Popcorn

Ben Elton’s multi-award winning career as both performer and writer encompasses some of the most memorable and incisive comedy of the past thirty-five years. In addition to his hugely influential work as a stand-up comic, he was co-writer of TV hits The Young Ones and Blackadder and sole creator of The Thin Blue Line and Upstart Crow. He has written fifteen major bestsellers, including Stark, Popcorn, Inconceivable, Dead Famous, High Society, Two Brothers and Time and Time Again, three West End plays and three musicals, including global phenomenon We Will Rock You. He has written and directed two feature films, Maybe Baby and Three Summers.He is married and has three children.

"Serious, morally complex, structurally rich and bitterly funny" Independent on Sunday "Fierce, garish and frighteningly funny" Spectator "An absolute coup of black comedy" Daily Telegraph "One of the most brilliantly sustained and focused pieces of satire I've ever read" -- Douglas Adams "Killer prose...a viciously funny satire that also works as a tongue-in-cheek thriller" The Sunday Times