For an entire generation growing up the 1980s and 1990s, Rik Mayall was one of the most familiar - and fascinating - faces on television. And now, 11 years after his death at the age of 56, his ...

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 ...

Rik Mayall's breakout role that cemented him as one of alternative comedy's leading stars. Along with Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan, Mayall became an icon of British TV in the ...

Bosses of TV channel Dave are deciding when to air an episode of a show that Rik Mayall filmed before he died.. The comedian recorded an episode of Crackanory, a grown-up version of children's ...

Rik Mayall was my age. Well, a year older, but close enough. They were the children of Python; of Fawlty Towers, Ripping Yarns, and Rutland Weekend Television. They were the next wave, stripped ...

Rik Mayall was one of the pioneering alternative comedians in the UK. He’s best known for his work on The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesmen which all had tremendous impact on British ...

While dates and details would be real, the anecdotes would be told through the lens of a whole new addition to Rik’s comic characters, one who claimed to have waged a 30 year war on showbusiness.