A comedy festival that played to sell-out audiences as it remembered the late Rik Mayall has announced its dates for next year. The second Rik Mayall Comedy Festival will be held in Droitwich from 29 ...

05:00, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Updated: 12:55, Fri, Nov 14, 2025 Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s Bottom exploded onto British television in the early nineties. The anarchic sitcom was violent, rude, ...

For an entire generation growing up the 1980s and 1990s, Rik Mayall was one of the most familiar - and fascinating - faces on television. And now, 11 years after his death at the age of 56, his legacy ...

Comedian Ben Elton said working with the late Rik Mayall gave him some of "the most glorious creative moments" he had ever had and writing about him helped him to deal with some of his grief over his ...