Comments I miss Rik’s irreverent humour more than ever (Picture: Mick Hutson/Redferns) It’s been almost exactly 11 years since the death of inimitable comedy genius Rik Mayall. I’m not over it.

The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival, which begins on Saturday and runs for eight days, will see stand-up from well-known figures such as Greg Davies, Helen Lederer and Shaparak Khorsandi as well as ...

Mayall performed in The Young Ones, Blackadder, Bottom and The New Statesman before his death in 2014.

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 legacy ...

News of the book comes ahead of the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival in Droitwich in the West Midlands, where the comic grew up, which starts on Saturday. Mayall was born on March 7, 1958, in Harlow in ...

Rik: The Lives and Times of Rik Mayall is written by Max Kinnings and based on more than 100 hours of conversations recorded with the comic himself. Kinnings previously worked as an uncredited ...

An authorised biography of Rik Mayall is going to be published to mark what would have been his 70th birthday. 'Rik: The Lives and Times of Rik Mayall' is being written by Max Kinnings and is based on ...

From playing the pompous ‘radical’ Rick in that anarchic student-flat sitcom to being sleazy self-serving Tory MP Alan B’Stard in The New Statesman plus scene-stealing cameos in Blackadder ...

Mayall, who died a decade ago on Sunday, had various roles including in The Young Ones as attention-hungry Rick, The New Statesman as the ruthless and scheming Alan B’Stard MP and the fun and ...

“When you listen to these outtakes, you find that Rik Mayall was a really thoughtful guy and sort of when you put all of the expletives to one side… it’s not like a Derek and Clive presentation, it ...

Rik Mayall “opened the door for many of the young alternative comedians that are coming out today”, a producer who worked with the comedian and actor has said. Mayall, who died a decade ago on Sunday, ...