Actor Nigel Planer, as his character 'Neil the Hippy' from TV-series The Young Ones, reached #97 with his cover in 1984.
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Later on, Bregonzi worked with comedians Cannon and Ball, Kenny Everett, Hale and Pace, Little and Large, Kelly Monteith, and on half a dozen occasions in the television series The Two Ronnies (with Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett) and Filthy Rich and Catflap (1987, with Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer).
The Broadway musical Wicked received its London première at the venue on 27 September 2006 with a cast featuring Idina Menzel as Elphaba, Helen Dallimore as Glinda, Nigel Planer as The Wizard, Adam Garcia as Fiyero and Miriam Margolyes as Madame Morrible.
The series was narrated by Nigel Planer and animated by Sara and Simon Bor of Wolves Witches & Giants fame.
Jupitus was unable to attend due to prior commitments and was replaced by several special guests, including Paul Whitehouse and Nigel Planer.
After Edmund disparages the Pimpernel, two effete noblemen, Topper (Tim McInnerny) and Smedley (Nigel Planer), bet him a thousand guineas that he can't go to France, rescue an aristocrat and present him at the French Embassy Ball.
Kyan is also co-creator (with Paul Smith) of both the 1988 Mel Smith-starring series Colin's Sandwich, and the 1993 Nigel Planer-starring, school-based comedy Bonjour la Classe, both of which featured scripts by Smith and Kyan.
Father Baz Grimley, played by former Young Ones actor Nigel Planer, was a bone-idle British Leyland car worker, who injured his back on his first day at the Longbridge plant and went on strike on the second.
In July the South Devon based Herald Express reported that The Hunt for Tony Blair was being produced by Peter Richardson's Great Western Features, based in Totnes, and that several actors, including Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders and Nigel Planer were in the area filming for the episode.
The Outer Limits (double act), featuring Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson, later members of The Comic Strip