Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers
| Andrew Nicholls | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 July 1957 Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Studio City, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality | British, Canadian |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, television writer, executive producer |
| Known for | Film, television, Animation, Radio, Stand up, Comic strips |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | http://www.nichollsvickers.com |
| Darrell Vickers | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 July 1957 Derbyshire, England, UK |
| Residence | Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality | British and Canadian |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, television writer, Executive Producer |
| Known for | Film, television, Animation, Radio, Stand up, Comic strips |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | http://www.nichollsvickers.com |
Andrew Nicholls (born 14 July 1957, in Croxley Green, England) and Darrell Vickers (born 17 July 1957, in England) are a prolific Hollywood writing team. Though both their families moved independently from England to the same town in Canada, Nicholls and Vickers didn't meet until junior high in 1969, where they began collaborating almost immediately. The writing duo moved to Los Angeles in 1983 to continue their careers, and are members of WGA, WGC, SACD, SOCAN, ACCT, and ATAS.
Nicholls and Vickers began writing music and comedy together while at Ridgeway Junior High School (now École élémentaire Antonine Maillet or Antonine-Maillet Elementary School) in Oshawa, Ontario (Canada). After high school they wrote for stage, radio, TV, syndicated cartoonists and stand-up comedians.
From 1979 to 1982 they performed in Southern Ontario as Nobby Clegg and the Civilians, after having received airplay at Brampton alternative station CFNY-FM with home-recorded songs. The band found some success with the singles "Essay, My Dad" and "I Wanna Be in Commercials," which were also included in the 1981 compilation Toronto Calling. Nicholls and Vickers later used the band's name for a character on the Showtime show Rude Awakening. In that series, the Nobby Clegg character was played by Roger Daltrey, best known as the lead singer of The Who.
From 1986 to 1992 they helped write 770 hours of produced material for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, earning 4 Emmy nominations, and were the show's head writers from December 1989, until Carson's retirement on 22 May 1992.
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