Welcome to Weekend Wine Question Time, a chance for me to sit back and let you drive the conversation.

Yes, weekend wine question time is all about affording you the opportunity to have a direct line with one of our guests.

Today we continue our conversation with comedy legend Ben Elton.

So I'm going to pop my cork and who's asking the

question this time. We've been talking about the opportunity to be the change, to move the

dial, to create a new landscape. And Becky is a 30-something, she says,

Wish I Was a Comedian from Yorkshire, wondering how do you get a foot in the door of comedy in

2026? She says, you were at the dawn and the birth of alternative comedy, a scene that reset

comedy here in the UK and really rerouted it.

All these years on, comedy finds itself in a very difficult place as it struggles to live on

multiple platforms in a fragmented world driven by tech.

So how can people like me become someone like you and find a way through?

And who's doing it well in your eyes at the moment

lots of questions in there for you then it's a complicated question um obviously i don't know

much about the modern see i don't watch stand-up comics much i mean occasionally i come across them

but it's not my interest i'm only in stand-up comedy for my own writing. I mean,

because I see it as a really important art form for a writer. It's a subjective art form.

So I don't really know in any detail, but look, here's the answer. How to Be like me.

The most of what I am, what was the name of your listener? Becky.

Becky. Most of what I am, Becky, the name of your listener? Becky. Becky, most of what I am, Becky,

is already because she's clearly passionate about what she wants to be, about comedy, about who she is

in terms of how she sees herself. And that's, that's me. I know what I like, I want to do,

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