Rik Mayall had an estimated net of £1.2 million. This was from his career as an actor and stand-up comedian.
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He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in 1980.
Mayall starred in many comedy series throughout his career including The Young Ones, The Comic Strip Presents, Blackadder, and many others.
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Mayall’s final TV appearance was in the first episode of the second series of Crackanory; which was broadcast posthumously on September 24, 2014, on Dave.
Mayall twice publicly involved himself in campaigns. In 2002, he dressed up as Adolf Hitler for a cinema advertisement opposing the United Kindom abolishing its national currency, the Pound sterling in favour of the Euro as part of its membership in the European Union.


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