History Creator / TalbotRothwell

Rothwell's legacy to British comedy is known of nowadays from ''Up Pompeii'' and his work with the ''Carry On'' films, often being called the latter's best ever writer. With the tongue-in-cheek GettingCrapPastTheRadar humor, Rothwell was said to be careful not to go into full-frontal pornographic content, keeping the content as ParentalBonus as possible without alienating the younger audience; the works of stand-up comic The Cheeky Chappie was said to have been much of his inspiration. One could link him to (unintentionally) pushing the envelope in the ''Carry Ons'' which eventually led to the AwfulBritishSexComedy genre.

Tablot Nelson Conn Rothwell, [[KnightFever OBE]] (12 November 1916 -- 28 February 1981) was an English comedic screenwriter, mostly known for writing the scripts of many successful ''Film/CarryOn'' movies and a few of their television shows. He is also responsible for writing comic work for some of the UK's other classic properties, including material for Creator/TerryThomas and Creator/FrankieHowerd.

** ''Series/CarryOnChristmas'' (1969, 1972)

Rothwell's legacy to British comedy is known of nowadays from ''Up Pompeii'' and his work with the ''Carry On'' films, often being called the latter's best ever writer. However, there is a bit of a PopCultureOsmosis with his work: the famous line "Infamy, infamy -- they've all got it in for me!" from ''Film/CarryOnCleo'' was named the best line ever said in British comedy, however, it was a ShoutOut to a popular radio show ''Take It From Here'', which is now unfortunately so obscure, the line is always credited to Rothwell, and not Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

** ''Film/CarryOnCabby''

Tablot Nelson Conn Rothwell, [[KnightFever OBE]] (12 November 1916 -- 28 February 1981) was an English screenwriter, mostly known for writing the scripts of many successful ''Film/CarryOn'' movies and a few of their television shows. He is also responsible for writing work for some of the UK's other classic properties, including material for Creator/TerryThomas and Creator/FrankieHowerd.

Rothwell had a variety of jobs before he went into showbusiness. He turned to it after his RAF plane was shot down in the Second World War and he was imprisoned in a prisoner-of-war camp. There he met Creator/PeterButterworth and they become a "double act" in the camp with Butterworth performing and Rothwell writing some of his material. When the war was over, the two remained friends, which most likely helped Rothwell make his way into drama, writing scripts for a variety of famous British comic acts, such as The Crazy Gang, Ted Ray for his eponymous television show, and Arthur Askley.

* ''Film/TommyTheToreador''