The Diary of a Teenage Comedy Freak – and a ruddy whole lot more
LET"S HEAR IT FOR RIK MAYALL Jeremy Pascall - June 1982 That wonderful person who gave you Kevin Turvey, Mitch, Wick and the Dangerous Brothers... A joke: What's yellow and lies on the bottom of the sea? Sand! Why aren't you laughing? All right, biting political satire: What do Lech Walesea and Menachem Begin have… Continue reading Let’s Hear it for Rik Mayall – Company 1982
THE YOUNG ONES, first televised and broadcast on BBC2 at 9pm on the 9th November 1982. November 2022 sees the 1980's groundbreaking sitcom turn 40 years old. Ruddy hell forty years ago, it seems like only yesterday I was sat enthralled on the living room carpet, staring at the little box in the corner of… Continue reading Visiting The Young Ones House – 2022
Sounds Magazine - 11th December 1982 Rogue Mayall Rik Mayall of TV's 'The Young Ones'. By Dave McCullough I ASK Rik Mayall, twisted leftest-centrist-selfist, maniacal hero of Tuesday nights television The Young Ones and generally speaking, since his inception as alter-ego Kevin Turvey, a genuine TV cult figure, if people are surprised when they meet… Continue reading Rogue Mayall – Sounds 1982
The Face - Number 21 - January 1982 Talking Turvey with Rik Mayall Interview by Steve Taylor Television is such a carefully premeditated medium, all the messy possibilities of risk and danger bleach out beforehand, that it's rare to catch a genuinely nervy moment of contingent live action. One of these infrequent eruptions recently disturbed… Continue reading Talking Turvey – The Face 1982
Rik Mayall Scrapbook 