Rik Mayall
- English
- Actor, comedian and writer
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Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 25th October 201720 facts for Jonathan Creek's 20th anniversary
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the first time that David Renwick's ingenious creation first hit our screens. To celebrate, here's a look at 20 things you may not know about everyone's favourite tousle-haired, windmill-dwelling amateur sleuth.
Jon O'Brien, Metro, 10th May 2017Interview with the creators of Alan B'Stard
The creators of The New Statesman on how B'Stard was a Tory 'hero' and why they're bringing back the show for the satire-starved post-truth era.
Gavin Haynes, The Guardian, 6th May 2017Fawlty Towers named comedians' favourite sitcom
A survey of comedians has revealed that Fawlty Towers is their favourite sitcom, and Alan Partridge meeting his superfan is their favourite scene. "Don't tell him Pike" was picked as the favourite one-liner.
British Comedy Guide, 4th January 2017James Meehan on comedy's class issues
James Meehan calls for an end to stereotyping, on and off screening.
James Meehan, Chortle, 20th October 2016Alexei Sayle on Rik Mayall
He's the late, great king of anarchic comedy, but Rik Mayall was also charmingly narcissistic. At least according to his co-star on The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle. "One thing Rik liked to do was he'd bring you back to his flat and make you watch tapes of Rik Mayall."
Jonathan Holmes, Radio Times, 16th October 2016The 12 best worst poets on TV
Including Baldrick, Guy Secretan and the Vogons.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 6th October 201625 years on, Bottom is still the most underrated sitcom
Bottom could just be the most underrated sitcom of the modern era.
Darren Richman, The Telegraph, 17th September 2016Mark Hamill is a massive fan of... Bottom
Greg Davies reveals how he was able to cast the Luke S star in the third series of his Channel 4 comedy Man Down.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 30th June 2016Working with Rik Mayall, by Kevin Armento
One of Rik Mayall's very last projects was to play a modern version of Fagin. In the months leading up to his sudden death on June 9, 2014 Mayall had been collaborating on a script with American writer Kevin Armento and Carlos Davis, writer/producer of Mayall's 1991 movie Drop Dead Fred. In the piece below Armento recalls the thrill of working with Mayall. Although he did not know Mayall's British TV work when he first met him, he soon realised that he was in the presence of a comic genius. Immediately after Mayall's death Armento wrote Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally inspired by their work together. The play is being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe this August. The comedy is physical, the dialogue delivered at breakneck speed. Sounds like classic Mayall.
Kevin Armento, Beyond The Joke, 22nd June 2016