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Legendary comedians Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson’s hit sitcom Bottom first landed on BBC2 on 17th September 1991. To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the popular podcast Talking Bottom is releasing a new series delving into the themes of Bottom and honouring its comedy legacy.
From the author of Al Pacino: The Movies Behind The Man, Mark Searby releases Rik Mayall: Comedy Genius.
Delving into the rude, serious, anarchic and hilarious, Searby highlights Mayall’s spectrum of work – not the rumours or an attempt to uncover the deeply private life he led but the more intricate moments that were twisted into creations to make people laugh and subsequently woven in to the fabric of British culture and comic legacy.
In Rik Mayall On Radio, broadcaster and producer John Lloyd explores the fascinating radio contributions of the actor and comedian Rik Mayall to reveal a remarkable and eclectic mix of programmes and archives.
Is it really nearly 40 years since the Young Ones exploded onto BBC2 and gave British comedy a great big kick up the arse? I thought I knew a fair bit about the series, but this in-depth documentary sheds new light alongside retreading familiar ground.
TV channel Gold is to explore the impact of one of the most influential British sitcoms of all time with two brand new UKTV Original retrospectives, How The Young Ones Changed Comedy and The Young Ones’ 20 Greatest Moments. Produced by North One, they will examine the anarchic show’s enduring legacy, its success in opening the floodgates for an entire generation of household name comedians and how it inspired many of today’s comic stars.
One of Rik Mayall’s very last projects was to play a modern version of Fagin. In the months leading up to his sudden death on June 9, 2014 Mayall had been collaborating on a script with American writer Kevin Armento and Carlos Davis, writer/producer of Mayall's 1991 movie Drop Dead Fred. In the piece below Armento recalls the thrill of working with Mayall. Although he did not know Mayall’s British TV work when he first met him, he soon realised that he was in the presence of a comic genius.
OK, I confess. I wasn’t convinced by the first series of Man Down. It had its moments, but given that they were mostly in the violent interplay between Greg Davies and his TV dad Rik Mayall I had a bad feeling about the second series which – for sad but obvious reasons – doesn’t feature Mayall. Yet would you believe it, it looks like they’ve turned it round.
Rik Mayall's final film performance has just been released in Holland. In the Dutch film De Ontsnapping (The Escape), Mayall plays a rich British ex-pat called Eddie living in Portugal who offers a home to a bored housewife called Julia (played by actress Isa Hoes), who drives there to escape the drudgery of life at home. The film has been well-received by Dutch critics. The caption on the picture here says: "Rik Mayall provides lightness in a film that also stands out with the high-acted drama."
Update 8/6/15: A date has now been confirmed for the London Premiere of Rik Mayall's final unreleased film, One By One.
March 7th 2015 would have been Rik Mayall’s 57th birthday and to mark the occasion Radio 4 Extra brings listeners the first radio broadcast of The Last Hurrah - Interview with the Snowman, co-written by and starring Mayall.
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