Caravan Insurance

28 May, 2009

A caravan may be an excellent venue for a holiday but it can also inspire creative talent, as one comedian has shown.

Stand-up comic and writer Ben Elton has told the Sunday Mercury that he wrote his very first works while studying for his drama A-level in a caravan in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Together with a fellow student, the funnyman - who was 16 at the time - penned a musical about prostitutes called The Dancing Silhouette, caravan insurance policyholders may be surprised to read.

The musical was performed for one night in 1975 at South Warwickshire College, which is now called Stratford-upon-Avon College.

From humble beginnings come great things; however, as Elton has since written musicals with such greats as Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rod Stewart.

"I never expected to become a stand-up comedian, but I always wanted to write a musical," he commented.

"Although my dad said: 'What on earth do you know about prostitutes?' I replied I didn't know anything, but Shakespeare didn't know about murdering people when he wrote Macbeth," the comedian added.

Elton's first notable success was co-writing television show The Young Ones at the age of 23, in which has also made a few appearances.

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