Elliott said: “It’s absolutely brilliant. It’s such an honour, a lad from a council estate in Rotherham, and after all these years, getting an MBE is just such an honour. I’m very much a royalist.”
He said Marie Curie first came to his attention when he saw an ad on TV.
He said: “I was just watching an advert for Marie Curie on the telly, and I just put on Twitter (now X) if everybody that followed me just paid £1 each to Marie Curie that’d be a lot of money for them, £50,000.
“And Marie Curie got in touch with me, and it’s gone on straight from there, really.”
Sir Roy Clarke wrote Last of the Summer Wine, Open All Hours and Keeping up Appearances.
His knighthood follows on from him being appointed an OBE in 2002 for his contribution to British comedy.
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