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Rik Mayall, comedy genius, has died (contains binfestery)
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Well said. It's the internet version of pissing on a grave.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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NSC's highest honour. (some people will use any occasion for a bit of attention, sad really)
Rick was a national treasure who consistently made us laugh and laugh hard.
RIP Rick
Tom Tom Tom. Not the time for that. For all those people like myself who were being subjected to Cannon and Ball, Little and Large and the like ...Rick Mayall was a breath of fresh air with his alternative, anarchic humour. You don't have to like him but spare a moment for those who did.
Anyway a 100 days and you can't post on here anymore.
The Modfather
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Great Post. Well said [MENTION=22849]Stato[/MENTION]
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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I don't think the series went down all that well but Mayall had a few moments of utter genius playing the Father who keeps randomly attacking his son, Greg Davies, in more and more inventive ways in the series Man Down. Not a bad comedy actually but Mayall elevated it. May have been his last thing he did actually, was on a few months ago.
bernster
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Well said sir.there are plenty of opportunities to be a bellend elsewhere on this forum.
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Truth.
clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
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Yes I see.
It was quite brilliant.
He had become quite famous again (post young ones) and was lapping up the adulation. Not sure you remember the..
Can you feel it ?
Can you feel it ?
ssshhh sshhhh
Can you feel it ?
That that's the magic of showbiz....
I also died laughing that night in Tunbridge Wells. I seem to recall he just stood there with a microphone for two hours and performed without a break ?
What a legacy.
The Young Ones, steals a complete series of Blackadder with a cameo and that Christmas episode of Bottom to name but three.
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I like Tom Hark Preston Park.
I haven't commented on the death today because it means nothing to me. I wasn't a fan although it is sad when someone dies at the young age of 56.
Leighgull
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The reluctant. Gunfighters.
"What football team do you support?"
"Watford"
"Watford can't play football to save ther lives"
"I agree"
"Tsk...well, I DON'T agree then"
Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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I was at that show:
'To the Drome and step in it!'
'Why did the monkey fall out of the tree? Because it was Dead.'
'Why did the parrot fall out of the tree? Because it was stapled to the monkey.'
The Camel
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I kinda agree with THPP.
I didn't really find Rik Mayall very funny and to call him a comedy genius is stretching the word genius as far as it can go.
I wonder if a great deal of the sorrow is prompted by the fact I guess a lot of people have grown up with Rik as a staple part of our culture and his passing is a stark reminder of our own mortality.
From what I have heard he did seem like a decent bloke though and I'm sad he won't be around any more.
RIP.
I didn't really find Rik Mayall very funny and to call him a comedy genius is stretching the word genius as far as it can go.
I wonder if a great deal of the sorrow is prompted by the fact I guess a lot of people have grown up with Rik as a staple part of our culture and his passing is a stark reminder of our own mortality.
From what I have heard he did seem like a decent bloke though and I'm sad he won't be around any more.
RIP.
Well Camel - if you don't see Rik Mayall as comedy genius - I am sure I would be at a loss to name
any comic who has ever lived on this planet who does qualify then.
- Aug 8, 2005
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Total comedy genius. Brilliant in everything he did.
Loved the young ones as I was growing up, loved him in Blackadder even though he had cameo roles, he was still spectacular and stole each and every scene he was in. Also loved Alan B'Stard. Saw him performing it live at the Theatre Royal.
Was less keen on Bottom overall, but still there are moments of total genius within every episode.
Was very very sad to hear he had died. A really unique performer and comedy writer.
England is a slightly sadder, less funny place tonight.
Loved the young ones as I was growing up, loved him in Blackadder even though he had cameo roles, he was still spectacular and stole each and every scene he was in. Also loved Alan B'Stard. Saw him performing it live at the Theatre Royal.
Was less keen on Bottom overall, but still there are moments of total genius within every episode.
Was very very sad to hear he had died. A really unique performer and comedy writer.
England is a slightly sadder, less funny place tonight.
symyjym
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It was really hard to better The Young Ones with Bottom, just like the difference between Porridge and Going Straight. Porridge will always be classic and so will The Young Ones.
Being 15 when it came out in 82, I was the perfect age for it.