Alright, who here is a fan of Rik Mayall?
He’s one of the most talented comedians from the UK in my opinion! I think he was best as Alan B’Stard in The New Statesman but he was very good in The Young Ones and Bottom as well.
Is he still out and about Britain, or a forgotten genius of the past?
I trust you all will have a nice weekend, mine will be spent at work…
Hans
By: trumper - 11th June 2014 at 21:29
:applause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_X_7TrcHGM
By: hampden98 - 11th June 2014 at 21:13
By: Tony - 10th June 2014 at 20:53
I bet no one has seen this.
Weird but definitely Mayall!
Never seen this…when did Rik Mayall do this? ….looks around the time of the New Statesman (also had great writers).
…weird but nostalgic trip down memory lane with the ABBA tunes…can’t believe it was more than 30 years ago
By: hampden98 - 10th June 2014 at 20:27
I bet no one has seen this.
Weird but definitely Mayall!
By: snafu - 10th June 2014 at 19:53
Probably cos no one watched it.
But nearly all the other crummy films he appeared in got mentioned; ok, I’ve not seen any of them (that I know of) but from that crummy film (not a patch on the Channel4 original) I found that scene amusing – that clip is his entire appearance in the film and, despite being way over the top, the best thing in it.
He was in An American Werewolf in London too…
By: Tony - 10th June 2014 at 19:00
Sad news to go so young….3 minutes of gold…it’s got the lot.
Thanks bridesmaid…like the beard….gives me something to hang on to!
Nursie…am I pleased to see you or have I just put a canoe in my pocket!
She’s got the tongue of an electric eel and she likes the taste of a man’s tonsils 😉
By: hampden98 - 10th June 2014 at 17:26
One role no one seems to have mentioned anywhere is Mayall going over the top as the blundering SAS commander in the film Whoops Apocalypse.
Funny and sweary, it was one of the better bits in a dire movie…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpKqFWsbSk
‘Aw right my lads!‘
Probably cos no one watched it. Much like filthy Rich and Catflap.
Yes, a light has gone out in the comedy halls of the bbc for sure, and lets face it, there weren’t many on!
By: snafu - 10th June 2014 at 12:09
One role no one seems to have mentioned anywhere is Mayall going over the top as the blundering SAS commander in the film Whoops Apocalypse.
Funny and sweary, it was one of the better bits in a dire movie…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpKqFWsbSk
‘Aw right my lads!‘
By: EELightning - 10th June 2014 at 01:48
Very sad news, totally unexpected. Feeling genuinely gutted & heart broke about his passing.
I was at work today in the Guitar store, finished at the same time as my girlfriend whom works just next door in the comic book shop and she told me right away. Rik Mayall? THE Rik Mayall?… Bottom, The Young Ones, The New Statesman Rik Mayall? We couldn’t believe it and still can’t
I had the pleasure of meeting him during a book signing at WHSmith on Northumberland Street in Newcastle a few years, man is he funny in real life, and a very nice guy too. Everyone he met he stood up and talked to… and insulted too of course, Alan B’stard style but in his usual charming way we all love him for.
He wrote in my book. Word for word:
To… Who the f*ck cares Geordie w*nker. F*ck you, stick it, stuff it, flog it, rim it, lick it, sniff it, get a life and stop wasting mine with your peasant ways, I should say thank you for buying my book and lining my pockets with your Social Benefits but I’m not because technically that money is mine anyway, so really I’m buying my own sh*t back there for not making a living and boosting up my already easily earned millions. So p*ss off. I don’t love you but I know you love me. Not necessarily yours, Rik Mayall.
R.I.P, Rik. You brought me a lot of happy times during both happy and more importantly, during sad times. And you will continue to.
See ya later, chap!
By: paul178 - 9th June 2014 at 19:50
Very sad indeed especially at such a young age. RIP and my thoughts go out to his family.
By: hawkdriver05 - 9th June 2014 at 19:06
The People’s Poet is gone?! Very sad. RIP.
By: charliehunt - 9th June 2014 at 19:06
An extremely talented and versatile actor, often subsumed by his mad extravagant comedy. And he was the antithesis of most of the extrovert characters he so brilliantly played.
Dreadful for his wife and three children.
By: Sideslip - 9th June 2014 at 18:56
Condolences from all the lads on the Ark Royal.
…and General Pinochet!
By: Sideslip - 9th June 2014 at 18:54
A very sad day. Rik Mayall was an incredibly funny and very talented man. He will be missed.
By: Last Lightning - 9th June 2014 at 18:48
RIP Squadron Commander the Lord Flashheart…….”Treat your kite like you treat your woman… get inside her five times a day, take her to heaven and back.”
By: MattCooke - 9th June 2014 at 18:36
This is the first time in a long time I’ve been genuinely saddened by a celebrity death, me and one of my old best friends from school used to watch Bottom all the time!
By: hampden98 - 9th June 2014 at 17:38
Condolences from all the lads on the Ark Royal.
By: trumper - 9th June 2014 at 17:20
Cant believe old Flashheart has bought the farm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC3sURgYxng R I P
By: Bob - 9th June 2014 at 17:03
I used to watch A Kick Up the Eighties and loved “Kevin’s” rambling ‘investigations’ – just my sort of humour at the time….
RIP Rik…
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st May 2004 at 01:35
One of the funniest men I’ve ever seen on screen.
As Rick the spotty adolescent student in the Young Ones, Alan B’Stard in the New Statesman, Lord Flashheart (you treat your aeroplane like you treat your woman! Get in her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!) in Blackadder.
To be honest though, I think his finest performances were in the live performances of Bottom. Him and Ade Edmondson just had such an incredibly good rapport, such fabulous sense of comic timing, and were so completely and utterly bloody STUPID… I’ve always found both of them a joy to watch. 😀
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