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
Ron Clark (writer) Ron Clark (writer) Ron Clark is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for several plays that he co-wrote with Sam Bobrick and for co-writing the screenplays for the films "Silent Movie", "High Anxiety", and "Life Stinks" with Mel Brooks. Clark began his career writing for TV during the '60s, including such shows as "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and "The Danny Kaye Show". He wrote plays in the '70s with fellow writer Sam Bobrick. Their first play, "Norman, Is That You?", premiered on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on February 19, 1970. The two men went on