Did Rik Mayall have an obsession with hanging?

I have seen Rik Mayall in many works, and a lot of the time, he depicts or is involved with scenes involving the mention of hanging or actually being hanged by a noose, and I was just wondering why I see it with him and no other "alternative comedy" actor around.

Examples of Rik Mayall and hanging are:

The Young Ones - Rick is going to hang himself with his own belt and actually ties it around his neck before failing to find something to attach it to and so resorts to taking an overdose. He also dreams of being put on trial and Vyvyan wants him hanged as well.

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door - Rik's character in the escort agency mimics pulling down on an imaginary rope and having his neck rise up at an angle, indicating a lynching.

Bottom - Rik's character Richie ends up in a Christmas morning trap set by Adrian Edmondson's character Eddie in which he ends up hanged by the neck before being cut down.

The New Statesman: Who Shot Alan B'Stard? - In the most obvious hanging role so far, Rik's character Alan B'Stard is a Tory politician who successfully brings back capital punishment to the UK and ironically ends up being its first victim as he's hanged for murder, but escapes due to shoddy construction of the gallows.

What I'm wondering is why would a comedian do this so often? All other comedians of the time never hinted at the phenomenon of death by hanging, but he did it so often it makes you wonder if he had a private obsession with it that he brought to the public eye?