Alternative comedy and sketch comedy, consisted of Manchester University and Royal Central School graduates Ade Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Dawn French, and Jennifer Saunders, who began to aim their talents at television. As "The Comic Strip Presents", the group made over 40 television films for both Channel 4 and BBC. Ben Elton, who had by then become the Comedy Store's next MC, was invited by Rik Mayall to join him as co-writer of BBC2's TV hit sitcom "The Young Ones". However, it was as MC of Channel 4's new comedy show "Saturday Live" that Elton found fame in his own right.
Tony Roche (writer) by its content" because it was "not a fair reflection of the facts". Roche defended his reasons for writing the film as he did in an article in "The Daily Telegraph", stating: "The film isn’t an accurate re-telling of what happened. It doesn’t pay much attention to the facts. (Sorry.) Instead, it uses the story to discuss the nature of offence. Why did so many people get so offended?" Tony is writer and Co-Executive Producer on Armando Iannucci's comedy series, "Veep" for HBO. Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best