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 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