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Whilst promoting his recent autobiography, Ben Elton claimed that no one went to see his directorial debut, Maybe Baby.
Well, here’s proof that at least one person did. Me.
#admitonedaily #movietickets #maybebaby #benelton #filmhistory #80smovie
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Ben Elton is doing a stand up show in Belfast at the end of the month. I haven’t seen or heard from him in decades, but figured it’d be worth a try.
Except it’s £38 per ticket! Fuck me!
Is it just I’m out of touch, or is that a bit steep?
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Ben Elton is doing a stand up show in Belfast at the end of the month. I haven’t seen or heard from him in decades, but figured it’d be worth a try.
Except it’s £38 per ticket! Fuck me!
Is it just I’m out of touch, or is that a bit steep?
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#NowStreamingFree 7+ in australia
#TheThinBlueLine BBC masterpiece from 1995 w #RowanAtkinson #DavidHaig, Written by #BenEltoncan’t say i’m the world’s greatest mr bean fan, but i’ve always loved this Rowan Atkinson series set in a local cop shop.
yes, it features the predictable brit comedy tropes (the frustrated female e.g.) but more than that, this is a better grade of satire. Does it punch down? It flirts with ableism and homophobia, doesn’t seem to cross the line the way contemporary brit comedies did/do?there is occasional shouting, but not Fawlty Towers level shouting (abuse is no substitute for humour imo)
plautus (254-184BCE) wrote a play about a slave who saved his master from the master’s incompetence - we have seen this comment on class systems reworked in shows like a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, Frankie Howerd’s camp version Up Pompeii (1971) but especially the 1961 sitcom The Rag Trade.
the question with the thin blue line remains who is the master and who is the saviour…
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#NowStreamingFree 7+ in australia
#TheThinBlueLine BBC masterpiece from 1995 w #RowanAtkinson #DavidHaig, Written by #BenEltoncan’t say i’m the world’s greatest mr bean fan, but i’ve always loved this Rowan Atkinson series set in a local cop shop.
yes, it features the predictable brit comedy tropes (the frustrated female e.g.) but more than that, this is a better grade of satire. Does it punch down? It flirts with ableism and homophobia, doesn’t seem to cross the line the way contemporary brit comedies did/do?there is occasional shouting, but not Fawlty Towers level shouting (abuse is no substitute for humour imo)
plautus (254-184BCE) wrote a play about a slave who saved his master from the master’s incompetence - we have seen this comment on class systems reworked in shows like a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, Frankie Howerd’s camp version Up Pompeii (1971) but especially the 1961 sitcom The Rag Trade.
the question with the thin blue line remains who is the master and who is the saviour…
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"Everybody looks at everybody all the time and you don't need to be a celebrity to feel the need for privacy. I myself was recently in big trouble with my Confessor for being slow to post a birthing video. I'm not talking about being either an extrovert or an introvert: I'm talking about people who don't believe privacy is a perversion, people who think it might even be a virtue."
Trafford, Blind Faith by Ben Elton, 2007
#privacy #books #novels #satire #SciFi #dystopia #BenElton #BlindFaith
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"Everybody looks at everybody all the time and you don't need to be a celebrity to feel the need for privacy. I myself was recently in big trouble with my Confessor for being slow to post a birthing video. I'm not talking about being either an extrovert or an introvert: I'm talking about people who don't believe privacy is a perversion, people who think it might even be a virtue."
Trafford, Blind Faith by Ben Elton, 2007
#privacy #books #novels #satire #SciFi #dystopia #BenElton #BlindFaith
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I‘ve long liked Ben Elton but haven’t seen/heard/read much of his stuff lately. Except I re-watched Upstart Crow over Christmas. Genius. Also this podcast.
#BenElton #LouisTheroux https://open.spotify.com/episode/77f6DqyK9qgiYrbFEEtM7v
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I‘ve long liked Ben Elton but haven’t seen/heard/read much of his stuff lately. Except I re-watched Upstart Crow over Christmas. Genius. Also this podcast.
#BenElton #LouisTheroux https://open.spotify.com/episode/77f6DqyK9qgiYrbFEEtM7v
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"The scary part is that it was written in the 1990s and it’s still relevant today."
That's because we've been endlessly recycling the 1990s ever since they ended.
Owens is commenting on Ben Elton's Popcorn. She's the director of a production of the story, stage by Hamilton Playbox at Riverlea Theatre. Final shows on Saturday
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"The scary part is that it was written in the 1990s and it’s still relevant today."
That's because we've been endlessly recycling the 1990s ever since they ended.
Owens is commenting on Ben Elton's Popcorn. She's the director of a production of the story, stage by Hamilton Playbox at Riverlea Theatre. Final shows on Saturday
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Here’s a list of things I’d be happy to chat about, in no particular order:
#ElfQuest
#iZombie
#Columbo
#MissFishersMurderMysteries
#knitting
#DisasterMovies
#Jaws & similar “scary animal/creature” movies
#MCU
#DoctorWho
#OFMD
#Spanish
#etymology
#IWTV
#TheHobbit
#LotR
#Nemi
#DonRosa’s Duck comics
#baking
#BenElton’s books
#PotC
#ADHD
#LEGO
#Eurovision
#Buffy
#MythicQuest
#Severance
#HarleyQuinn (animated series)
#SPoP
#TimeTravel
#WeirdAl
#TheUmbrellaAcademy
#MontyPython
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Here’s a list of things I’d be happy to chat about, in no particular order:
#ElfQuest
#iZombie
#Columbo
#MissFishersMurderMysteries
#knitting
#DisasterMovies
#Jaws & similar “scary animal/creature” movies
#MCU
#DoctorWho
#OFMD
#Spanish
#etymology
#IWTV
#TheHobbit
#LotR
#Nemi
#DonRosa’s Duck comics
#baking
#BenElton’s books
#PotC
#ADHD
#LEGO
#Eurovision
#Buffy
#MythicQuest
#Severance
#HarleyQuinn (animated series)
#SPoP
#TimeTravel
#WeirdAl
#TheUmbrellaAcademy
#MontyPython
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It’s funny how nobody is quibbling about #BenElton also calling #LiarJohnson a “mendacious narcissistic sociopath”. #ToryLies #ToryCorruption https://apple.news/AYJg4iGR_SOWLUXPCa8eKCw
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It’s funny how nobody is quibbling about #BenElton also calling #LiarJohnson a “mendacious narcissistic sociopath”. #ToryLies #ToryCorruption https://apple.news/AYJg4iGR_SOWLUXPCa8eKCw
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How has this eluded me since 1984? The pilot episode of the insane Madness sitcom starring...Madness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6rtxncDRyes&fbclid=IwAR1ZXlDDG3eBJKq43AEsyTwEBUYj9cm8hfmHvc9OEQKyBN2FSUdhtnALWC8#Madness #Ska #TwoTone #NuttyBoys #Suggs #BenElton #RichardCurtis #TheYoungOnes #Sitcom
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Douglas Rushkoff's announcement about his new book 'Survival of the Richest' suggests to me that plot of the 1989 Ben Elton scifi novel 'Stark' is rapidly becoming reality. Except Elton couldn't have predicted that all the richlist survivalists made their money from digital tech.
https://shows.acast.com/teamhuman/episodes/special-announcement-survival-of-the-richest
#DouglasRushkoff #TeamHuman #podcast #BenElton #SciFi #novel #Stark
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#DouglasRushkoff often mentions elitists prepping for the environmental armageddon. I wonder if he's read a #SciFi novel called 'This Other Eden' (1993), by #BenElton, which satirizes both consumerist corporations and the environmental movement, with a story in which an eco-collapse fallout shelter is marketed so successfully that it's mass production threatens to hasten the eco-collapse, yet not owning one comes to be seen as irresponsibly depending on the public ones.
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Any fans of British #comedy or #WillShakespeare out there? I've just finished watching season 2 of #UpstartCrow, a satire penned by the brilliant #BenElton and loosely based on the life and work of the Bard of Avon, his household, and the company of actors who put on his plays. I'm sure I'm not catching all the witty references but I'm loving the ones I do and #HarryEnfield is hilarious as always as Will's slovenly father.
