Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as "The Young Ones" and "Blackadder", as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals "We Will Rock You" (2002) and "Love Never Dies" (2010), the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and
James Cary (writer) James Cary (writer) James Cary is a British television and radio writer. Cary is the creator and writer of BBC Radio 4's Sony Radio Academy Awards Silver Award-winning comedy series, "Think the Unthinkable" (four series) and lead writer on the sketch show, "Concrete Cow". Cary co-created and co-wrote the BBC Three series "Bluestone 42" with Richard Hurst. He has also written for "My Hero", "My Family" and co-written two radio series with comedian Milton Jones, as well as contributing to a number of sketch shows and children's and animation programmes. His radio comedy series "Hut 33" about Bletchley Park boffins,