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Cole, Tom. "Ben Elton's The Wright Way rubs critics up the wrong way". Radio Times . Retrieved 27 April 2013.

In September 2019, Elton embarked on a three-month UK stand-up tour, his first tour since 2005. [46] Love Never Dies | The Show | A Note From The Composer". 8 March 2010. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010 . Retrieved 15 November 2020. Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. The term is used to describe feminists who do not support trans-sexuals, particularly biologically male females, and advocate excluding them from areas designated for women.

Rich, Mari; Smith, Olivia J.; Thompson, Clifford (2003). World Authors, 1995–2000. H.W. Wilson. ISBN 9780824210328. The wider world in which the microcosm is occurring is just as crazy - not only have we had the Brexit referendum, but now a similar vote is forthcoming to decide on Britain's future as the United Kingdom, or if it will break up. Both campaigns eagerly fall on every social media trend and news item, spinning it to their cause, to outrageous effect.

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Someone who intends to stir trouble, usually on social media, and relies upon their anonymity to escape reproach in their everyday lives a b "Ben Elton Recounts His Guildford Childhood As He Helps Celebrate Institute's Refurbishment". The Guildford Dragon. 24 October 2013 . Retrieved 23 April 2015.

Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Julian Clary and more join Ben Elton for Friday Night Live | Channel 4". www.channel4.com . Retrieved 21 October 2022. Other satires I've read, by frothing-at-the-mouth reactionaries who are living in a terrifying fantasy world they have built in their heads, have been compelling nightmares where we tear through the wall and peer into the writhing psyche of the racist and/or transphobe. This guy isn't like that. He has some feelings. He has some comedy writing credits. Unfortunately his perspective is just very ordinary and undeveloped and he doesn't really have any jokes. Sometimes, however, it seems that it is a dizzying forest of hash tags driving the novel forward. If one moral or political position is acceptable this week, the death of another marginalised group member or the exposure of another predator changes the conversation next week. It’s all too easy to find oneself on the wrong side of history or to become toxic. And it’s not just the perpetrators (alleged or real) who suffer. There’s quite a touching story somewhere in the middle of the novel of Cassie Trinder, a hopeful actress who finally lands her dream position playing the young Princess Elizabeth in a movie, The Royal Closet. She even undergoes the humiliating casting couch charade of a final reading with Harvey Weinstein to land the role, just before Weinstein is exposed as a sexual predator and the whole project becomes too ‘toxic’ to proceed. Years later, with her career yet to take off, a new production of The Royal Closet is announced, except she’s now deemed too old to play the part. Cassie fights for a role in the production, yet her success is once again frustrated when Rodney Watson (a serial predator himself who has revived his career by playing the role of the ‘woke’ male) is exposed. Cassie ‘s career seems to be once more stalled when the production is cancelled a second time.

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Whoooo boy. Okay. I have some feelings about this book. So many mixed feelings. I've been thinking about it since I finished it last night and I still can't quite decide how I feel about it so bear with me if this review is a mess. Elton and Curtis also wrote Atkinson's 1986 stage show The New Revue, and Mr. Bean's "exam" episode. Elton champions left-wing political positions. Prior to the 1987 UK general election, Elton supported Red Wedge by participating in a comedy tour organised by the campaign. [61]

Willis, Andrew (2004). Film stars: Hollywood and beyond. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p.169. ISBN 0-7190-5645-4. Elton returned to live British television on Channel 4 on 21 October 2022 as "Ringmaster"/host of a revival of Friday Night Live, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding of Channel 4 and as part of their Truth and Dare season. [29] Speaking to Adrian Chiles on BBC Radio 5 Live on broadcast day, Elton readily admitted that because of the fluid UK political situation, "I honestly haven't written the first five minutes yet!" [30] [31] Radio [ edit ] Jones, Catherine (24 June 2007). "Macca school gong for star turns". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 2 November 2021. A police investigation into sexual abuse allegations, particularly against Jimmy Savile, a media personality. Elton references Yewtree and Savile in his novel. Cavendish, Dominic (10 December 2021). "Ben Elton: 'I recognise Mrs Thatcher was a woman of principle' ". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 22 October 2022.Nervousness about language is changing comedy, he accepts. "But on the whole I've always been a great supporter of what people sneer at as political correctness. I've always said that it's just good manners. On the whole I'm pretty supportive of the way things are going." He has written 16 novels since 1989, the first four published by Simon and Schuster, and the rest by Transworld. This is, of course, treacherous ground that Elton is treading but I think he strikes just the right notes and the book genuinely asks some fairly sobering questions about the direction our online, social media-driven society is taking. It may upset some, I'd be surprised if it didn't, but I'm more than happy to say I very much enjoyed it from start to finish!