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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Rik mayall - The Untold Story

How Nigel Planer helped Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall reunite: ‘They’d fallen out but they were laughing their heads off’

The pair are considered one of British comedy’s greatest double acts, but they had their disagreements over the years

The Independent UK

‘Filthy rich, kinky and heartless’: your favourite late-arriving TV characters

From Ewan Roy in Succession to Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons, here are 15 truly unforgettable characters who elevated their shows – when they eventually turned up

The Guardian - UK

“I didn’t take Lemmy’s advice and I got a beer glass in my face”: The wild story of the spoof heavy metal band who beat Spinal Tap by a year

Spinal Tap weren’t the first spoof heavy metal band

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead

"We wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to fall into the Astarion trope too much"

GamesRadar

Adrian Edmondson says boomers have ‘messed things up’ for younger people

‘I think we’ve f***ed the whole thing up for them,’ actor said

The Independent UK

‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years on

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Edmondson’s ‘honest’ Rik Mayall admission resurfaces on anniversary of co-star’s death

Comedian previously opened up about his relationship with his co-star in a 2024 documentary

The Independent UK

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Exclusive: Comic Strip Presents…to be screened at Edinburgh Fringe

The legendary TV comedy show The Comic Strip Presents is being celebrated at this year’s Fringe - the driving force behind it, Peter Richardson, tells us all about its groundbreaking and career-making status

Evening Standard

There's lots of Greg Davies around right now, but you see a different side to him in The Cleaner

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Adrian Edmondson: ‘I don’t think I ever fell out with Rik. But things became thinner’

The comedian and actor on his life’s two great double acts – with Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall. Plus why he avoids Michelin stars and adores Johnny Rotten

The Guardian - UK

‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian Edmondson and Ed Bye on Bottom

‘We had wanted to call it My Bottom, so that people at work the next day would say, “Did you see My Bottom on television last night?”’

The Guardian - UK

Helen Lederer on envy, rejection, fun and fame: ‘I wanted it so badly – maybe that’s not normal’

She has appeared in some of the biggest sitcoms in British comedy history, from The Young Ones to Ab Fab, but always longed for her own show. Now 69, she looks back on the hilarity of her life – and the mortification

The Guardian - UK

"The camera pans across, and you realise there are 60,000 people throwing bottles of piss at us. It was terrifying": Nigel Planer looks back at hapless metal heroes Bad News

Nearly 40 years after their infamous Donington set, 25% of fictional rockers Bad News returned last year as Almost Bad News

Louder

Adrian Edmondson: ‘I’ve won more prizes for vegetables than I have for comedy’

The Young Ones star on butting brick walls, the real reason he took a role in Star Wars and how he and his wife, Jennifer Saunders, split the gardening

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The Independent UK

Desert Island Discs listeners in tears over Adrian Edmondson’s emotional Rik Mayall memory

‘Sobbing into my lunch,’ one listener said of Edmondson’s ‘beautiful’ musings

The Independent UK

Desert Island Discs listeners in tears over Adrian Edmondson’s emotional Rik Mayall memory

‘Sobbing into my lunch,’ one listener said of Edmondson’s ‘beautiful’ musings

The Independent UK

Harry Potter actor Oliver Phelps reveals which British star stole the show at first ever cast read-through

‘He put me totally at ease,’ George Weasley actor said of ‘comedy god’

The Guardian - UK

Ben Elton: ‘Any time period would make a good Blackadder with the right jokes’

The comedian and author on his new musical about Twiggy, remembering Rik Mayall, and why he’d like to have a word with Julian Fellowes

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Daily Mirror

Twist of fate that handed Tony Robinson his breakthrough in Blackadder

Landing the role of loveable idiot Baldrick in legendary sitcom Blackadder back in the early 1980s dramatically changed the course of Tony’s life

Evening Standard

Meet London’s new fashion archetypes — from Fizzy Tillys to a Gorpy joshi

It’s the hyper-local, satirical Instagram account we can’t stop scrolling. Here the maker lets us into their fizzy, litty, lengy world

Daily Mirror

Helen Lederer says young women today 'would be aghast' at sexism in TV in 80s and 90s

Comedian and actress Helen Lederer found fame on our screens in the 1980s and 90s in shows including Naked Video, Bottom, The Young Ones and Absolutely Fabulous

Wales Online

Unseen footage of The Young Ones to be released as show marks 40th anniversary

The anarchic programme aired between 1982 and 1984

The Guardian - UK

‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show’s creators how they pulled it off

Liverpool Echo

The Tube at 40: Fun facts about loved 80s TV show that came to Liverpool

The first episode of The Tube was broadcast on Bonfire Night, 1982

Daily Mirror

Ben Elton brings back C4 fan favourite Friday Night Live after more than three decades

Ben Elton has spoken of his return to stand-up show Friday Night Live, which 'literally changed British entertainment', for a one-off special to mark 40 years of Channel 4

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