Adrian Edmondson is being praised for his tearful recollections of comedian and actor Rik Mayall. Comedy star Edmondson opened up about his friendship and working relationship with his Young Ones ...

The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival have announced it is officially returning for a second year – from May 29 to June 6, 2026.

A comedy festival in memory of Rik Mayall has been proclaimed a huge success with friends of the actor and writer saying he would have loved it. Mayall died 11 years ago and more than 200 performances ...

A comedy festival in Droitwich Spa to remember the late Rik Mayall has been nominated for a tourism award. Earlier in the year, thirty venues hosted 200 events in the town where the Young Ones star ...

Ben Elton said his late friend Rik Mayall featured heavily in his autobiography [BBC] Comedian Ben Elton said working with the late Rik Mayall gave him some of "the most glorious creative moments" he ...

Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades.

Rik Mayall, an irrepressible British comedy legend who was an equal master of brutally intense physical comedy and wry class satire, died at the tragically young age of 56 today of unspecified causes.

Rik Mayall died from an "acute cardiac event", his wife Barbara has confirmed. Barbara Robbin released an official statement regarding her husband's death on Monday (June 9), explaining that the comic ...

British comedian and actor Rik Mayall, who appeared in The Young Ones and Blackadder, passed away Monday at the age of 56, The Associated Press reports.

Outrageously funny comedian and actor Rik Mayall, whose groundbreaking sitcom The Young Ones was inspired by the house in East Didsbury where he lived as a student, has died aged 56. Mayall studied ...