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How we killed comedy theatre: Nigel Planer interviewed

‘We used to have a theatre of comedy in London but it got hijacked': the playwright and Young Ones star discusses the death of farce – and how he's trying to revive it

Nigel Planer: ‘We did some damage with alternative comedy in the 1980s, and our sarcasm, which meant that the older generation of farces were no longer applicable’. Credit: Harvey Planer
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