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I’ve seen gifs of this, but not actually the full video posted up on Tumblr, so here it is. Rik as Kevin Turvey performing a bit at the Nether Wallop; short and sweet with a cute jacket and scruffy hair.  

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My personal favorite Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis-era interview from 1997. Credit to RikMayallFanpage for original upload on Youtube. And now: A List of Everything I Love About This Interview;

  • The ‘Blondes Have More Fun’ moment: “I went straight home and my wife Barbara - no, I can’t talk about it.” 
  • The ‘obvious plugging of Mavis Davis’ faces he makes.
  • Revealing some tiny insecurities with jokes - poor bby - “You look in the mirror and see this sad old actor - I had to have my hair dyed crap for The Bill.”/ ”You [I] still get really nervous about chat shows-” (Des: “You don’t seem nervous at the moment.”) “Well, good actor, you see.”
  • Des’s story is actually (aside from Rik’s Russian bit later on) one of funniest things in the interview - the bit about the lady wanting to buy his single and the punch line “Well, I’m not gonna go in and ask for it!”
  • Rik cheering him on: “That’s one question and he’s done five gags so far, that’s a pro!” (except the bad part at the very end where Des says Rik’s part of the ‘establishment’ now that he’s older  as opposed to the Young Ones’ anti-establishment and you can see Rik blanch a bit. Yikes. I would, too. But Des was wrong, of course.)

And finally Rik’s two Russian story moments: they ARE the best:

  • Rik’s mistake of thinking he had won the Russian actors’ award for Mavis Davis; he was ‘russian’ toward the stage to claim it (see why I’m not a comedian?) when they called out Robert DeNiro instead. He goes back on his “I’m not gonna do an accent” statement and I’m grateful, his Russian voice is hilarious. Also I love his miniature two-second Robert DeNiro impression. 
  • Speaking of which, Russian Chuck Berry. Just…Russian Chuck Berry. I didn’t ever think I could love him more, but he pulls out a Russian Chuck Berry impression complete with weird faces that’s never to be seen again in the history of time. Appreciate it. And the fact that you can see he’s immediately embarrassed the first time he does it is freaking CUTE. 

So yep, probably one of my favorite interviews Rik’s done. Enjoy, everyone. 

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Video credit to Ontsnapping Mayall - Rik’s last performance as a realtor in a Dutch film. The colors of the white and blue suit are perfect on him, hot damn

And if there’s any line to go out on in your career, better it be Macbeth (though “out out brief candle” is kind of fittingly tragic, he was gone way too soon). It’s a great bit, especially with Rik saying it. Bill Shakes would probably be touched.

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A F***ing Good Life: Remembering Rik Mayall

Remembering Rik Mayall – An American perspective 

I fell in love with a man on the day he died. They say you learn a lot about a person by reading an obituary, but I was never one of those maudlin obit collectors. But I saw the name Rik Mayall cross my screen early on the morning of June 9, and I felt a rush in my ears. My Facebook post about it only garnered one comment. There were only a few of my friends who even knew, or cared, who Rik Mayall was. And that broke my heart.

 I learned about Rik Mayall when I was 22-year-old college student in 1985—the first time his landmark comedy series “The Young Ones,” which he created, wrote, and starred, splashed across MTV. We knew at the time that we were living in a unique time in history; we were very aware that the ‘80s were going to be written about and satirized and romanticized later, and for me, Rik Mayall represented a comic version of everything I loved—and hated—about the 1980s.

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