Bennett Chico Arron is an award-winning Welsh writer and stand-up comedian. In 1997 he was a finalist of the BBC New Comedy Awards, alongside Peter Kay and Justin Lee Collins. He is a past winner of the BBC Wales New Writer's Award and the TAPS Comedy Writer of The Year Award.
Born in Port Talbot[1] in South Wales on 10 November 1957, Bennett moved to London to attend the drama school, the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. It was there that he started writing and performing sketches. After leaving drama school he formed the sketch group 4-Ply. The group toured venues around the country and had a sell-out show at the Edinburgh Festival.
Since then Bennett has had a very successful career as a stand-up comedian and has written for several television programmes. In 2007, he wrote, directed and presented the documentary How Not To Lose Your Identity for Channel 4[2] which was based on his own experience of identity fraud[3] and proved how easy a crime it easy to carry out. In the programme he stole the identity of the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke and was subsequently arrested.[4] The programme was critically acclaimed by the press ("Pick of the Week", The Guardian; "fascinating and disturbing ****", The TV Times) and led to Bennett touring a show based on his experiences,[5] as well as being commissioned to write a book.
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Bennett has written comedy material for Hale and Pace, Freddie Starr, The Real McCoy, Large, Stop the World, No Limit, The Varrell and Decker Show, Samstag Nacht, The April Hailer Show, The 11 O'Clock Show, Commercial Breakdown, RISE and V Graham Norton.
He has also written for situation comedies, including Ed Stone is Dead (starring Richard Blackwood) and Sam's Game (starring Davina McCall and Ed Byrne). He is currently one of the main writer's on two children's series; The Slammer (BBC 1) and Genie In The House (the highest rated programme on Nickelodeon.)
As a stand-up comedian, Bennett has performed at every major venue in the UK as well as performing in the United Arab Emirates and Germany. He also regularly performs at large corporate events.