Rik Mayall

[ScotiaLass]

Heard the news on the radio a short time ago. I had to come online and double check I had heard right
RIP Rik

 

[cosmicbike]

Real shame. Grew up with Drop Dead Fred and Bottom, wonderful, properly funny man.

 

[Beebo]

Also one of the best Jackanory presenters of all time.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Suddenly I feel older myself.

Oi, stop having a wet dream you little pervy! You're supposed to be racked with remorse.

 

[Moon bunny]

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Did anyone else see that photo and think of Leonard Rossiter?

 

[Dayvo]

Sad, very sad indeed.

He had a serious ATV accident a few years ago, IIRC, and he managed to pull through that. I suppose he was on borrowed time.

One of my favourite comedians. I was another one who followed him since Kevin Turvey.

The world is a lot less funny now.

 

[Fnaar]

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!"

 

[MontyVeda]

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!"

 

[pplpilot]

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!"

Beat me to it... I was just about to google this.

 

[Donger]

As a student when The Young Ones was running, I remember it being the one "don't miss it" show on TV at the time. As a Brummie, personally I preferred his investigative reporter character from Redditch, Kevin Turvey. Still chuckle now to think of his reportage on fishing in "Kevin Turvey: The Man behind The Green Door" (the list of "crap fish" etc). I might have grown up since those days, but they were a classic of their time - as was his Alan B'Stard character in The New Statesman. R.I.P. Rik.

 

[Snapper88]

R.I.P you absolute legend

 

[Saluki]

I loved Kevin Turvey. My parents didn't understand it at all. I told them that that was probably the point.

 

[roadrash]

The world is now a less funny place

 

[AndyRM]

Sad news indeed.

He was the highlight of the not very good Greg Davies show Man Down recently. Worth watching for Mayall as the evil dad.

 

[Mattonsea]

I was banned from watching the Young Ones by my utter utter utter fascist father, but I sneaked down anyway! Now my kids love Drop Dead Fred . RIP Rick.