Category: Rik Mayall
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Riktendo
I’m sure we all remember this advert from 1993, featuring Rik Mayall and a particular game for the Nintendo. It aired in the run up to Christmas, alongside this second one, which probably hasn’t stuck in our heads nearly as much. Nintendo were so pleased with Rik that they comissioned some more adverts, but we’ll…
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The Brit Pack
It’s always fun watching local papers find a way to make stories about less local things. Take this article for example, from the Birmingham Sunday Mercury on 2nd June 1991. It’s ostensibly about some local actors who have been making Hollywood films, including Rik Mayall and Lenny Henry. There’s a brief mention that Ben Elton…
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Rik Tells A Joke In Poor Taste
Here’s a little slice of comedy history lost to time. It’s 1990, and Rik Mayall’s winter tour with Andy De La Tour in 1989 has now spilled over into the new year. Here’s how tickets were being sold in the local press, in this instance the Bracknell Times on Thursday 18th January. As the winter…
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The Common Pursuit
Rik Mayall and Stephen Fry, alongside John Sessions and John Gordon Sinclair, all starred in the revival of Simon Gray’s play The Common Pursuit. It was previewed in Watford in March of 1988, before it moved to the Phoenix in the West End in April. Here’s the cast on Wogan, on the 28th March. And…
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Rik’s 80s Pop Video Triptych
In the mid-80s, Rik Mayall appeared in three different music videos. The first was for Lionheart’s Die For Love in 1984, from their album Hot Tonight. The more famous one, of course, was Living Doll, with Cliff Richard and The Young Ones. And then there’s this, by the Art Of Noise, a cover version of…