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Rob Grant is a British comedy writer, who studied at the University of Liverpool.

With Doug Naylor, he worked on radio programs such as Cliché and its sequel Son Of Cliché, and television programs such as Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, The 10 Percenters, and various Jasper Carrott projects.

Grant left Red Dwarf after the sixth series, saying he wished to have more on his 'tombstone' than Red Dwarf. An interesting bit of trivia is that he appeared uncredited in the third series episode "Backwards" (1989), as a man who 'un-smoked' a cigarette.

Grant has since written two television series, Dark Ages and The Strangerers, and four solo books. Some of his upcoming projects include a new novel called Fat, and an animated series entitled Cruel Aliens.

[edit] Selected works by Rob Grant

• Red Dwarf (1989), with Doug Naylor (published under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor); sometimes credited as Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.
• Better Than Life (1990), with Doug Naylor (published under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor).
• Son Of Soup (1996) (with Doug Naylor).
• Scenes From The Dwarf (1996) (with Doug Naylor).
• Backwards (1996), a sequel to Better Than Life.
• Colony (2000), which uses many of the same themes as Backwards.
• Incompetence (2003), a detective story set in the near future where incompetence is a way of life.
• Fat (2006), a novel about how obesity can affect society; publication date is 2nd November 2006.