Young Once
A Life Less Heavy
$24.58
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
Aged twenty-five, dressed as Che Guevara, Nigel Planer answers an ad for a room and his life changes for ever.
Both a memoir and a love story, Young Once follows his journey, from bell-ringer to gravedigger, from university dropout to long-term patient of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and all the other bizarre events that shape him, until the day he meets Alexei Sayle, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in a former strip club and the 1980s Comedy Revolution is born …
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399826730 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399826735 |
| Author: | Nigel Planer |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
Beautifully written, deliciously evocative, funny and touching. – Stephen Fry
A thermometer up the Khyber Pass of Comedy, expertly administered. – Richard E. Grant
Nigel’s true-life adventures would make Neil from The Young Ones crap his loons. – Ben Elton
YOUNG ONCE is delicious … The very funny life of an icon of British comedy, brilliantly portrayed. – Jo Brand
Oozes charm and likeability … this book is very good, full of terrific stories. He’s particularly good on all his old comedy confrères at The Comedy Store and the Comic Strip. [It] will make you hoot with laughter on public transport. A spectacular memoir chronicling a life well lived. Anyone of a certain age and temperament who opens it will be delighted by it. * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Nigel Planer
Nigel Planer is a comedian and actor, best known for the characters Neil the hippy in The Young Ones and Nicholas Craig of the ‘Naked Actor’ Masterclass. Starring in many TV shows and West End musicals, he has won Mastermind and a BRIT award, hovered at No.2 for six weeks in the pop charts (damn you, Frankie Goes to Hollywood!) and been nominated for Olivier, TMA, WhatsOnStage, and BAFTA awards. He has also written novels, plays and poetry and voiced Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books.
He lives in London with his wife, Roberta. Between them they have four children, seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
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