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
Ian Martin (writer) Ian Martin (writer) Ian Martin (born 1953) is an English Emmy award-winning comedy writer. Ian was a writer for the BAFTA-winning BBC series "The Thick Of It". He was famously hired as ‘swearing consultant’ in 2005 by the show’s creator, Armando Iannucci, for Series 1 of the political satire and went on to become a full member of the writing team. Ian won an Emmy for his writing across five series of VEEP and was Bafta nominated for co-writing The Death of Stalin. Martin was born in London and has lived in Lancaster since 1988. Ian Martin edits the satirical