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.
Ben Boyce Ben Boyce Ben Boyce is a New Zealand television personality best known as the host of TV shows "Pulp Sport", "WANNA-BEn" and "Jono and Ben" on TV3. He was also the co-founder of New Zealand political party the Bill and Ben Party, which ran for government in the 2008 New Zealand general election and received over 13,000 votes, making it New Zealand's 9th most popular political party (out of 19). Boyce started out writing radio commercials, like the popular Novus Windscreens "Show Us Your Crack" jingle. He then moved on to radio announcing creating "Pulp Sport" on Radio Sport and