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Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie is a British television comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton. The title of the series was a play on words of the American spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and "Auntie", an informal name for the BBC. The first series aired on BBC1 in 1990.
- Comedy
8 ott 2007 · Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie. The prodigiously talented Ben Elton was at the vanguard of the alternative comedy scene in the late 70s and early 80s, both as a writer and performer.
Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie: With Ben Elton, Lucy Bayler, Susannah Hitching, Ricci Harnett. Comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton, primarily based around his stand-up comedy routines, with sketches and parodies.
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- 1990-02-15
- Comedy
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In 1990 he starred in his own stand-up comedy and sketch series, Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie, which had a second series in 1994. (The title plays on The Man from UNCLE: "Auntie" is a nickname for the BBC.) In 1989 Elton won the Royal Television Society Writers' Award.
27 gen 1994 · Comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton, primarily based around his stand-up comedy routines, with sketches and parodies.
'The Man From Auntie' deserves to be remembered as a snapshot of a particular moment in British history. When the Royal Family was reeling from a wave of high-profile scandals, when the Major administration looked increasingly frail, when Ben Elton was a spokesperson for a lost generation.
With Ben Elton, Andy de la Tour, Steve Nallon. Ben Elton talks about people from the planet Boring and riffs on pop stars like Bros and Jive Bunny. He hands out the Neville Chamberlain Awards for fatuous flatulence in the face of a microphone. And hosts A Farties Guide to Microwave Cookers.
