Naylor was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, and studied at Chetham's School of Music and the University of Liverpool.
This writing partnership was successful, with Grant and Naylor going on to co-write and produce numerous British radio and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including programmes such as The Cannon and Ball Show, A Kick Up The Eighties, Three of A Kind, Comic Relief, Spitting Image and they wrote the singles, "Father Christmas is on the Dole", which charted in 1986 and "The Chicken Song" which was No.
Together, they wrote the British science fiction comedy television series Red Dwarf under this name.
With this split, it appeared as though Red Dwarf was finished; other obstacles included the fact that Chris Barrie was tied up starring in The Brittas Empire and the other star of Red Dwarf, Craig Charles, was in prison awaiting trial.
In 2008, it was announced by Grant Naylor Productions that Red Dwarf would return to television in the form of four half-hour specials for the UKTV Network channel Dave.
Naylor formed Three Feet Productions[3] in October 2017 with his son Richard and wrote and directed a one-off comedy for BBC One, entitled Over To Bill, starring Hugh Dennis, Neil Morrissey, Tracy Ann Oberman and Helen George and produced by Richard Naylor.
Both series were a Baby Cow Productions commission, with Richard Naylor and Kerry Waddell as producers.