Lise Mayer

Lise Mayer (born 29 November 1959) is an American born English television and film writer, best known as a creator and co writer of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, alongside Rik Mayall and Ben Elton.

Background
Mayer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to David and Anne Mayer, who met when they were studying drama at Manchester University, where her father was a tutor. Her mother is a theatre PR. She has written for television programmes including The Last Resort, Paramount City, London Underground, The Fast Show, Saturday Zoo and Casualty, and produced Denis Leary's No Cure For Cancer. 

She was a writer/consultant for the film The Borrowers, and co writer of Suite 16, Paper Marriage, Flushed Away and The Matchmaker. Books include Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book, People I Have Shot (with ITN cameraman Sebastian Rich), The Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book, Go to Bed With Jonathan Ross, Amassed Hysteria and In Search of Happiness (with Angus Deayton).

Personal life 
Mayer was in a relationship with her co writer and star of The Young Ones, Rik Mayall.

She has a son, Isaac, with comedian and television presenter Angus Deayton, with whom she was in a relationship from 1991 to 2015. 

Her sister, Catherine Mayer, co founded the Women's Equality Party with Sandi Toksvig. She has another sister named Cassie.

References

External links
 
 BBC Comedy Guide - The Young Ones

Category:1957 births
Category:Living people
Category:Alumni of the University of Manchester
Category:American expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:American Jews
Category:Women television writers
Category:Writers from Chicago
Category:British surrealist writers
Category:Jewish surrealist writers
Category:Women surrealist artists