Look who Ben Elton's Morphed into
Comic immortalised in Plasticine as he's named Slapstick Festival legend
Here’s Ben Elton as you’ve not seen him before – reimagined as cartoon character Morph.
The veteran stand-up and writer was awarded his likeness in Plasticine as he award for being named this year’s comedy legend at Bristol’s Slapstick Festival of classic comedy.
Morph creators Aardman Animation are the main sponsors of the event.
Elton received the award from Aardman co-founder Dave Sproxton and festival director Chris Daniels after a retrospective reviewing his career hosted by Adam Hills.
Many of his past collaborators supplied video messages for the event, among them Sir Michael Palin, David Mitchell, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Brian May and Sir Paul McCartney,
The event was the last of 35 put on as part of the festival’s 20th birthday edition. Others who took part over the week included Stephen K Amos, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Harry Enfield, Graeme Garden, Martin Freeman, Robin Ince, Lucy Porter and Rick Wakeman.
Organisers estimate more than 5,000 tickets were sold – 10 times as many as at the first Slapstick in 2005.
Published: 17 Feb 2025
