- Jan 7, 2006
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Absolutely gutted. Bambi episode of The Young Ones is still my favourite half hour of comedy ever despite 100+ viewings.
RIP (P)Rik ("What!?"). Gutted.
That episode is now being shown on GOLD.
Absolutely gutted. Bambi episode of The Young Ones is still my favourite half hour of comedy ever despite 100+ viewings.
RIP (P)Rik ("What!?"). Gutted.
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.
Hard off-hand to think of an unfunnier comedian than Rik Mayall. Oh, hang on, MIRANDA! To be fair to Rik tho, his Young Ones colleagues were equally unfunny.
Not a big fan of the wailing and gnashing of teeth that always accompanies somebody who did their best work a quarter of a century ago and wasn't all that funny at the time (be honest!).
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.
perhaps if you in your 40s you always gonna be a fan having grown up with him, but the man never did anything duff in my eyes. a brilliant performer physically, had no shame in drawing on the flaws in his personality and exaggerating them for comic effect, and consistently changed tack comedically. The fella was a genius from the barking mad kevin turvey to the cliched and of his time rik to the satirical alan bstard.
the bloke was a comedy genius.
John Sparkes played Shadwell ,talked about his girlfriend Gravell a lot.Really? For about the last thirty years I've been thinking that was Rik Mayall!
Camel, Stephen Fry can:
"Crossing the Atlantic with wifi. Simply distraught to hear of the death of Rik Mayall. An authentic comedy genius and a prince among men."
Tributes from other comics here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770448
They left out Richard Herring, who summed up the reaction of a lot of us very succinctly:
https://twitter.com/Herring1967/status/476017258817675264
I follow Stephen Fry on Twitter.
He has yet to go to a single play, comedy, musical performance without gushing excessively about how incredibly marvellous it was.
I think his opinions can be taken with a very large pinch of salt.
I wonder how many people who are calling Rik Mayall a genius now would have stated the same opinion 24 hours ago. We will never know obviously.
I would call Fry a legitimate comedy genius though. And I'm not a huge fan of his for sure.