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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.
Actor: The Young Ones. Rik Mayall, one of the first and foremost alternative comedians in the UK, was born in Matching Tye, a village just outside Harlow in Essex. His parents, John and Gillian, were both drama teachers.
Jun 9, 2014 · British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56. He played obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones with his friend Adrian Edmondson.
Jun 10, 2014 · Tragic Rik Mayall is pictured walking near his house, just a day before he collapsed and died at the age of 56. The Young Ones, Bottom and Blackadder star was found dead by wife Barbara Robbin...
Rik Mayall. Actor: The Young Ones. Rik Mayall, one of the first and foremost alternative comedians in the UK, was born in Matching Tye, a village just outside Harlow in Essex. His parents, John and Gillian, were both drama teachers.
Jun 9, 2014 · LONDON (AP) — Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, has died. He was 56. Mayall’s management firm Brunskill Management said the comedian died at his London home on Monday.
Aug 9, 2024 · Rik Mayall was a British comic actor and writer known for playing over-the-top, humorously unlikable characters. He is best known as a cast member and writer for the influential British situation comedy The Young Ones, which ran for 12 episodes from 1982 to 1984, and for portraying the title.
Jun 10, 2014 · The comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56, his agent confirmed. Born in Essex and raised in Worcester, Mayall starred alongside Adrian Edmondson in The Young Ones and...
Jun 10, 2014 · One of the linchpins of British television comedy in the 1980s and 90s, Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56. Born in Harlow, Essex in 1958, he became perhaps most famous as the anarchic student Rick in the irreverent BBC sitcom The Young Ones (1982-84), one of his several collaborations with Adrian Edmondson.
Jun 9, 2014 · Rik Mayall, an actor, comedian and writer whose work on “The Young Ones” and other television series helped define alternative comedy in Britain in the 1980s, died on Monday at his home in...