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Announcement of his death today.

A true genius IMO.
Young Ones, Bottom, Drop Dead Fred, Flash in Blackadder 2 so many classic performances.
He will be missed.

Very sad, I really enjoyed his "over the top" stuff.

He was only 56, too.

RIP

So many happy memories watching Rik and Ade with my family as a kid, pretty much have seen everything he did. Saw him live several times.

Recommend Bad News and More Bad News, perhaps his most underrated stuff. Also a Fistful of Travellers cheques.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzbcAem4bN8

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul3U_J37YCc

He was really good in Man Down as well.

RIP.

Loved comic strip.

5 Goes to Dorset, Travellers Cheques and Bad News are all amazing.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2TrxpQ_WQ ,

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJIRKaRkGdc ,

So sad, 56 ffs.

his only tweet, lol

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Blackadder

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfbSHW9uGA

A monologue from the Young Ones (which ended in a fart joke):

This house will become a shrine! And punks and skins and Rastas will all gather round and all 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!" And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Why kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?" Then another kid will say... [Rick emits a long, loud fart].

That's a shock, such a shame.

Such a wealth of talent in this one:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA0a5G6ccg

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MumZJD97A

Sorry for clogging up the thread, an autograph he sent someone

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Bummer :(

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhTYJGjc2g

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fsE4OZN4z4

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Brought up on Rik, Ade and others by my dad.

Such a shame, incredible talent.

not normally that bothered by celeb death announcements, but was genuinely upset by this.

Obviously grew up with Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Cat Flap, New Statesman, Bottom, Dangerous Brothers, etc, but as a young rock fan and wanna be rock start, Bad News was compulsive watching for me and my young mates. we could rattle off whole sections of both the Comic Strip TV shows and the comedy interludes of the album, plus of course we jammed Warriours Of Genghis Khan, Masterbike, Hey Hey Bad News, etc

Very sad loss.
RIP Colin Grigson :(

how did he pass away?

either way I loved the Young Ones.

RIP.

This. Personally have always preferred it to Spinal Tap.

When they fight at the end about who gets to be Pete Townsend.

Well, this is terrible news.

Don't think this has been mentioned, yet, but I loved his versions of the Grimm Fairy Tales:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66EBfugSkG4

Dreadful news and so young. Super talented. RIP Rik,

Barry Crater wrote......

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Barry - keep them coming, this thread is a wonderful celebration of his life & death, exactly as he would have wished.

Brilliant!

Probably stopped breathing, mate.

Loved the Comic Strip, Young Ones.  Miss just the 4 channels.

Some of the bottom Live performances were just brilliant. He was a fantastic actor on screen but live on a stage, with an audience he can feed off and the potential to some times wander and other times gallop away from the script is where he was at his absolute mercurial best for me.

I could not help but wonder the same thing.

All I can find so far is this......

He died at home in London. The Metropolitan Police said the death was not believed to be suspicious.

They said they were called to reports of a sudden death of a man in his 50s at 13:19 BST on Monday, in Barnes in south west London.

London Ambulance Service said "a man, aged in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene".

"Sudden death" & "not suspicious" suggests a heart attack, perhaps.

Didn't he have a really bad accident on a quad-bike a few years ago?

56 is far too young. RIP

He did. Was in a coma for 5 days with a fractured skull.

Jokes afterwards that he'd beaten Jesus 5-3 because he'd been dead for 5 days before resurrection.

Amazingly, that happened in 1998. If you'd asked me to guess when it happened I'd have said no earlier than 2005.

Very sad loss.

for any one who missed early stuff u tube Kevin Turvey

  So Sad .. Such a funny man and an Inspiration from my youth

  RIP The Peoples Poet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/10887901/Rik-Mayall-may-have-died-after-fit-in-wake-of-bike-accident.html

RIP Rik

It's amazing to remember how controversial the alternative comedy movement was in the early 80s, when 'mainstream' comedy such as Morecambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies, etc were still at the height of their popularity.  It was very much a Marmite kind of thing - you either loved it or it was shit.

My personal memory of The Young Ones was that it was probably the first 'grown up' programme I was allowed to watch.  I didn't really fully understand it at the time (would have been around 9 or 10 I think) but it had swearing and violence in it, plus talk of girls and boobs and the like, and if you were one of the kids allowed to stay up until 9 to watch it then it carried a certain gravitas in the playground.

Nowadays, we take these things for granted in comedy programming, but none of it would have existed without the likes of Mayall, Edmondsen, Sayle, Elton, Fry & Laurie, French & Saunders, and the like.  Seeing one of them die at such a young age suddenly makes me feel old.  (To be fair, it was no doubt influenced by Monty Python, which was way ahead of it's time, so these were really the 'second wave' of alternative comedy.)

Sad news, and completely out of the blue too.

Such a great loss. I always thought whoever he was playing,  from fabulous Flasheart to snivelly Rick in the Young ones,  the  characters were never far away from the how he
seemed in real life, deliciously horrible. 
I'm sure he's causing chaos wherever he's gone, no wonder they sent him back in '98.

such sad and shocking news.  I was a bit young for the young ones first time round, but had the lot on VHS in my teens and know most episodes word for word. 

"it's a video nasty"  "It's a carpet, farty!"

RIP Rik

+1 to all of this, used to be Terry and June on BBC1 at half seven and then all of a sudden The Young Ones appeared on BBC 2 at 9pm and TV comedy started to change from that moment.

Just watched the University challenge episode again, what a cast and so funny.

So very sad.

legend.
RIP Rik Mayall

Looking back on this now...

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0yM4BKqHv4

...reminds me of another great comic creation. The ability he had to get Richie to act so horrendously, with such comic timing, shot so cleverly and playing to the audience without the audience realising it was being played. It's such a special ability.

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4shkC62BPTY

misread your post and thought you'd said "Personaly, I've always prefered Spinal Tap."

I was about to call you all sorts of idiot, but caught my error just in time :)

"The first time I went rumpty dumpty, yes, but the second time I went badadda like a fury."




"I've got a cut on my finger."
"Can you use a different finger?"
"Well ok, I can try, but it might mean using a different string."

We were born just 7 days apart, so I suppose you could say that Rik Mayall was a comedian of my generation, but he transcended all that, he made me laugh, he made my mam laugh and he made my grandchildren laugh. No doubt at some point in the future, he will make my great grand children laugh too.

I've been reading tributes to him all day, these are a couple of the of the ones I found most  poignant.


My dad was loved not only by my family, but by many many others. We will never forget him and neither will the world.

RIP to the man, the myth, the legend - my wonderful, generous, foul mouthed and hysterical father. My idol now and forever.

Riks daughter Bonnie.



The word genius has been cheapened by overuse, but in Rik's case no other word will do.

Maurice Gran. Co-writer of The New Statesman.


RIP Rik.

this really resonated with me as well.

Great summary of the man.

have a fond childhood memory of rik mayall. my mum wouldnt let me watch bottom at the time, cant remember exactly how old i was, maybe 11? but everyone at school was talking about it so i sneakily set our VCR to record it and then watched it when my mum was out. only had one episode but watched it about a dozen times before i recorded over it for fear of getting caught.

It would seem that Rik died of "acute cardiac event" (aka "heart attack").

Several press reports suggest he had gained a great deal of weight recently.

His funeral took place today.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2662486/Last-respects-comic-genius-Friends-family-Rik-Mayall-including-Ben-Elton-Dawn-French-Ruby-Wax-gather-Devon-church-Young-Ones-stars-funeral.html

RIP