Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
"Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton" is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as The Young Ones (TV series)/The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 13 novels and written the musicals We Will Rock You (musical)/We Will Rock You (2002) and Love Never Dies (musical)/Love Never Dies (2010), the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)/The Phantom of the Opera.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous comedians! More Ben Elton on Wikipedia.I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had.
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy.
Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it.
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