Category: Rik Mayall
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Some Dangerous Clippings I Trust You’ll Agree
A few weeks before Saturday Live went on air (and year after the pilot), The Stage was reporting some interesting things about it, not least the fact that Jasper Carrott was going to be a regular member of the cast. In the end, he only appeared in episode seven. Two days before the series proper…
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Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Ever since the first episode of Bottom came to an end, way back in 1991, and the continuity announcer told us that Rik and Ade were appearing in a production of Waiting For Godot, I’ve indelibly linked the two things together in my mind. For a long time, little information was to be found about…
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Tales Of Uplift And Moral Improvement
Here’s an episode of a little seen Rik Mayall show that appeared on BBC Choice, from 2001. Rik stars as Ffine Carmody, narrating twisted stories from Edwardian times. It was written by Alex Kirk and Simon Messingham, and was a Channel X production.
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Hardwicke House Tapes Destroyed
Let’s begin in the middle. On Thursday 9th July 1987, The Stage’s Television Today had this front page headline. So, how did we get here? How did we get to the point where Central insiders were telling the papers that the Independent Broadcasting Authority had ordered them to wipe the tapes of a sitcom? Why…
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Did Alan B’Stard Have A Daughter?
On the 2nd August 1987, a full month before the first series of The New Statesman began on ITV, The Sunday Mirror was already trying to stir up a controversy. They even appeared to be trying to bait one Norman Tebbit into a reaction. Campaign wouldn’t air until 1988, and was written by Gerard MacDonald,…
