Bigger Than Hitler - Better Than Christ

by Rik Mayall

Book Overview

In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business.

He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, he brought down the Thatcher administration with The New Statesman and he changed the face of global culture with his masterpiece Bottom. Not only was his number one single...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000720728X
• ISBN13: 9780007207282
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Pure Mayall

If you love Rik Mayall's humor, you'll love this book. If you are unfamiliar with Rik Mayall, you'll probably be mystified. Speaking for myself, I'm keeping this one to revisit time and again.

The fact that I can only give this five stars is utter...bollocks.

Light entertainment's most priapic juggernaut takes a break from "having it off" with "top birds" (this could be a form of shagging, but only The Rik Mayall knows for sure.) and amusing billions to the point of self-mortification to bestow upon the reading public this memoir (all of which is totally true, obviously), which makes all others before it look like the most over-used birdcage lining by comparison. For mere mortals such as we to even begin to fathom the workings of comedic ultragenius, this is your first and last step.

Title Says It All

The Rik Mayall is great (anyone with any sense knows that) and this book is proof. Although it can at times seem as though the Rik Mayall is ranting and confused, I have come to realize it is only because I cannot, as I am not the Rik Mayall (there can only be one), fully understand the true and perfect genius that the Rik Mayall embodies and expresses in this brilliant autobiography. If you have ever enjoyed Bottom and/or The Young Ones, you will love Bigger than Hitler, Better Than Christ. Rik Mayall is sex. Oh, and there's loads of pictures, too (which is awesome).