Ben Elton is an atheist. Elton studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School in Surrey, South Warwickshire College in Stratford-upon-Avon and the University of Manchester. His first television appearance was a stand-up performance on the BBC1 youth and music programme, The "Oxford Road Show". His first TV success, at 23, came as co-writer of the television sitcom, "The Young Ones", in which he occasionally appeared. In 1983/84 he wrote and appeared in Granada Television's sketch show "Alfresco", which was also notable for early appearances by Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Robbie Coltrane. In 1985, Elton produced his first
Ben Moor (writer) BBC Radio 4 sketch show . Moor's journalism work has appeared in newspapers and magazines such as "The Guardian", "The Observer" and "The Idler". In 2009, Portobello Book published "More Trees to Climb", a book collecting three of Moor's one man shows; "Coelacanth", "Not Everything Is Significant" and "A Supercollider for the Family". They are presented in prose as three separate short stories. 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