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Rik Mayall

June 2024

  • ‘Full of joy’ … Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in the gross-out 90s hit.

    How we made
    ‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian Edmondson and Ed Bye on Bottom

    ‘We had wanted to call it My Bottom, so that people at work the next day would say, “Did you see My Bottom on television last night?”’

September 2023

  • Ben Elton

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ben Elton: ‘Any time period would make a good Blackadder with the right jokes’

    The comedian and author on his new musical about Twiggy, remembering Rik Mayall, and why he’d like to have a word with Julian Fellowes

November 2022

  • Alexei Sayle, Ade Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Nigel Planer, stars of The Young Ones

    ‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

    With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show’s creators how they pulled it off

August 2022

  • Red Richardson.

    Edinburgh notebook: ‘Rik Mayall was like Bad Santa to us’

    Stand-up comic Red Richardson on his pedigree comedy childhood

April 2020

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Lockdown culture
    Adrian Edmondson: 'Hamlet saved me from being expelled'

    As the RSC’s Twelfth Night is streamed online, the actor recalls putting on Malvolio’s yellow stockings and how pub theatre led him into comedy

March 2019

  • The Raymond Revue bar Soho London England UK Circa 1980’s<br>EG9HXK The Raymond Revue bar Soho London England UK Circa 1980’s

    Comic Strip's riotous Soho club reborn as state-of-the-art theatre

    New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area’s rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s

December 2017

  • An inspiration to Hitchcock and Huston … George Blake.

    'A good traitor': the extraordinary life of George Blake, the spy who went into the cold

    He escaped from prison, fled to Russia and – unlike the posh Cambridge spies – didn’t end up a miserable alcoholic. The revival of Cell Mates, the play about George Blake’s extraordinary life, couldn’t be more timely

May 2017

  • Rik Mayall Alan B’Stard The New Statesman

    Alan B’Stard: 'When Rik Mayall died, we thought the idea died with him'

    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

October 2016

  • Tiswas

    Gunge, gophers and Kylie in a box: what happened to Saturday morning kids' TV?

    Shows such as Tiswas and Going Live! were bastions of British entertainment, but now they’ve been replaced by wall-to-wall TV chefs. We celebrate its golden era and ask where it went

January 2016

  • Withnail and I

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best fictional houseshares

    Last week we brought you our 10 best fictional houseshares. Here, we present your thoughts on the fabulous flatmates that should have made the list

August 2015

  • Rik Mayall, best known for his comic roles, starred alongside George William Harris in police drama Walcott.

    TV and radio blog
    Rik Mayall's forgotten police drama Wolcott to receive a DVD release

    The gritty 1981 miniseries– which saw Mayall star as a racist constable opposite George William Harris – will be released on Blu-ray and DVD later this month

June 2015

  • When Richard Richard met Eddie Hitler … Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson in Bottom. Photograph: Allstar/

    Your next box set
    Bottom box set review – a hilarious tale of two social outcasts

    Unfairly labelled juvenile and tasteless, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s flatshare comedy was one of the last sitcoms to boast political insight with the power to make you laugh uncontrollably

May 2015

  • Greg Davies: 'I had an early midlife crisis.'

    Greg Davies: ‘Rik Mayall was still a force of nature. His ambition was huge’

    The Man Down star and comedian has had a hard year, with both the death of his father and onscreen dad Rik Mayall and a breakup with Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall

March 2015

  • Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall

    The young ones: Rik, Ade and the 80s alternative comedy gang – in pictures

    Photographer Trevor Rogers captured the 1980s alternative comedy boom with these black-and-white portraits of Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and friends

February 2015

  • bob hoskins

    Baftas under fire for forgetting Bob Hoskins's death

    The omission of Bob Hoskins from the In Memoriam section of last night’s Baftas has led to outrage and accusations of snobbery on Twitter, while others highlight absence of Rik Mayall

October 2014

  • ade edmondson interview

    Ade Edmondson: ‘I never laughed as hard as I did with Rik’

    Ahead of a West End run, Ade Edmondson reflects on his life and work, and on the recent deaths of three close friends, including Young Ones co-star Rik Mayall. By Elizabeth Day

September 2014

  • Rik Mayall

    Rik Mayall’s last TV appearance draws 400,000 to Dave’s Crackanory

    Plaudits for comedian’s 15-minute reading of The Weatherman which was filmed just before he died. By John Plunkett

August 2014

  • Rik Mayall

    Media Monkey
    Rik Mayall’s final show to air

    Media Monkey: The star of The Young Ones and The New Statesman will appear in a programme on Dave next month

June 2014

  • Rik Mayall's coffin is carried into the church in Dittisham, Devon, for his funeral

    Rik Mayall funeral attended by stars of comedy

  • Rik Mayall’s family to hold private funeral

    Rik Mayall's family to hold private funeral

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