Category: Rik Mayall
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Rik Mayall On Countdown
No, not that Countdown, alas. This is an appearance from Rik Mayall and Ben Elton on the Australian network ABC. It was a music magazine show, with theme music by Brian May. Rik and Ben were promoting their tour.
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A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
Here’s a live show I would give my soul to have seen in person. In 1986, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton toured the UK with their show A Night Of Stand Up Comedy. Here’s what Angela Thomas made of it all in The Stage on the 9th January. By May, they had relocated the tour…
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A Peep Behind The Green Door
In April of 1990, viewers in Scotland got another chance to watch Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind The Green Door. Originally broadcast on BBC Two on 13th September 1982, it was a BBC Scotland production, and had a running time of 40 minutes. By the time it received this repeat though, it had been cut…
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The Inception Of 20th Century Coyote
This is a very small thing, marking an historical moment in the development of what became known as Alternative Comedy in the early 1980s. It’s easy to forget that 20th Century Coyote was more than just the early name of the Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson double-act, and was in fact the name of a…
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Rik’s Comedy Of Errors
This is the story of how Rik Mayall accidentally broke Jon Plowman’s arm while throwing him in to a swimming pool. But we’ll get back to that. The Oxford And Cambridge Shakespeare Company was the brainchild of, among others, Jonathan Miller. The company staged Shakespeare productions, which toured the UK and then the USA. In…
