Nigel Planer
- 71 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
Press clippings
Nigel Planer returns to The Young Ones house 41 years after series began
The Young One's Nigel Planer has returned to the show's famous student house in Bristol, 41-years after the iconic BBC sitcom fist aired.
Geraint Llewellyn, Daily Mail, 18th December 2023Bad News: "Rik Mayall couldn't play bass, but that just made it funnier..."
As legendary British spoof-metal heroes Bad News release their first track in three decades, comedy legend Nigel Planer tells us about this sort-of return, creating one of British TV's funniest icons, and getting bottled at Donnington.
Nick Ruskell, Kerrang, 15th December 2023How The Young Ones responded to a road crash and appalled Steve Martin
Peter Richardson has revealed how The Young Ones helped to save a stricken scooter rider after a horrific crash, how he sought to cast Matt Lucas as Boris Johnson in a Comic Strip movie and how he shocked Steve Martin with his method approach to shooting a riotous scene in The Supergrass.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd November 2023Nigel Planer: 'I made as much from one episode of Blackadder as from all of The Young Ones'
The West End star on divorce, getting recognised and making money on a Second World War barge.
York Membery, The Telegraph, 14th August 2023Nigel Planer: 'My father hid that he was Jewish until his 70s'
The Young Ones star has said his family kept their origins secret after fleeing Nazi Germany .
Felix Pope, The Jewish Chronicle, 23rd July 2023Comic Strip stars to celebrate series at BFI
Three screenings at the BFI this month will celebrate more than 40 years of the influential Comic Strip Presents series.
British Comedy Guide, 9th May 2023Changes to Slapstick Festival
In a late change to the advertised programme for the 19th annual edition of Slapstick in Bristol, the event now taking place on Saturday 18 February at St George's, Brandon Hill (5.30pm) will be "Comic Strip Stories" - a 40th anniversary look back at The Comic Strip Presents.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th January 2023Nigel Planer interview
'I was worried I'd be accused of culturally invading a space as an old white man'. The actor, comedian and playwright on Monty Python, fish entrails and the problem with sharing a dressing room.
Rob Crossan, The Telegraph, 12th December 2022How The Young Ones changed comedy for ever
With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show's creators how they pulled it off.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 12th November 2022Bonus-packed The Young Ones coming to Blu-ray
Iconic early "alternative comedy" sitcom The Young Ones has been comprehensively restored for a new Blu-ray release, which is to be packed with new and never-seen extra features.
British Comedy Guide, 28th October 2022