Just a few weeks after the Daily Mirror had declared Ben Elton a Not in its daft Hot Or Not column, they turned to the man and commissioned him to write a weekly column for the paper. Ben took them up on their offer, and this is the first of those columns, which appeared on Monday 20th October 1986.
Here’s the second one from a week later.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
