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THE FINAL TERROR (also known as Campsite Massacre, Bump in the Night and The Forest Primeval) is a 1983 slasher film directed by Andrew Davis, Produced by Joe Roth, Written by Jon George, Neill D. Hicks, and Ronald Shusett.
It stars John Friedrich (Dennis Zorich), Rachel Ward (Margaret), Daryl Hannah (Windy Morgan), Adrian Zmed (Marco Cerone), Ernest Harden Jr. (Nathaniel Hines), Lewis Smith (Boone), Joe Pantoliano (Eggar), Akosua Busia (Vanessa), Mark Metcalf (Mike), Cindy Harrell (Melanie), Irene Sanders (Sammie), Richard Jacobs (Mr. Morgan), Donna Pinder (Mrs. Morgan), Jim Youngs (Jim), Lori Butler (Lori), and Tony Maccario (Eggar's Mother).
A young couple loses control of their motorbike and fall to the ground, Jim is badly hurt, and Lori runs to find some help. She finds an abandoned cabin but no one is there. She runs back to Jimmy where she finds him dead hanging upside down from a tree, terrified she runs back to the cabin. While running, she steps on a trap full of sharp objects, killing her.
JOHN FRIEDRICH
Weeks later, a group of campers arrive at the forest where the killings happened. The campers include Dennis, Margaret, Windy, Marco, Nathaniel, Boone, Eggar, Vanessa, Mike and Melanie. The group makes a clearing in the forest and gather supplies, and spend the night around a bonfire. They wake up early in the morning but Marco and Eggar are missing.
The boys search for him and the others search nearby the camp. Mike takes a swim and Melanie follows him. While having sex, Mike is stabbed by a strange creature, Melanie screams in terror while watching him die.
RACHEL WARD
Nathaniel and Dennis find the abandoned cabin and an old grave. Dennis enters the cabin and Nathaniel hears Dennis scream and enters to be attacked by what he thinks is a strange old lady, but it is Dennis trying to scare him. They find some things inside the house that are being used and new. They take some of the things and food. While opening the cabinet they find the severed head of a wolf. Shaken, they head back to the camp.
That night, while sleeping, Margaret is attacked by the strange creature. She confesses hysterically what she saw to the other campers. The campers hear a strange noise and pursue the source only to find Marco, who has returned to the camp. Vanessa gets angry at the guys for scaring the girls and walks off alone. She finds the old outhouse and enters, and Mike's severed head falls on her, causing her to panic and scream.
ADRIAN ZMED
Nathaniel and the rest of the group come to her aid, then start a search for Melanie. They decided to spend the night in the camp. In the morning they go to the cabin to try to capture the man who killed Mike. Unbeknownst to the group, Melanie is down in the basement with the killer. They see a hand in a jar and flee. They raft along the river, unknowingly the creature is following them. The creature throws the dead body of Melanie in the boat causing chaos.
Burying Melanie near the river, The group continues onto the end of the river and find their empty, broken-down bus. They decide to spend the night there, but the creature attacks the bus. The creature gets inside but the group escape out the back door.
DARYL HANNAH
Windy gets separated and lost, and ends up stabbed by the creature on her neck. The remaining group hears her scream and follows her. She is badly hurt and bleeding, so Dennis and Marco decide to go back to the bus to get first aid. The group again tries to search for the way out of the forest.
The group gathers supplies and camouflage themselves. Dennis climbs one of the highest trees, where he sees the long missing Marco, who was searching for Eggar. When Eggar appears, he begins to strangle Marco. The group attacks Eggar, suspecting he was the one who killed Mike and Melanie, but the real creature appears.
ERNEST HARDEN JR.
While Dennis is watching the rest of the group fight it comes from behind and cuts him off at his ankles, making him fall from the cliff, killing him.
The creature rises up and screams, revealing to be Eggar's long lost mother. As she walks down to confront the group, she steps on one of the traps, killing her. Eggar appears to be devastated. Now, the survivors - Margaret, Windy, Vanessa, Nathaniel, Boone, and Marco watch in horror as Eggar's mother hangs dead in the trap.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Jones. It tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.
The film contains themes of religious satire that were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy and protests from some religious groups. Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK either imposed an outright ban, or imposed an X (18 years) certificate, effectively preventing the film from being shown, as the distributors said the film could not be shown unless it was unedited and carried the original AA (14) certificate. Some countries, including Ireland and Norway, banned its showing, with a few of these bans lasting decades. The film makers used such notoriety to benefit their marketing campaign, with posters stating "So funny it was banned in Norway!"
Brian Cohen is born in a stable next door to the one in which Jesus is born, which initially confuses the three wise men who come to praise the future King of the Jews. Brian grows up an idealistic young man who resents the continuing Roman occupation of Judea. While attending Jesus's Sermon on the Mount, Brian becomes infatuated with an attractive young rebel, Judith. His desire for her and hatred for the Romans lead him to join the People's Front of Judea, one of many fractious and bickering independence movements, who spend more time fighting each other than the Romans.
GRAHAM CHAPMAN
After several misadventures, and escaping from Pontius Pilate, the fugitive winds up in a line-up of would-be mystics and prophets who harangue the passing crowd in a plaza. Forced to come up with something plausible in order to blend in and keep the guards off his back, Brian babbles pseudo-religious truisms, and quickly attracts a small but intrigued audience. Once the guards have left, Brian tries to put the episode behind him, but he has unintentionally inspired a movement. He grows frantic when he finds that some people have started to follow him around, with even the slightest unusual occurrence being hailed as a "miracle." After slipping away from the mob, Brian runs into Judith, and they spend the night together. In the morning, Brian opens the curtains to discover an enormous crowd of people outside his mother's house, all proclaiming him to be the Messiah. Brian's mother protests: "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy." Brian finds himself unable to change their minds, because his every word and action are immediately seized as points of doctrine.
JOHN CLEESE
The hapless Brian finds no solace at the PFJ's headquarters, where people fling their afflicted bodies at him demanding miracle cures. After sneaking out the back, Brian finally is captured and scheduled to be crucified. Meanwhile, a huge crowd has assembled outside the palace. Pilate (together with the visiting Biggus Dickus) tries to quell the feeling of revolution by granting them the decision of who should be pardoned. The crowd, however, simply shouts out names containing the letter "r," in order to mock Pilate's speech impediment. Eventually, Judith appears in the crowd and calls for the release of Brian, which the crowd echoes, since the name contains the letter "r." Pilate then agrees to "welease Bwian.
ERIC IDLE
The order from Pilate is eventually relayed to the guards, but in a moment parodying the climax of the film Spartacus, various crucified people all claim to be "Brian of Nazareth" (one man shouting "I'm Brian and so's my wife") and the wrong man is released. Various other opportunities for a reprieve for Brian are denied as, one by one, his "allies" (including Judith and his mother) step forward to explain why they are leaving the "noble freedom fighter" hanging in the hot sun. Hope is renewed when a crack suicide squad from the Judean People's Front (not to be confused with the PFJ) come charging towards the Romans, but rather than fighting to release Brian they commit mass suicide as a political statement. Condemned to a long and painful death, Brian finds his spirits lifted by his fellow sufferers, who break into song with "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life."
TERRY JONES
Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music.
MICHAEL PALIN
Broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was a loosely structured as a sketch show, but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, the Pythons had creative control which allowed them to experiment with form and content, discarding rules of television comedy. Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years, while in North America it has coloured the work of cult performers from the early editions of Saturday Night Live through to more recent absurdist trends in television comedy. "Pythonesque" has entered the English lexicon as a result.
TERRY GILLIAM
The Pythons used the British tradition of cross-dressing comedy by donning frocks and makeup and playing female roles themselves while speaking in falsetto. Jones was specialized in playing the working class housewife, Palin and Idle being generally more posh. The other members played female roles more sparsely. Generally speaking, female roles were played by women only when the scene specifically required that the character be sexually attractive (although sometimes they used Idle for this). The troupe later turned to Carol Cleveland, who co-starred in numerous episodes after 1970.
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"This
house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all
gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And
all the grown-ups will say, 'But why are the kids crying?' And the kids
will say, 'Haven’t you heard? Rick is dead! The People’s Poet is dead!'"
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (March 7, 1958 – June 9, 2014) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and voice-over artist. Mayall was best known for his comedy partnership with Adrian "Ade" Edmondson, for his energetic "post-punk" style of acting, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. He appeared in numerous cult classic British sitcoms, including: The Young Ones, Bottom, Filthy Rich & Catflap, Blackadder, and The New Statesman; and in the comedy films: Drop Dead Fred, Guest House Paradiso, and Carry On Columbus.
TAKEN THE DAY BEFORE HE DIED
Edmondson and Mayall gained their reputation at the Comedy Store, from 1980. Apart from performing in their double act, 20th Century Coyote, Mayall developed solo routines, using characters such as Kevin Turvey and a pompous anarchist poet named Rick. This led to Edmondson and Mayall, along with Comedy Store compere Alexei Sayle and other upcoming comedians, including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Arnold Brown and Pete Richens, setting up their own comedy club called "The Comic Strip" in the Raymond Revuebar, a strip club in Soho.
Mayall's Kevin Turvey character gained a regular slot in A Kick Up the Eighties, first broadcast in 1981. He appeared as "Rest Home" Ricky in Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He played Dentonvale's resident attendant as the love interest to Nell Campbell's Nurse Ansalong.
Mayall's television appearances as Kevin Turvey warranted a mockumentary
based on the character titled Kevin Turvey – The Man Behind The Green
Door, broadcast in 1982.
The previous year, he appeared in a bit role
in An American Werewolf in London. His stage partnership with Edmondson
continued, with them often appearing together as "The Dangerous
Brothers," hapless daredevils whose hyper-violent antics foreshadowed
their characters in Bottom. Channel 4 offered the Comic Strip group six
short films, which became The Comic Strip Presents..., debuting on
November 2, 1982. The series, which continued sporadically for many
years, saw Mayall play a wide variety of roles. It was known for
anti-establishment humour and for parodies such as Bad News on Tour, a
spoof "rockumentary" starring Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Planer
as a heavy metal band, and Five Go Mad in Dorset, a parody of the Famous Five.
At the time The Comic Strip Presents... was negotiated, the BBC took an
interest in The Young Ones, a sitcom written by Mayall and
then-girlfriend Lise Mayer, in the same anarchic vein as Comic Strip.
Ben Elton joined the writers. The series was commissioned and first
broadcast in 1982, shortly before Comic Strip. Mayall played Rik, a
pompous sociology student and Cliff Richard devotee. Despite the sitcom
format, Mayall maintained his double-act with Edmondson, who starred as
violent punk Vyvyan. Nigel Planer (as hippie Neil) and Christopher Ryan
(as "Mike the cool person") also starred, with additional material
written and performed by Alexei Sayle.
The first series was successful
and a second was screened in 1984. The show owed a comic debt to The
Goon Show's Spike Milligan, but Milligan was disapproving of Mayall.
Milligan once wrote: "Rik Mayall is putrid – absolutely vile. He thinks
nose-picking is funny and farting and all that. He is the arsehole of
British comedy."
Mayall continued to work on The Comic Strip films. He returned to
stand-up comedy, performing on Saturday Live—a British version of the
Saturday Night Live—first broadcast in 1985. He and Edmondson had a
regular section as "The Dangerous Brothers," their earlier stage act.
In 1985, Mayall debuted another comic creation. He had starred in the
final episode of the first series of Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder (1983) as "Mad Gerald."
He returned to play Lord Flashheart in the Blackadder II episode titled
"Bells." A descendant of this character, Squadron Commander
Flashheart, was in the Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Private Plane." In the same episode, he was reunited with Edmondson, who played German
flying ace Baron von Richthofen the "Red Baron," in a scene where he
comes to rescue Captain Blackadder from the Germans. Nearly a decade
later, Mayall also appeared in Blackadder: Back & Forth as Robin
Hood.
In 1986, Mayall joined Planer, Edmondson and Elton to star as Richie
Rich in Filthy Rich & Catflap, which was billed as a follow-up to
The Young Ones. The idea of Filthy Rich and Catflap was a reaction to
comments made by Jimmy Tarbuck about The Young Ones. The series'
primary focus was to highlight the "has been" status of light
entertainment. While Mayall received positive critical reviews, viewing
figures were poor and the series was never repeated on the BBC. In
later years, release on video, DVD and repeats on UK TV found a
following. Mayall suggested that the series did not last because he was
uncomfortable acting in an Elton project, when they had been co-writers
on The Young Ones.
In 1986, Mayall played the Detective in the video of
"Peter Gunn" by Art Of Noise featuring Duane Eddy.
1987 saw Mayall co-star with Edmondson in the ITV
sitcom Hardwicke House. Due to adverse reaction from press and viewers,
ITV withdrew the series after two episodes.
In the same year, Mayall had a number one hit in the UK Singles charts,
when he and his co-stars from The Young Ones teamed with Cliff Richard
to record "Living Doll" for the inaugural Comic Relief campaign.
Mayall
played Rick one last time in the stage-show and supported the Comic
Relief cause for the rest of his life.
He appeared on the children's
television series Jackanory. His crazed portrayal of Roald Dahl's
George's Marvellous Medicine proved memorable. However, the BBC
received complaints "with viewers claiming both story and presentation
to be both dangerous and offensive."
In 1987, Mayall played fictional Conservative MP Alan Beresford B'Stard
in the sitcom The New Statesman (Yorkshire Television) written by
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The character was a satirical portrait
of Tory MPs in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1990s. The
programme ran for four series—incorporating two BBC specials—between
1987–94 and was successful critically and in the ratings.
In a similar
vein to his appearance on Jackanory, in 1989 Mayall starred in a series
of bit shows for ITV called Grim Tales, in which he narrated Grimm
Brothers fairy tales while puppets acted the stories.
In the early
1990s, Mayall starred in humorous adverts for Nintendo games and
consoles. With money from the ads, he bought his house in London which
he called "Nintendo Towers." In 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of
Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre, with Mayall playing
Vladimir, Edmondson as Estragon and Christopher Ryan as Lucky.
Here
they came up with the idea for Bottom, which they said was a cruder
cousin to Waiting for Godot. Bottom was commissioned by the BBC and
three series were shown between 1991 and 1995. Mayall starred in Bottom
as Richard 'Richie' Richard alongside Edmondson's Eddie Elizabeth
Hitler. The series featured slapstick violence taken to new extremes,
and gained a strong cult following. In 1993, following the second
series, Mayall and Edmondson decided to take a stage-show version of the
series on a national tour, Bottom: Live.
It was a commercial success,
filling large venues. Four additional stage shows were embarked upon in
1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003, each meeting with great success. The
violent nature of these shows saw both Edmondson and Mayall ending up in
hospital at various points. A film version, Guest House Paradiso, was
released in 1999. A fourth TV series was also written, but not
commissioned by the BBC. Mayall starred alongside Phoebe Cates in Drop Dead Fred (1991) as the
eponymous character, a troublesome imaginary friend who reappears from a
woman's childhood.
He also appeared in Carry On Columbus (1992) with
other alternative comedians.
Mayall also provided the voice of the
character Froglip, the leader of the goblins, in the 1992 animated film
adaption of the 1872 children's tale The Princess and the Goblin by
George MacDonald. In 1993, he appeared in Rik Mayall Presents, three
individual comedy dramas. Mayall's performances won him a Best Comedy
Performer award at that year's British Comedy Awards, and a second
series of three was broadcast in early 1995. He provided the voice for
Little Sod in Simon Brett's How to Be a Little Sod, written in 1991 and
adapted as ten consecutive episodes broadcast by the BBC in 1995. In
the early 1990s, he auditioned for the roles of Banzai, Zazu and Timon
in The Lion King (1994); he was asked to audition by lyricist Tim Rice,
but the role of Zazu finally went to Rowan Atkinson.
In 1995, Mayall featured in a production of the play Cell Mates
alongside Stephen Fry. Not long into the run, Fry had a nervous
breakdown and fled to Belgium, where he remained for several days, and
the play closed early. In 2007, Mayall said of the incident: "You don't
leave the trenches ... selfishness is one thing, being a cunt is
another. I mustn't start that war again." Edmondson poked fun at the
event during their stage tours. In Bottom Live: The Big Number Two
Tour, after Mayall gave mocking gestures to the audience and insulted
their town in a silly voice, Edmondson said, "Have you finished yet?
It's just I'm beginning to understand why Stephen Fry fucked off." In
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour, after Richie accidentally
fondles Eddie, he replies, "I see why Stephen Fry left that play."
Towards the end of the Cell Mates run, Mayall revealed a replica gun— a
prop from the play—to a passer-by in the street. Mayall was cautioned
over the incident and later conceded that this was "incredibly stupid,
even by my standards." From 1999, Mayall was the voice of the
black-headed seagull Kehaar, in the first and second series of the
animated television programme, Watership Down.
In 2000, Mayall lent his voice to the PlayStation and Windows PC video
game Hogs of War. Also that year, Mayall appeared in the video
production of Jesus Christ Superstar as King Herod.
He joked in the
"making of" documentary, which was included on the DVD release, that
"the real reason why millions of people want to come and see this is
because I'm in it! Me and Jesus!" In 2001, Mayall gave an excellent
dramatic performance as Lt Daniel Blaney in the episode "The White
Knight Stratagem" from the series "Murder Rooms: The Mysteries of the
Real Sherlock Holmes." In 2002, Mayall teamed up with Marks and Gran
once more when he starred as Professor Adonis Cnut in the ITV sitcom,
Believe Nothing. However, the sitcom failed to repeat the success of
The New Statesman and lasted for only one series.
Following 2003's Bottom: Live tour, Bottom 5: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts,
Mayall stated that he and Edmondson would return with another tour.
Shortly thereafter, however, Edmondson told the Daily Mail that he no
longer wished to work on Bottom. This effectively dissolved their
quarter century-long partnership. “I thought it would be fun and Ade thought it would be fun but then he changed his mind. It’s a shame. Of course I fucking tried to persuade him, but it’s his decision and I respect him for that.” Edmondson claimed they were "too old"
to continue portraying the characters. Edmondson added that since
Mayall had recovered from his coma, he was slower on the uptake and it
had become more difficult to work with him, citing as well that due to
taking medication Mayall had been advised to stop drinking alcohol.
However, Edmondson said that the pair remained very close friends.
Mayall voiced Edwin in the BBC show Shoebox Zoo. In September 2005, he
released an 'in-character' semi-fictionalised autobiography titled
Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ (ISBN 0-00-720727-1). At the
same time, he starred in a new series for ITV, All About George.
In
2006, Mayall reprised the role of Alan B'Stard in the play The New
Statesman 2006: Blair B'stard Project, written by Marks and Gran. By
this time B'Stard had left the floundering Conservatives and become a
Labour MP. In 2007, following a successful two-month run in London's
West End at the Trafalgar Studios, a heavily re-written version toured
theatres nationwide, with Marks and Gran constantly updating the script
to keep it topical. However, Mayall succumbed to chronic fatigue and
flu in May 2007 and withdrew from the show. Alan B'Stard was played by
his understudy, Mike Sherman during his hiatus. Mayall was cast as the poltergeist Peeves in Harry Potter and the
Philosopher's Stone (2001), the first of the Harry Potter films,
although all of his scenes were cut from the film. He claimed in his
semi-autobiographical book Bigger than Hitler, Better than Christ that
he had not been made aware that his scenes had been cut until the full
film was officially unveiled at the premiere.
He told the story of
this hiring/firing on his second website blog for his film, Evil Calls:
The Raven (2008). For Evil Calls, Mayall's role as Winston the Butler
was shot in 2002, when the film was titled Alone in the Dark. The film
was not completed until 2008, and was released under its new 'Evil
Calls' title, to distance it from the Alone in the Dark computer game
film.
Mayall provided the voice of the Andrex puppy in the UK TV
commercials for Andrex toilet paper, and also had a voice part in the UK
Domestos cleaning product adverts. He performed the voice of King
Arthur in the children's television cartoon series, King Arthur's
Disasters, alongside Matt Lucas from Little Britain who plays Merlin.
Mayall also had a recurring role in the Channel Five remake of the
lighthearted drama series, Minder. In September 2009, Mayall played a supporting role in the British
television programme Midsomer Murders—shown on ITV1 and made by Meridian
Broadcasting— as David Roper, a recovering party animal and tenuous
friend of the families in and around Chettham Park House.
In
April 2010, Motivation Records released Mayall's England Football
anthem "Noble England" for the 2010 FIFA World Cup which he recorded
with Coventry producer Dave Loughran. On the track Mayall performs
an adapted speech from Shakespeare's Henry V. In June 2010 the
official BBC Match of the Day compilation CD (2010 Edition) was released
by Sony/Universal featuring Noble England – Track 18, CD2.
In
September 2010 an audio book, narrated by Mayall, Cutey and the
Sofaguard was released by Digital Download. The book was written by
Chris Wade and released by Wisdom Twins Books. In this same month Mayall
played the voice of Roy's Dad and recorded five episodes of
animation. In November 2010, Mayall provided narrative for
five different characters for CDs accompanying children's books
published by Clickety Books. The books aid speech and language
development by bombarding the child with troublesome sound targets. He
recorded introductions and narratives for the titles.
On 5 March 2011, Mayall appeared on Let's Dance For Comic Relief in
which he came on stage and attacked Ade Edmondson with a frying pan
during his performance of The Dying Swan ballet. Edmondson mentioned
backstage that it was the first time in eight years they've done
something like that together and claimed Mayall had left his head with a
small bump. In April 2011, Mayall again revived the character of
Alan B'Stard to make an appearance in a satirical television
advertisement for the No2AV campaign prior to the 2011 voting reform
referendum in the UK. The character is shown being elected under the
alternative vote system, then using his newly gained position of power
to renege on his campaign promises. In his personal life, Rik Mayall did
not support the alternative vote. In May of the same year Mayall became
the eponymous 'Bombardier' in a TV advertising campaign for Bombardier
Bitter in the UK. The adverts landed broadcaster UKTV Dave in
trouble with Ofcom when they were found to breach the Ofcom code for
linking alcohol with sexual attractiveness or success.
On 23
August 2012 the BBC announced that Edmondson and Mayall's characters of
Richie and Eddie would be returning in 2013 in Hooligan's Island, a
television adaptation of their 1997 tour of the same name. However,
on 15 October 2012 Ade Edmondson announced during an interview with BBC
radio presenter Mark Powlett that the project was cancelled prior to
production as he wished to pursue other interests. In September 2012 Mayall starred in The Last Hurrah, a six-episode,
full-cast audio series that he also co-wrote with Craig Green and
Dominic Vince. In November 2012, Mayall narrated several
children's books on the Me Books app, such as The Getaway and Banana! by
children's illustrator and author Ed Vere. In October 2013 he
appeared in Channel 4 sitcom Man Down, playing the father of the
protagonist, Greg Davies — despite being only ten years older. Laughing at being cast as the father of Greg Davies’ character – despite being little more than a decade older than him – he quipped: “He’s very tall. That just means I shitted someone very tall. But also that I impregnated someone when I was 12, that’s pretty rock ’n’ roll. Who’s this for – the Paedophile Channel?"
Born in Harlow, Essex, to drama teacher parents John and Gillian, Rik Mayall was the second of four children.
When he was three, his family moved to Droitwich Spa, Worcs, where he
attended The King’s School before in 1976 going to Manchester
University. There he befriended fellow drama student Ade Edmondson, and when he formed a comedy group called 20th Century Coyote, Rik asked him to join. He agreed, but only if he signed a contract. Ade said: “And he wrote me out a contract which said something like, ‘I promise it will be horrible and nothing will ever go right. La de da. Rik Mayall.’ He was true to his word.” In Manchester he also befriended Ben Elton and Lise Meyer – with whom he later co-wrote The Young Ones. During the early years of his career, Rik dated Elise, who went on to become the long-term partner of Angus Deayton.
He married his wife of nearly 30 years, Barbara Robbin, in 1985 and the couple went on to have three children Rosie, 27, Sidney, 25, and Bonnie, 19. They got together in less-than-ideal circumstances, having embarked on an affair in 1981 which lasted until ‘85. Rik was still in a relationship with Elise when he discovered Barbara was pregnant, at which point he eloped with her to Barbados. It transpired that Elise was also pregnant, but she suffered a miscarriage. In 2002, Rik said that his ex- girlfriend had since forgiven him.He was never short of female attention. He once said: “I’ve always had fan-mail from girls, but I just thought it was rather silly, very flattering, but rather silly. It just happens when you’re famous.”
(Rik's response to a fan letter requesting an autographed photo)
Rik's one and only tweet: “Opening my very own Twitter to stop another bastard from doing it. So fuck off; don’t expect to hear from me any time soon. Love Rik x.”
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I recently returned to school; as of yet I don't have a major, but I have had a lot of minors...
I was accused of "statutory rape," but my lawyer got the charge reduced to "unlawful entry"...
He argued, how can you call it "rape" if she was already dead?...
When found in a skid row motel with a missing girl's corpse in the bed, it's best to tell the authorities that the room was like that when you checked in...
As an international superstar I try to set an example by giving back to the world and consider my trolling tween chatrooms for confused and lonely girls with daddy-issues a vocation...
I formed a charity to help promiscuous teenage girls- get their start...
I'm single, but "carried a torch" for my ex just long enough to set fire to her new boyfriend's car...
I don't regret one day of our relationship- it was a Thursday...
I want a real skinny girl; not because I think it's sexy, but it's likely she'll have poor self-esteem or a drug problem (those chicks'll do anything!)...
However, I am a sucker for big tits...
My dream is to settle down with a woman with whom I can have a child she wont try to drown...
