The Peoples Poet: A Celebration of the Stickest Bogeys of Rik Mayall
classifiedSuitable only for 15 years and over
No one younger than 15 may see a 15 film in a cinema.part of Slapstick 2017
Please note: This event took place in Jan 2017
The loss of Rik Mayall in 2014 came as frying pan blow to the world of comedy. A true one-off and comedy eccentric, the life of this fabulously anarchic comedian is celebrated in this special tribute looking back over a bombastic 35 year career.
A former enfant terrible of alternative comedy with an anarchic line in over-the-top scatology, Rik Mayall played a key role in the transformation of British comedy in the early 1980’s - taking on the British Establishment in shows like The Young Ones, The New Statesman and Bottom.
Join comedian and presenter Robin Ince (The Infinite Monkey Cage) as he presents a series of clips - some so rare they are not even all over youtube – of one of Britain’s best loved comedians, from an early appearance with Ade Edmondson on The Oxford Roadshow, to Boom Boom Out Go The Lights and other magnificent outrages. Robin will be joined by another idiot, comedian Michael Legge, as we celebrate the anarchy, intensity and blazing stupidity of RIK.