"And all the kids will be saying 'Why are the grown-ups crying?', and they'll say 'Rik is dead! The people's Poet is dead!'" #RikMayall #TheYoungOnes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ2_r-4U83M

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead! And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?"

#RIP #RikMayall. 9 years ago today.

Still hugely missed, it was no age at all to go #rikmayall

Well this popped up on a random scroll.

https://youtu.be/zmHadtXzXkw

#RikMayall

[1987] The New Statesman - The ultra right-wing Alan B'Stard, the most selfish, greedy, dishonest, sadistic and sociopathic Conservative MP of them all, plots to achieve his meglomaniacal ambitions.

First episode: Alan is elected as the Conservative MP for the constituency of Haltemprice in Yorkshire after having the brake lines cut on the cars of his Labour and SDP opponents.

Starring Rik Mayall and Marsha Fitzalan.

https://youtu.be/FrV-vYTQ8Fg

#OldBritishTelly #RikMayall #MarshaFitzalan

Does Netflix have to remind us so harshly?
Show some compassion...
#RikMayall #RikMayallForever

[1982] 54321 - Advert for the chocolate bar "54321" featuring a song by Manfred Mann. Also featuring an early TV appearance for Rik Mayall as an astronaut.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVlon97L58

#OldBritishTelly #54321 #ManfredMann #RikMayall

RT @official_bottom
Happy birthday, (wherever you are out in the stars), to this beautiful bastard. You will always be missed. Thanks for the laughs and for making this planet all the more magical #RikMayall #HappyBirthday ❤️ 🎂 💔 Please Retweet to show that we haven’t forgotten him 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Happy birthday, Rik.
Still sadly missed. #RikMayall

Remembering Rik Mayall, born on this date in 1958

#rikmayall #youngones #baseballcards #cardart

[1987] Filthy, Rich, and Catflap - Sitcom about three losers: a failed actor, his sleazy agent, and a permanently drunk bodyguard. Written by Ben Elton.

E04: After losing his brilliant new game-show formula to BBC big shot Jumbo Whiffy. Rich resorts to taking advantage of his terminally-ill father to get back into the limelight.

Starring Rik Mayall (Happy Birthday!), Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Mel Smith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siuBLvpYSFU

#OldBritishTelly #RikMayall #AdeEdmonson #BenElton

@mikebealing Harlow's finest gift to the world. #RikMayall

Happy Rick Mayall Day to those who celebrate!

Woof!

#RikMayall #RikMayallDay #Blackadder

[1984] Wogan - Rik Mayall, in the guise and garb of his character Rick from the Young Ones, chats to Terry Wogan about comedy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHadtXzXkw

#OldBritishTelly #Wogan #RikMayall

[2003] Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour - Eddie has locked himself away in the toilet and Richie finds he's been inventing gadgets and only to find himself joining Eddie on a adventure through time and space on-board Eddie's time machine "The Turdis" which is a toilet cubicle.

https://youtu.be/ZjaMYKkRT4o

#OldBritishTelly #Bottom #RikMayall #AdeEdmonson #Richie #Eddie

#RikMayall #AdeEdmondson #Bottom

[1993] Nintendo - Advert featuring Rik Mayall advertising Nintendo's "4 games on one cartridge". According to legend, Rik purchased a new house with the cash he received for the series of advets, and jokingly christened it "Nintendo Towers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lykzxuqjXd8

#OldBritishTelly #RikMayall #Nintendo

[1991] Tonight With Jonathan Ross - Interview with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, then appearing in the West End in a production of Waiting For Godot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCysBpjRKME

#OldBritishTelly #RikMayall #AdeEdmondson

[2005] Violent Nation - Presented by Rik Mayall, this history series questions the current belief that violence and violent crime are on he rise in 21st Century Britain by unearthing the hidden violence in Britain's past.

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiqHhDT6rtI

Episode 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5-z8mWTPGA

Episode 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyJVswqnfNA

#OldBritishTelly #RikMayall

That time Lassie came to visit, and we let her watch "Holy".

#Bottom #RikMayall #AdeEdmondson
#DogsOfMastodon