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The Ticket Archive

Museum Archive Photo Credits: Andy Hollingworth (unless stated otherwise) Andy Hollingworth the renown photographer of comedians, is also a keen comedy enthusiast and historian. Along with photographing hundreds of comedians over the years he has been photographing and building up a catalogue of comedy performance tickets and memorabilia. With Rik Mayall being one of particular… Continue reading The Ticket Archive
The Young Ones Memorabilia

Museum Archive Here I am building up a page dedicated to memorabilia associated with The Young Ones. If you saw them perform or have any items of interest then please get in touch. In particular anything from the 1983 Bastard Squad tour or if you have a TV audience ticket from the 1st series. 1982… Continue reading The Young Ones Memorabilia
Bottom Live Memorabilia

Museum Archive During a period of 10 years Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson toured the UK with five different productions of Bottom, based on their hit TV Show, performing to thousands of fans at many of the UK’s largest theatres and arena venues. Souvenir merchandise was available and you could buy; the programme, T-Shirts, other… Continue reading Bottom Live Memorabilia
VHS Memorabilia

Museum Archive Kevin Turvey The Young Ones The Comic Strip Presents Filthy Rich and Catflap The New Statesman Grim Tales Comic Relief Bottom Bottom Live Rik Mayall Presents Feature Films Others Please get in touch with your photos if you have any other VHS tapes not shown here. Museum Archive Are you enjoying the content… Continue reading VHS Memorabilia
Record/Cassette Tape Memorabilia

Museum Archive LP’s The Comic Strip Recorded very live at ‘The Comic Strip’ – Soho – 1981 Fundamental Frolics Fundamental Frolics, Live at the Apollo Theatre 1st June 1981 Comic Relief Utterly Utterly live! Comic Relief, Utterly Utterly Live! At the Shaftesbury Theatre, recorded 4th, 5th & 6th April 1986 12″ Singles Living Doll Cliff… Continue reading Record/Cassette Tape Memorabilia
Chris Shield’s Rik Scrapbook

Museum Archive Huge thanks to Chris Shields who has kindly scanned and sent me some images of his fantastic Rik Mayall scrapbook. What an amazing treasured item it is too, with so many lovely early cuttings. Enjoy browsing the pages of this wonderful scrapbook and if you’d like to see even more rare photos and… Continue reading Chris Shield’s Rik Scrapbook
Magazine Articles

Museum Archive A slow ongoing project, starting with the earliest, I’m building up a magazine archive. Scanning the articles and transcribing them. Please let me know if you have or are aware of other articles not listed here. Highlighted in red are articles that I am aware of but have yet to find a copy…… Continue reading Magazine Articles
Rik’s TV Timeline (1980’s)

Museum Archive I am attempting to build up a timeline of when Rik appeared on TV in the UK. I have included all the Comic Strip Presents episodes even the episodes Rik didn’t appear in. If you spot any mistakes or can tell me about anything I’ve missed out then please let me know or… Continue reading Rik’s TV Timeline (1980’s)
Key Moments & Performance Timeline

Museum Archive Starting to build up a timeline of key moments and performance dates, probably still lots more to add and discover but it’s a start. Please get in touch if you saw any of these performances or if you can give me any dates, especially when TV episodes were recorded… 1979 1980 1981 1982… Continue reading Key Moments & Performance Timeline