David Nobbs

Mon 19th, 1 pm at The Walls Restaurant
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David Nobbs was born in Orpington, Kent, in March, 1935 and educated at Marlborough College and Cambridge University. He planned to go to Vienna (then Europe’s cheapest city) to starve in a garret and become a writer. Somehow he found himself on the Sheffield Star instead.

His break came when he telephoned the BBC satire show, That Was The Week, That Was and he soon became a regular contributor. This led to The Frost Report, Frost on Sunday and to The Two Ronnies throughout its long run, writing the Pisprununciation monologue and the Rook Restaurant sketch, but not Four Candles! He also wrote for Dick Emery, Ken Dodd, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Jimmy Tarbuck, and, with his great friend Barry Cryer, did no less than 68 shows with Les Dawson.

His first novel, The Itinerant Lodger, was eventually published. The Daily Telegraph described the plot and said, ‘Presumably all this is meant to be funny’. David wrote two more novels before his breakthrough happened with Reggie Perrin [his cult comic characterisation of an executive agonised by the relentless monotony of his life], which spanned three novels and three television series featuring the late Leonard Rossiter.

A hugely successful screenwriter his other TV hits include A Bit of a Do and the cult Channel 4 show Fairly Secret Army. His many novels include four in the Henry Pratt series and his latest work It Had to be You was published in July 2011.

Nobbs lives with his second wife Susan in an idyllic valley outside a delightful Yorkshire village. Its exact location must remain a secret. He didn’t get where he is today by revealing to all and sundry where he is today.

Source: www.davidnobbs.com