Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English comedian and actor. He is perhaps well known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson and his over the top, energetic portrayal of characters and was one of the pioneering members of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jan. ... Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. ... For other meanings of Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld, see Comedian (film). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Director Herbert Brenon with actress Alla Nazimova on the set of War Brides, 1916 A director is a person who directs the making of a film. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jan. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld, see Comedian (film). ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... This article is about the comedy duo. ... Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957), sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Early life

Mayall was born in Harlow, Essex, the son of Gillian and John Mayall.^[1] When he was three years old, Mayall and his parents — both of whom taught drama — moved to Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, where he spent the rest of his childhood and performed in his parents' plays. After attending the King's School, Worcester, he studied drama at the University of Manchester where he met his future comedy partner Adrian Edmondson in 1975. He also met Ben Elton and Lise Mayer, with whom he would later write The Young Ones. Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. ... For other meanings of Essex, see Essex (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Drama (disambiguation). ... , Droitwich Spa is a town in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe and has a population of 22,585 (2001). ... For the condiment, see Worcestershire sauce. ... The Kings School Worcester (KSW) is independent British Public School founded by Henry VIII in 1541. ... The Victoria University of Manchester (VUM) was a large university in Manchester in England. ... Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957), sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. ... Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. ... Born 29 November 1957 in Chicago, Illinois. ... The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. ...

Career

The alternative comedy boom

Mayall gained a reputation by appearing at "The Comedy Store" with Edmondson, debuting in 1980. The double act was then billed as "20th Century Coyote". "Coyote" soon became a popular act at the Comedy Store, and Mayall developed solo-routines using characters such as Kevin Turvey and a snotty student poet named "Rick". This success led to Mayall and Edmondson - along with Comedy Store compere Alexei Sayle and other popular acts French and Saunders; "The Outer Limits" (Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson); Arnold Brown; and Pete Richens - to break away and set up their own comedy club, "The Comic Strip", in the Raymond Revue Bar, a local strip club. Mayall's rising popularity led to a regular slot for the Turvey character on the series A Kick Up the Eighties, which was first broadcast in 1981. It was also around this time that he appeared as "Rest Home" Ricky in Richard O'Brien's "Shock Treatment", the "equal" to his cult smash "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". He played Dentonvale's resident attendant and was love interest to Nell Campbell's Nurse Ansalong. His appearances were popular enough to warrant a documentary based on the character entitled Kevin Turvey - The Man Behind The Green Door, broadcast in 1982. The previous year, he appeared in a bit role in An American Werewolf in London. His stage partnership with Edmondson continued, often appearing together as "The Dangerous Brothers" (a pair of hapless daredevils whose hyper-violent antics foreshadowed their characters in Bottom). The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in Soho, London, England that was opened in 1979 by Peter Rosengard. ... This article is about the comedy duo. ... 20th Century Coyote was a comedy group famous for first uniting Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson. ... Kevin Turvey was a character created by Rik Mayall for the BBC sketch show A Kick Up the Eighties in 1981. ... Loyset Compère (c. ... Alexei David Sayle (b. ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ... The Outer Limits is an American television series. ... Nigel George Planer (born February 22, 1953 in London) is an English actor, novelist and playwright. ... Peter Richardson born 15 October 1951 in Devon, Britain, is a British actor, comedian, director, and writer. ... Arnold Brown is a droll Scottish comedian, one of the main figures in the alternative comedy scene of the early 1980s. ... Pete Richens is best known as the writing partner of Peter Richardson, writer/director/star of the long-running TV series The Comic Strip Presents. ... The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, best known collectively for their television series The Comic Strip Presents. ... A Kick Up the Eighties was a 1981-1984 BBC sketch show starring Robbie Coltrane, Tracey Ullman, Richard Stilgoe, Miriam Margolyes, Rik Mayall, Ron Bain and Roger Sloman. ... This article is about the 1981 musical comedy film. ... The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical comedy film that parodies horror films. ... An American Werewolf in London is a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. ... The Dangerous Brothers was an early stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, performing respectively as Richard Dangerous and Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous. They appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. ... Bottom was a British sitcom (aka britcom) of the early 1990s (and later a series of stage shows) written by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. ...

Meanwhile, fledgling Channel 4 offered the group a series of six short films. The series became The Comic Strip Presents... and debuted on November 2, 1982. The series - which continues sporadically to this day - saw Mayall play a wide variety of roles and picked up a reputation for anti-establishment humour, and for parodies such as Bad News On Tour, a spoof "rockumentary" (similar to This is Spinal Tap) which starred Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Planer as a glam metal band. This article is about the British television station. ... This article is about the British comedy group; for the published art form, see comic strip. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... The term rockumentary is a neologism denoting a program on television or movie documentary about rock and roll or its musicians. ... This Is Spin̈al Tap (which is officially spelled with a non-functional umlaut symbol over the N) is a 1984 mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner and starring members of the semi-fictional heavy-metal glam rock band Spinal Tap. ... Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s - early 1980s in the United States. ...

The Young Ones

At the same time The Comic Strip Presents... was being negotiated, the BBC took an interest in a sitcom written by Mayall and then-girlfriend Mayer, in the same anarchic vein as Comic Strip. Elton, who had attended Manchester University with Mayall and Edmondson, was asked to join the writing team. The series was commissioned and the first series was broadcast in 1982, shortly before Comic Strip began. Mayall played his "Rick" character in the series, a sociology student and Cliff Richard devotee, to wide public acclaim. Despite the sitcom format, Mayall maintained his double-act routine with Edmondson, who starred as violent punk Vyvyan. Planer and Christopher Ryan also starred, with addition material written and performed by Alexei Sayle. The show's first series was very successful, and a second was commissioned in 1984. The Young Ones was a popular British sitcom, first seen in 1982, which aired on BBC2. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Anarchy (disambiguation). ... Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge [1]) is the systematic and scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social action, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous... Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Christopher Ryan is an English actor who trained at East 15 Acting School in London. ... Alexei David Sayle (b. ...

Household name

Following The Young Ones, Mayall continued to work on The Comic Strip films. He also returned to standup, starring on Saturday Live - a British adaptation of the American Saturday Night Live - first broadcast in 1985. He and Edmondson had a regular section as "The Dangerous Brothers", their earlier stage act. Saturday Live was an innovative television comedy and music show broadcast in the UK by Channel 4 from 1985 to 1987. ... This article is about the American television series. ... The Dangerous Brothers was an early stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, performing respectively as Richard Dangerous and Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous. They appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. ...

In 1985, Mayall debuted another of his comic creations. He had starred in the final episode of The Black Adder in 1983 as "Mad Gerald". The series had proven expensive and a second series was not forthcoming until it was agreed that the budget would be cut and Ben Elton would replace Rowan Atkinson as co-writer (alongside Richard Curtis). The "re-vamped" Blackadder proved an enormous success thanks, in part, to the inclusion of a character named Lord Flashheart, played by Mayall, in the series' first episode, "Bells". Despite being on screen for mere minutes, Mayall's performance as the boisterous heart-throb Flashheart proved very popular and raised Mayall's public profile further. The character was given a bigger part as Squadron Commander Flashheart in Blackadder Goes Forth in 1989. A similar character, also played by Mayall, would appear in 2000's Blackadder: Back and Forth under the guise of Robin Hood. The second series of Blackadder was set in Elizabethan England, starring (left to right) Tony Robinson as Baldrick, Rowan Atkinson as Edmund, Lord Blackadder, and Tim McInnerny as Lord Percy Percy. ... Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. ... Rowan Sebastian Atkinson (born 6 January 1955) is an English comedian, actor and writer, famous for his title roles in the British television comedies Blackadder and Mr. ... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation). ... Lord Flashheart is the name of two characters (the first presumably an ancestor of the second) who appeared in two episodes of the popular BBC sitcom Blackadder. ... List of Blackadder episodes Bells is the first episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. ... Blackadder Goes Forth was the fourth and final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989. ... For other uses, see Robin Hood (disambiguation). ...

In 1986, Mayall joined forces once more with Planer, Adrian Edmondson and Elton to star in Filthy Rich & Catflap as "Richie Rich" in what was billed as a follow-up to The Young Ones. While he received positive critical reviews, viewing figures were poor and the series was never repeated on the BBC. In later years, release on video, DVD and repeats on UK TV found the series a cult following. Mayall suggested the series did not last because he was uncomfortable acting in an Elton-written project, when they had been co-writers on The Young Ones.^[2] Nigel George Planer (born February 22, 1953 in London) is an English actor, novelist and playwright. ... Filthy Rich & Catflap was a BBC sitcom produced in 1986 and broadcast early the next year. ... This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or cult in its original sense of religious practice. See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term cult. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of pop culture. ...

The same year saw Mayall achieve a number one hit in the UK singles charts when he and his co-stars from The Young Ones teamed up with Cliff Richard to record a new version of "Living Doll" for the inaugural Comic Relief campaign. Mayall played Rick one last time in the subsequent stage show and has supported the Comic Relief cause ever since. “British Hit Singles” redirects here. ... Living Doll is a popular song by Cliff Richard and the Shadows. ... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ...

That year, Mayall appeared on the children's television series Jackanory, on which well known-faces read children's stories. His crazed, anarchic portrayal of Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine proved one of the series' most memorable performances.^[3] However, at the time, the BBC received complaints "with viewers claiming both story and presentation to be both dangerous and offensive."^[4] Jackanory is a long-running BBC childrens television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. ... Roald Dahl (IPA: ) (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a Welsh novelist, short story author and screenwriter of Norwegian parentage, famous as a writer for both children and adults. ... Georges Marvellous Medicine (or Marvelous in the US print-runs) is a childrens book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. ...

In 1987, Mayall undertook his first major solo project as fictional Conservative MP Alan Beresford B'Stard in the sitcom The New Statesman for Yorkshire Television, written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The character was a satire of Tory MPs present in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1990s. The programme ran for four series - incorporating two BBC specials - between 1987-1994 and was a success both critically and in the ratings. The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is currently the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Laurence Marks (born 8 December 1948 in Islington, London) is one half of writing duo Marks & Gran. ... Maurice Bernard Gran (born 26 October 1949 in London) is one half of writing duo Marks & Gran. ... For other uses, see Tory (disambiguation). ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ...

In a similar vein to his appearance on Jackanory, in 1989, Mayall was the star of a series of "bit" shows for the BBC called Grim Tales, in which Mayall narrated Grimm Brothers fairy tales, while puppets acted out the stories. Grim Tales from Down Below is a manga styled fan/webcomic drawn by an artist known only as Bleedman and is hosted by Snafu Comics. ... Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The Brothers Grimm (Brüder Grimm) are Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. ... A fairy tale is a story, either told to children or as if told to children, concerning the adventures of mythical characters such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and others. ...

He also lent his voice to the Playstation video game Hogs of War. PlayStation redirects here. ... Hogs of War was a videogame released for the Sony PlayStation and personal computer in 2000. ...

Bottom

Main article: Bottom (TV series)

Mayall (right) with Ade Edmondson in Bottom

In 1991, Mayall and Edmondson co-starred in the West End production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. Here they came up with the idea for their next project, Bottom. Mayall and Edmondson have said Bottom was intended to be a cruder cousin to plays like Waiting for Godot. Bottom was a British sitcom (aka britcom) of the early 1990s (and later a series of stage shows) written by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. ... Image File history File links Bottom001. ... Image File history File links Bottom001. ... Bottom was a British sitcom (aka britcom) of the early 1990s (and later a series of stage shows) written by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre... Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish dramatist, novelist and poet. ... Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which the characters wait for Godot, who never arrives. ...

Bottom was commissioned by the BBC and three series were shown between 1991-1995. Mayall starred as "Richard 'Richie' Richard" alongside Edmondson's "Eddie Elizabeth Hitler". The series featured their trademark slapstick violence taken to new extremes. For other uses, see Slapstick (disambiguation). ...

The series gained a strong cult following. In 1993, following the second series, Mayall and Edmondson decided to take a stage show version of the series on a national tour. Bottom: Live was a commercial success, filling large venues. Four additional stage shows were embarked upon in 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003, each to great success. The violent natures of these shows saw both Edmondson and Mayall ending up in hospital at various points.

A film version, Guest House Paradiso, was released in 1999. A fourth TV series was also written, but not commissioned by the BBC. Guest House Paradiso is a 1999 comedy slapstick movie, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson. ...

Other activities in the 1990s

Mayall achieved transatlantic success in 1991's Drop Dead Fred as the eponymous character, a troublesome imaginary friend reappearing from a woman's childhood. Mayall's performance proved popular, even though the film was critically panned. He also appeared in Carry On Columbus (1992) along with various alternative comedy alumni. Mayall provided the voice of the character Froglip, the leader of "the goblins", in the 1992 animated film adaption of the popular 1872 childrens tale The Princess and the Goblin by Scottish author George MacDonald. Drop Dead Fred is a 1991 comedy film released by New Line Cinema. ... For other uses, see Imaginary Friend. ... Carry On Columbus was a 1992 film, and the most recent in the Carry On films series. ... The Princess and the Goblin is a childrens fantasy novel by George MacDonald. ... George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ...

In 1993, he appeared in Rik Mayall Presents, a series of six individual comedy dramas. Mayall's performances won a Best Comedy Performer award at that year's British Comedy Awards, and another series was broadcast in early 1995. The British Comedy Awards is an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year. ...

In 1995 Mayall co-starred in a production of the play Cell Mates, alongside his friend Stephen Fry. The production was to prove immensely troublesome for Mayall. Not long into the play's run, Fry suffered a nervous breakdown and walked out of the production. He fled to Belgium, where he remained missing for several days, and the play was forced to close shortly afterwards. In a 2007 interview, Mayall said of the incident: "You don't leave the trenches... Selfishness is one thing, being a cunt is another. I mustn't start that war again."^[5] It is reported that Mayall and Fry are now friends again. Cell Mates is a play by Simon Gray. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humourist, novelist, columnist, filmmaker and television personality. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Edmondson later poked fun at the event during their stage tour Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour, when, after Mayall gave mocking gestures to the audience and insulted their town in a silly voice, Edmondson said "Are you done yet? It's just I'm beginning to understand why Stephen Fry fucked off!"

Towards the end of the run of Cell Mates Mayall revealed a replica gun — a prop from the play — to a passer-by in the street. He was later cautioned over the incident. Mayall later conceded that this was "incredibly stupid, even by my standards".^[6]

Quad bike accident

On April 9, 1998, Mayall was seriously injured after crashing a quad bike near his home in Devon. He was in a coma for several days. Various media sources reported the comedian was "seriously ill". is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The term All-Terrain Vehicle or ATV is used in a general sense to describe any of a number of small open motorized buggies and tricycles designed for off-road use. ... For other uses, see Devon (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Coma (disambiguation). ...

Mayall's daughter Bonnie and her cousin had asked him to take them for a ride on the bike - a Christmas gift from his wife - but he was forced to refuse due to rain, and proceeded alone. Some time later, Mayall's wife Barbara looked out the window and saw him lying on the ground with the bike, at first believing he was joking. For other uses, see Christmas (disambiguation). ...

Mayall was airlifted to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, where it was discovered he had suffered two haematomas and a fractured skull. During the following 96 hours, Mayall was kept heavily sedated to prevent movement which could cause pressure on his brain. His head injuries were so severe that his family was warned he would either die or possibly suffer brain damage.^[7] This article is about the city of Plymouth in England. ... A heamatoma is when boush bags become extremely inflamed and painful ush flaps become itchy and flackey just like frosted flackes :S ... Human brain In animals, the brain (enkephale) (Greek for in the skull), is the control center of the central nervous system, responsible for behavior. ... Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. ...

On the fifth day, doctors felt it safe to bring Mayall back to consciousness. In his 2005 spoof biography, Mayall claims at this point he "rose from the dead". During Mayall's hospitalization, the Comic Strip special Four Men in a Car was broadcast for the first time on TV. The film involves Mayall's character being hit by a car. Mayall had a long road to recovery and believed he was being held hostage by the staff at the hospital. After being transferred to a private hospital in London, he "escaped" and took a taxi to his home, but was taken back to the hospital later that day after being sedated by his doctor.

He was also supposed to take medication to prevent epileptic seizures for a year until doctors felt the threat of seizures related to his condition had passed. Mayall stopped taking the medication a few months later. As a result, he suffered one or two epileptic seizures. During one such episode, he bit through his tongue. He is now on the medication for life. Mayall eased his way back into his career by doing voice-over work. His first post-accident acting job was in the 1998 Jonathan Creek Christmas Special, as DI Gideon Pryke. This article is about epileptic seizures. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Jonathan Creek is a British mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ...

Both he and Edmondson have subsequently joked about this event in the various stage versions of Bottom. The pair wrote the first draft of their feature film Guest House Paradiso while Mayall was hospitalized.^[8] They originally planned to co-direct, but following the accident, Edmonson took on the duties himself. Guest House Paradiso is a 1999 comedy slapstick movie, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and directed by Edmondson. ...

Post-recovery

In 2000, Mayall appeared in the video production of Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod. He joked in the "Making of" documentary, which was included on the DVD release, that "the real reason why millions of people want to come and see this is because I'm in it! Me and Jesus!" In 2002, Mayall teamed up with Marks and Gran once more when he starred as Professor Adonis Cnut in the ITV sitcom Believe Nothing. However, the sitcom failed to repeat the success of The New Statesman and lasted only one series. This article is about the rock opera. ... Herod I, also known as Herod the Great was an ancient king of Judaea. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... This article is about Jesus of Nazareth. ... For other uses, see ITV (disambiguation). ... Believe Nothing (2002) is a British sitcom starring Rik Mayall as Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in England and Oxfords leading moral philosopher. ...

Following the 2003 Bottom: Live tour Bottom 5: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts, Mayall stated that he and Edmondson would return with another tour.^[9] Shortly thereafter, however, Edmondson told The Daily Mail that he no longer wished to work on Bottom. This effectively dissolved their nearly 30-year partnership. Edmondson claimed they were "too old" to continue portraying the characters. Edmonson added that, since Mayall had recovered from his coma, he was slower on the uptake and it had become more difficult to work with him, as well as citing that due to taking medication, Mayall had been advised to stop drinking alcohol. However, Edmondson said that the pair remained very close friends.^[10] The Daily Mail and its Sunday edition the Mail on Sunday are British newspapers, first published in 1896. ...

In the 2005 poll The Comedian's Comedian, Mayall was voted among the top 50 comedy performers of all time. Mayall released an 'in-character' semi-fictionalised autobiography in September 2005 entitled Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ (ISBN 0-00-720727-1). At the same time, he starred in a new series for ITV entitled All About George as the eponymous character. Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ...

Mayall reprised the role of Alan B'Stard in 2006 in the play The New Statesman 2006: Blair B'stard Project, written by Marks and Gran. By this time B'Stard had left the floundering Conservatives and become a Labour MP. Following a successful two-month run in London's West End at The Trafalgar Studios in 2007, a heavily re-written version toured theatres nationwide, with Marks and Gran constantly updating the script to keep it topical. However, Mayall succumbed to chronic fatigue and flu in May 2007, and withdrew from the show. Alan B'Stard was played by his understudy, Mike Sherman during his hiatus. The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ... Exhaustion redirects here. ... Respiratory disease properly named influenza(say: in-floo-en-zah ). Some specific varities of influenza with a vaccination available are: A-New Caledonia, A-California, B-Shanghai. ... For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Mayall was cast as the poltergeist Peeves, in the first of the Harry Potter films in 2001.^[11] Comments by Mayall suggest that material for the role was filmed and shown in cinemas but then never released to the public on any subsequent release after for no apparent reason. He tells the story of this hiring/firing on his second website blog for his 2008 film 'Evil Calls: The Raven'. He shot his role as Winston the butler in 2002 when the film was titled 'Alone in the Dark' but the film wasn't finally completed until 2008 when it was released under its new title 'Evil Calls' to distance itself from the Alone in the Dark computer game movies. He may appear in a possible sequel. Mayall currently performs the voice of the Andrex puppy in the UK TV commercials for Andrex toilet paper. Mayall also does an advert for Essex FM (where he talks about the legendary BMX BANDIT). ^[12] HPSS redirects here. ...

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External links

• Rik Mayall on the BBC!
• Rik Mayall at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Rik Mayall on Theatre.com