I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

His credits many with lifelong friend and collaborator Willis Hall include satires such as That Was The Week That Was BBC-3 and The Frost Report during the 1960s the book for the 1975 musical The Card Budgie Worzel Gummidge and Andy Capp (an adaptation of the comic strip). Waterhouse wrote the play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell (1989; Old Vic premiere 1999) based on the life of journalist Jeffrey Bernard. His 1959 book Billy Liar was subsequently filmed by John Schlesinger with Tom Courtenay in the part of Billy.