John Lloyd (born 1951 in Dover, England; birth name: John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd), British comedy writer and producer. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port. ...

Lloyd was educated at the West Hill Park School (Titchfield, Hants), Kings School (Canterbury) and Trinity College (Cambridge). Here he befriended, and later lived with Douglas Adams. He then worked as radio producer at BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines and To The Manor Born. He co-wrote the fifth and sixth episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series with creator Douglas Adams (who wrote all the rest solo), and was involded in the series in cariuos other functions. He also wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall. He worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 and created Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image; he also produced the Blackadder series. Canterbury is a cathedral city in the City of Canterbury district of Kent in South East England. ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College(s) Christ Church Master The Lord Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The News Quiz is a topical comedy quiz broadcast on British radio BBC Radio 4. ... The News Huddlines was a long-running BBC Radio 2 half hour comedy show, consisting of sketches, songs and one-liners. ... To the Manor Born was a popular and high-rating British sitcom which ran for a total of twenty one episodes over three seasons between 1979 and 1981. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... Hordes of the Things is a BBC radio comedy series parodying J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, and the fantasy genre in general, in a style similar to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ... Andrew Marshall (1960- ) is a British comedy writer, most noted for the domestic sitcom 2point4 children. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Current ITV logo. ... Not The Nine OClock News was a ground-breaking comedy television programme shown on the BBC broadcast from 1979 to 1982. ... Spitting Image was a satirical puppet-show that ran on Britains ITV Network from 1984 to 1996. ... Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC historical sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. ...

He co-authored the books:

• Not! The Nine O'Clock News
• Not 1982
• Not 1983
• Not the Royal Wedding
• Not the General Election
• The Meaning of Liff (1983, with Douglas Adams)
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990, with Douglas Adams)
• The Appallingly Disrespectful Spitting Image Book
• Spitting Image
• Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485–1917 (2000, with Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson)

He has been a TV commercial director since 1989 and lives in the UK. His first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a pun on IQ), starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on September 11, 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. Its third series began on 30 September 2005. Front cover of the US hardcover edition of The Meaning of Liff, 1984. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... The Meaning of Liff (ISBN 0517553473) is a humorous dictionary written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in Britain in 1983. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph by Jill Furmanovsky. ... Richard Curtis (born November 8, 1956), a New Zealand-born British comedy scriptwriter, is best known for the TV series Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley and the movies Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill. ... Rowan Atkinson on promotion tour for his movie Bean in Hürth, Germany August, 1997 Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born January 6, 1955 in Consett, County Durham, England) is an English comedian, actor and writer best known for playing the title roles in the UK TV series Blackadder and Mr. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX in Roman) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show shown on BBC Two and BBC Four and hosted by Stephen Fry. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... IQ redirects here; for other uses of that term, see IQ (disambiguation). ... Stephen Fry on the cover of his autobiography (US Edition) Stephen John Fry (born 24 August, 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and director. ... Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966, in Essex, England) is an English comedian and actor. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (255th in leap years). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

John Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...

• Guide to Comedy entry from the BBC