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delthebike

RIP Rik Mayall
« on: 09 June, 2014, 04:03:32 pm »
A favourite actor/comedian of mine since 1981.  :'(
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hatler

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #1 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:04:17 pm »
Bloody hell. That's a shock.
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hatler

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #2 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:05:31 pm »
The Young Ones first appeared on our TVs just as I moved into a student house with five other chaps. It was clear that what they presented was only a slight bending of reality. What a loss.
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mrcharly-YHT

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #3 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:12:26 pm »
56

No cause of death in the report I read.
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Clare

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #4 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:13:16 pm »
Blimey, didn't expect that.

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LEE

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #5 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:17:03 pm »
F**K!

What a damn shame.

F**K!

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interzen

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #6 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:29:36 pm »
Wha'?!

Lord Flashheart has left the building  :(
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clarion

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #7 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:53:32 pm »
Shocking.  I wonder if it was related to his accident and period in a coma about ten years ago or so.
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spindrift

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #8 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:54:31 pm »
well, that's shit news. I loved Kevin Turvey, loved The Dangerous Brothers, Mr Jolly, God, basically everything he did, he popped up in a sitcom last year with that tall gangly comedian called Greg I think.

I used to score grass in a house next to his in West London, he had a tailor's dummy in the front room, would put on a show for all the local kids at Christmas.

56, no age.
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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #9 on: 09 June, 2014, 04:58:42 pm »
Quote from: clarion on 09 June, 2014, 04:53:32 pm
Shocking.  I wonder if it was related to his accident and period in a coma about ten years ago or so.
1998, apparently.

It did leave him suffering from epilepsy, though, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that it's related. I guess we'll find out in due course, but it's still incredibly sad news.

My sister is gutted - she met him and Ade Edmondson after a Bottom: Live show in Preston and declared that both Rik and Ade were two of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet.

As Neil would have said: "That's a really heavy bummer, man"
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LEE

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #10 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:10:10 pm »
Quote from: interzen on 09 June, 2014, 04:29:36 pm
Wha'?!

Lord Flashheart has left the building  :(

Last time I checked God was worshipping him!  HOORAH!

Flasheart was one of TV's greatest ever characters, especially when you consider the amount of time he was actually on screen (ignoring the Bombadier Ale ads)
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spindrift

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #11 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:11:49 pm »
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The comic actor later made light of the trauma at his Devon farm. "I beat Jesus Christ," he said. "He was dead for three days at Easter. When I crashed it was the day before Good Friday, Crap Thursday, and I was technically dead until Easter Monday – that's five days … beat him 5-3."

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #12 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:41:38 pm »
Nothing to say - just  :'(
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clarion

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #13 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:46:56 pm »
Quote from: spindrift on 09 June, 2014, 05:11:49 pm
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The comic actor later made light of the trauma at his Devon farm. "I beat Jesus Christ," he said. "He was dead for three days at Easter. When I crashed it was the day before Good Friday, Crap Thursday, and I was technically dead until Easter Monday – that's five days … beat him 5-3."

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bumper

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #14 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:47:34 pm »
RIP people's poet.
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bobb

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #15 on: 09 June, 2014, 05:58:31 pm »
Hopefully we'll get some reruns of the many great programmes he was in.

RIP.
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spindrift

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #16 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:06:43 pm »
That one they did after a spell apart- those awful middle-aged salesmen on a motorway trip, christ that was funny. Spandau Ballet is stuck on repeat.
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Phil W

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #17 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:07:45 pm »
Real shame, great comedian
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bumper

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #18 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:09:02 pm »
I wonder if they've finished filming the second series of Man Down?
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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #19 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:12:18 pm »
Fuck. Massive shock - WRik was a massive part of my teens. Need to cheer myself up. Some favourite lines:

Thatcher, Thatcher. Ah, Thatcher. Typical, she's got about four hunderd different phone numbers. [throws phonebook away] Useless.
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spindrift

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #20 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:18:49 pm »
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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #21 on: 09 June, 2014, 06:55:34 pm »
 :(

Mousey, mousey, mousey.
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perpetual dan

Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #22 on: 09 June, 2014, 07:01:56 pm »
His comedy was part of my growing up, and will be missed.
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Juan Martín

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #23 on: 09 June, 2014, 07:09:14 pm »
Irreplaceable.
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TimC

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Re: RIP Rik Mayall
« Reply #24 on: 09 June, 2014, 07:15:41 pm »
Quote from: LEE on 09 June, 2014, 05:10:10 pm
Quote from: interzen on 09 June, 2014, 04:29:36 pm
Wha'?!

Lord Flashheart has left the building  :(

Last time I checked God was worshipping him!  HOORAH!

Flasheart was one of TV's greatest ever characters, especially when you consider the amount of time he was actually on screen (ignoring the Bombadier Ale ads)

Flasheart was just inspired! Just watched a couple of Flashy scenes; they're fabulously un-pc and hilarious. What a talent, and what a shame. RIP Rik. Give that God some shit.
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