The show owed a comic debt to Spike Milligan, but Milligan disapproved of Mayall's style of performance.
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The first series was successful and a second was screened in 1984. Nigel Planer (as hippie Neil) and Christopher Ryan (as "Mike the cool person") also starred, with additional material written and performed by Alexei Sayle. Mayall maintained his double-act with Edmondson, who starred as violent heavy metal medical student Vyvyan.
Mayall played Rick, a pompous sociology student and Cliff Richard devotee. The series was commissioned and first broadcast in 1982, shortly before Comic Strip. was negotiated, the BBC took an interest in The Young Ones, a sitcom written by Mayall and his then-girlfriend Lise Mayer, in the same anarchic vein as Comic Strip. It was known for anti-establishment humour and for parodies such as Bad News on Tour, a spoof "rockumentary" starring Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Planer as a heavy metal band.Īt the time The Comic Strip Presents. The series, which continued sporadically for many years, saw Mayall play a wide variety of roles. Channel 4 offered the Comic Strip group six short films, which became The Comic Strip Presents., debuting on 2 November 1982. His stage partnership with Edmondson continued, with them often appearing together as "The Dangerous Brothers", hapless daredevils whose hyper-violent antics foreshadowed their characters in Bottom.
The previous year, he appeared in a bit role in An American Werewolf in London. Mayall's television appearances as Kevin Turvey led to a mockumentary based on the character titled Kevin Turvey – The Man Behind The Green Door, broadcast in 1982. He played Dentonvale's resident attendant as the love interest to Nell Campbell's Nurse Ansalong. He appeared as "Rest Home" Ricky in Richard O'Brien's Shock Treatment, a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Mayall's Kevin Turvey character gained a regular slot in A Kick Up the Eighties, first broadcast in 1981. This led to Edmondson and Mayall, along with Comedy Store compere Alexei Sayle and other upcoming comedians, including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, French and Saunders, Arnold Brown and Pete Richens, setting up their own comedy club called "The Comic Strip" in the Raymond Revuebar, a strip club in Soho. Apart from performing in their double act, 20th Century Coyote, Mayall developed solo routines, using characters such as Kevin Turvey and a pompous anarchist poet named Rick. It was there that he met his future comedy partner Ade Edmondson, Ben Elton, a fellow student, and Lise Mayer, with whom he later co-wrote The Young Ones.Įdmondson and Mayall gained their reputation at The Comedy Store, from 1980. He claimed that he failed his degree, or that he did not even turn up to his finals but in reality he graduated with lower second-class honours in 1978. In 1975, Mayall went to the University of Manchester to study drama. He failed most of his O-levels and scraped through A-levels.
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He attended King's School, Worcester, where he obtained a free scholarship. When Mayall was three years old, he and his parents-who taught drama-moved to Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, where he spent the rest of his childhood and performed in his parents' plays. He had an older brother, Anthony, and two younger sisters, Libby and Kate.
The second of four children, Mayall was born on 7 March 1958 at 98 Pittmans Field in Harlow, Essex, to Gillian (née Harrild 1930–2018) and John Mayall (1925–2011).
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