Rik Mayall, British Cult Comedy Star, Dies at 56. Edgar Wright, Eric Idle and David Walliams were among those paying tribute to the actor and cult comedian who appeared in "The Young Ones" and ...

“The Young Ones” and “Drop Dead Fred” actor Rik Mayall has died at age 56, his management team told the BBC. ... which led to cult television hit “The Comic Strip Presents. ...

Rik Mayall Presents (1993 - 1995) Scripted TV Series. Audience Score. 80. NR May 20th, 1993 Comedy 2 Seasons, 6 Episodes. Facebook X. Share. Embed Show Copied i. Showcasing the talent and ...

Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson & Rik Mayall as spoof heavy metal band Bad News, pictured in 1987. The group were created for The Comic Strip Presents... on Channel 4. Their self ...

Rik Mayall: Comedian and actor ... In 1993 Rik Mayall Presents, three individual comedy dramas, won him a Best Comedy Performer award at that year's British Comedy Awards.

Rik Mayall Date of birth: 07-03-1958 Date of death: 09-06-2014. ... The comedians from that latter venue went on to make The Comic Strip Presents shows for the new Channel 4. Mayall then went on to co ...

His straight acting talent evidenced in the National Theatre production of the Government Inspector and the Rik Mayall Presents trilogy prove that he could have been bigger than Branagh had he chosen ...

Mayall starred in The Young Ones and appeared in Blackadder and The New Statesman ...

Dawn French has described Rik Mayall's death as a "wake-up call". The comedian starred with Mayall in The Comic Strip Presents... alongside Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer and ...

To Americans in the 1980s trying to understand the ways of British punk rock, few characters were more influential than comedian Rik Mayall, who died on Sunday in London.

Comedian and actor Rik Mayall dead: Father-of-three died at home aged 56. Mayall was known as a talented pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. Tributes have been paid to the comedian By.

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