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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born 30 September
1951) is a British comedy writer and television
producer. He is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.[1]
Early life
and career
Lloyd was born in Dover and educated
at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hants; The King's School,
Canterbury; and Trinity College, Cambridge. There he befriended,
and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams. He worked as a radio
producer at the BBC 1974–1978 and
created The News
Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence)
and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel
Rees). He wrote Hordes of the
Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew ("A. P. R.") Marshall,
co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams
and then went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the
first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy with him. (Douglas Adams wrote all the other
previous and subsequent episodes solo, as well as the television
adaptation – though Lloyd was involved in the TV series as
Associate Producer.) Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the
BBC and ITV 1979–1989 where he created Not the Nine O'Clock
News (with Sean Hardie) and Spitting Image (with Peter Fluck
and Roger Law). He also produced all four Blackadder series.
Recent
work
Lloyd has worked as a TV commercials director on and off since
1987. He is married with three children and lives in the UK. His
first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a
deliberate reversal of IQ), starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on 11 September 2003 at
10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes. It is now in its seventh
series, which started on BBC One in late 2009, produced by Piers
Fletcher. All the episodes of QI (including the pilot) have been
directed by Ian Lorimer. Lloyd currently presents the radio series,
The Museum Of
Curiosity (2008), which he co-created with producers
Richard Turner & Dan Schreiber and former co-host Bill
Bailey.
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)
- Advanced
Banter (2008, with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves)
- The QI Book of the Dead
(2009, with John Mitchinson and the QI Elves)
- The QI Annual E [editor] (2007, with various
authors)
- The QI Annual F [co-editor] (2008, with John
Mitchinson [co-editor] and various authors)
- The QI Annual G [editor] (2009, with various
authors)
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