Rik Mayall has died

Menas

Not sure of the full story but Rik Mayall has died aged 56.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266

I am old enough to remember the Young ones when it aired....some of the best comedy ever IMO.

stargazer 68

Breaking news on sky. Can't attach the link. His management have given no further details!

Drop dead Fred is pure tripe
RIP

quickbeam

Just heard on the Newstalk news. Surprised to hear.

bonzodog2

RIP Rik

frag420

Just heard this, heaven is going to be a funnier place now!!

http://news.sky.com/story/1278803/rik-mayall-comedian-and-actor-dies-aged-56

Sir Osis of Liver.

Poor B'stard.
RIP.

e_e

Faith+1

He was great in Blackadder Goes Forth

blackwhite

RIP Lord Flashheart :(:(

kfallon

Ah Jaysus
R.I.P.

superelliptic

Ah sh*t.

He was a legend - RIP Rik - you'll be missed.

preston johnny

That's really sad, I loved Bottom and the young ones.......He was brilliant as Alan B'stard and Richie Rich

steddyeddy

That's unbelievable he was one of the funniest men of his generation.

danniemcq

Holy crap

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of watching him on TV. Will be missed

Andy-Pandy

He was a funny actor, I loved The Young Ones and Bottom (I'm sure I'll never get to use that sentence again in my life)

Maphisto

Very sad. RIP Rik.

Lord Flashheart

Duggy747

Loved Bottom and The Young Ones, 56 is way too young.

Was he ill?

mike65

Jasus!

I remember he took a very bad fall off one of those Quad bikes about 15/16 years ago, he was lucky to have survived that.

BigBrownBear

Thats shocking
They only played Cliff and the Young Ones version of Living Doll on Ray D'Arcy this morning and I was laughing at him......'the King of Rock and Roll..................Cliff Richard'

I Heart Internet

Gold, Frankenstien and Grrrrr

RIP

_Kaiser_

Very sad news.. Loved him as Alan B'stard in The New Statesman.

I remember the first time I watched that show - Sunday night, ITV, and I'd seen the title in the TV Guide before and dismissed it for ages as some sort of political review show or something as The South Bank Show was on after it

Anyway for whatever reason I flicked on to it that night and loved it from the start. Fantastic show and still a great watch today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwr4fm1DU4U

RIP

wobbles

He did a lot of voice work aswell. He did all the voice work for one of the funniest PS1 games Hogs of War.

RIP

Tony H

RIP will be missed

steddyeddy

Some of Rik's funniest bits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzWYfIBkHHs

preston johnny

Lord Flasheart: All right men, let's do-oo-oo it! The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite
[Flashheart taps the picture of the Sopwith Camel with his cane]
Lord Flasheart: like you treat your woman!
[Flashheart whips the air with his cane]
Lieutenant George: How, how do you mean, Sir? Do you mean, do you mean take her home at weekends to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back.


Class

Aglomerado

NOOOOO! :eek:


Love his stuff! RIP you funny man.

gandalf

Jaysus grew up watching The Young Ones

RIP Rik or Rick as he was in The Young Ones!

I Heart Internet

For his liberation of Port Stanley's Tesco during the Falklands conflict, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.

bear1

Bollocks and they had plans for a new Bottom
Loved his talents. RIP

x43r0

RIP Rik Mayall

This man gave me countless laughs growing up. He will be best remembered for his work in The Young Ones and Bottom but my favourite character of his will always be Lord Flashheart in Blackadder. A role Mayall only agreed to take on with the condition that whenever Flashheart was written into an episode, all of his lines were to be funnier than all of Rowan Atkinson's lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA

Zulu

Alan B'start was my personal favorite of his work. Sad news. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aUxilWb2Og

Aglomerado

gandalf wrote: »

Jaysus grew up watching The Young Ones

RIP Rik or Rick as he was in The Young Ones!

The University Challenge episode of that is my favourite, he was brilliant in that.

The New Statesman was genius too.

He was great in Hogs of War.

anncoates

The Young Ones such a part of my childhood RIP.

DUBACC

Not to mention his bizarre cameo as Ivor's dad in Damo & Ivor last year!!

I'll always remember him for Flasheart - brilliant character!

Gosub

Sad news indeed. He was one funny guy.

Super-Rush

I'm absolutely gutted

Big Vern

Sad news:(
Bottom was a brilliant show, was looking forward to some new episodes.

RoryMurphyJnr

My fondest memory of him was when he read "George's Marvellous Medicine" on Jackanory.
Everyone in school was glued to it and was all we talked about.

El Weirdo

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"

RIP

Donkey Oaty

A glimpse of the real Rik here:

Sir Oxman

Aw man...R.I.P

The Peanut

preston johnny wrote: »

Lord Flasheart: All right men, let's do-oo-oo it! The first thing to remember is: always treat your kite
[Flashheart taps the picture of the Sopwith Camel with his cane]
Lord Flasheart: like you treat your woman!
[Flashheart whips the air with his cane]
Lieutenant George: How, how do you mean, Sir? Do you mean, do you mean take her home at weekends to meet your mother?
Lord Flasheart: No, I mean get inside her five times a day and take her to heaven and back.


Class

Even in a sitcom of incredibly high standards of cameos, this stood out. Classic character.

He threw himself unashamedly into all the parts he played. Funny, funny man

RIP.

anncoates

His spoken intro to this still makes me laugh after all these years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGOU0o9K89g

Nerdlingr

Crikey. Sad news. 56 only. Fuk! RIP.

Titzon Toast

Very sad news.
Good luck Rik.

Jimmy Bottlehead

Devastated.

Blackadder and Bottom are two of my favorite comedies ever, and he's absolute gold in both.

A true loss.

Lord Flasheart: Mind if I use your phone? If word gets out I'm missing, five hundred girls will kill themselves. And I wouldn't want them on my conscience, not when they ought to be on my *face*! Hello? Cancel the state funeral, tell the king to stop blubbing, Flash is not dead! I simply ran out of juice! And before five hundred girls all go 'oh, what's the point in living any more?' I'm talking about petrol! Woof! Send someone along to pick me up. General Melchett's driver will do, she hangs round with a big knob so she'll be used to a fellow like me. Woof!

Captain Blackadder: Look, do you think you could make your obscene phone call somewhere else?

Lord Flasheart: No, not in half an hour you rubber desk-johnny! Send the bitch with the wheels right now or I'll fly back home and give your wife something to hang her towels on!

Lord Flasheart: [hangs up] Right! Let's dig out your best booze and talk about me till the car comes!

dharma200

one of the funniest men ever... rip... will watch a good few young ones later and have a thought for his family and friends.. what a talent

The Diabolical Monocle

Fvuuuuck.

What a co-incidence too, was watching this just the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKr1mJWbY_4