Tag: Ben Elton
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Bun Ultoon – The Clips From Auntie
It pains me to admit it, but it was only recently that I realised the title of Ben Elton’s show The Man From Auntie was a play on the 60s TV show The Man From UNCLE. I just went with the notion of him being from the BBC, without noticing that other layer. The show […]
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Ben Elton Live
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 […]
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The South Ben Show
Here’s Mr Bun Ulton on The South Bank Show from 1989.
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Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth
In 2011, Ben Elton returned to live variety TV comedy in the form of Live From Planet Earth, an hour long show on Australia’s Nine network. It featured Ben as host, introducing sketches and perfomrances from a cast of regular contributors, in much the same way Saturday Live had done in the UK back in […]
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Rik Mayall On Countdown
No, not that Countdown, alas. This is an appearance from Rik Mayall and Ben Elton on the Australian network ABC. It was a music magazine show, with theme music by Brian May. Rik and Ben were promoting their tour.
