R.I.P Rik Mayall

[SVT Cobra GT]

I cannot believe this! Star of The Comic Strip, Bottom, The Young Ones and a member of the rock band 'Bad News' who played at the 1986 Monsters Of Rock Festival.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266


Sad day, rest well Rik! I'll be sure to watch some Comic Strip when I get home.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Sad news...

The Young Ones was great, Bottom was funny too.. .but my favourite role was Flashheart from Blackadder..

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0093836/quotes
Captain Blackadder: Flasheart, this is Captain Darling.
Lord Flasheart: Captain Darling? Funny name for a guy isn't it? Last person I called darling was pregnant twenty seconds later.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

EDIT;

True story. My dad used to work in Watford back in the late '80s and he was contracted along with a few other guys to replace old bathrooms in a hotel.
The Comic Strip were filming in that particular hotel whilst he worked there and they were allowed to trash a room before my dad replaced the bathrooms and renovated it.

He said they'd spent all day filming and instead of going to their rooms to sleep, they all came to the bar and chatted with a few people until 2am. My dad got all of their autographs, Riks included. He said that Rik and Peter Richardson were the nicest guys he's ever met!

 

[Touring Mars]

Truly one of the greats of British comedy... very sad to see him go.

 

[Liquid]

What?!

I always loved his guest appearance in Jonathan Creek. But Flashheart, Alan B'stard... icon of British comedy. RIP.

 

[Tom]

My favourite role has to be as Richie in Bottom, that's where I knew him from first and I still manage to cry at almost every episode with laughter.

Goodbye Rik, thank you for the laughs and memories.

 

[Danny]

A dark day for British comedy.

RIP Rik.

 

[Wiegert]

Whoa, seriously? No word on the cause?

That's put a dampener on my day. Richie in Bottom was was also my favourite role of his, but I loved his work in so many other shows. RIP Rik.

 

[Encyclopedia]

What the hell....No!

One of my absolute favorite comedians. A brilliant man. Way way too soon.


R.I.P

I don't know if I should change my avatar or keep it now.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

What the hell....No!

One of my absolute favorite comedians. A brilliant man. Way way too soon.


R.I.P

I don't know if I should change my avatar or keep it now.

I'd keep it, as a reminder of how funny he was.

 

[MrSulu]

What the hell....No!

One of my absolute favorite comedians. A brilliant man. Way way too soon.


R.I.P

I don't know if I should change my avatar or keep it now.

Keep it, and never change it!

 

[mister dog]

i was still a kid when bottom was on the telly, so imagine how hard i laughed.

RIP

 

[TenEightyOne]

Very sad. It sounds as though it happened after he got up this morning, I wonder if it's related to his near-death experience on the quad a few years ago? Head injuries are awful things

Very very sad, he and Ade Edmonson, Alexi Sayle, Nigel Planer, they WERE comedy as I was growing up. Which I still am all these years later.

 

[yabiggoose]

"DID YOU SEE THAT? THEY'RE STILL WEARING FLARED TROUSERS!!!"

Shattered to find this out. Shattered..

 

[dhandeh]

 

[TenEightyOne]

Rarr!

EDIT: Awful misquote redacted

 

[nt1138]

Rarr!

Cook me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

Chris Barrie gone too?

R.I.P. Rik, the other reason my cousin was called Snotface.

 

[Scaff]

Damn shame. RIP

 

[TenEightyOne]

Chris Barrie gone too?

R.I.P. Rik, the other reason my cousin was called Snotface.

I always remember that as Lord Flasheart! Damn, I hate Chris Barry

 

[MatskiMonk]

I see this is now a thing:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rik-Mayall-Noble-England-For-World-Cup-No1/1484294391788072

 

[Skython]

56? Only 56? That's such a shame. Too early for the world to lose one of the greatest comedians. A childhood comedy hero for me, and many others over the world (mainly in England).

R.I.P Rik Mayall.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Just reading that he could barely remember some of his work since the accident that effectively finished his career, the story just gets sadder

 

[Shaun]

Sad day for British comedy and comedy in general really. The Young Ones was my introduction to Rik Mayell, spent many an hour laughing at his antics.

RIP.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Plenty of nice images doing the rounds on facebook (as you'd expect), most now feature Ade's perfectly beautiful epitaph. This is my favourite version... maybe you're sick of the sight of them but I though I'd share it anyway.

 

[LeMansAid]

We can only hope that he's now somewhere annoying the absolute hell out of someone as the true (dis)embodiment of Drop Dead Fred.

 

[yabiggoose]

Or reciting Cliff Richard.

 

[axletramp]

Tragedy. I can remember a load of us crowding around a mate's portable TV in his bedroom to watch The Young One's when it was first broadcast. Was such a pivotal part of changing TV comedy throughout the 80's and 90's. I was lucky enough to see him do the live version of that series too. RIP.

 

[PeterJB]

 

[Wiegert]

It sounds as though it happened after he got up this morning, I wonder if it's related to his near-death experience on the quad a few years ago? Head injuries are awful things

Rik's post mortem recently came back inconclusive. Though his wife now claims he "suffered an acute cardiac event" after returning home from a morning run, which might explain the sudden nature of it. Terribly tragic for something like that to happen seemingly out of nowhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27815348

 

[TenEightyOne]

Rik's post mortem recently came back inconclusive. Though his wife now claims he "suffered an acute cardiac event" after returning home from a morning run, which might explain the sudden nature of it. Terribly tragic for something like that to happen seemingly out of nowhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27815348

Thanks, I hadn't seen that, I'd made the mistake of interpreting half-a-news-report.