Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie

Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie was a British television comedy series written and performed by Ben Elton. The title of the series was a play on words of the American spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,[1] and "Auntie", an informal name for the BBC. The first series aired on BBC1 in 1990. A second series with a slightly different format was aired four years later in 1994.[2] The series was primarily based around Elton's stand-up comedy routines, with his monologues interspersed with occasional f…