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.
Tim Burns (writer) Tim Burns (writer) Tim Burns is a Canadian writer and producer for Canadian and American television; more popularly known as the show runner/executive producer of the Teletoon-Disney Channel shared, supernatural comedy-drama series, "My Babysitter's a Vampire" and for writing its TV pilot film. He was also supervising writer of the third season of "Crank Yankers" and was a composer on "The Sunny Side Up Show". Tim Burns began his writing career writing an episode of "The Jim Henson Hour" in 1989, two years later he created the sketch comedy "The Idiot Box" with Alex Winter and Tom Stern. He portrayed