| Description | Featuring publicity material including:
Daily Express, 7th January 1983. “Enter the new young heroes”, a piece about “pop comedy” with quotes from Rik Mayall and mentioning The Young Ones.
Sunday Times, 8th April 1984, “Neil’s last stand”, promoting his book “Neil’s Book of the Dead”.
Radio Times, 5-11 May, 1984. Featuring the Young Ones cast on the cover in character with the title “Young, gifted and back”, marking the debut of the second season that was about to be broadcast on BBC2.
Daily Mirror, 3rd January 1985, “Now Neil is dressing up as a woman: It’s a Real Drag, Man”.
TV Times, 2-8 March 1985. Featuring a cover story, “The piano teacher and the rock star: Liza Goddard and Nigel Planer in Roll Over Beethoven”.
The Mirror, 8th November 1985, “I want to be a bitch, too”. Promotion for the Comic Strip film ‘The Supergrass’.
Telegraph, Sunday Magazine, 21st Aug 1988. Article: “A man of many parts”, promoting the book ‘I, An Actor’ published by Pavilion Books.
Radio Times, 22-28 October 1988. Article: “Nigel’s lucky number”, promoting ‘Number 27’, a TV movie written by Michael Palin.
The Sunday Telegraph ‘7 Days’ magazine, August 19-25, 1990. Featuring Nigel Planer on the cover, “Nigel Planer: A Young One Grows Up”, with a story about ‘Frankenstein’s Baby’, a TV drama broadcast on BBC1. |
| 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. |