Identity Crisis

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After a regular slot on Saturday Live – later moved and renamed Friday Night Live – which was seen as a UK version of the US's Saturday Night Live, he became the host of the programme. I was attempting to explain to a friend whom I had talked about the novel to, of an insight I had had which I thought I would close this review with. I would have liked more of a focus to the story, which only really got going in the last 1/4 of the book. Says one smooth scoundrel: "They'll welcome the queers, undermine marriage, sell out the nation state, betray the Church and give up fox-hunting just as long as they can hang on to the money. No one is safe as Ben Elton sends up everything from fake news culture to extreme gender politics, from political sloganism to the power of the hashtag, and everything in between.

Identity Crisis by Ben Elton | Waterstones

Notwithstanding the way that The Young Ones and Blackadder set up Elton as a significant sitcom capacity, his distinctive tries in the field were less productive.A mathematician spinning the numbers to influence public opinion, a world-weary police officer struggling to keep up with inclusivity as well as other small cogs in this magnified melting pot of rage look so like our own world that it's hard to believe this is simply fiction. It raised the question of whether social media companies needed regulation, and highlighted changing social values concerning privacy in the information age.

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He tells me one joke he’s written concerning trans women – a clever wordplay, generous in spirit, but open to misinterpretation – that, after careful consideration, he’s opted not to use in the show.

Despite unfavourable early reaction, this was successful in the West End and won the 2003 Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best New Musical. Sometimes [it's]deliberately, sometimes it's just a natural human instinct to enjoy outrage and enjoy a fight. Many French citizens who lost their heads during the French Revolution may have been equally surprised when what started as a revolution for equality became a bloodbath at the foot of the guillotine. 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.