| Description | Featuring reviews of Planer's work including:
Arts Guardian review, The Guardian, 20th August 1976. Rank, Roundhouse, London.
Photocopy of 3 newspaper reviews for Rank: The Financial Times, 3rd Sept 1976; Arts Guardian review, The Guardian, 20th August 1976; and an unknown publication
Time Out, 4-10 December 1981. The Last Laugh, Barracuda Club, London. The Last Laugh was a short-lived venue run by Comedy Store founder Peter Rosengard after he split from co-founder Don Ward (who still runs the Comedy Store).
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 1989. I, An Actor, Hampstead Theatre.
Daily Mail, 28 July 2000. A Small Family Business, Chichester Festival Theatre. |
| Admin history | Nigel Planer was born in 1953 in Westminster, London. He attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where he met and began working with Peter Richardson (British director and comedian). His career in comedy began in 1976 with a tour of a comedy rock show called Rank, which he wrote with Peter Richardson. Nigel Planer was a founding member of the London Comedy Store and an original memebr of the Comic Strip, pioneers of the Alternative Comedy scene in the 1980s. Nigel Planer is well known for the seminal TV series The Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents. He continues to work as an actor and writer in tv, theatre, film, music and radio. Nigel Planer has also written a number of books and plays, and won a BRIT award in 1984, as well as being nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage and BAFTA awards. |