Far from it. After this, things settle down. Even after four decades at the top it still stings. Once again starring David Mitchell as the perennially put-upon playwright, it takes place 10 years on. King James is now monarch and Shakespeare needs to reinvigorate his career. The script tackles the hot potatoes of cultural appropriation and gender fluidity, and one can enjoy playing spot-the-reference.
Twelfth Night, King Lear, oodles of Othello. Yet Crow, commissioned as part of a season celebrating the Bard years on, ran for three series, enjoyed two Christmas specials and re-established him.
And in his stand-up tour received enthusiastic notices. So how did the trim year-old turn things round? But BTJ needs your support to continue - if you would like to help to keep the site going, please consider donating.
Skip to main content. Menu Search form Search. Stewart Lee picture: Idil Sukan. Tags: ben elton. The threat of a backlash is, he thinks, exaggerated. Most people, I am certain, wherever they stand, want the best for everyone. Ah, yes. For Elton, the accusations make no sense because he never identified as anti-establishment in the first place. This is so silly. I never suffered from any delusion that that was a good thing to be. I have always been a middle-class, middle-of-the-road farty.
The bit where he met Jimmy Tarbuck, and pretended they were never really that mean about him, and there was genuine warmth towards him and the old guard really, honestly.
Quote from: Dead kate moss on December 29, , PM. That's not my recollection. Fair enough, but it was very slimey and disingenuous of Elton to claim otherwise. I suppose years of doing Vicar of Dibley can play cruel tricks on the mind. Well despite my hatred for Elton.
I am a huge fan of Black Adder and I grew up watching The Young Ones which is essential viewing for a young comedy fan in my opinion. I really loved that. I was actually surprised when they ran clips of it on last nights programme, I thought it had been long lost, buried forever, never to be spoken of again.
I just think time has been unkind to Elton and over the years he has just become a massive arsehole. That programme last night, it was the way he strutted, the way him and Rik Mayall did that interview and how Mayall was telling him how great he was to his face and then it kept cutting back to shots of Elton looking as if his ego was undergoing an orgasmic melt, behind his eyes. To save me typing up seven paragraphs of me slagging him off, I'll just use four words to establish my point, 'We Will Rock You'.
Also really hated his closing argument in that doc. Also the way he swaggered about acting as if he was the man who rode in on horseback and saved comedy forever for the entire four hours it was on for. What a fucking cunt! Quote from: astrozombie on December 29, , PM. Necrophagism A leech to the wind. Ben Elton comes across as insincere and unaware of his own irrelevance.
I did enjoy the program me in question, but I'm not sure why. I liked Chris Barrie the most. I wasn't around for the original broadcasts, but the puppets were awesome, in the most literal sense of the word. Famous Mortimer War - it's fantastic! I dislike Elton because he's not been funny in a very long time - the Aussie show and that thing with Alexa Chung were both bollocks.
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