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LONDON (AP) - Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, has died. He was 56. Mayall's management firm Brunskill Management said the comedian ...
Mayall died of a heart attack at his home in London on 9 June 2014 at the age of 56. BBC Television director Danny Cohen praised him as a "truly brilliant" comedian with a unique stage presence, whose "fireball creativity" and approach to sitcom had inspired a generation of comedy stars.
Written in character, Rik claims that he invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, saved Rock and Roll with the song Living Doll, brought down the Thatcher administration with The New Statesman, and rescued the British film industry with the 'vast revenues' generated by Drop Dead Fred. [4]
Following Rik Mayall's death in June 2014, Davies met with Channel 4 to discuss the future of the show. It had been intended that Mayall's role in the second series would be more prominent than it had been previously. [4] The series returned for a second Christmas special in 2014, a second series in 2015, [5] a third in 2016, [6] and a fourth ...
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Seven days later, Marta (who was an earwitness to the murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989) died from cancer in Los Angeles, on January 11, 2024. She was 78 years old. She was 78 years old ...
Drop Dead Fred is a 1991 black comedy fantasy film directed by Ate de Jong, produced by PolyGram and Working Title Films and released and distributed by New Line Cinema, starring Phoebe Cates as a young woman named Elizabeth Cronin and Rik Mayall as her imaginary friend, Drop Dead Fred, with Marsha Mason, Carrie Fisher, Ron Eldard, Tim Matheson, and Bridget Fonda in supporting roles.
Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski discusses the investigation into the January 15 death of of Jolene Waldref during a press conference at the Alonzo Robinson Milwaukee Fire Department ...