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What is Grant Naylor?
Grant Naylor, INC. is the production company that brings us Red Dwarf! Where do they get the name? Well, it's pretty straight forward. The two chums that founded the company are name just that! Robert Grant and Doug Naylor are the creators of Grant Naylor. (See the resemblance between Grant and Naylor to Grant Naylor?) Anyway, these guys write, produce, and enjoy the show. They also are the authors of several Red Dwarf novels. Some of them they have written together, and they each have their own one-author masterpieces.
To sum this up, below is a brief biographies of the two. It's kind of weird because it is one bio for the two guys. It is also filled with a lot of sarcastic, fictional humor. You might notice that I transcribed them from the back of the Red Dwarf novel, "Better Than Life," because I did.
Robert GRANT & Doug NAYLOR
Grant Naylor is a gestalt entity occupying two bodies, one of which lives in north London, the other in south London. The product of a horribly botched genetic-engineering experiment, which took place in Manchester in the late fifties, they try to eke out two existences with only one mind. They attended the same school and the same university, but, for tax reasons, have completely different wives.
The first body is called Rob Grant, the second Doug Naylor. Among other things, they spent three years in the mid-eighties as head writers of Spitting Image; wrote Radio Four's award-winning series Son of Cliche; penned the lyrics to a number-one singer; and created and wrote Red Dwarf for BBC Television.
They have made a living variously by being ice-cream salesmen, shoe-shop assistance and by attempting to sell dodgy life-assurence policies to close friends. They also spent almost two years on the night shift loading paper into computer printers at the mail-order factory in Ardwick. They can still taste the cheese 'n' onion toasties.
Their favourite colour is orange. Red Dwarf was an enormous bestseller when published as a Penguin paperback in 1989. Better Than Life is the not-very-long-awaited sequel.
Robert Grant and Doug Naylor
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