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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.

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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.

[Deleted User]

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

Crimson King

RIP, loved a lot of his work.

Merkin

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

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

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.

Lightbulb Sun

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

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!

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

Lone Stone

petes

RIP

Vinz Mesrine

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