Rik Mayall
- English
- Actor, comedian and writer
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Rik Mayall's final performance to be released
The film featuring Rik Mayall's final performance is to feature a special dedication to him.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th March 2015"Did Iron Age woman have Playtex to guide her?" shouts a young Rik Mayall to a reluctantly undressing Jennifer Saunders. So begins Dawn French's superbly bizarre comedy set at a summer school offering a course in 'Iron Age Living', also starring Robbie Coltrane and Peter Richardson.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 20th March 2015A tribute to Rik Mayall's charismatic comedy
The best in a little run of short stories co-written and read by Rik Mayall (13 March, 9pm) told of a man called Mike necking two pints of sherry in a London pub and subsequently losing any semblance of a plot back at the office.
Antonia Quirke, The New Statesman, 19th March 2015Rik Mayall honoured at Leicester Comedy Festival Awards
The late Rik Mayall has been named as the recipient of this year's Leicester Comedy Festival 'Legend Of Comedy' award. Other winners at the awards include Romesh Ranganathan.
British Comedy Guide, 17th March 2015Radio preview: Rik Mayall season, Radio 4 Extra
BBC radio marks Mayall's 57th birthday with series of broadcasts.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 27th February 2015Radio 4 Extra to broadcast Rik Mayall snowman series
Radio 4 Extra is to mark Rik Mayall's birthday by broadcasting his comedy drama The Last Hurrah - Interview With The Snowman on radio for the first time.
British Comedy Guide, 20th February 2015Lest we forget - a Rik Mayall retrospective
It is very difficult to imagine a world without Rik Mayall in it. A staple of the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, his untimely death at the age of 56 in June 2014 led to an outpouring of tributes for the 'comic genius'. Although such a phrase is often used in the death of a well-known figure, is it an accurate label for the energetic and confident performer that Rik Mayall was?
Vithushan Ehantharajah, On The Box, 6th January 2015Radio Times review
For a while it looked as if Man Down might not return. Greg Davies' splendidly daft sitcom about a blundering oaf who is the victim of bizarre attacks from his father, looked in doubt when Rik Mayall - who played said father brilliantly - died in June 2014.
Without Mayall's injections of crazed comic energy the show won't be quite the same, but this Christmas one-off should give us an idea of how much he'll be missed. It was still being made as RT went to press but the plot involves Dan and his two friends - off-with-the-fairies Jo and brilliantly square Brian - visiting the farm of Dan's aunt Nesta (Stephanie Cole). There they meet a peculiarly mean turkey.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 23rd December 2014Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule, BBC2, review
Mayall managed to maintain the fizz of youthful energy throughout his career.
Ellen E. Jones, The Independent, 21st December 2014TV review: Rik Mayall - Lord of Misrule, BBC2
2014 has not been a good year for comedy departures. Robin Williams and Joan Rivers left us, but it was Rik Mayall's sudden death on June 9 that struck the most resonant chord with me. Without getting all UKIP about it, Mayall was a Great British Comic and the BBC tribute Lord of Misrule was a fitting send-off.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st December 2014