04 Television p2 (Rik Mayall)
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This article is from the Rik Mayall FAQ, by Andrew Wong brit-com@pobox.com with numerous contributions by others.
04 Television p2 (Rik Mayall)
Comic Strip Presents ... Bad News
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Rik was part of a spoof rock band (a bit like Spinal Tap) called Bad News,
which originated on the Comic Strip, but later became a "film" in its' own
right. They released a couple of albums and two videos -- Bad News and More
Bad News.
Rik played Colin (I forget the surname) along with Ade Edmunson who played
Vim Fuego, Nigel Planer who played Den Dennis, and one other band member
called Spider. It sounds like they had great fun making the album "Bad News".
As well as songs, there's quite a few funny talk parts, and songs such as
"Cashing in on Christmas" and the excellent "Heavy Metal Farmer"
("heavy metal pig goes oink oink, heavy metal horse goes neigh, heavy
metal cow gives me heavy metal milk, I see heavy metal animals all the day").
Rik Mayall Presents...
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A series of 1-hour TV films for Granada TV was broadcast in Easter 1993.
The episodes were:
* Micky Love: He plays a washed-out paranoid game show host
* Briefest Encounter: Features Amanda Donohoe (the bi-sexual
leather-jacket lawyer from LA Law, and Liar Liar), as a woman Rik
picks up at a party and they go to her apartment. They both start
thinking the other is a potential homicidal maniac...
* Dancing Queen: with Rik as a rich Southern upper-class bloke on his
stag night who meets a Yorkshire stripper with a vaguely Lancastrian
accent played by Helena Bonaham-Carter when his friends put him on a
one-way train to Scarborough.... Nice, warm, and rather romantic.
This series was released on videotape by Granada Video in the UK, and was
shown on Bravo in the USA.
A second series of RIK MAYALL PRESENTS was shown in February 1995, which I
unfortunately completely missed. These episodes included:
* The Big One: Rik plays an estate agent who assumes the identity of a
dead man.
* Dirty Old Town: Rik is a tramp who, after an unfortunate accident, is
mistaken for a hot new scriptwriter.
* Clare De Lune: Rik is a widowed taxi driver who, with his daughter,
is taken hostage by an attractive young lady.
He has also appeared in:
* Northern Lights, a 1981 BBC play with Judy Parfitt
* A Kick up the Eighties as Kevin Turvey - BBC TV
* Comic Strip Presents.... - series for Channel 4
* Filthy, Rich and Catflap - BBC TV
* George's Marvellous Medicine for Jackanory (a BBC TV regular series
where a guest star sits down and tells the children a story using
pictures to accompany the reading), 5 episodes
* The Frog Prince - The Absolute Truth - another Jackanory tale
* Saturday Live as The Dangerous Brothers - LWT / CH 4
* Grimm Tales - Series 1 & 2, GRIMMS FAIRY TALES - Initial / Central TV
* How to be a little sod (voiceover)
* The Wind in the Willows (voiceover)
* Wam Bam Strawberry Jam - a poetry series for children
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