Colin Bostock-Smith

worked at the Evening Standard and edited rock magazine Rave before devoting himself to television comedy. He wrote gags and scripts for almost every major comedian of the past 30 years, including the Two Ronnies, Rowan Atkinson, the Not the Nine O'Clock News team and Clive James. He then spent three years in Zambia, making local television comedies and writing about Zambian politics for The Spectator.