He was busy making some real money writing.

​@@britturk123or say hi to his 3rd cousin

I think he moved to Australia? The multicultiism here in Britain was probably was too much of a paradise for him.

@@JosephB-tv7gfhe’s a leftie

@@stephen3654 Exactly that

What wobble?

22.10.22 1006am Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 was that you being satirical, john? rugby league world cup is on so i gave it a miss until later. i just went to the ch4 website and watched it.. just now!!! i thought this was a new series. shame if it aint, as they could do with a show to rival live at the apollo. if only to prove that not all the acts required needed to be trans. it's merely confirming the fact that the ghost of danny la rue has had his revenge... no mrs merton, no ade being a cunt without rik... shame. no mention of the wohar in eastern europe... the "SATIRE" WAS MERELY DETAILING BEN ELTON'S GUILT COMPLEX AT BEING A DYED IN THE WOOL CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBER... i think this one off came a bit late, though.... as our boris was pure gold. comedy gold, luv!!! on a par with thatch for the comedic soundbite and/or running commentary quip. did i laugh? was it forced laughter? yes i chuckled and no it wasn't (en)forced laughter. there would be a few acts i would have dug out for this... hence the fact it should have been a series so they could bring out the tired and doddery amidst the new crop of alleged funny people. fat lying plasterers aside - your harry held all this together. you missed ben elton? i missed old stav and loads o' money. even the poor and destitute are thinking: tedious fuel crisis shitters - merely due to the fact that they, the media, kept harping on about this topic ad nauseum for far too long. cheers. nostalgia is pretty tedious but this wasn't too bad an attempt to lighten ch4's dreary schedule. n.b as i write boris johnson returns from the Dominican republic as the curtains are drawn on the late incumbent's rule. i wonder if he blacked up to enter the gates of the city lest he be spied by some cunning knave with a pistol????

@@JJONNYREPP #RussianLackeyAlert

@@2112jonr Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1109am 22.10.22 y'reckon!? jeeez. you ned to get a life or go live where the action is if yer so concerned about righting wrongs...

Oh dear. Sarcasm hopefully.

@@JJONNYREPP Pity Mr. elton's a dyed in the wool liberal left voter and has been for decades. Pity you're just angry at the truth about your beloved UK-fuckers being outed and applauded.

@Keyboard Dancers It was repeated the very next day! 😀

"Channel 4 won't broadcast something controversial." Fucking LOL! And they were invited onto another Channel 4 show a week before Christmas 😂😂😂

It's a one off, thank God, and whilst Elton and Harrg Enfield (as Stavros, but not Loadsamoney) were pretty good, the rest was dross. Julian Clary wasn't funny 30+ years ago and he isn't funny now. Rosie Jones is as amusing as a bladder infection and the naked trans "comedian" clearly doesn't understand what the word means.

Beautiful

We need him on doing this every week.

Got a feeling the only way this got shown was because the bosses didn’t know about the content. And by the time they did, it was too late. It’ll be interesting to see how many heads roll as a result of this. Somehow the BBC and Channel 4 have got to pull themselves out from under the cosh of the Tory party protection racket.

I thought BE’s comments about Brexit and Boris were excellent too! I doubt many Mail or Express readers were watching but I hope it gave them pause for thought if they were.

Let Rees-Mogg set your party's agenda? 😉

how do you make leftists tolerant of the national majority opinion?

Eh no. He holds no candle to Ed Byrne or Milton Jones. Actually funny comedians.

@@rebelraccoon9018 Bizarre examples

@@fredh1720 to you

He's just extremely political, so any crazy lefty would love him

Definitely intentional.

@@drstkova yes indeedy.

He said he might in the trailer.

Hello everybody, peeps.

Nothings changed. They have always said and done exactly what their masters have told them, it's the reason they are on the TV in the first place. Channel 4 was never about being "rebellious" like they have you believe, simply there to programme and brainwash in order to further their future agenda. It should be obvious to everyone at this point.

🤣

Yep.

Why does somebody who's left wing have to be poor? I'm against homelessness but don't feel the need to validate by not having a home myself!

Awwww, hurting you is he, deluded Tory boy.

I didn't get the impression he cared about the working class.

Agreed….but maybe that was always the case.

Totally agree, a little disappointed.

Ben Elton was as good as ever? That bad eh?

I too thought Ben Elton was fantastic, as sharp as ever. Harry Enfield, however, I thought was passable - a bit past his time. I've never thought Ronni Ancona was that great. Leo Wright, on the other hand, was superb - modern, sharp, relevant, aware and didn't take himself - or us - too seriously. He appealed to me at 59 and my daughter at 22 laughing our heads off and agreeing with much of what he had to say.

@@spfspf7087 yes that bad

Not just me that thought it was crap then, he hasnt aged well comedy wise, two decades old material, comedy has moved on and he hasnt, took seconds to bring up Thatcher lol

Ben Elton opens Friday Night Live on Channel 4 1016am 22.10.22 they could allus try to fudge the issue of this being crap by resurrecting saturday night live... jeeeez. as i have said the collective consciousness lasts abot 20 years. none of these skanks watching or starring - new or old acts - recalls friday night live let alone it's bastard off spring saturday night live.

Can't possibly be as abysmal as "our" abysmal, incompetent, lying "government".

Stick to Mrs Browns Boys mate

@@CashelOConnolly Yeh, yeh, yeh... same bullsh@t from the little snowflakes. Whenever someone disagrees with you, it's "hate"! Shame you don't look at JK Rowling's rape and death threats in the same light.

I see you fishing for comments that don't agree with your views. How refreshing to see someone who questions their government propaganda🙄🙄

@@AliceDelilahDude I'm confused, are you saying that the government is responsible for "woke propaganda", or that it isn't? What I question, as I always have done, is the conservative mindset: a group of people so proud of their opposition to change and progress that they name themselves after it? Strangely, they're not the ones I trust to take the country forward, or improve people's lives. And if you're interested, neither is Starmer. So was I "fishing for comments"...? Well, only in the sense that if you look in a fish pond you know there's gonna be fish. The "anti-woke", who cherish their misremembered childhood above the well-being of others, can always be counted on to latch onto the first snappy phrase they hear to describe things they don't like: because it's much easier to stir up hate against people if you feel you're doing it by proxy. I'm sure you think by hating an "idea", you're not discriminating. Nothing if not predictable! Let's see, what are people calling "woke" these days? Non-white people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as the civil rights movement. Non-heterosexual people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Oscar Wilde, George Michael or the ancient Romans. Transgender people on TV? Yep, they're as woke as Simone de Beauvoir, who knew there was a distinction between biological sex and acquired gender in the 1940s; it goes without saying that she's more of a feminist than J.K. Rowling will ever be! So, @AliceDelilahDude...did you make it this far? I'm guessing not. If it's not "propaganda" then it's a "lecture". And if it's neither, you'll just pretend you've never seen it. Some people would try and stop the world turning if they could-fortunately, they're yet to realise that no amount of steaming and foot-stamping about "wokeness" (ie, the world) will make that happen. Maybe if you do, as I suspect, just believe everything you read, then this will be in your subconscious. Now wouldn't that be fun!

@@fredh1720 I do not stand with any political party, they're all satanic and sadistic. What even gave you the impression I'm "white" or even right wing ? I do not agree with cross dressing men grooming impressionable children and all the other bile the tell-a-lie vision literally programs their viewers to be conditioned by. Also from what you've written it's not clear which side you're on. However, the only concern of *everyone* right now should be freedom.

Wokes the new term for political correctness. Lots of people basically hate political correctness. It's not so much monkey-see-monkey-do, it's just that people don't like it.

I'm trying to wrap my head around "if he had anything to say he wouldn't be on TV". Isn't it a good thing he's using the platform he's got? What would you expect him to do

Do you have any idea who Ben Elton is? Or what Friday Night Live is?

Jim,at the moment it's about 5% of the voting population he alienates, only the hard-core racist tory/ukip/ any other far right group you can think of are actually alienated by your reckoning...

Guys! Ive found the Liz Truss supporter!

That’s his job, he’s been doing since the 80’s

Yep. That's kinda the point.

it was petulant desperation. They know their era is dead. This was a final "fuck you".

Just the unfunny ones. The ones too scared to make jokes in case it hurts someone's feelings, and they get cancelled by their own side.

@@Tony-1971 That's all of them! Had a disabled comedian, a trans comedian, Asia and black comedians etc it was just a total woke fest. And even Ben Elton only takes the piss out of the right wingers.

Someone else who's heard the phrase "woke fest" and aims it at everything, with no idea what they mean. You see a black person on tv and say "it must be wokeness"... that's racist. I'm not saying that as someone who's offended. I'm saying that as someone who *knows* you're racist.

@@fredh1720 Why don't you go and fck yourself you prick? If you actually read my comment, I mention a disabled comedian and a trans ( not that there's nothing wrong at all with such people as with other races, it's just cringy when it's all emphasized and shoved in everyone's faces in a channel 4 woke fest ) etc it's pricks like you who bleat ' racist! Racist! Bla bla bla '..........here's true story for stupid little lefty brain to take in .....I once worked in a British school in Azerbaijan. There was a black teacher from Nigeria who I got on with and as we were discussing Britain, he said to me that he had only visited London once. When I asked him did he like it, he said, and I quote ' Yes, but you know, there were too many black people there '....... believe it or not but its 100 percent the truth. I bet your silly little woke brain is hurting now as you can't process that.......