Ben Elton
Brydon &
Rob Brydon | Wondery
4.6 • 597 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Rob is joined by comedian, actor and director Ben Elton at the London Coliseum, home to the new run of "We Will Rock You", the electrifying musical featuring Queen's timeless music. Ben discusses how he feels about his stage acting debut, and how he was approached by Queen themselves to write the musical.
The pair also discussed legendary sitcom "The Young Ones," and Ben shares memorable moments from working with comedy icons like Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, thanks for coming back. |
| 0:03.0 | This is a good chat. |
| 0:05.4 | This is Ben Elton, as you know, because you've clicked. |
| 0:10.8 | I spent a bit of time with Ben while I was in Australia touring recently because he spends part of his time here and part of his time just outside Perth. |
| 0:20.1 | And I was thrilled that he came to see my show. |
| 0:24.5 | And I knew that I would be talking to him |
| 0:27.7 | because he is about to not only direct but appear in We Will Rock You, |
| 0:35.4 | which is coming back to London, this time at the Coliseum, a beautiful theatre. |
| 0:41.7 | And that's where I met him for this conversation. |
| 0:45.1 | It's hard to believe that Ben Elton is 63 years old. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't like that at all. |
| 0:52.9 | What it means is that he has the most enormous career to talk about. |
| 0:59.0 | As it turned out, we really only touched on two elements of that career. There's so much more left to |
| 1:04.9 | talk about. We talked about We Will Rock You. We talked about how he got to know Queen. And we also talked then about the young ones. So, |
| 1:15.3 | I'm hoping there will be a rematch. But this is a very detailed dive into We Will Rock You and the Young Ones. |
| 1:25.1 | I do hope you enjoy it. It's Bryden and Ben Elton. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, it's always been a dream for me to say live from the heart of London's West End and |
| 1:43.1 | blumen heck. I can say it with impunity because I am at |
| 1:46.4 | the Coliseum in London, one of London's finest theatres, for a very specific reason. And yet, |
| 1:53.5 | there's no point trying to tease who it is because the thing with the podcast is, you know, |
| 1:59.3 | otherwise you wouldn't have clicked on it. You've not just come along |
| 2:02.3 | thinking, who's he talking to? You know it's Ben Elton. You may not know, depending on how we edit this, |
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