Ben Elton: ‘I fancied Olivia Newton-John. It’s all right to say that about a third cousin, right?’
The standup talks about tensions behind the scenes of Blackadder, his Wiggles movie that never happened and his opinions on hecklers
Of all the things you’ve written, what gets quoted at you the most?
It’d be something from my three series of Blackadder. That’s the one that really entered the culture. I think the thing I’m proudest of is how both The Young Ones and Blackadder genuinely seeped into language. It’s not so much quotes you hear but people using the rhythms of it – like: “You’re as small as a very small thing that’s got a degree in being small.”
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