John Lloyd (writer)

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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer.

Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Books 3 Recent work 4 External links

[edit] Early life and career

Lloyd was born in Dover and educated at West Hill Park School (Titchfield, Hants), The King's School, Canterbury and Trinity College (Cambridge). Here he befriended, and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He then worked as radio producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz,Quote... Unquote, The News Huddlines and To the Manor Born. He co-wrote the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with creator Douglas Adams (who wrote all the rest solo), and was involved in the TV series as Associate Producer. 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 all four Blackadder series. He also coauthored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams.

[edit] Books

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)
• The Book of General Ignorance (2006, with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves)
• The Book of Animal Ignorance (2007, with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves)
• The QI Annual (with various authors)

[edit] Recent work

He has been a TV commercials director on and off since 1987 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 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. The fifth series is currently airing in Britain and will finish its run after 12 episodes. Like all the previous series of QI, it is directed by Ian Lorimer.

Lloyd has also created and will star in a new radio series, The Museum Of Curiosity in 2008.

[edit] External links

• John Lloyd at the Internet Movie Database
• Guide to Comedy entry from the BBC
• The People Behind QI and QI Shop: John Lloyd
• The Idler Archives — Conversations: John Lloyd
• John Lloyd (with John Mitchinson) discussing The Book of General Ignorance

v • d • e QI
Quite Interesting People
Stephen Fry · Alan Davies John Lloyd · John Mitchinson · Justin Pollard · Ian Lorimer
Quite Interesting Series
A · B · C · D · E
Other Quite Interesting Things
The Book of General Ignorance · QI News