He has written three plays for the London stage, including the multi-award-winning Popcorn. More recently he has had successes with three hit West End musicals, including the global phenomenon We Will Rock You.
He has received accolades for his hit TV sit-coms, The Young Ones, Blackadder and The Thin Blue Line. His ground breaking work as a TV stand-up comedian set the (high) standard of what was to follow. His career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past twenty years. He wanted to be a stagehand at the local theatre, but instead did A-Level Theatre Studies and studied drama at Manchester University in 1977.
The youngest of four, he went to Godalming Grammar school, joined amateur dramatic societies and wrote his first play at 15. Ben Elton was born on, in Catford, South London.
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