Charlie Skelton

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Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer and actor from Suffolk, England.

An Oxford University graduate, he started out as a journalist, writing features for the Evening Standard and The Guardian. He has written for a number of television programmes including 8 Out of 10 Cats (of which he is currently the Script Editor), The Eleven O'Clock Show, Have I Got News For You and FAQ U, and he was one of the writers on the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004. He was the creative director of the short-lived The London News Review, and in 2005 founded The Clacton Festival.

At one point in his career, Skelton and fellow writer Victoria Coren had a job reviewing porn films for the Erotic Review. They soon decided that most of the porn they had to watch was terrible and they believed they could do better themselves, and so the two of them set about making their own porn film. They wrote about the process in their book Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever. They also appeared as judges on the final episode of the reality TV show Double Entry.

In 2005 Skelton was one of three actors posing as a contestant in the Channel 4 spoof reality TV show Space Cadets. After weeks of training, Skelton and three genuine contestants were selected to go on the fake space mission.

In 2006, Skelton appeared on the BBC One reality gameshow Just The Two of Us.