Rik Mayall
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"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance/Outstanding Voice-Over Performance"

1997 The Willows in Winter

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"Richard Michael" ""Rik"" "Mayall" was an English People/English comedian, writer, actor and voice-over artist.

Mayall was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s. He formed a comedy partnership with Ade Edmondson, and appeared in numerous cult classic sitcoms, including The Young Ones (TV series)/The Young Ones (1982–84), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987), The New Statesman (1987–94), Bottom (TV series)/Bottom (1991–95), Blackadder, and in the comedy films Drop Dead Fred (1991) and Guest House Paradiso (1999). His acting style was described as energetic "post-punk".

At the time of his death, Mayall was described by Danny Cohen (television executive)/Danny Cohen, director of BBC Television, as a "truly brilliant" comedian with a unique stage presence, whose "fireball creativity" and approach to sitcom had inspired a generation of comedy stars.

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I am a global light entertainment phenomena, so how can I remember everything?

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Bigger Than Hitler is because I made so many more sitcoms than Hitler ever made. It's just vast. Videos of me have been watched in countries that weren't invented when he was around. It's just a fact of who I am.

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We'll wait until the next thing comes along and we shall do another thing - probably about being old.

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I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

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