Identity Crisis

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Reid, Kate (23 February 2016). "Wiggling into Penrith". Westernweekender.com.au . Retrieved 7 August 2018. Elton wrote and produced The Thin Blue Line, a studio-based sitcom set in a police station, also starring Rowan Atkinson, which ran for two series in 1995 and 1996. A prime-time family show, its traditional format and characters won it the 1995 British Comedy Award and both the public and professional Jury Awards at Reims.

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Anne Robinson Fan club - Articles, Interviews, Facts". www.annerobinsonfanclub.co.uk . Retrieved 22 October 2022. He has the distinction of being nominated twice for TV's Room 101, firstly by broadcaster Anne Robinson in 2001 [59] and also by comedian Stewart Lee who compared Elton, "as ranking lower ethically than Osama bin Laden". [60] Political views [ edit ] Brisbane – Ben Elton – Queensland Performing Arts Centre". Ourbrisbane.com. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 1 November 2009. That's not a major social problem, but when you get to the amplification of outrage I think certainly the quoting of single tweets – or a hundred tweets – as if they represent a movement is worrying. And then you have the much more sinister situation, where clearly people with very different, very undemocratic agendas have spotted the opportunity to create false outrage, to take people's legitimate fears and double down on them over and over again until they become true horror." I would like to preface this review by saying that generally speaking I like Ben Elton and I understand that this book is satire. The problem is, I just can't work out quite what it's trying to satirise, and therefore if I think the satirisation of that issue is something I can or cannot get behind.Satire, wit and keen observations combine to give us an eerie view of the current climate, with keyboard warriors frightening politicians, public services & corporations with their own form of written vitriol. Hashtags going viral, as people increasingly display their outrage online. A conflation of feminist and Nazi, used as a pejorative against feminist perceived to be too radical. Ashe, Eliza (1 December 2012). "What I know about women". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 21 October 2022. More than that – and greatly to my surprise – he denies any iconoclastic dimension to alternative comedy. "There was no revolutionary intent," he says, of the movement that radicalised a generation, called out racist and sexist humour, and commissioned a nose-pierced punk (Ade Edmondson's Vyvyan) to tear the title sequence of twee sitcom The Good Life to shreds. "No one ever tried to break any boundaries or bust the rules. No one ever said, 'Let's change comedy.' And, if anyone had, they would have been very arrogant and doomed to failure. Everybody was just trying to do their best work."

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I was mildly interested in the Cambridge Analytica-esque company’s storyline and where it was going (nowhere surprising it turns out) and I did want to find out who the social media killer was. But the reveal of the killer’s identity was such a cop-out - an unsatisfying rushed ending to a half-baked plot.

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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 I listened to this as an audiobook read by the author, and laughed aloud more than once walking along. Ben Elton is a talented narrator (as well as author), bringing his characters to life with ease. It was not at all a trial to keep up with each story and voice. A perfect audio read, really. You get the picture. This sets the tone for the book. It only gets crazier and more ridiculous from here. But the scary thing is, what Ben Elton describes is so eerily true of the "modern world". Society seems to be divided into very specific boxes based on beliefs/politics/gender/sexuality, and Ben has a great time flogging each of these sacred cows. Ben Elton’s 16th novel proves yet again what a genuinely talented comic novelist he is – it’s expertly crafted, very clever and really funny’ Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail Ben Elton: I was never able to say goodbye to Rik". The Big Issue. 2 July 2018 . Retrieved 14 November 2020.

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Elton has been criticised for writing a musical with Conservative Party supporter Andrew Lloyd Webber. In his defence, Elton said: "If I were to refuse to talk to Tories, I would narrow my social and professional scope considerably. If you judge all your relationships on a person's voting intentions, I think you miss out on the varieties of life." [64] It's a pretty extraordinary outburst, this – replete with references to the impact on his family of the vitriol heaped on him for 2013 sitcom The Wright Way – that Elton tries to rein in, but can't. ("I've done what I never do, which is prove to be over-sensitive …") I offer him a get-out, by emphasising the positive – which is that, to engender such a sharp sense of betrayal, his work was clearly hugely important to people in the first place. And isn't it fascinating that we can invest so much in, and expect so much of, a comedian? Elton wrote the six-part sitcom Blessed, starring Ardal O'Hanlon as a record producer, first broadcast on BBC1 in 2005. No further series was commissioned.Stephanie Merritt (7 November 2004). Guardian Unlimited Books – Mystery Man . Retrieved 11 August 2011. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) I’d hoped this book was going to be a wry, amusing look at the current state of Western society - specifically: vapid celebrity worship, outrage culture and social media witch-hunts, empty and divisive identity politics, and out-of-control political correctness - but unfortunately it’s not. Elton touches on all of those subjects but not in any way I’d say was fun, unique or insightful. Ben Elton to showcase Western Australia | Tourism Western Australia". 14 November 2006. Archived from the original on 14 November 2006 . Retrieved 11 August 2011.