Ben Elton

Name: BRIT Awards launch
Start: 1997

British comedian, author, playwright, actor and director · United Kingdom · On the map · Comedians · Born 1959 · age 67

Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian and writer. He has written and produced for television, radio, films, novels, theatre and musicals, and has performed as a stand-up comedian and on screen.

Ben Elton is read about 569 times a day, in 23 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

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2023Member of the Order of AustraliaAward1997In historyBRIT Awards launch19971995“Things get shaped straight and thin for reasons of aerodynamics.”In their wordsBlast from The Past (1995)Read the whole statement

1993“Lies are as important as truth, for without lies, the truth is worthless.”In their wordsThis Other Eden (1993)Read the whole statement

“Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.”In their wordsThis Other Eden (1993)Read the whole statement

1989“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”In their words"Airport Rescue"Read the whole statement

“The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”In their words"Dinner in Los Angeles"Read the whole statement

“The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”In their words"Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight"Read the whole statement

1959Born3 May 1959