Neil Shand
- English
- Writer
Press clippings
Those we have lost in comedy, 2018
It had already been a bad year for comedy industry deaths even before the late-breaking news that legend Dame June Whitfield had died.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th December 2018Obituary: Neil Shand, comedy writer
Neil Shand, who has died aged 84, was a versatile comedy writer best known for his long and fruitful associations with David Frost and Spike Milligan.
A journalist by training, he excelled in topical material, a quality that Frost drew on extensively for 40 years. However, he also proved to be one of the select few, like Eric Sykes, who could keep up with the surreal inventiveness of Milligan, which he did successfully for more than a decade from 1969 on the Q series and, later, There's A Lot Of It About.
The Telegraph, 20th April 2018Comedy writer Neil Shand dies aged 84
Neil Shand, who wrote gags for the likes of David Frost, Bob Monkhouse and Larry Grayson, has died aged 84.
British Comedy Guide, 16th April 2018