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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 * Beautifully written, deliciously evocative, funny and touching. -- Stephen Fry

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 Beautifully written, deliciously evocative, funny and touching. -- Stephen Fry

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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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