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Rik Mayall
Fishy65
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I know this is a gardening forum but I just had to say how shocked I am at the news of his passing.Only 56 and a reminder that my generation is getting older. RIP Rik and thanks for the laughs.
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Such a talent and described by those who met him as a lovely kind and gentle man.
So sad
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow - had no idea!! Awful news - so awful for his family. xx
Oh, how very sad, so talented and too young. Was very shocked to hear this sad news
Very sad, enjoyed a lot of his work
Sometimes if feels like your childhood/teenagerdom is ebbing away, doesn't it Fishy? I was trying to explain to my son (15) this evening, how ground breaking the 'new' brand of comedy' was back then - how young and refreshing. And to do so I had to explain the 'status quo' and 'sitcoms' and 'alternative comedy' and only having three, then four channels. Feels like now he has the licence to be young and vibrant and 'different'. And I must sound like those dull parents who used to play the Beatles 'at' us, and think they were 'oh so cool'. when we all turned our back and stuck the Sex Pistols on at full volume. We used to be contenders didn't we? RIP Rik.
I used to love the Young Ones when I was young, just his voice used to make me laugh.....much to my parent's disgust, which made me laugh even more!!
I don't know a lot of his more recent work though and was never a Blackadder fan (I don't think I'm clever enough to get it!!), but such a shame for him to die so young. Too many people are dying young recently.
RIP Rik.
You've hit the nail on the head there Bee. I was worried when I posted this that it might be interpreted as a twitter-style grief fest. Its sad in more ways than one though,obviously for the man and his loved ones its a tragedy when he has fallen short of a man's average life expectancy by about 20 years.
But there is my own feeling that something else has died,very much like our youth and the alternative comedy that represented it. My brothers were 13 and 11 years older than me and were brought up with Monty Python.The Young Ones and Not the Nine O'clock News were seen as inferior rip-offs but I relished the idea of having my own comic voices.Mel Smith's sad death last year had a similar impact in reminding me of my own mortality.Lewis Collins I thought was invincible because after all,he was Bodie!! Ah well...the years fly by,scattered like lost leaves on time's unending breeze.
No one deserves to die so young though the only time I ever watched him was in Black Adder, I thought to up front and over the top. Alternative comedy went way over my head, never did see any comedy in it. All kids rebel it is in their nature not to like what the parents like yet they grow into us as they age, I watch and smile. Mentioned to my Daughter yesterday, "I have a record of the Bay City Rollers in the cabinet, want to hear it" are you taking the mick she asked, that was when I was annoying you and Mum.
Modern stand up mainly leaves me cold, bad language is not and never has been funny, rock bands used it to rattle the grown ups who did not like three chords repeated continuously, in the army and industry you got used to people with poor vocabulary using swear words as descriptive language though what they were trying to describe was often beyond them, asked why I never swore the reply would be "if I need to resort to swearing then I have lost the plot and the argument.
Sorry to butt in on you youngsters I guess brought up in a gentler age with hurt all around us we laughed at gentle humour because we needed a good old belly laugh.
Frank.