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
TV Funhouse 2008 under the title "Comedy Central's TV Funhouse". TV Funhouse Saturday TV Funhouse was the title of a recurring skit on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" featuring cartoons created by "SNL" writer Robert Smigel. It also spawned a spinoff series of "TV Funhouse" that aired on Comedy Central. Programmed to air between the host segments of "Saturday Night Live", "TV Funhouse" parodied such genres as 1950s educational films, Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera/Filmation cartoons of the 1970s and 1980s, and the 1960s stop motion holiday specials of Rankin/Bass. The animation was produced by J.J. Sedelmaier Productions for first three seasons until Wachtenheim/Marianetti Animation