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Richard Curtis (Author)

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The Resume

    (November 8, 1956- )
    Writer for the TV series 'Not the Nine O'Clock News,' 'Blackadder,' 'Mr Bean' and 'The Vicar of Dibley'
    Wrote the screenplays for 'Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994),' 'Bean (1997),' 'Notting Hill (1999),' 'Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001),' and 'Love Actually (2003)'
    Directed 'Love Actually (2003)'
    Awarded the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award (1993)
    Awarded an M.B.E. (1994) and a C.B.E. (2000)

Why he might be annoying:

    Despite being a writer for the historical comedy 'Blackadder,' he admits that he is terrible at history.
    He writes romantic comedy movies.
    He said he wrote 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' to explain to his parents why he hasn't married his longtime girlfriend.
    His girlfriend in college left him for a man named Bernard. In each of his screenplays there is a nasty character named Bernard.
    He decided to become a writer in order to write better acting roles for himself.
    He said: 'You won't find many people who've had an easier ride in movies than I.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He graduated from Oxford University.
    As a child he lived in New Zealand, the Philippines, and Sweden.
    He frequently works with college friend Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant.
    He is co-founder and vice-chairman of the charity fund-raiser 'Comic Relief.'
    He said: 'Anything that is wrong with a film will come back to haunt you forever, so I take a long time writing, fix everything ... Oh, and I put the word 'fuck' in a lot.'

Credit: Call me Calvin


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 88 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 45 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 1191 Votes: 30.23% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 155 Votes: 56.77% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 27 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 321 Votes: 39.88% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 35 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 61 Votes: 67.21% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 104 Votes: 54.81% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 176 Votes: 52.27% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 83 Votes: 42.17% Annoying