Rik Mayall – Page 11 – Simon Dunn

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Some Little Bits Of Rik

A few short clips of Rik Mayall to cheer you up. And this, still one of my most favourite moments of character breaking. I’d love to know more about this. Did Marks & Gran script it from the beginning, did they all come up with it in rehearsals, or was it improvised on the night?

October 5, 2019
Speech To Conference

Posted for no reason whatsoever. Thank you Mister Bastard.

October 2, 2019
Satan’s Portion

I’m aware I’ve posted this before, but I’m ill, and lack the energy to think properly. Still one of my most favourite Rik & Ade moments.

September 11, 2019
Spitting Hot Metal

I’ve just started watching Hot Metal, the mid-80s sitcom about the newspaper business, written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick for LWT. I have a vague memory of watching it at the time, though it may have only been a snippet of one episode. A week after the first series finished, a new series of…

August 7, 2019
At The Theatre With Fry & Laurie

See if you can spot the moment that Hugh nearly corpses … This feels like a Saturday Live sketch that could equally have been performed by Rik & Ade, and had it been, it would have had a very different feel to it. Also, under the lights, that meat must have stank.

May 22, 2019

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Nineteen 90s Shows

I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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