ICTChris Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 The People's Poet is dead. Punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confidemus Posted June 9, 2014 Author Share Posted June 9, 2014 Man, I'm gutted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergie's no1 fan Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Him and Ade were writing another season of Bottom, one of my favourite tv shows. Had such a buzz when Ade announced it on twitter. Really gutting news. Normally celeb deaths don't bother me but this is a sad one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da_no_1 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Absolutely gutted to hear this. One of my heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Saw Rik live at the Edin Fringe in 1983. Funniest stand up gig I've seen. Sheer charisma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy boo Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 The Young Ones and Bottom were comedy classics. Didn't see this one coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co.Down Hibee Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Created two of the great tv icons of the 80s in Rik and B'Stard, very sad as he was a decent guy apparently . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmitch Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 No more letters to bank managers beginning "Dear fascist bully boy" he will be sadly missed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bee thousand Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Bad News....see what I did there? A lot of people slag off The Young Ones saying it hasn't aged well but it still makes me chuckle, and some of the Comic Strip stuff was hit-or-miss but Bad News/More Bad News, GLC, Strike and Fistful of Travellers Cheques were excellent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I was pretty shocked. Probably my all time comedy hero. Was only last night I put Lord Flashheart in my top five fictional characters. An absolute genius. I now feel the need to write a letter to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen to mark his passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venti Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Echo pretty much what has been said. Gutted. Always think of Rik Mayall when I see Stewie Griffin. I think Seth MacFarlane must have invented him as a hybrid of John Lithgow and Rik. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamdunk Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I always thought that the script for bottom wasn't the best, but the way played it and portrayed those characters was incredible. Pretty gutted about this tbh. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryfield Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I'm gutted about Rik Mayall's passing. First memories of him was his sketches on "A Kick Up The Eighties" as Kevin Turvey. Sad night tonight. Top notch too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stm Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Normally stay away from all the celeb death fawning but feel a bit gutted over this one. Great laugh in Bottom, Blackadder, Young Ones and New Statesman. Poor Riche Richard dying a virgin. Hope Eddie Hitler having a drink in the Lamb And Flag for him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanmistermustard Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Quite a fucking shock and the same as everyone else, gutted by this. Grew up loving his stuff on the tv; Bottom and The New Statesmen were brilliant as was Flashheart, who stole the scenes he was in in Blackadder, and god knows how many time i watched Drop Dead Fred as a kid. Went and saw Bottom live in Glasgow as well. Bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YER SISTERS YER MAW Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Always loved this bit in the 1st Bottom live video when Rik can't keep his laugh in and keeps fucking up his lines up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Bad News....see what I did there? I saw Bad News at Donnington back in 1986. As much as I liked Rik etc. I didn't really have much time for yon 'band' ... although I do still occasionally find myself chanting "Burning, looting raping and a shooting" as I go about my daily business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambos Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Seriously tragic. Loved him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.