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
Joanna Lee (writer) that point as being a TV comedy writer. In her June 11, 1959 appearance on "You Bet Your Life," Joanna Lee describes her career and also wins $3,000 in prize money. Her writing career stretched from 1962 until 1990, including many dozens of episodes of comedic and dramatic television series, before writing, producing, and directing various TV movies and "Afterschool Specials." In 1973 she won an Emmy Award for Best Writing in Drama, for a 1972 Thanksgiving episode of "The Waltons". The same year, she formed her own production company, which, in 1975, produced the documentary "Babe" (also written by