Rik Mayall

[Guy Profumo]

Has died.

What?

I mean what???

Just, what??

[Gangster Octopus]

Rik Mayall

It's World News Guy...

[Toro Toro]

Rik Mayall

I'd have gone with Dropped Dead Fred, meself.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Rik Mayall

Or Mr Jolly Lives No More.

[Gerontophile]

Rik Mayall

Normally, I say, what? whom?

Fucking hell Rik.

[ian.64]

Rik Mayall

Add a few more 'fuck, fuck, fucking hells' for me.

Jesus.

RIP Mr. Mayall.

[Come along, Min]

Rik Mayall

I know if least one other person on this board who'll remember him for his brilliant voice work in Hogs Of War. He introduced me to it actually.

There was always something more to Mayall's work than a lot of the jobbing mediocrity of his peers, something insanely wild.

Tragic he wasn't filling up the last few years with the same caliber of characters he invented beforehand, still, it will be nice to see re-runs of Bottom etc. He was pretty much the star of the show in everything he done.

[Calvert]

Rik Mayall

The Young Ones was pretty much the Monty Python of my generation.

His Colin Grigson character in Bad News was pure spoiled mummy's boy metaller genius.

For fuck's sake.

[Tramp The Dirt Down]

Rik Mayall

His cameo's in Blackadder as Lord Flashheart were hilarious.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Rik Mayall

I am genuinely upset by this news. I was looking forward to a Young Ones 40th anniversary Christmas special in 2022.

[Commodore]

Rik Mayall

George's Marvellous Medicine, which Mayall presented on Jackanory with a beautiful sense of anarchy, is definitely my highlight.

RIP.

[Jah Womble]

Rik Mayall

RIP, Rik M. I'd rather lost track of his work over the past couple of decades if I'm honest, but clearly a talented and funny guy.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Rik Mayall

Still in shock over this, RIP Rik.

I'm with Calvert on the Young Ones.

[Lucy Waterman]

Rik Mayall

NEVER EVER EVER ANYTHING BLOODY EVER.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Rik Mayall

"Let's sit down and talk about me until the car comes."

Sadly I guess it just arrived.

[Toby Gymshorts]

Rik Mayall

Lucy Waterman wrote: NEVER EVER EVER ANYTHING BLOODY EVER.

I've lived my life by that rule.

[Guy Profumo]

Rik Mayall

Gangster Octopus wrote: It's World News Guy...

Can I point out, and with acknowledgement to the Octopus, etiquette demands responses are made to the thread where someone "gets in first"?

(Oh. And Toro? "Fred's Dropped Dead")

[Toby Gymshorts]

Rik Mayall

I have a download link for Mr Jolly Lives Next Door via a bloke I follow on Twitter. Good form to post it or not?

[Sits]

Rik Mayall

Not Alan B'stard, surely?

Bugger bugger bugger.

[Crystal Staples]

Rik Mayall

So sad, I'm sure I read last year that he was going to work with Ade again soon.

It seems that Bottom is always remembered as a "slapstick comedy". Yeah there was an OTT frying pan fight sometimes, but there were some fantastic lines.

[Land Waster]

Rik Mayall

A shock.

My favourite character was B'Stard. I loved the New Statesman. One episode that I'd love to see again was when B'Stard somehow manipulated Parliament and arranged for hanging to be brought back and broadcast live on TV.

With Dickie Davies reporting live from the gallows, naturally.

[Giggler]

Rik Mayall

I loved Rik Mayall Presents and the episode that featured Helena Bonham Carter. I was convinced she was Northern after it.

Bottom, too, was so naughty to 11-year-old me. It's sad that it took this for me to do it, but the box set of it, TYO and TNS have all been ordered tonight.

[MsD]

Rik Mayall

Very talented, such a shame.

[Janik]

Rik Mayall

Land Waster wrote: My favourite character was B'Stard. I loved the New Statesman.

Me also. It showed the other side of his comedic character from the cartoon violence of The Young Ones and Bottom.

For example, here is part of the transcript of a spoof interview conducted as B'Stard with Brian Walden

B’Stard “Four principles of freedom, low taxation, the eradication of restrictive labour laws and the radical restructuring of the welfare state”
Walden “But with respect, Mr B’Stard, haven’t these once radical ideas been adopted wholesale by the Conservative Party...”
B’Stard (interrupting) “Yah! And stolen by the Labour Party! But Brian, these two parties lead by Mr Grey and Mr Bleargh...”

That was in 1994. Perceptive, well, bastard.

[Uncle Ethan]

Rik Mayall

There are far better culture watcher than I on OTF but for me Mayall and his peers changed the face of comedy for those of us of a certain age.

If you sat through the endless shows pitched at your Mum and Dad like Terry and June or The Good Life (noting some were not without merit) The Young Ones was a great change.

Unfortunately that same certain age now means the news of the death of people you admired is all too frequent.

The news that Aussie cricketer Gary Gilmour has died came through today, as if to reinforce that.