Rik Mayall “opened the door for many of the young alternative comedians that are coming out today”, a producer who worked with the comedian and actor has said. Mayall, who died a decade ago on Sunday, had various roles including in The Young Ones as attention-hungry Rick, The New Statesman as the ruthless and scheming Alan B’Stard MP and the fun and romantic Lord Flashheart in Blackadder. He died from a heart attack in 2014 at the age of 56.
Rik Mayall, left, and Adrian Edmondson, who starred opposite each other in Bottom (Justin Williams/PA) It was during the recording of Rik Mayall’s Animated Fairy Tales, commissioned by One Media iP, that he met writer, musician and producer Mike Bennett, who wrote the stories and oversaw the recordings. Their relationship grew, and Bennett has been sifting through the last ever recordings Mayall made to create a collection of his funniest and most interesting bits called Rik Mayall’s Famous! ..
.(Last Words), which is available on Sunday from audiobook stores and Spotify. Bennett told the PA news agency: “Rik Mayall’s inimitable style seeks and finds shelter from convenient categorisation, but it’s an anarchic punk rock n’ roll humour.
“And The Young Ones was the first of its kind, and it exploded into the rooms of my student flat, which looked exactly the same as the one that they had. “They really touched a nerve and the so-called alternative comedy scene was bursting out and it was superb. “And it coincided with .
