STARS of the Young Ones - Nigel Planer and Alexi Sayle - will reunite in Droitwich at the 2026 Rik Mayall Comedy Festival later this year.

The list is led by stars of hit BBC sitcom The Young Ones - Alexi Sayle and Nigel Planer - who are heading to Riks home town.

THE first headliners have been announced for the second annual Rik Mayall comedy festival. Young Ones stars Alexei Sayle and Nigel Planer are the first names announced for the festival, having both ...

Rik Mayall, an irrepressible British comedy legend who was an equal master of brutally intense physical comedy and wry class satire, died at the tragically young age of 56 today of unspecified causes.

Rik Mayall, one of a generation of performers that injected post-punk energy into British comedy, has died. He was 56. Mayall's management firm Brunskill Management said the comedian died at his ...