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Rik Mayall has died

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  • #32
    x43r0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭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


  • #33
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


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

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


  • #34
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭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.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    He was great in Hogs of War.


  • #36
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The Young Ones such a part of my childhood RIP.


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  • #37
    DUBACC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 486 ✭✭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!


  • #38
    Gosub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    Sad news indeed. He was one funny guy. :(


  • #39
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I'm absolutely gutted :(


  • #40
    Big Vern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Big Vern


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


  • #41
    RoryMurphyJnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #43
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    A glimpse of the real Rik here:



  • #44
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Aw man...R.I.P


  • #45
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭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 :D

    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.


  • #46
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


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

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


  • #47
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


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


  • #48
    Titzon Toast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭Titzon Toast


    Very sad news.
    Good luck Rik.


  • #49
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭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!


  • #50
    dharma200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 998 ✭✭✭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


  • #51
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Fvuuuuck.

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

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


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  • #52
    Crimson King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Crimson King


    RIP, loved a lot of his work.


  • #53
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    What an amazingly talented man and such a loss to his craft, RIP


  • #54
    MitchKoobski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭MitchKoobski


    Might sound strange but I remember him most from playing Hogs Of War when I was younger. He was the narrator for the game and would rip the piss out of everything you did. Anytime I play some sort of war game now I still have his voice in my head.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xwnbg4vXOk


  • #55
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Bit of a shock when he always came across as such a vibrant and energetic sort of character, perhaps that quad bike accident he had stuck to him, RIP Rick.


  • #56
    Lightbulb Sun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Lightbulb Sun


    Me and my friend used to quote his voiceover for Hogs of War. RIP.


  • #57
    Menas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    dd972 wrote: »
    Bit of a shock when he always came across as such a vibrant and energetic sort of character, perhaps that quad bike accident he had stuck to him, RIP Rick.

    I thought he had made a full recovery from that. He said in one interview that he celebrated the anniversary of the accident every year by exchanging presents with his wife and kids.
    Also that the accident had made him really happy to be alive and given him an appreciation for life that he did not have before.

    I guess we will have to wait and see what the real cause of death was. Speculation never helps in these cases!


  • #58
    ElvisChrist6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭ElvisChrist6


    No way! That is honestly the first death to shock me in a while. Shame. Grew up watching pretty much everything he did! Including constantly playing Hogs of War, fantastic voice over


  • #59
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    :(


  • #60
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    :( RIP


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  • #61
    Vinz Mesrine
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭Vinz Mesrine


    I can never look at a cow prod the same since that Halloween episode of Bottom.


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