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Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.
Bigger than Hitler – Better than Christ (sometimes prefixed The Rik Mayall) is a 2005 semi-autobiographical book by Rik Mayall and partly ghostwriten by Max Kinnings, written in exaggerated character.
Later the recording of the new Magic Eight Ball album took an exciting turn with the narration of Baz’s poetry for the disc by comic legend, Rik Mayall in London on 7 May 2014. On 10 July the digital single "Monkey Bars", accompanied by an Oly Edkins-directed video and the exclusive b-side "Rose-Tinted Eyes" was released for a limited time.
Cell Mates is a play by Simon Gray.It opened at the Albery Theatre, London on 16 February 1995, [1] starring Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall, with Gray himself directing.Despite having performed successfully for several weeks during the pre-London warm-up dates in Guildford and Watford then at the Richmond Theatre, Fry left the West End production after three days.
LONDON (AP) - Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, has died. He was 56. Mayall's management firm Brunskill Management said the comedian ...
Mayall had previously performed a similar, though slightly differently named, character called 'Kevin Turby', on stage at London's the Comic Strip. Critic Ian Hamilton described Turby's routine: Kevin's tour de force is a long, intricately plodding monologue about His Average Day.
Filthy Rich & Catflap is a BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast in 1987. The series featured former The Young Ones co-stars Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as its three titular characters.
In June 2010, the official BBC Match of the Day compilation CD (2010 Edition) was released by Sony/Universal featuring Noble England. After Mayall's death in 2014, a campaign led by Jon Morter began with the aim to get "Noble England" to No. 1 during the 2014 FIFA World Cup.