Alan B'Stard is a High Tory MP whose ambition is only excelled by his ruthlessness. If you know the New Statesman then you will know the animal that we are dealing with. Extremely funny but I doubt ...

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. Rik Mayall festival pays tribute to 'unique' talent Skip to main content ...

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

The New Statesman – the political satire starring Rik Mayall as the dastardly scrooge Sir Alan B’Stard – returning to screens 30 years after the last episode was made and also Second ...

Plans to bring a revived version of The New Statesman to the screen have stalled because no broadcaster will broadcast such ‘scurrilous filth’, the comedy’s writers say. Laurence Marks and Maurice ...

As Tory MP Sir Stephen Baxter, in cohorts with Rik Mayall’s ultra-right Alan B’Stard, in the first two series of Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks’ The New Statesman he found himself on the ...

Among their creations was Birds of a Feather and the 1980s-90s award-winning political satire New Statesman, starring the late Rik Mayall as MP Alan B’Stard. This newspaper has previously charted how ...