The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival returns to Droitwich Spa for a second year.

The second Rik Mayall Comedy Festival is under way and a string of comedians are set to entertain crowds in the late comic performer's hometown. For nine days, Droitwich Spa is celebrating Mayall's ...

An archive of previously-unreleased material by the late comedian Rik Mayall is to be showcased at the second annual festival ...

Rik Mayall died of an "acute cardiac event", his wife revealed on Thursday. His wife Barbara confirmed that Rik had just returned from his regular jog when he was taken seriously ill at their home. It ...

A comedy festival celebrating Rik Mayall, who grew up in Droitwich Spa, has officially opened for its second year ...

Rik Mayall, who played would-be anarchist Rick on the 1980s British sitcom “The Young Ones,” died Monday, according to media reports. He was 56. The BBC reports that Mayall died at his London home. No ...

Desert Island Discs listeners are reacting to Adrian Edmondson’s tearful recollection of comedian and actor Rik Mayall. Edmondson appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show, which is hosted by Lauren Laverne, ...

Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56. The comic actor, who passed away on Monday morning (June 9), was best-known for his roles in hit shows like The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesman. He also ...

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Rik Mayall lived many lives. He was Rik, of course, and Richard “Richie” Richard. There was Sir Richard Dangerous, Alan B’Stard, Drop Dead Fred and Lord Flashheart. Then there was the actual Rik, ...

Bosses of TV channel Dave are deciding when to air an episode of a show that Rik Mayall filmed before he died. The comedian recorded an episode of Crackanory, a grown-up version of children's ...

British comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56. He played obnoxious, poetry-writing anarchist Rick in The Young Ones with his friend Adrian Edmondson. The pair later starred in the sitcom ...