Although he is non English, Curtis has sleep in Engl& since he was Xi and occurs as graduate of Oxford University (Christ Church). A boy of an executive at Unilever, a transnational company specialising around food & individual care products, Curtis & his personal sleep in many different countries when you took his childhood, including Sweden and The Philippines. Section of the personal however lives around Sydney, Australia.

Curtis was a co-writer sustaining Philip Pope of the Hee Bee Gee Bees' single "Meaningless Songs" (B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") freed inside 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees disco hits. He so began to write comedy for film & TV.

He was the regular writer on the TV series ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'', where he wrote many of the show's songs with Howard Goodall and many sketches, often with Rowan Atkinson.

Richard Curtis is married to script editor & broadcaster Emma Freud, with whom he has foursome youngsters.

He is too a co-founder of the charity, Comic Relief. Each more month, for the preceding twenty years, Comic Relief has dog Red Nose Day, the comedy telethin event on British television to raise money for charity.

Around 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.

Inside great deal of his writing, there appears a character known as Bernard; examples include the eponymic hero inside Bernard and the Genie (1991), Nursy in Blackadder a 2nd, the second groom inside 4 Weddings & the Funeral, & the minor character inside ''Bridget Jones's Diary. The "Bernie" appears within Notting Hill and Love Actually''. A bit of click reports develop stated, mistakenly, that this tradition stems from either Curtis' instance at college, once his so-girlfriend left him for Bernard Jenkin (later the British MP). A Bernards come usually modest, mocking impersonation, or even in the instance of Nursy, female.

Campaigning

Curtis was the founder of each Comic Relief and Make Poverty History. He organised a Live 8 concerts with Bob Geldof to publicize poverty, particularly inside Africa, & pressure G8 leaders to adopt his proposals for ending it. Up to now Comic Relief has raised £337 million for Africa & Britain.