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Gosh, 56. We're used to saying 'It's no age' when people pass on these days, but 56 is very sobering. Condolences to family and friends.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
Indeed - shocking news.Originally posted by french frank View Post[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Lovely obit just now on PM by Lawrence Marks.
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at 56 indeed a loss .... B'stard was a truly great and prophetic comic creation ...
According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.Comment
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Very sad news - from the marvellous Kevin Turvey onwards RIP.Comment
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When I was a teacher in Derbyshire in the '80s, I was told by my pupils that I looked like Rik M. I laughed it off at the time, but looking at a recent photo of him, it's quite scary.Comment
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Very sad news.
Anybody who ever lived in a student house could identify with the young Ones pretty easily.
RIP
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.Comment
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I don't recall why I saw it, but I remember sitting in front of the TV watching him read George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory - as the week went on he became more and more messy...it was truly wonderful. When I read GMM to the kids years later I don't think I ever quite did it justice, well not compared to Rik. Sad to see him go!Comment
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The quad bike[sic] accident that he suffered some years ago was pretty horrendous, leaving him with quite severe epilepsy. From the inspirational Turvey, through to Bastard, Flash and Richard "Richie" Richard he contributed some wonderful performances. It is in those roles I will choose remember. So sad to hear of his passing. My condolences to his widow, Barbara, and their children.Comment
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Terribly sad and a real shock. Never watched the Young Ones etc, but Flashheart in the Blackadder series is one of the great comic creations on telly
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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His OTT brand of humour didn't as happens appeal to me, but Rik cheered many people, and he will be greatly missed.Comment
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I'm sorry to learn that he has died, but his humour never made me laugh - not even once. From what I've read it made him laugh, though!!Comment
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I was always embarrassed by just how funny I found 'Bottom'. But I loved that Mayall (and particularly when working with Edmondson) never ever thought, "Have we gone too far here?" And managed it without ever being offensive in the laughing at anyone else sense.
He did a cracking series of monologues on Radio 4 a few years ago.
Very sad news.The best music is the music that persuades us there is no other music in the world-- Alex RossComment
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Revolutionary stand-up comic in the early 80s (avant-garde poetry: "Oh theatre!") and then as Rick in The Young Ones..we never missed an episode. As students we both laughed at him and aspired to be like him..
Then the fabulous Brum, Kevin Turvey ..
Living outside the Uk in the satellite/internet-free 90s I never saw Bottom, although his Lord Flashheart in Blackadder was again brilliant.
Obnoxious, offensive and often downright rude. We thought he was great."Gone Chopin, Bach in a minuet."Comment
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