 As 1993 went on, his style became based more on one-liners than the longer material he had been doing in New Zealand - he felt that there was less for him to remember and also less for the audience to "wade through".After one and a half years, and having achieved his "professional goals", Elliott returned to Auckland in 1994.From the 1990s, Elliott put on sold out shows at Comedy and Fringe festivals, worked in television and film, wrote and directed satirical revues, and devised and taught a comedy writing course which spawned the "Ministry of Chocolate Fisheries" sketch comedy radio show on Plains FM.