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RIP Rik Mayall

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,379
    Blimey that's a shock.

    RIP
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Wow

    Unreal to see this I used to cry laughing at bottom

    Rip
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Alan Bastard----comic genius
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822
    edited June 2014
    I think he had a charisma that is hard to explain. The best I can do is observe that he could say something that wasn’t all that funny and it became very funny just because he said it. He could say nothing and was funny by giving a gormless stare. Very unfair he was taken so soon. A comedy hero.

    I was a fan of Bottom too and he and Adrian Edmonson had a fantastic chemistry in the Bottom live shows. I feel priviledged to have seen a couple of those! RIP Richard Richard.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,857
    Goonerhater said:

    didnt he have a very serious accident a few years back an atv fell on top of him or something

    RIP

    Quad bike accident. Was that him or Edmonson?
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Terrible news. When I first saw the Young Ones it was with four other students in a disgusting room in a disgusting house with mouldy food crawling off the plates and you could get stoned just walking in the front door.

    I couldn't believe they'd got it so right.

    RIP Wik.
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,053
    RIP to a mad genius.
  • GravesendAddick
    GravesendAddick Posts: 133
    Rip Rick legend of comedy
  • Its_Hamer_Time
    Its_Hamer_Time Posts: 1,565
    Terrible news, I am absolutely gutted to hear this. The Young ones and Bottom were brilliant, pure genius.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,805
    A big "NOOOOO !" from me.

    RIP, Rik.

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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,443
    RIP
  • Clem_Snide
    Clem_Snide Posts: 11,797
    He was very good in Man Down as well. I had read that a second series was expected, but there is no way they'll be able to do it without him.

    A real shock.
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Clem_Snide said:

    He was very good in Man Down as well. I had read that a second series was expected, but there is no way they'll be able to do it without him.

    A real shock.

    Great shout that Clem. He was absolute quality in that.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,979
    A real sad story. Incredibly funny man who brought a real enthusiasm to every role he took.

    I still occasionally watch Bottom because it's such an easy thing to watch and there's always a giggle. I was a bit young for the Young Ones and some of his other stuff but also enjoyed Blackadder whenever he cropped up.

    When you look at modern "comedians" you do have to wonder who and what what we will b talking about in 20 years time
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,822
    Trick or bloody treat?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,045
    RIP
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,454
    According to someone on radio four his health went down badly after the quad bike accident.

    RIP
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Henry Irving said:

    According to someone on radio four his health went down badly after the quad bike accident.

    RIP

    I had a look on You Tube earlier and there is an interview with Nick Owen about the quad bike incident.

    I won't put the link up but there is a very poignant line about when he felt a spot of rain on his arm.

    RIP
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Way too young.

    R.I.P Rick.
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    Apologies for adding a c to Rik in previous post, don't know how to change it?

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,550
    Very sad. The Young Ones was one of my favourite comedy shows.
  • masicat
    masicat Posts: 5,017
    RIP. Loved Flash Heart. Ade Edmonson would have stacked shelves in Tesco had he not met Rik.
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    RIP

    ...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!"
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    My fave clip

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc9BGSsU_ZU
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 27,145
    Gutted. The Young Ones was great, Bottom was a tad too slapstick for my tastes, but I adored The New Statesman. And Flashheart stole whatever episode of Blackadder he appeared in. RIP.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,287
    Henry Irving said:

    According to someone on radio four his health went down badly after the quad bike accident.

    RIP

    I think it was Lawrence Marks (but it could have been Maurice Gran).

    Very sad news. He was in some excellent programmes. I think my favourite is probable A Fistful of Travellers Cheques.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1e8zXGLqc
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,972
    RIP. The Young Ones is one of my favourite TV Comedy Shows. Comedy legend.
  • WestSussexAddick
    WestSussexAddick Posts: 1,233
    Very sad news indeed. One of my comic heroes.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Drop dead Fred came out the same time my grandad died his name was Fred

    I went to see it and laughed so much it was the tonic I needed to pick me up at a shit time for a teenager
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably......

    RIP

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