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Lise Mayer (born November 1959) is an American television and film writer, best known as, alongside

Rik Mayall Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternative ...

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Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms '' The Young Ones'' and ''Bla ...

, a creator and co-writer of the

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comedy series '' The Young Ones''.

Background and work

Mayer was born in

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, Illinois, to David and Anne Mayer. She met Rik Mayall when she was at school in

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and Mayall came to study drama at

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, where her father was a professor. Her mother is a theatre publicist. In addition to '' The Young Ones'', she has written for television programmes including ''The Last Resort'', ''Paramount City'', ''London Underground'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and produced

Denis Leary Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American actor and comedian. A native of Massachusetts, Leary first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV (including the comedic song "Asshole (song), Assh ...

's ''No Cure For Cancer''. She was a writer/consultant for the film ''

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'', and co writer of '' Suite 16'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Books include ''Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book'', ''People I Have Shot'' (with ITN cameraman Sebastian Rich), ''The Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book'', ''Go to Bed With Jonathan Ross'', ''Amassed Hysteria'' and ''In Search of Happiness'' (with Angus Deayton). She is an activist and filmmaker for the advocacy group The Citizens.

Personal life

Mayer was in a relationship until 1985 with

, including the period when they co-wrote '' The Young Ones''. She has a son, Isaac, with comedian and television presenter

Angus Deayton Gordon Angus Deayton (; born 6 January 1956) is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game '' Have I Got News for You,'' the host of British panel show '' Would I Lie ...

, with whom she was in a relationship from 1991 to 2015. Her sister,

Catherine Mayer Catherine Mayer (born 24 January 1961) is an American-born British author and journalist, and the co-founder and President of the Women's Equality Party (WE) in the UK. Early life Mayer was born in the US and later became naturalised as Brit ...

, co founded the

Women's Equality Party The Women's Equality Party (WEP) is a feminist political party set up in the United Kingdom in 2015. The idea was conceived by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig at the Women of the World Festival, when they concluded that there was a need for ...

with

Sandi Toksvig Sandra Birgitte Toksvig (; ; born 3 May 1958) is a Danish-British writer, comedian and broadcaster on British radio, stage and television. She is also a political activist, having co-founded the Women's Equality Party in 2015. She has written ...

References

External links

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BBC Comedy Guide - The Young Ones
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