Ben Elton

Elton, Ben Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Michael Grade & the World's Oldest Joke

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Love Never Dies

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Channel 4's 30 Greatest Comedy Shows

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ben Elton: Laughing at the 80s

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen The Brits Hits 30

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The One Ronnie

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen TV's Believe It or Not

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blackadder Rides Again

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Happy Birthday Brucie!

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Saturday Live Again!

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hitler: The Comedy Years

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Get a Grip

  2007, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Get a Grip

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Channel 4 at 25

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen 100 Greatest Stand-Ups

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Stephen Fry: 50 Not Out

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Is Benny Hill Still Funny?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Who Killed the Sitcom?

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen University Challenge: The Story So Far

  2006, role: actor , character name: Kendal Mintcake
• Play in Full Screen The Ultimate Sitcom

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Prince's Trust 30th Birthday: Live

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Play in Full Screen The Unseen Spike Milligan

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Greatest Before They Were Stars TV Moments

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Who Killed Saturday Night TV?

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ronnie Barker: A BAFTA Tribute

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 2003

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Party in the Park 2002

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen There's Only One Paul McCartney

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen I Love Morecambe & Wise

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Play in Full Screen A Perfect Two Ronnies Show

  2001, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Maybe Baby

  2000, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Royal Variety Performance 2000

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Full Mountie

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Maybe Baby

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Maybe Baby

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Comic Relief: The Record Breaker

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Blackadder Back & Forth

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Blackadder Back & Forth

  1999, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom

  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Brit Awards 1998

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• Play in Full Screen Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle

  1998, role: actor , character name: Jack Student
• Play in Full Screen All Saints: The Video

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ben Elton Live

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Best Bits of Mr. Bean

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Spice Girls: One Hour of Girl Power

  1997, role: actor , character name: Brit Awards Host
• Play in Full Screen The Story of Bean

  1997, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Ben Elton:

"Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it."

"I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running."

"Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had."

"We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother."

"Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy."

"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

"People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count."

"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."

"If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven."

"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."

"Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s."

"I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring."

Ben Elton