Rik Mayall
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael "Rik" Mayallwas an English comedian, writer, actor and voice-over artist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth7 March 1958
CityEpping, England
people perform
You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.
best
With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.
sucking
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
jesus raised coma
I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.
weakness moments moments-of-weakness
I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.
limits dawn riders
I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners!
journalist present trust
It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.
answer good groovy ought
I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.
impact page saying somebody words
Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.
people
I don't want people to know who I am.
When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!
actual audience contact good great love seeing
I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!