Rik Mayall wasn’t the only comedian to die too soon. Here are 10 more with some of their best gags, writes Dave Kenny.

Rik Mayall's post-mortem has proved inconclusive.

Rik Mayall's daughter has paid tribute to her "wonderful, generous, foul-mouthed and hysterical father".

Rik Mayall’s daughter has paid tribute to her "generous, foul mouthed and hysterical father" after his death aged 56.

Tributes have poured in for comedian and actor Rik Mayall who died yesterday morning at the age of 56.

Comedian and actor Rik Mayall died this morning, his management firm said.

Ray D'arcy returns with the series School Around the Corner on RTE One at 6.30pm tonight.

A planned revival of cult TV comedy 'Bottom' by Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson has been axed.

Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel ‘Wolf Hall’ is being adapted for BBC Two.

'The Comic Strip' is set to return to TV screens.

Jade Goody’s widower Jack Tweed said he leaves his window open every night hoping to catch a glimpse of her and he is “not interested” in looking for a girlfriend.

Pop star Jo O’Meara put on a brave face as she stepped out in public for the first time since the Big Brother race row at a gala performance in aid of BBC Comic Relief.

Alternative comedy programme Comic Strip is making a return to Channel 4.

SO a satirist is hired to write a sketch for a TV show about the European Parliament. As potential comedy material goes, the parliament isn’t really considered up to much.

Off-beat charmer featuring a terrific line-up of top stars lending their voices to this animated tale of a squadron of brave pigeons flying high with the Royal Air Force Homing Pigeon Service during the dark days of WW2.

Swedish supergroup Abba are being reunited at tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals.

Actor and comedian Rik Mayall was banned from driving for 90 days today after admitting speeding on a British motorway at 113mph.

Comic Dawn French has landed a big role in the third Harry Potter film – as a character called the Fat Lady.

A Democratic Unionist Assembly member was accused today of having a “sick sense of humour” as the row rumbled on over a controversial cinema advert against the euro.

A nationalist SDLP Assembly member was today told he needed a “humour transplant” as the row intensified over a controversial cinema advert against the euro.

Campaigners against the euro are to take their case against the single currency to Northern Ireland cinemas, it emerged today.

Pro-euro campaigners in the UK want a cinema advert which has Rik Mayall portraying Adolf Hitler as a supporter of the single currency to be withdrawn.