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Nigel Planer
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Nigel Planer is the epitome of the Discworld. He is the Eric Idle, John Cleese, in fact the entire troupe of Monty Python in his readings. He “gets it”. The first twenty or so books are read by him. And they’re awesome. (Ok, there are a couple early witch books by a woman, but I’m going to ignore those.) Stephen Briggs, the reader on the later books, is ok. I don’t hate him by any stretch of the imagination, but he’s not as good as Nigel.
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Nigel Planer is a hoot as the dripping wet Cabinet minister panicking about crop of genetically modified hops that has caused the beer drinkers of Britain to grow bosoms. Sian Thomas is the doomed journalist ex-girlfriend of the Machiavellian evil lovingly portrayed by the great Henry Goodman. And then there's the PM's gag-writer - a hopelessly irrelevant Ben Elton-type played by Pearce Quigley - forever locked in the lavatory.
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Nigel Planer has been writing poetry since he was 10 years old, but "I've only started performing it recently" he said. He writes both serious and comic poems. In front of an audience he prefers to present comic verse. Planer said the influences behind his poetry are "evident on the page." He added: "I'm a great fan of Wendy Cope and I went through a Philip Larkin stage, and I like the verse-writings of Vikram Seth who wrote the 'Suitable Boy.' Seth ... wrote a verse-novel called the 'Golden Gate,' "which is written entirely in a complex verse structure, invented I believe by Addison in the 17th or 18th century," he explained. Planer recommends it as "a very funny book."
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Nigel Planer - probably best known for his role as Neil in The Young Ones, has starred in many Comic Strip productions. He is ... the voice of The Magic Roundabout, for which he has written thirty-five new episdoes. His films include Brazil and The Wind in the Willows.
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Nigel Planer was born in 1953 and brought up in London. After studying drama, he became a founder member of the Comedy Store and Comic Strip. He has achieved great success both as a dramatic actor and as a comedian. In the early 1980s, he played the hippie Neil in the classic TV sitcom ‘The Young Ones’, and has since starred in many major roles in television drama series and films, in TV shows, on stage in the West End, and has written two novels, comedy drama scripts for television, radio and theatre. He has twice been at the top of the Pop Charts in Great Britain and won the BPI Best Comedy Record award in 1985. In 1991, he formed Elephant Productions with TV comedy producers Jamie Rix and Clive Hedges.
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Nigel Planer is excellent as the Wizard, a con-man skilled in 'flim-flammery,' and he carries off a very good American Mid-Western accent. Miriam Margolyes is ... superb as Madame Morrible - a great comedienne but also capable of real menace. Adam Garcia has the necessary charm to pull of the role of Fiyero, the man who comes between the witches.
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