

Planer is also the author of several books, plays, radio plays, and TV scripts as well as a small volume of poetry. With Christopher Douglas, he created the spoof actor character "Nicholas Craig", who appears in book, radio, TV and articles as well as live most recently at the Royal Festival Hall, London, in Stewart Lee's At Last the 1984 show. Over the next 20 years he went on to star in film, theatre and television. Planer and Richardson also wrote the That's Life! parody on Not the Nine O'Clock News. Planer appeared with Peter Richardson as part of the double act "The Outer Limits". A founding member of the London Comedy Store and original member of The Comic Strip – pioneers of the alternative comedy movement in the United Kingdom.
