Alternative comedy, dark comedy, character comedy, physical comedy, surreal humour
Spouse
Barbara Robbin
(m. 1985)
Children
3
Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) known professionally as Rik Mayall, was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.
Mayall starred in numerous successful comedy series throughout his career, including The Young Ones (1982–1984), The Comic Strip Presents... (1983–2012), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987), The New Statesman (1987–1994), Bottom (1991–1995), and Believe Nothing (2003). He also starred in the comedy films Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Guest House Paradiso (1999). Mayall won a Primetime Emmy Award for his voiceover performance as Mr. Toad in TVC London's 1996 animated movie The Willows in Winter (a sequel to TVC's 1995 production of The Wind in the Willows, where Mayall also played Toad). His comedic style was described as energetic "post-punk".[1]
Mayall died of a heart attack at his home in London on 9 June 2014 at the age of 56. BBC Television director Danny Cohen praised him as a "truly brilliant" comedian with a unique stage presence, whose "fireball creativity" and approach to sitcom had inspired a generation of comedy stars.[1]
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Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) known professionally as RikMayall, was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership...
and Bottom (1991–1995), which he wrote together with his collaborator RikMayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films...
RikMayall and Ben Elton, of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones. Mayer was born in Chicago, Illinois, to David and Anne Mayer. She met RikMayall when...
British slapstick black comedy film written by and starring comic duo RikMayall and Adrian Edmondson, who also directed in his feature directorial debut...
Cinema, starring Phoebe Cates as a young woman named Elizabeth Cronin and RikMayall as her imaginary friend, Drop Dead Fred, with Marsha Mason, Carrie Fisher...
job. RikMayall played Dan's father. Channel 4 also commissioned a Christmas special, and subsequently renewed for a second series. RikMayall's death...
alternative comedy scene. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, RikMayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson and Jennifer Saunders, with appearances...
at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. It was written by its stars, RikMayall as Richie Richard and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie Hitler. Following a weekend...
Hans Conried, Bob Holt, Walter Matthau, Anthony Asbury, Jim Carrey, RikMayall, Benedict Cumberbatch, Matthew Morrison, David Howard Thornton, and James...
Valentine Dyall as Lord Angus, Stephen Frost and Mark Arden as guards, and RikMayall as Mad Gerald. Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not...
(Series 2), Tracey Ullman, Richard Stilgoe (Series 1), Miriam Margolyes, RikMayall, Ron Bain and Roger Sloman. The show was created by Tom Gutteridge (producer/director)...
as Arabella Lucretia in the television comedy The New Statesman, with RikMayall. She has played the role of Joanna Lyppiatt in Noël Coward's Present Laughter...
voiceover introducing each episode in this series) and The Young Ones actors RikMayall and Roger Sloman. On Saint Juniper's Day, 29 January 1498, King Richard...
astronomer RikMayall (1958–2014), British comedian and actor Samuel Mayall (1816–1892), Thirty-third Congress Representative from Maine Mayall II, Mayall III...
It has included guest-stars such as Bob Monkhouse, Griff Rhys Jones, RikMayall, Jack Dee, Bill Bailey, John Bird, Nigel Planer and Ade Edmondson, who...
Whitfield) to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (RikMayall), who makes a great deal of money through taxing the merchants who have...
is a family sitcom which follows the extended family of George Kinsey (RikMayall). The show includes five generations, from George's grandmother (Edna...
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