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MYSTERIOUS: Nigel planer - What They Never Told You

How Nigel Planer helped Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall reunite: ‘They’d fallen out but they were laughing their heads off’

The pair are considered one of British comedy’s greatest double acts, but they had their disagreements over the years

The Independent UK

The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failure

The Guardian - UK

“I didn’t take Lemmy’s advice and I got a beer glass in my face”: The wild story of the spoof heavy metal band who beat Spinal Tap by a year

Spinal Tap weren’t the first spoof heavy metal band

Metal Hammer

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‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years on

The Guardian - UK

Exclusive: Comic Strip Presents…to be screened at Edinburgh Fringe

The legendary TV comedy show The Comic Strip Presents is being celebrated at this year’s Fringe - the driving force behind it, Peter Richardson, tells us all about its groundbreaking and career-making status

Evening Standard

Lost instruments, logic gates and lots and lots of drunkonyms – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

"The camera pans across, and you realise there are 60,000 people throwing bottles of piss at us. It was terrifying": Nigel Planer looks back at hapless metal heroes Bad News

Nearly 40 years after their infamous Donington set, 25% of fictional rockers Bad News returned last year as Almost Bad News

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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

The Guardian - UK

The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays at Soho Theatre review – both too much and too little going on

The obvious intelligence of the writing is undermined by an absence of emotional truth

Evening Standard

Slapstick Festival 2023 announces full line up including Harry Shearer from The Simpsons

Several comedy legends have joined the full line up for the festival

Bristol Post

‘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

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: The Trojan Horse Affair; Fake Psychic; I, An Actor, a Podcast

From the makers of S-Town, a deep dive into a Birmingham ‘anti-radicalisation’ programme. Plus, how a US medium conned his audiences, and delicious daftery from Nigel Planer

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