Category: Rik Mayall
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Rik’s Xmas Helpline
Here’s a rare little treat. Rik promoting YTV’s Christmas Line, as broadcast on 26th December 1987. I think that’s the only time I’ve seen the ear not pop back. It’s clearly been filmed during the making of the first series of The New Statesman, and that’s obviously the office set he’s in.
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This Is The Bottom Line
There are an awful lots of puns used when it comes to headlines about Bottom. But this article, from the Liverpool Echo on Friday 9th April 1993, to promote the upcoming Bottom: Live tour is a pretty good read. And who can resist that photo? Here’s the rest of it, and it’s worth having a…
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I’m A 40-Year-Old B’Stard
Here’s a nice two-page spread from the Sunday Mirror on 14th December 1997.
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Tricky Rik – Yuppy MP
In this article, by Jonathan Margolis, published in the Dublin Evening Herald on 14th July 1987, there’s some wonderful behind-the-scenes trivia about the research period of The New Statesman. Michael Portillo served as a political advisor on the show, and Rik was allowed to sit on the government and opposition benches. There’s even mention of…
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A Very Normal Bottom
Here’s an article timed to promote the first series of Bottom, the beginning of Waiting For Godot, and the release of Drop Dead Fred, all in one go. It’s full of wrong info, and proceeds from the shocking premise that actors aren’t the characters they portray, but it’s worth a read nonetheless.
