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The Rik Mayall
In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business. He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, he brought down the Thatcher administration with The New Statesman and he changed the face of global culture with his masterpiece Bottom. Not only was his number one single 'Living Doll' the saviour of rock 'n' roll but he also rescued the British film industry with the vast revenues created by his legendary movie Drop Dead Fred. In 1998, he survived an assassination attempt and spent five days in a coma before he literal...
Rik Mayall: Comedy Genius
Delving into the rude, serious, anarchic and hilarious, Searby highlights Mayall's spectrum of work - not the rumours or an attempt to uncover the deeply private life he led but the more intricate moments that were twisted into creations to make people laugh and subsequently woven in to the fabric of British culture and comic legacy. Narrated by Searby, over 30 exclusive interviews have been lovingly, laughingly and carefully sought from those that stood closest to him over his working years providing the inner-most workings of Mayall and all of the emotions that working next to him brought with it, namely laughter. As Mayall evolved over the years, his acting, his intellect, his manic, intriguing character and his genius became a thing of interest, inspiration and celebration. Wrapped into chapters of insight, exclusive interviews and accounts mixed with comedy, anecdotes and anarchy, Mark Searby presents Rik Mayall: Comedy Genius
Early Rik: Thoughts Of A Clown - Rik Mayall In The Early Eighties
This book features the early quotes of Rik Mayall and his thoughts and views on the art of comedy. In the history of comedy, there's been a small group of special individuals: WC Fields, Stan, Oliver Hardy, Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, Tommy Cooper, Peter Cook, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Rik Mayall. Rik Mayall exploded on to the comedy scene in the 1980s. He was so original, successful and hysterically funny that he became the most loved comic in Britain. Explode he really did - at the forefront and the leader of this new 'alternative comedy', he was shocking, exciting and breath-taking, provoking hysteria similar to the beginnings of rock'n'roll. This book documents his first ten years in 'showbiz' from 1976 in Manchester to being at no.1 in the pop charts with Cliff Richard. This book features the early quotes of Rik Mayall and his thoughts and views on the art of comedy with rare pics and quotes from those who knew and loved him. 'So do up your trousers, keep your shoes clean and throw away your old Young Ones scrapbook as this book has it all'.
Bigger than Hitler – Better than Christ
In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business.
Bigger Than Hitler
Rik Mayall is one of the top British actor/comedians in the entertainment world, known for his wild, loud, brash and often violent characterizations.
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Cell Mates
Spies betray people. That's what we do. It becomes a - a habit. Difficult to break - even when it's not - not strictly necessary.Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London, 1961. One of Britain's most notorious double agents, George Blake, is serving a forty-two year sentence when he strikes up an unlikely friendship with Irish petty criminal, Sean Bourke. Both men are eccentric outsiders. Each sees in each other the possibility of escape and not just from prison. But once on the outside their mutual dependence faces mounting pressures from MI5, the KGB and indeed from themselves.Simon Gray's absorbing and deftly funny play explores how personal freedom is an illusion and how even friendship must have careful boundaries in a world where deception is a reflex response.Cell Mates premiered at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, in January 1995 before transferring to the Albery Theatre, London. The play was revived at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in November 2017.
Bottom
Contains the complete, unedited scripts of BBC TV's Bottom. Richie and Eddie are two of life's losers. With only a worn out TV for entertainment they seek excitement elsewhere - usually with disastrous results. Suicide, attempted murder, torture and kidnap become part of their daily existence.
