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Rik Mayall mini-bio: Rik Mayall, one of the first and foremost alternative
comedians in the UK, was born in a village called Matching Tye, just outside
Harlow in Essex. His parents, John and Gillian were both drama teachers. His
acting debut was at the age of seven when he appeared in one of his father's stage plays. He met his comedy partner and best friend Adrian "Ade" Edmondson at Manchester University in 1975. Soon he and Ade began performing together as a comedy act called "Twentieth Century Coyote" at the now legendary Comedy Store in London. They later moved their act to a venue called "The Comic Strip" and it was there that they were discovered by producer Paul Jackson. Rik and his friends
such as Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Alexei Sayle, Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer were boomed onto television screens with immense success. He wrote "The Young Ones" (1982) with Ben Elton and Lise Mayer. You loved it or you hated it, but you can't deny the impact it had on British Sitcom. His career was launched, and at only twenty-four years of age he became one of the most popular comedians in Britain. He wrote and starred in various other series
and films over the years such as "The New Statesman" (1987); his role in it as
Alan B'Stard earned him a BAFTA. He had his brief touch of Hollywood in 1991
when he starred as the title role in Drop Dead Fred (1991), but he soon returned to
the British TV screens with "Bottom" (1991) a show which only ran for 3 seasons from 1991 to 1995 but was so popular that he and his co-star Adrian Edmondson went on tour five times with the stage version of the show. In 1998 he had a severe accident and ended up in a coma after he crashed with his quad-bike at his farm in Devon. Luckily he recovered and starred in films and shows such as Guest House Paradiso (1999) and Day of the Sirens (2002). In 2002 he proved that he was back and ready for action in the comedy series "Believe Nothing" (2002) which reunited
him with Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, the writers of "The New Statesman".
In 2003 he toured the UK alongside Adrian Edmondson with the fifth Bottom Live
show for which is now believed to be the last time because although Rik told the papers he would do another live Tour, Ade soon after told the Daily Mail that he thought they were getting too old and that the shows were becoming difficult to do because after Riks accident he didn't have the same levels of concentration.
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| | Eye color:Blue | | Height: 5' 11'' | | Nickname(s): | | Notable feature(s): | | Education:Went to the university of Manchester. | Family: He is the son of John and Gillian Mayall (both drama teachers). He has three siblings - an older brother called John and two younger sisters called Libby and Kate. He is married to Barbara Robbins and they have three children, Rose (b.1986), Sydney (b.1989) and Bonnie (b.1996)
| | Resides in: Devon, England | | Religious affiliations: | | Political affiliation: | Personal interests/hobbies:
| Charities/Causes: Rik is particularly well know for his work for Comic Relief. He, along with the rest of 'The Young Ones' released the first Comic Relief single with Cliff Richard!
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