A photo of Rik Mayall. He is wearing a dark coloured pinstriped jacket. He is standing in front of a tall bookcase full of old books, he has an open book in his right hand and is sticking up two fingers to the camera with his left hand.
Happy heavenly Birthday to one of my most favourite people ever. Should have been celebrating being 68 today #RikMayall #RikMayallDay
Rik Mayall reads Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine on Jackanory, 1986
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsS...
Om a la pappion Om a la pappion Om a la pappion Om-pah RAIN!
😂
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Illustration of Rik as Richie from Bottom next to bold text that reads “May I say what a smashing blouse you have on?”
Putting on my most Smashing Blouse and having fifteen wanks in honour of #RikMayallDay
Happy #RikMayallDay, suckers!
Cartoon drawing of Lord Flashheart from Blackadder 2, with Bob in his arms and her dad stood behind, looking disapproving.
Cartoon drawing of Lord Flashheart from Blackadder Goes Forth, stood with Bob, disguised unconvincingly as a man.
I had no idea it was #RikMayallDay, but anyway, here he is as the two Flashhearts in Blackadder.
He was only in Blackadder 2 for something like a hundred seconds - astonishing display of scene-stealing.
Happy Rik Mayall Day to those who celebrate, which is all of us. #RikMayallDay
And here's Alan B'stard providing Boris Johnson with a blueprint performance style for delivering Brexit, on The New Statesman back in 1990 (?)
It's a little sad watching this video because Rik Mayall did turn out to be quite Eurosceptic
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCHD...
In 1987, Rik Mayall was given perhaps his most perfect role by classic English comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. He was the perfect person to play Alan B'Stard, nobody else could've pulled this off. Here he is pronouncing on Tory values.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE03...
Absolutely mesmerisingly brilliantly awful berating poetry - "Theatre"
(but I don't know Vanessa Redgrave) by Rik, the People's Poet
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=498z...
Here's an interview with Rik Mayall in The Face in 1982 - Talking Turvey
(excellent fan site btw)
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Rik Mayall being interviewed as Kevin Turvey by Russell Harty (1981?)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUbc...
Rik Mayall wasn't just Rik (with a silent P) from the Young Ones, he had other comic personas, including Redditch's finest son Kevin Turvey - here he investigates sex, in his own special way
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CpH...
Here's the full Wogan interview that followed - Rik Mayall talking about The Young Ones, October 1984
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmHa...
In October 1984, Rik Mayall went on Terry Wogan's evening chat show to talk about the Young Ones - here's his opening monologue (interview in next post). Pure Rik.
he was just so beautiful and funny
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJA...
I've seen Rik Mayall's bare arse, and it was as fantastic as he'd have you believe. #RikMayallDay
Of course, like many people, I first came to know Rik Mayall as student Rik (with a silent P) through The Young Ones, which was bloody brilliant. You can watch them all on iPlayer at the moment.
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www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
I used to watch Rik Mayall performing Grim Tales when I was a student & now I get to enjoy them again with my kid 😀
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vp9...
(playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...)
Today would've been Rik Mayall's 67th birthday.
As a young person, he was an incredibly engaging anarchic force who I adored.
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Friday is not only Bandcamp Friday, it is also Rik Mayall day.
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#TheRikMayall
#Woof
Here's a very young Rik in the @artofnoiseoffic video for Peter Gunn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK-vUY6erQU #RikMayallDay
