Nigel Planer

Young Once is the hilarious and heart-warming memoir of actor and comedian Nigel Planer. Most famous for playing Neil the hippy in The Young Ones and being a pillar of the 80s alternative comedy scene through The Comic Strip Presents and Bad News, this memoir is inspired by a recent sold-out tour where audiences lapped up his witty and self-depreciating...

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...