General / Off-Topic Just heard - Rik Mayall has died!
- Thread starter Fenris Wolf
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Sad news. Always liked his work.
A shame....
British Comedy will never be the same......
Most recalled by myself in a very brief cameo in American Werewolf in London as one of the chess players in the Slaughtered Lamb.
As Rick in The Young-Ones.
As Flashard in one of the later version s of Black-Adder.
I also saw him in some series about crime where was being very serious.
British Comedy will never be the same......
Most recalled by myself in a very brief cameo in American Werewolf in London as one of the chess players in the Slaughtered Lamb.
As Rick in The Young-Ones.
As Flashard in one of the later version s of Black-Adder.
I also saw him in some series about crime where was being very serious.
Not sure I'd ever picked up on the American werewolf cameo.
Lord Flashheart (was very tempted to use him as an avatar a while back) was a masterful over the top creation - Alan B'stard MP was great too - and of course The Young Ones..
Quite a shock.
Philip Coutts
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Really sad news, one of the great comedians and writers of his generation. From the madness of "The Young Ones" and "Bottom" through to the slimy genius of "Alan B'Stard" via many others. He will be sadly missed. RIP.
Philip Coutts
Volunteer Moderator
"I feel sorry for you, you zeros, you nobodies. What's going to live on after you die? Nothing, that's what!
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?"
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?"