Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Nigel Planer

September 2023

  • Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Henry Higgins either side of a chart that Carvel points to with a stick, in Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

    The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

    Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

November 2022

  • Alexei Sayle, Ade Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Nigel Planer, stars of The Young Ones

    ‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how 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

April 2021

  • Nigel Planer as Nicholas Craig

    Beware the actoplasm! Spoof thespian Nicholas Craig returns

    The mock classical actor created by Nigel Planer and Christopher Douglas scaled the heights at the RSC and the ‘Nash’. Now, he’s ready for a comeback

October 2018

  • Nigel Planer as Hugh Delavois and Adrian Edmondson as Gary Savage in Vulcan 7.

    Vulcan 7 review – the Young Ones meet again as old dinosaurs

    Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer write and star in a Beckettian comedy about two past-it thesps making a sci-fi film on the edge of a volcano

June 2018

  • The Young Ones Comedy TV show imagenet

    Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer reunite for actors satire

    Young Ones stars to appear on stage in Vulcan 7 as has-beens stuck in a literal and TV-career wasteland

March 2018

  • The Game of Love and Chai

    The Game of Love and Chai review – Nigel Planer gives French farce a Bollywood remake

    Marivaux’s French nobles become suburban British Asians in a pacy but unconvincing update of the romantic comedy

September 2017

  • Nigel Planer, second right, in The Young Ones

    Why I’m glad no one wants to call their baby Nigel any more

    Nigel Planer
    It was never a cool name, even before Farage helped consign it to the dustbin of history. It deserves to be no-platformed, says actor and comedian Nigel Planer

January 2016

  • A glorious coming together of Leveson and Boogie Nights: Comic Strip Presents … Red Top.

    TV review
    Comic Strip Presents … Red Top review – So funny, it’s uncanny: did the Comic Strip hack the Guardian?

    Great turns from Maxine Peake as Rebekah Brooks, Nigel Planer as Rupert Murdoch and others provide lots of lols – especially the scene set in our offices. Also, The Town that Took on the Taxman

March 2015

  • Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall

    The young ones: Rik, Ade and the 80s alternative comedy gang – in pictures

    Photographer Trevor Rogers captured the 1980s alternative comedy boom with these black-and-white portraits of Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and friends

August 2014

  • Robin Williams photographed in 1999

    Robin Williams appreciation by Nigel Planer: 'He wouldn't be happy until the furniture was laughing'

    American standups were looked down on by Britain's new wave in the early 80s, writes former Young One Nigel Planer. Then one manic genius pulled off a breathtaking coup…

October 2013

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical: the making - video

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical: the cast recording - exclusive video

    A sneaky peek inside the recording sessions, featuring Douglas Hodge as Wonka, Nigel Planer as Grandpa Joe – and a few choice nibbles from the score

August 2013

  • Nigel Planer

    My family values
    Nigel Planer: My family values

    Nikki Spencer: The actor talks about being the arty one in a family of scientists

July 2013

  • Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka and the cast in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review

    This blockbuster musical version of the Roald Dahl book is leaden, saccharine and exposes its author as a prig, writes Susannah Clapp

June 2013

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka

    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review

  • Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

    Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: the musical - in pictures

October 2011

  • Jennifer Saunders as a heavily made-up Margaret Thatcher reclining on a divan

    The Comic Strip reunited

  • Comic Strip: The Hunt For Tony Blair

    TV and radio blog
    Comic Strip: The Hunt For Tony Blair

April 2011

  • The Young Ones

    Your next box set
    Your next box set: The Young Ones

    Back then, a VHS taped off the TV of this disparate bunch thrown together in a dilapidated student house, provided an early taster of what box set viewing could be

June 2009

  • Nigel Planer

    What I see in the mirror
    What I see in the mirror

    Nigel Planer: Despite my attempts to look like an American 60s comedian, I look like a villain

December 2006

  • Screen life

    Nigel Planer, a founder member of the Comic Strip, is best known as hippy Neil Pye in The Young Ones. His other TV credits include Filthy, Rich and Catflap, Shine On Harvey Moon, The Grimleys, and Nicholas Craig, The Naked Actor.

About 27 results for Nigel Planer
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：