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
Ben Moor (writer) Ben Moor (writer) Benedict "Ben" Moor (born 8 February 1969) is an English comedy writer and actor. Moor was born in Wimbledon and grew up in Whitstable, Kent. He read History at University College, Oxford and graduated in 1990. While at university joined The Oxford Revue after watching the Seven Raymonds perform and first met Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Al Murray, with whom he later collaborated. Moving to London, Moor wrote sketches for "Week Ending" and "Spitting Image" and developed his own work. In 1995 he created "Elastic Planet" for BBC Radio 4 which populated surreal storytelling with real