upstart Crow via the less well-received The Wright Way.
Comedian and writer Ben Elton is to deliver the inaugural The Ronnie Barker Talk on BBC One.
A passion project of Shane Allen, Controller, Comedy Commissioning at the BBC, the annual The Ronnie Barker Talk is a lecture on a comedy=related theme, named in honour of the late, legendary comedian, actor and writer Ronnie Barker OBE and has been developed with the approval of his family.
As revealed earlier this week on Beyond The Joke Noel Fielding is one of the star guests in the second series of the Ben Elton sitcom Upstart Crow. It has also been announced that Emma Thompson will appear in the Christmas Special as Queen Elizabeth I.
It’s great to report that the first episode of Upstart Crow was not a fluke. Writer Ben Elton repeats the trick again in the second episode. In fact if there is a problem here it isn't so much that this week’s episode is like Blackadder, it’s more a case that it is too much like last week’s episode.
Never mind Leicester winning the league, what odds would you have got on Ben Elton being funny again? But hold the front page Elton has got his mojo back. Well, everything is relative. After his appalling The Wright Way it looked like the acclaimed comic might never make us laugh again. But he has done it with Upstart Crow, which, let’s not mince words, is Blackadder Does The Bard.
David Mitchell is to star as William Shakespeare in a pilot recording of a new situation comedy about the life of the nation's best-loved bard before he became famous. It is entitled Upstart Crow and according to a report on Chortle it is being written by Ben Elton.
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