Skelton writes for several television programmes, including Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, 10 O'Clock Live and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
He has also written for A League of Their Own, The Eleven O'Clock Show, and FAQ U, and he was one of the writers on the MTV Europe Music Awards 2004.
The programme, which was subsequently made available on DVD and purchased by interested sociology, psychology and other professors around the world, was taught at college levels in the US, the UK and Australia.
[citation needed] In 2005, Skelton was one of three actors posing as contestants in the Channel 4 spoof reality TV show Space Cadets.
I've just scribbled a list of what I know for sure: I've been a mole on a fake reality show called Space Cadets; I have a Russian doll in my hand luggage; I've just spent the past five days in a flight simulator in a hangar on the Suffolk coast; and – last but by no means least – I've just spent the past five days in space.
I shuffled humbly back into the mid-deck and wrote a poem...[8]Referring to their book Once More, With Feeling, Victoria Coren said, "Shooting a highbrow erotic movie in a room full of naked Dutch people is good practice for keeping a straight face in Space Cadets.