Chris Schulz05:00, May 07 2021
BBC
Ben Elton created the cult 1980s sitcom The Young Ones.
Sharing plates are done. The housing market is screwed. Millennials have been locked out of communal wealth. We'll be dealing with the aftermath of a worldwide pandemic for years.
"Someone could sneeze in Tasmania," says Ben Elton, "and the borders get closed."
Nothing about the past 12 months seems worth laughing about.
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"There's no subject on Earth we're not ready to laugh about," says Ben Elton.
But, when Elton takes to the stage in Blenheim on Saturday night, the first date of the British comic's massive stand-up comedy tour around New Zealand, he won't avoid any of the elephants in the room.