Ben Elton thinks it is “very difficult” to make comedy look easy.
Ben Elton has revealed his secret to comedy success
The 64-year-old star beforehand loved enormous success as a author of ‘The Young Ones’ and ‘Blackadder’, and Ben claims that “sincerity” is a key a part of profitable TV comedies.
He informed The Times newspaper: “Comedy is troublesome. And making comedy look easy is very troublesome. And the larger the comedy the extra it’s important to play it as if it is completely actual.
“Look at the greats, from Charlie Chaplin to Mike Myers: if you are playing it large you have to play it with absolute sincerity.”
Ben additionally wrote the Queen musical ‘We Will Rock You’, which premiered in London’s West End in 2002.
The manufacturing was initially panned by critics, and Ben believes that he grew to become an easy goal for criticism at one stage in his profession.
He mentioned: “Everyone was saying it was s***. Maybe there was a bit of ‘Ben Elton and Queen need cutting down to size’. Maybe that’s a British thing.”
Meanwhile, Ben just lately dominated out a ‘Blackadder’ reboot.
The iconic sitcom ran for 4 sequence between 1983 and 1989 – however Ben would not have any plans to revive it in the intervening time.
The slapstick comedian – who co-created the present with Richard Curtis – informed the Daily Star newspaper: “‘Blackadder’ isn’t coming again.
“We’re all nonetheless very good mates, all of us, genuinely, and I feel one of many causes for that is as a result of we don’t do a ‘Blackadder’.
“There’s been a couple of half-a**** bits and pieces of revivals and I think they’re all pretty s*** to be honest so I don’t think so.”
