Rik Mayall fans are campaigning to get his 2010 World Cup song to number one. Jon Morter - who organised Rage Against the Machine's infamous Christmas chart-topper in 2009 - has joined the ...

Rik Mayall: 'Help me get to No 1 so that I can be a great rock star again,' comedian asked fan The Young Ones star included the request in a signed birthday card ...

The campaign to get Rik Mayall's World Cup anthem to top the charts is celebrating an early success. The song Noble England – based on Shakespeares's 'Once more unto the breach' speech from Henry V – ...

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 ...

Drop Dead Fred -era Rik Mayall was a sort of proto- Jim Carrey, really, and what follows is a brief appreciation for this special movie about an imaginary friend whose destructive impulses exist ...

A campaign has been launched to pay tribute to dead comedian Rik Mayall by sending a World Cup song he wrote to number one. The former Young Ones star recorded a track called Noble England in the run ...

But now, with the passing of Rik Mayall, and the beginning of the World Cup in Brazil, Noble England, a strange mix of football terrace chanting and Rik Mayall twisting famous English jingoistic ...

Greg Davies, Peter Richardson, Shaparak Khorsandi and Helen Lederer have all been confirmed for the first comedy festival held in Rik Mayall's memory. The community-run festival is taking place ...

Rik Mayall, the beloved British comedian, writer and actor, has died at the age of 56, according to a statement from his management, Brunskill. “We are deeply saddened to announce the death of ...

Mayall somehow makes Lizzie's gross pal charming and fantastic despite all his bogey-flicking excess. Currently at 9% from the heart-of-stone critics on Rotten Tomatoes, Drop Dead Fred has a ...

Rik Mayall's wife says the comedian suffered an "acute cardiac event," though a coroner's office says a post-mortem on the late entertainer was inconclusive.

British comedy actor Rik Mayall, best known on this side of the pond for his romp as the titular imaginary friend in the 1991 comedy “Drop Dead Fred,” died Monday morning, his management team ...