Rik Mayall

I mean, Dawn French had this theory that they had a special fund where they would take up and coming British comedians and then humiliate them because all our generation, even like Rowan Atkinson had gone out and played a butler in a fucking sitcom and stuff.

And then Dawn and Lenny and Rick Mayall, we'd all gone out and abased ourselves and then been humiliated.

But you...

Just being on Netflix, you're massive out there, aren't you? It's

What a raconteur, you know, Jack and Ori, him and Kenneth Williams.

And I think Rick Mayall as well.

Well, so many, they're all good for God's

sake.

All the cribbins, et cetera, et cetera.

So I think I am going to have to maybe think about...

I was going to do one about Rick Mayall.

A few years ago, many years ago, I got in touch with his widow about doing an authorised biography on Rick.

remember that from, you know, as we're recording this, the UK Saturday Night Live has been resurrected.

But there was the original Saturday Live, which was the Ben Elton vehicle where we saw Adrian Edmondson and Rick Mayall, all those things.

Patrick Barlow, the National Theatre of Brent, was on that.

That's where I first saw him.

I mean, you know, they never, ever grew up really.

Well, it's funny, isn't it? 'Cause in the book, Rick, Mail, is almost like the sort of emotional vein that runs through the book in a funny sort of way, isn't he?

Well, yeah, he features a lot in Young Once, in the book.

Mm.

2013, that marriage.

We got married, yeah.

Everyone knows about this rift that happened between Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson.

Yes.

You can look it up.

There's a few episodes and it's comedy gold and contains the much missed Rick Mayall, who was an integral part of many people's childhoods in the 80s.

Anyway, I digress.

I digress.

Eamon reveals that they tried incredibly hard to be literally faithful in the first film.

They went so far as to cast the legendary, brilliantly manic British comedian Rick Mayall to play the poltergeist.

Oh, wow.

That would have been amazing.

fan favorite.

And we had the brilliant Rick Mayall.

I mean, it wasn't like we didn't try.

But Peeves is not as easy.

And in a film, that can be quite annoying.

And it was.

And again, we had a jewel of a performer in Rick Mayall.

We've shifted it in the TV show and, frankly, been on a journey.