Rik Mayall Quotes

When I was a kid, I was a fan of comedy. I always loved Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Dave Letterman - not an actor, obviously, but I'm still impressed by his wit. I wanted to emulate them because they made me laugh.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

My heroes were Gene Wilder, Steve Martin, and Martin Short.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

Guys like Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Sacha Baron Cohen, they do things you love to watch. I like to do the other half.

Larry David makes me laugh.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

I grew up on 'Monty Python.'

I know I was influenced by Beatrice Lillie. I must have been.

Alec Baldwin is so funny.

Comedy-wise, I think Chris Elliott is one of the funniest people.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

'Saturday Night Live' was like a university for funny.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

The one that was most fun was That's My Bush; the part that I did for Comedy Central. That was a hoot. That was more fun that one should be allowed to have.

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.