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SIMON CALLOW: Of all the people
who ever lived,
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only one can say,
"I am Rik Mayall" -
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creator of The Young Ones,
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a pan-global phenomenon,
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loved by millions.
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On the day he was born,
the gods cried,
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"Let there be light entertainment."
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And there was.
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He dreamt the impossible dream.
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And there will never be another.
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With Rik's death,
I think people remembered
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just how golden he was in his youth.
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He was a golden youth.
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He was very beautiful.
An extremely handsome man.
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LAUGHTER
What is it?
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LAUGHTER
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Right on.
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He did more wonderful stuff
than most
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and when it was wonderful,
it was very, very wonderful.
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HE LAUGHS
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GRUNTS PASSIONATELY
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If there's been a funnier person,
I don't know who it is.
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I...you know, I couldn't name anyone
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who's made me laugh
any more than that man did.
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LAUGHTER
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As the one person in The Young Ones
who was both performer and writer,
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you know, he was the central
driving force of The Young Ones -
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you know, he was the greatest
of us all in that way.
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MICHAEL PALIN: Rik seemed to
be able to produce this stuff
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and be fairly sane and normal,
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which is great, you know?
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And everybody...
Action!
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LAUGHTER
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When you're Rik Mayall, why worry
about being funny? He didn't
have to worry about anything.
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He was Rik. He just had to be Rik.
That was that.
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Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho, Vyvyan!
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Comedy weapon.
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Joke machine! Gag apocalypse!
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I pick my nose, women get pregnant.
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If he was a mathematician,
you'd go, "Genius."
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If he was Einstein,
he'd get a Nobel Prize.
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That's how brilliant his brain was.
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Not that many are beautiful
and that funny.
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CALLOW: We can't believe he's gone,
because he's still here -
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in interviews, films and photographs
never seen before.
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Some things last forever,
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like the legend of Rik Mayall.
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Why isn't Rik Mayall
in a three-hour program?
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Why is he only in
a 40-minute program,
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with other actors in it,
for God's sake?!
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Surely, it should just be Rik
talking about himself, on his own...
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..for...ever.
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BRASS FANFARE PLAYS
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Rik, from the first second
I met him,
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I knew that I was in the presence
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of a great and extraordinary
comic spirit.
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I can remember, absolutely,
the moment I first laid eyes on him.
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It was at a freshers entertainment.
I was a first-year.
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He and Ade were third-years
at Manchester University
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and he just said,
"Hi. I'm Rik Mayall."
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And he said it with such...
HE LAUGHS
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..utter confidence,
such utter joy in himself.
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I mean, he had
some quite good lines.
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He said something about the first
rule you have to do if you're
a first-year
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is, if you're a girl,
you have to shag Rik Mayall
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and if you're a guy, you have to
introduce Rik Mayall to a girl that
he can shag, or something like that.
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But it was the wonderful
comedic confidence.
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He enjoyed being Rik Mayall
enormously and hilariously.
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He certainly wasn't shy
in proclaiming that he was the best.
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But you can do that
if you are the best, can't you?
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SIMON PEGG: His kind of shtick
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was these layers of fake modesty
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and fake arrogance.
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You know, you never could tell
which was which,
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but you knew, ultimately,
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that he was a big-hearted
and warm person
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and he didn't, you know...
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As much as he kind of grandstanded
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this insane
sort of boasty personality,
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he had a huge amount of humility.
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Am I pleased to see you or did
I just put a canoe in my pocket?!
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LAUGHTER
Down, boy! Down!
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I have always been known as
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the man with the largest penis
on the planet.
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I've always kept quiet about that.
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What does a man with a two-foot cock
have for breakfast?
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This morning, I had a boiled egg.
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LAUGHTER
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HE LAUGHS
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Oh, Rik's penis. Good times.
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It wasn't two-foot.
He claims it was. It wasn't.
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Um, but in Rik's world,
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you know, it is that big
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and in Rik's world,
you know, anything goes.
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No, no, he did have the biggest knob
in show business.
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CALLOW: Rik Mayall was born
on the 7th of March, 1958.
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A Pisces -
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the poet of the zodiac,
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destined to fill the world
with love, anarchy
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and wonderful violence.
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METAL CLANGS
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RHYTHMIC THUMPING AND CLANGING
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THUMPING CONTINUES
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LAUGHTER
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CLANGING
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THUMPING AND CLANGING
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Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Aaaah! Brrrrrlllll! Ha-ha!
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When comedy is at its purest,
at its most sublime,
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is when it comes out as nothing.
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It's not a clever line,
it's not some observation,
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and that's what was really sublime
about Rick -
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that he could make you laugh just
without...with saying nothing.
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What?
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LAUGHTER
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What is it? What's going on?
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DAVIES: It was the first time
it felt like,
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"These characters
are for ME to laugh at."
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Not having to struggle to work out
why he's funny. He just is funny.
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You know, my grandparents
disapproved of him,
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which was perfect.
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You know, it was like, "Brilliant.
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"I'm glad you don't like him
cos he's not FOR you."
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Yeah.
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CALLOW: Rik Mayall's words
were his weapons
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and he was armed to the teeth.
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He was young, he was angry,
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he was the voice of a generation.
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APPLAUSE
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My name's Rik, OK?
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And, uh...
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I've got a couple of, uh...
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This...this is probably
a waste of time.
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LAUGHTER
I've got...
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Right.
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I've got a couple of poems here.
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Uh, I don't know if any of you
are into poetry at all.
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LAUGHTER
Shut up!
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I've always liked being crap.
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Um...
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..playing people who are
really crap at doing things.
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"Perhaps I should ask
Vanessa Redgrave."
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LAUGHTER
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"But I don't know Vanessa Redgrave."
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LAUGHTER
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"And neither do you, theatre."
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RUBY WAX: First of all, he was
so beautiful, your eyes hurt.
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And then, uh, he did that poem
about Vanessa Redgrave
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and I've never had
that experience since,
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is that you saw the total star.
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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
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Shut up!
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CALLOW: The Mayall family was Rik
and his brother and two sisters.
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His parents were teachers...
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..of drama.
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Rik's dad was a very funny guy
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and, you know, used to...you know...
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They'd do bits of amateur drama
and everything,
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but he would, you know,
do, you know...
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You'd suddenly see him walking
behind you on the pavement,
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you know, pretending to have a limp
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or...or, you know,
making a silly face or something.
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And a lot of...you know,
a lot of Rik came from that.
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# All things bright and... #
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There would never be anything
ordinary about Rik Mayall.
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And the sign of things to come
happened at his school
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in Droitwich, Worcestershire.
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The children were there
to praise the Lord,
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but they found the Rik Mayall.
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My teacher said to me,
"Now, Richard,
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"I don't want you to sing at all
because your voice is horrible!
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"You have got
a horrible voice, Richard.
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"Now, I'm quite serious about this,
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"so I want you to move your mouth
as if you are singing the hymns
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"but I don't want you
to make any sound at all
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"with that horrible voice of yours.
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"Do you understand?"
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"Yes, Miss."
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THEY CONTINUE SINGING
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So, up we stood,
in front of the teachers,
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and I was going...
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..and pulling all sorts of faces.
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And I started getting laughs,
which was fantastic.
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I was getting laughs
off the audience, during the hymns,
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and pulling all sorts of
grotesque faces
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and moving my mouth out of time
with the music.
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And occasionally going kind of,
"Nah, nah, nah, nah!"
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Big laughs, and I liked that a lot.
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So, I thought, "Oh, I like this.
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"I like these laughs."
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The young Rik lived for kicks.
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It was 1975 -
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time to follow his star
to the English north,
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to Manchester,
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to change his life forever.
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There was a load of us got in
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to Manchester University,
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uh, who were kind of
the sleazy, naughty boys.
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That's, remember, Ade,
who's a very sleazy, naughty boy,
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and, um...
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..uh, God, a couple of
my mates from school,
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Mike Redfern, Mark Dewison.
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And I met Lloyd Peters.
He was an important person.
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He's from Leeds.
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We liked the physical.
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We were very into, um,
not just Python,
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but Laurel & Hardy
and the Marx Brothers.
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And he could do
this amazing party trick
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where he bent the top of his ear
into his earhole.
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LAUGHTER
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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
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A very strange thing
to be able to do, let's be honest.
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And it was kind of just
sort of weirdly funny.
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There's quite a few talented
young comedians doing some...
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HIS VOICE FADES
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LIVELY PIANO MUSIC
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# Uh-oh... #
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CALLOW: Destiny decided
the University of Manchester
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would be the start of it all.
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Rik was amongst friends...
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# Let's go... #
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..and they called themselves
20th Century Coyote.
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Blood, sugar, sex, magic.
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Love and violence -
Rik and Ade.
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We thought, "We need someone
bigger and louder and..."
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HE EXHALES
"..more dangerous."
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And I'm saying,
"What about that blond guy?"
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And everybody
was really scared of Ade.
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He had this fantastic
long blonde hair
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and these John Lennon spectacles on.
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But I do remember going up
and saying, "Um, hi, Ade."
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HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY
"Uh... Hi."
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He's..."What do you want?"
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HE LAUGHS
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And immediately,
the relationship was born.
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MUSIC: "Pretty Vacant"
by the Sex Pistols
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Adrian Edmondson - the prince.
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The one who knew
what had to be done.
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Together, they were everything -
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intertwined and ascending
to the stuff of legend.
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# We're so pretty
Oh, so pretty... #
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Two stars colliding for a lifetime.
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It was fate, and there were pubs.
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I'm afraid we used to
pass a hat round afterwards
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and then, with the meagre money
we got from that,
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we'd, uh...we'd get drunk...
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..which seemed, like..."Fantastic.
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"Go to pub, make a load
of people laugh, get drunk."
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Where's the problem in that?
251
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"Show off, make some people laugh,
get drunk.
252
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"Ask girls to come and see it,
253
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"girls get impressed by the show,
shag girls.
254
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"Shag girls, get drunk,
have good time."
255
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That is...light entertainment.
256
00:12:03,260 --> 00:12:06,500
Manchester was conquered
and London was calling.
257
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To the lawless underworld
of Soho they came.
258
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I'll do you, sunshine.
259
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20th Century Coyote,
260
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now just Rik and Ade,
261
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aka The Dangerous Brothers.
262
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I first saw Rik...
263
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I didn't know it was Rik.
264
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I just knew this wonderful,
extraordinary double act
265
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that he did with Adrian Edmondson.
266
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And that's the first time I saw it.
267
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And I marked them down
at the time as being...
268
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.."These are an extraordinary...
This is something pretty
extraordinary."
269
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Yeah. "These guys are special."
270
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BOTH SHOUT
Once there was a French goose
with a beret on,
271
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pecking buttons in a lift
with its beak.
272
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And then it goes up and down.
What's that?
273
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LAUGHTER
274
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We've got 'em. We've got 'em.
275
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LAUGHTER
276
00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,580
A gooseberry! A bloody gooseberry!
Gooseberry! Gooseberry!
277
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I'd never seen anybody
that confident onstage...ever.
278
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It just seemed like
this is where he lived.
279
00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,060
He was completely
in control of that audience
280
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and people like Jack Nicholson
were going to see the show,
281
00:13:06,620 --> 00:13:08,220
and Rik was just...
282
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And Robin Williams was performing
283
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and Rik was just...not even
considering them as competition.
284
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He was just onstage, loving it.
285
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He would just stare at the audience
286
00:13:16,020 --> 00:13:18,340
and he'd just start talking
and would go...
HE GIGGLES
287
00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:21,820
He was just hilariously funny.
You thought, "This guy can do
anything he likes.
288
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Yeah.
HE SNORTS
Have you got some, um...?
289
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LAUGHTER
290
00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,460
Yeah. It's all a bit wacky here,
isn't it? Ha!
291
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We're all a bit mad.
We were up till midnight last night!
292
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Ha!
HE SNORTS
293
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Eating biscuits, anything.
We're crazy! We don't care.
294
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LAUGHTER
295
00:13:39,140 --> 00:13:42,380
The first time I met him, I was
going to the Comic Strip to perform
296
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and went into the dressing room
297
00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:47,740
and Rik was sitting on the table,
with his back to the mirrors,
298
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with his legs crossed
and his hair all spiky.
299
00:13:50,140 --> 00:13:53,540
And he said, "Hello.
I'm Rik and I'm a feminist."
300
00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:56,740
And it was...he was so funny,
301
00:13:56,740 --> 00:13:59,020
both in his work
and outside his work.
302
00:13:59,020 --> 00:14:00,700
He was hilarious
303
00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:03,460
and there was that kind of glint
of mischief and a bit of danger.
304
00:14:03,460 --> 00:14:05,740
I...I adored him.
I thought he was wonderful.
305
00:14:05,740 --> 00:14:08,780
I can't get used to somebody
that talented being that sweet,
306
00:14:08,780 --> 00:14:10,540
but he always was.
307
00:14:10,540 --> 00:14:12,820
# At the high-school hop
last Saturday night
308
00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:15,500
# The moon was out,
the stars were bright
309
00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,340
# I saw a girl with golden hair
310
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# I asked her to dance
and she said, "Yeah!" #
311
00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:21,820
HE SNORTS
312
00:14:21,820 --> 00:14:24,020
# We reeled and rocked
and hopped and bopped
313
00:14:24,020 --> 00:14:26,580
# And flipped and flopped,
and then we stopped
314
00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:29,420
# And then we started again
and danced some more
315
00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:32,380
# I bought a Coke
and we shared the straw
316
00:14:32,380 --> 00:14:34,380
# Dah, dah, dah, wop!
317
00:14:34,380 --> 00:14:36,740
# Oh, gosh, I'm so lonely
# Aah-aah-aah
318
00:14:36,740 --> 00:14:38,660
# Oh, gosh, won't you help me?
319
00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:41,460
# Aah-aah-aah
# Why did you take her life
320
00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:43,140
# When she... Wop!
321
00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:45,140
# Was to be my wife? #
322
00:14:45,140 --> 00:14:46,580
LAUGHTER
323
00:14:46,580 --> 00:14:50,100
Yeah, as I watched them perform,
I thought that there was something,
324
00:14:50,100 --> 00:14:53,660
um...something I'd never seen
before, really, you know.
325
00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:55,140
Cripes!
326
00:14:55,140 --> 00:14:56,900
# Oh, gosh, I'm so lonely
# Aah-aah-aah
327
00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,140
# Oh, gosh, won't you help me?
328
00:14:59,140 --> 00:15:00,540
# Aah-aah-aah
329
00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:02,300
# Why did you take her life
330
00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:04,100
# When she... Wop!
331
00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:05,980
# Was to be my wife? #
332
00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:10,420
LAUGHTER
333
00:15:10,420 --> 00:15:14,780
CALLOW: The brightest and the best
were drawn to The Comic Strip club.
334
00:15:16,620 --> 00:15:19,500
French and Saunders,
Planer and Richardson,
335
00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:23,220
Arnold Brown, Alexei
and Rik and Ade.
336
00:15:23,220 --> 00:15:25,820
Delirious, exuberant.
337
00:15:25,820 --> 00:15:28,300
Next stop, television.
338
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I like millions and millions
of people
339
00:15:32,340 --> 00:15:36,460
looking at me, just looking AT me.
340
00:15:36,460 --> 00:15:38,460
Cos it's all in my eyes.
341
00:15:38,460 --> 00:15:41,420
It's all in my eyes.
342
00:15:44,260 --> 00:15:48,740
The eyes of the television audience
lit up at the sight of Kevin Turvey,
343
00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:51,140
and Rik Mayall became a star.
344
00:15:53,180 --> 00:15:55,220
Do you know how much it costs
to go to America?
345
00:15:55,220 --> 00:15:57,140
96 quid - that's how much.
346
00:15:57,140 --> 00:15:58,900
Where am I going to get
that kind of money?!
347
00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:00,980
I was mesmerised by Kevin Turvey.
348
00:16:00,980 --> 00:16:03,540
Yes, Kevin Turv-AYE, from
Birmingham.
349
00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:06,620
Kevin Turvey - um, peerless.
350
00:16:08,260 --> 00:16:10,260
One day, there was
a knock at the door
351
00:16:10,260 --> 00:16:12,100
and...so I answered it, like,
352
00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,740
and, uh, it was the milkman and...
353
00:16:14,740 --> 00:16:17,580
..I paid him and, uh, he went away
354
00:16:17,580 --> 00:16:19,340
and I closed the door again and...
355
00:16:19,340 --> 00:16:21,780
LAUGHTER
..came back inside and...
356
00:16:21,780 --> 00:16:24,260
I mean, that's got nothing
to do with the story, like, but...
357
00:16:24,260 --> 00:16:26,020
I just wanted to make it clear
358
00:16:26,020 --> 00:16:28,420
that I'm the kind of person
who pays his debts!
359
00:16:28,420 --> 00:16:31,780
It was almost like...
it was almost like, uh...
360
00:16:31,780 --> 00:16:34,940
..the comic diary of
a serial killer, you know?
361
00:16:34,940 --> 00:16:37,100
You thought, "God, this guy's weird.
362
00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:39,700
"This is really weird.
This is not normal."
363
00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:41,940
So, I went down
to the kitchen, right?
364
00:16:41,940 --> 00:16:44,180
That's where I normally
have my breakfast, you know?
365
00:16:44,180 --> 00:16:46,620
It's got all the gear in there -
all the forks and stuff.
366
00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:49,860
Yeah, no, well, you know,
there's a bin there. I've seen it.
367
00:16:49,860 --> 00:16:52,700
So, that's where I went, like...
You know, I went down the stairs.
368
00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,540
Right? We've got these stairs
in our house.
369
00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:57,940
It attaches the first floor,
like, to the bottom floor.
370
00:16:57,940 --> 00:16:59,540
No, it's dead convenient, like.
371
00:16:59,540 --> 00:17:02,260
It saves all the trouble of,
like, getting out the window
372
00:17:02,260 --> 00:17:04,460
and shinnying down the drainpipe,
you know,
373
00:17:04,460 --> 00:17:07,500
breaking into the kitchen window,
going in and doing it all in there.
374
00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,180
It's a waste of time.
375
00:17:09,180 --> 00:17:10,700
So, I used the stairs, anyway.
376
00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:12,220
LAUGHTER
377
00:17:12,220 --> 00:17:13,940
As per usual.
378
00:17:15,460 --> 00:17:18,500
MAYER: Kevin Turvey was so boring
379
00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:20,460
and so precise.
380
00:17:20,460 --> 00:17:23,100
He saw himself
as an investigative reporter
381
00:17:23,100 --> 00:17:26,580
and he would investigate
lamp posts or something.
382
00:17:26,580 --> 00:17:29,020
And he was in love with a girl
called Theresa Kelly,
383
00:17:29,020 --> 00:17:31,060
who wasn't interested in him.
384
00:17:31,060 --> 00:17:33,180
So I went over to the phone
and picked it up, right?
385
00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:34,700
Dialled the number.
386
00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:38,140
I won't actually, like,
tell you what the number was,
cos it's not important.
387
00:17:38,140 --> 00:17:42,140
It would just waste time if we start
talking about telephone numbers.
LAUGHTER
388
00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:44,900
And she answered, I got the number
right, and she said, "Hello."
389
00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:48,180
I said, "Theresa Kelly?
This is Kevin Turvey.
390
00:17:48,180 --> 00:17:50,420
"Would you like to come over
and have supper with me?
391
00:17:50,420 --> 00:17:53,140
"What we're having is potatoes
and gravy and sausages,
392
00:17:53,140 --> 00:17:54,740
"with nothing on it at all..."
393
00:17:54,740 --> 00:17:56,020
LAUGHTER
394
00:17:56,020 --> 00:17:58,180
"..and then have sex
with me afterwards."
395
00:17:58,180 --> 00:17:59,460
LAUGHTER
396
00:17:59,460 --> 00:18:01,300
And she said,
"Well, I'd like to, Kevin,
397
00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:04,580
"but I've just been hit by a bus and
I'll be in a coma until Wednesday."
398
00:18:04,580 --> 00:18:06,220
LAUGHTER
399
00:18:06,220 --> 00:18:09,060
It's always happening to her, that.
400
00:18:09,060 --> 00:18:10,500
# No, no, no, no, no, no... #
401
00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:14,260
There were other strange characters
around in the 1980s,
402
00:18:14,260 --> 00:18:16,700
and confrontation was everywhere.
403
00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:19,340
# Juvenile delinquents... #
404
00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:22,100
Britannia was ruled by fear,
405
00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,180
and the kids, punks, skins
and Rastas were on the street,
406
00:18:25,180 --> 00:18:27,380
and the cities burned.
407
00:18:27,380 --> 00:18:30,940
From the flames stepped
the People's Poet.
408
00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:35,700
LAUGHTER
409
00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:38,180
# The juvenile delinquents... #
410
00:18:38,180 --> 00:18:40,780
This is it! I've been waiting
two hours for this!
411
00:18:40,780 --> 00:18:43,220
It's a revolution!
LAUGHTER
412
00:18:44,660 --> 00:18:48,220
It was a revolution
in the head of Rik Mayall.
413
00:18:48,220 --> 00:18:51,140
A hippie and a poet
in the same house -
414
00:18:51,140 --> 00:18:55,580
inspired...explosive...beautiful!
415
00:18:55,580 --> 00:18:57,900
Cos although to you lot,
416
00:18:57,900 --> 00:19:01,060
I seem to have about
as much importance as, um...
417
00:19:01,060 --> 00:19:02,900
..uh...as, um...
418
00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:04,700
A hippie. ..a hippie...
419
00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:07,660
..it does happen to be me that does
all the cleaning round here.
420
00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:09,980
Moan, moan, moan! Bo-RING!
421
00:19:09,980 --> 00:19:13,820
JUST be-CAUSE you DO
a little BIT of HOUSE-work!
422
00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:19,380
"Oh, Neil, Neil, orange peel,
423
00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:22,620
"if only I could see you again!"
424
00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:28,500
Into the student house came Ade
Edmondson's psychotic Vyvyan...
425
00:19:30,140 --> 00:19:32,180
..Chris Ryan as the cool guy, Mike,
426
00:19:32,180 --> 00:19:35,580
and all kinds of Alexei Sale.
427
00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:38,300
At just 24 years old,
428
00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,500
the sexy genius Rik Mayall
429
00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:42,860
gave the people The Young Ones.
430
00:19:42,860 --> 00:19:44,540
MUSIC: "The Young Ones" theme plays
431
00:19:44,540 --> 00:19:46,860
# Once in every lifetime
432
00:19:46,860 --> 00:19:48,500
# Comes a love like this
433
00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,580
# Whoa, I need you
434
00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:52,260
# You need me
435
00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:54,860
# Oh, my darling, can't you see?
436
00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,140
# Young ones
Darling, we're the... #
437
00:19:57,140 --> 00:20:00,140
SALE: The Young Ones was absolutely
a revolutionary series.
438
00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:03,580
It's one of the greatest
TV shows of all time, really,
439
00:20:03,580 --> 00:20:05,540
of British...you know,
British comedy,
440
00:20:05,540 --> 00:20:07,340
and it was also...it was the...
441
00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:10,980
..it really was the launching pad
for all our careers.
442
00:20:10,980 --> 00:20:14,380
JOHN LLOYD: I definitely thought,
"I'm in the presence of greatness
here.
443
00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:16,980
"This is...this is
terrifically good."
444
00:20:16,980 --> 00:20:19,420
Part of the reason it's so good,
it's innocent, you know?
445
00:20:19,420 --> 00:20:21,420
It's unstructured, it doesn't...
446
00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:22,940
It just ignores any of the rules
447
00:20:22,940 --> 00:20:24,820
cos they didn't know
what the rules were.
448
00:20:24,820 --> 00:20:27,900
JON PLOWMAN: Young Ones was a hit
from the first episode,
449
00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:30,100
and Rik was clearly the star
450
00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:31,620
from the first episode.
451
00:20:31,620 --> 00:20:34,260
And that's rare.
That doesn't happen very often.
452
00:20:34,260 --> 00:20:38,460
CHRISTOPHER RYAN: I certainly didn't
know whether anything would happen
with it, but it did.
453
00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:40,180
And it was amazing, when it took
off.
454
00:20:40,180 --> 00:20:43,100
You know, almost immediately,
it was responded to.
455
00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:46,220
JOOLS HOLLAND: I thought the Young
Ones was one of the best things
I'd seen
456
00:20:46,220 --> 00:20:49,740
cos it was different to all the
other stuff - it had a different
sensibility to it.
457
00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:52,180
It was a moment where the lunatics
had taken over the asylum
458
00:20:52,180 --> 00:20:53,620
and it was great.
459
00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:56,660
I was in the audience
at a lot of those shows and, uh...
460
00:20:56,660 --> 00:20:58,220
HE LAUGHS
461
00:20:58,220 --> 00:21:00,420
Rik and Ade...I think Rik was...
Ade was...
462
00:21:00,420 --> 00:21:03,820
As Vyvyan was chanting, "Virgin!
You're a virgin! Virgin!"
463
00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:07,620
They have this big sort of slappy,
girly fight, slapping at each other.
464
00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:09,140
Virgin! I'm not!
465
00:21:09,140 --> 00:21:12,300
I'm not! I'm not a virgin!
Virgin! Virgin! I am not a...
466
00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:13,980
Virgin!
467
00:21:15,980 --> 00:21:17,420
LAUGHTER
468
00:21:17,420 --> 00:21:19,940
And they went upstairs
and you could hear them shouting
469
00:21:19,940 --> 00:21:21,700
and there's...another scene
carries on
470
00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:24,300
and then the bed and the roof
falls down.
471
00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:26,860
LAUGHTER
472
00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:29,020
I am not a virgin!
I am not a virgin!
473
00:21:29,020 --> 00:21:31,500
Virgin! Virgin!
474
00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:33,500
And they continue on fighting.
475
00:21:33,500 --> 00:21:35,300
It was one of the greatest stunts
476
00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:37,340
I've ever seen
done in a TV studio, ever!
477
00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:40,540
Honest to God, you just thought,
"That is... Who ARE these guys?
478
00:21:40,540 --> 00:21:42,180
"And how are they
allowed to do this?"
479
00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:43,780
It was just brilliant.
480
00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:51,100
Nobody had done it like this.
481
00:21:51,100 --> 00:21:53,060
People tried to put them down.
482
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:57,620
But The Young Ones were
talking about their generation.
483
00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,180
This wasn't just comedy.
484
00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:02,220
This was comedy for "the kids".
485
00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:05,140
Well, I'm going to tell Thatcher
that we've got a bomb,
486
00:22:05,140 --> 00:22:07,460
and that if she doesn't do something
to help the kids
487
00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:09,260
by this afternoon...
488
00:22:09,260 --> 00:22:11,820
LAUGHTER
..we're going to blow up England!
489
00:22:11,820 --> 00:22:14,460
Suddenly, there was
a strain of comedy
490
00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:16,980
that was directed specifically
at young people
491
00:22:16,980 --> 00:22:21,380
and went completely over the heads
of the grown-ups
492
00:22:21,380 --> 00:22:23,900
who sort of thought
it was crude and stupid.
493
00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:27,940
You know, and it was blisteringly
smart and incredibly funny
494
00:22:27,940 --> 00:22:29,700
and so relevant.
495
00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:31,740
God, I'm bored!
496
00:22:31,740 --> 00:22:33,900
Might as well be
listening to Genesis.
497
00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:35,500
DAVIES: My friends and I
498
00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:37,900
were disciples of The Young Ones,
you know?
499
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,060
As I recall, it was
the only thing we thought about.
500
00:22:40,060 --> 00:22:42,300
I just remember running in to school
501
00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:44,940
so I could meet
my stupid little gang of mates
502
00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:46,540
at the bottom of the stairs
503
00:22:46,540 --> 00:22:49,420
and we could quote every line
of The Young Ones.
504
00:22:49,420 --> 00:22:51,700
And we were all
huge Madness fans as well,
505
00:22:51,700 --> 00:22:53,460
so when Madness were on,
506
00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:56,300
our little heads almost exploded.
507
00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:59,020
Do, uh...do any of you lot know
Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard?
508
00:22:59,020 --> 00:23:01,620
You hum it, I'll smash your face in.
509
00:23:01,620 --> 00:23:04,580
LAUGHTER
I'll go sit over there.
510
00:23:04,580 --> 00:23:07,020
The Young Ones came along
and Mum and Dad were going,
511
00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:08,580
"What the hell's this?!"
512
00:23:08,580 --> 00:23:10,540
And kids were going,
"Get away. This is ours.
513
00:23:10,540 --> 00:23:12,260
"This is for me.
This is not for you."
514
00:23:12,260 --> 00:23:14,580
RIK SNEEZES LOUDLY
515
00:23:14,580 --> 00:23:17,300
PEGG: It was punk for comedy.
516
00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:19,020
I mean, even to the point
of Ade Edmondson
517
00:23:19,020 --> 00:23:22,460
tearing down The Good Life,
literally, on the screen.
518
00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:24,540
It was kind of like...
it was such a statement.
519
00:23:26,860 --> 00:23:28,500
No! No way!
520
00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,220
We are not watching
The bloody Good Life!
521
00:23:31,220 --> 00:23:34,060
Bloody, bloody...bloody!
522
00:23:34,060 --> 00:23:37,540
I hate it! It's so bloody nice!
523
00:23:37,540 --> 00:23:40,060
The Young Ones was...was sort of...
524
00:23:40,060 --> 00:23:42,220
..sort of doing with humour
525
00:23:42,220 --> 00:23:45,140
what the Sex Pistols were doing
with music and all that, you know?
526
00:23:45,140 --> 00:23:48,300
Saying, "The '80s
are a dreadful time.
527
00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,340
"You know, we've got all these
problems with Thatcher,"
528
00:23:51,340 --> 00:23:52,940
and all that sort of thing.
529
00:23:52,940 --> 00:23:55,420
So, it was quite sort of
"Destroy and rebuild."
530
00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:01,260
Did you see that?! Did you?!
531
00:24:01,260 --> 00:24:02,940
They did start a revolution,
532
00:24:02,940 --> 00:24:05,260
but when you're doing that,
you don't think you are.
533
00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:08,540
It's just that they...
this was healthy.
534
00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:11,500
The success of The Young Ones
was a huge thrill for everybody.
535
00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:12,860
I mean, you know...
536
00:24:12,860 --> 00:24:15,660
And Rik, in particular,
came out of it the most...
537
00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:19,580
..I think the most successful and
loved comic in Britain at that time.
538
00:24:19,580 --> 00:24:22,860
Will you lend it to me if I promise
to be your slave all day tomorrow?
539
00:24:22,860 --> 00:24:24,460
LAUGHTER
540
00:24:24,460 --> 00:24:27,260
Yeah, that sounds like
a good deal. Yeah.
541
00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:28,980
Tough luck, buster!
542
00:24:28,980 --> 00:24:31,780
LAUGHTER
543
00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:35,540
I had my fingers crossed
behind my back all along!
544
00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:38,460
LAUGHTER
545
00:24:38,460 --> 00:24:40,980
APPLAUSE
546
00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:45,260
Rik and The Young Ones
was just...breathtaking.
547
00:24:45,260 --> 00:24:47,740
I just thought it was
a fantastic comic creation.
548
00:24:47,740 --> 00:24:50,060
I'll probably be disfigured
for life, Vyvyan,
549
00:24:50,060 --> 00:24:51,700
and you'll have to pay.
550
00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:53,300
Yeah, and then
who'll be laughing? Ha!
551
00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:55,780
Not you, matey. That's for sure.
552
00:24:55,780 --> 00:24:59,220
Yeah, well, just don't break the
glass when you tear your face off.
That's all.
553
00:24:59,220 --> 00:25:01,180
I won't... I won't because...
554
00:25:01,180 --> 00:25:04,180
LAUGHTER
..it's not true.
555
00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:05,940
It was a joke I made up,
556
00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:08,980
and you fell for it
like the fascists you are.
557
00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:10,940
You felt like you were in on a joke.
558
00:25:10,940 --> 00:25:14,020
You were sort of laughing with him
and laughing at him.
559
00:25:14,020 --> 00:25:17,020
It was just so...so exciting.
560
00:25:17,020 --> 00:25:20,700
Occupying the refectory! So what?!
561
00:25:20,700 --> 00:25:22,780
This is the real stuff!
562
00:25:22,780 --> 00:25:24,620
LAUGHTER
I'm a fugitive!
563
00:25:24,620 --> 00:25:26,780
A desperado!
564
00:25:26,780 --> 00:25:29,060
I'm going to form
a new Union society, right?
565
00:25:29,060 --> 00:25:30,660
With me as president.
566
00:25:30,660 --> 00:25:34,340
People Who Don't Pay Their
TV Licences Against The Nazis.
567
00:25:34,340 --> 00:25:37,100
LAUGHTER
This is only the beginning!
568
00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,340
I just loved the kind of weird
magical realism of the show.
569
00:25:40,340 --> 00:25:44,140
I used to love the fact
that the vermin and the vegetables
spoke, in the house,
570
00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:47,300
and it existed in
this weird surrealist bubble.
571
00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,980
It was...there was something...
It was like Narnia.
572
00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:56,220
Fuelling Rik's fire with jokes
573
00:25:56,220 --> 00:25:58,340
were Lise Mayer and Ben Elton,
574
00:25:58,340 --> 00:26:02,660
comrades writing lurid tales
of student life in Manchester.
575
00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:05,940
When you were all at university,
did you meet people like
the people you play?
576
00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:07,700
We were people like the people we...
Yes.
577
00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,500
You were, were you?
They were. I was...
578
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,940
Ben and I both lived in a house,
at different times,
579
00:26:11,940 --> 00:26:14,540
that was basically exactly the same,
if not a bit worse,
580
00:26:14,540 --> 00:26:16,700
than the house
that they live in, in the show.
581
00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:23,900
Inspired by their life
in Manchester,
582
00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:28,460
Rik, Ben and Lise had created
a completely new flavour of comedy,
583
00:26:28,460 --> 00:26:30,500
and it was a portrait
of student life
584
00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:32,660
a million miles away from Oxbridge.
585
00:26:32,660 --> 00:26:36,020
No "dreaming spires", no Footlights.
586
00:26:36,020 --> 00:26:39,580
It was Scumbag College,
all day long.
587
00:26:42,820 --> 00:26:45,060
If you went to Oxbridge, you had
588
00:26:45,060 --> 00:26:48,180
a particular kind of
sense of entitlement, you know?
589
00:26:48,180 --> 00:26:52,340
And, obviously, Rik and Ade
and Nigel and the rest of the gang
590
00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:54,020
didn't have that, you know?
591
00:26:54,020 --> 00:26:57,260
It was central that they hadn't been
through Oxford or Cambridge
592
00:26:57,260 --> 00:26:59,300
and they weren't polluted with
593
00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:02,300
that particular kind of...
way of doing things.
594
00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:06,140
LAUGHTER
595
00:27:07,340 --> 00:27:10,220
Hello, and welcome to another
edition of University Challenge.
596
00:27:10,220 --> 00:27:13,340
It felt more like it belonged to us
597
00:27:13,340 --> 00:27:16,700
than it was us watching
some very, very clever people
be very, very funny,
598
00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:18,620
which is what Python could often be,
you know?
599
00:27:18,620 --> 00:27:21,420
You'd see Python do sketches
about philosophers and stuff
600
00:27:21,420 --> 00:27:24,540
and you'd marvel at the brilliance
of it, but you didn't feel like...
601
00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:26,220
"I don't know anything about that."
602
00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:28,500
Whereas I knew everything about,
you know, bogeys
603
00:27:28,500 --> 00:27:30,660
and Toxteth O'Grady
and all that stuff.
604
00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:33,740
That felt..."Yeah, that's definitely
in my wheelhouse."
605
00:27:33,740 --> 00:27:35,980
There was something clearly in Ben,
606
00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:37,620
and I suspect in Rik as well,
607
00:27:37,620 --> 00:27:43,180
there was something of Manchester
looking out at the rest of the world
608
00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:45,540
and saying, "Come on,
we're as good as you.
609
00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:47,780
"We're going to take you on."
610
00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:52,460
CALLOW: The beautiful Young Ones
were on a high
611
00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:54,540
and couldn't get much higher.
612
00:27:57,620 --> 00:28:01,220
RIK: I met Little Richard once
and we talked about how to
give the audience a good time.
613
00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:03,900
He said, "Get the band on the stage
and get the audience high."
614
00:28:03,900 --> 00:28:07,100
"When they is high,
you get on the stage yourself,
then you take 'em higher!
615
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,380
"Take 'em higher
till they can't get no higher!
616
00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:12,060
"And when they can't get no higher,
you get off that stage."
617
00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:15,540
It was all over for this
revolutionary sitcom.
618
00:28:15,540 --> 00:28:18,300
After 12 episodes of anarchy,
619
00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:21,620
The Young Ones crashed and burned.
620
00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:26,060
RIK: That's why we finished
The Young Ones after two series.
621
00:28:26,060 --> 00:28:28,420
I could think, "We've done
really, really, really well.
622
00:28:28,420 --> 00:28:30,500
"We've always tried to
keep the jokes original.
623
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,260
"We can't think of
any more originality
624
00:28:32,260 --> 00:28:34,020
"cos their brains
are just exhausted.
625
00:28:34,020 --> 00:28:37,220
"They've had a really good shagging.
OK? Kill the students."
626
00:28:38,540 --> 00:28:40,420
Drive the bus off the cliff.
627
00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:42,060
Finish. Walk away.
628
00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:44,260
Next one.
629
00:28:46,420 --> 00:28:49,140
Resistance was futile.
630
00:28:49,140 --> 00:28:52,780
The boy from Droitwich
was now king of comedy.
631
00:28:52,780 --> 00:28:56,260
And before him lay the corrupt
wasteland of showbiz,
632
00:28:56,260 --> 00:28:59,100
in Filthy, Rich & Catflap.
633
00:29:02,660 --> 00:29:04,540
Two, three, four...
634
00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:08,500
HE SINGS BADLY
# Happiness, happiness... #
635
00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:12,060
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
God bless you, one and all.
MAN: Shut up and get off!
636
00:29:12,060 --> 00:29:15,540
# The greatest feeling
that I possess... #
637
00:29:15,540 --> 00:29:17,940
The smile of a child,
a beautiful woman,
638
00:29:17,940 --> 00:29:19,620
just simply being...
639
00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:20,940
..British.
640
00:29:20,940 --> 00:29:22,060
Oh! Oh!
641
00:29:22,060 --> 00:29:23,180
Ah!
642
00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:25,500
DE LA TOUR: Rik was a very,
very handsome man.
643
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:29,500
In all his comedy,
he made himself ugly.
644
00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:32,300
He would give himself
this supercilious sneer.
645
00:29:32,300 --> 00:29:34,380
And he discovered
that very early on,
646
00:29:34,380 --> 00:29:36,300
literally looking down his nose
647
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:38,060
and literally
sneering and snorting at
648
00:29:38,060 --> 00:29:40,620
what the character would consider
to be his inferiors.
649
00:29:40,620 --> 00:29:43,380
Well, well, well,
wonders will never cease!
650
00:29:43,380 --> 00:29:45,700
Eddie Catflap's been thinking!
651
00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:47,620
Put out some bunting!
652
00:29:47,620 --> 00:29:50,620
Organise a street party!
Let off some fireworks!
653
00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:52,420
Telephone the Queen!
654
00:29:52,420 --> 00:29:54,380
Give everyone a week's holiday!
655
00:29:54,380 --> 00:29:56,380
The Man With No Brain's
been thinking!
656
00:29:56,380 --> 00:29:59,380
Everybody go to the lavatory
in amazement!
657
00:30:01,060 --> 00:30:04,260
One series was all we saw
of Richie Rich.
658
00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:06,500
The young and the restless
Rik Mayall
659
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:08,260
had films to make.
660
00:30:08,260 --> 00:30:10,180
Comic Strip films.
661
00:30:11,260 --> 00:30:13,820
VIM FUEGO: One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.
662
00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:15,460
SUSTAINED ELECTRIC GUITAR CHORD
PLAYS
663
00:30:15,460 --> 00:30:17,300
# Bad news!
664
00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,100
# Bad news!
665
00:30:21,380 --> 00:30:22,820
# Bad news!
666
00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:25,82 A# For you and you and you
and you and you... #
667
00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:28,100
One of the best Comic Strips,
I think...
668
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:30,100
Well, God, how many have
there been? 30 or 40?
669
00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:32,340
..but a very good one was Bad News.
670
00:30:32,340 --> 00:30:35,620
# Bad news
For you and you... #
671
00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:37,820
RIK: You have British heavy metal
672
00:30:37,820 --> 00:30:41,980
and British documentary-making
being ridiculed.
673
00:30:41,980 --> 00:30:44,540
LISE: Bad News was
one of those things
674
00:30:44,540 --> 00:30:47,100
that everybody thinks
is a copy of Spinal Tap,
675
00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:48,940
but was actually, you know,
676
00:30:48,940 --> 00:30:51,940
just people having the same idea
simultaneously.
677
00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:54,060
HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS
678
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:56,100
RIVRON: Rik was so
in love with himself.
679
00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:59,140
He was the centre of the world.
He was the centre of attention.
680
00:30:59,140 --> 00:31:01,620
Um, so, whatever was happening,
681
00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:04,020
whatever Rik was doing,
that was the best, you know?
682
00:31:04,020 --> 00:31:07,020
And he wasn't afraid to say that.
683
00:31:07,020 --> 00:31:09,340
Those big eyes fix you
684
00:31:09,340 --> 00:31:12,580
with kind of..."Come on, then,
we're going to have fun.
685
00:31:12,580 --> 00:31:14,100
"Whether you like it or not."
686
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:15,300
HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYS
687
00:31:15,300 --> 00:31:17,020
# Bad news!
688
00:31:18,060 --> 00:31:19,260
# Bad news!
689
00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:21,420
# Bad news! #
690
00:31:21,420 --> 00:31:24,060
The only good news for Bad News
691
00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:26,580
was the invite from The Tube,
692
00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:29,460
presented by Rik's friend
and neighbour, Jools Holland.
693
00:31:34,220 --> 00:31:36,100
You're a very visual band indeed.
694
00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,980
You still want to do an interview?
Yes. Yes, please. Yes.
695
00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:41,180
Do you want...? I think...
It's probably just me.
696
00:31:41,180 --> 00:31:43,740
Well, no, we can have
all the band in. Uh, whatever.
697
00:31:43,740 --> 00:31:46,700
I remember when they came up and
were doing the Bad News on The Tube,
698
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:48,740
and they said,
"Right, OK, so you do this."
699
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:50,580
And I was suddenly
having to remember...
700
00:31:50,580 --> 00:31:54,460
And it was like, you know, I said,
"You'll have to guide me through
this cos I haven't really..."
701
00:31:54,460 --> 00:31:56,620
But they assumed,
like them, I could do acting.
702
00:31:56,620 --> 00:31:58,420
But that wasn't really
my speciality.
703
00:31:58,420 --> 00:32:00,100
And what are you saying to the kids?
704
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:02,140
What I'm trying to say...
705
00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:04,460
I mean, when I'm writing a song,
I look around, right?
706
00:32:04,460 --> 00:32:07,540
And I see everything in the world
that's happening
707
00:32:07,540 --> 00:32:11,380
and, uh, I'm just asking
for vengeance, that's all.
708
00:32:11,380 --> 00:32:13,820
MUSIC: "Tequila" by The Champs
709
00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:21,780
Mad on mescaline,
Rik and the Comic Strip gang
710
00:32:21,780 --> 00:32:23,860
poured ideas onto a vast canvas,
711
00:32:23,860 --> 00:32:26,460
from Dorset to Planet Sex.
712
00:32:27,860 --> 00:32:29,140
Aaagh!
713
00:32:29,140 --> 00:32:31,620
On the way, great minds met.
714
00:32:31,620 --> 00:32:33,460
In Mr Jolly Lives Next Door,
715
00:32:33,460 --> 00:32:35,820
in the same time and the same place,
716
00:32:35,820 --> 00:32:37,740
Rik Mayall and Peter Cook.
717
00:32:37,740 --> 00:32:39,460
BOTH: Come in if you're saucy!
718
00:32:39,460 --> 00:32:42,140
Can I, uh, borrow some Fairy liquid?
719
00:32:42,140 --> 00:32:44,260
What?! A...Again?! Shut up, shut it!
720
00:32:44,260 --> 00:32:46,020
Of course you can, Ralphie.
721
00:32:46,020 --> 00:32:48,580
Ooh. You all right, Ralph?
Have you cut yourself shaving?
722
00:32:48,580 --> 00:32:50,060
I'll bring it back!
723
00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:56,340
The films journeyed to
the outer limits of Spain
724
00:32:56,340 --> 00:33:00,020
for the guns and poses of
the spaghetti western incident.
725
00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:04,060
You start the row.
726
00:33:04,060 --> 00:33:07,180
I went first last time.
727
00:33:07,180 --> 00:33:08,940
No, you didn't.
728
00:33:08,940 --> 00:33:11,140
Did.
729
00:33:11,140 --> 00:33:12,420
Didn't.
730
00:33:13,980 --> 00:33:15,180
Did.
731
00:33:16,460 --> 00:33:18,260
Didn't.
732
00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:19,540
Did!
733
00:33:22,020 --> 00:33:25,140
A Fistful Of Travellers Cheques
was absolutely brilliant,
734
00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:26,900
because I just like dressing up
735
00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:28,860
I wonder if...
736
00:33:28,860 --> 00:33:33,540
..comedy was slightly
more...proud in those days.
737
00:33:33,540 --> 00:33:38,340
You could make a larger,
prouder twat of yourself.
738
00:33:39,460 --> 00:33:40,740
SPITS
739
00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:42,340
Yes.
740
00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:44,500
The Comic Strip Presents,
741
00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:46,500
the Fistful Of Travellers Cheques,
742
00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:49,820
just knocked my socks off - I mean,
totally and utterly changed me
743
00:33:49,820 --> 00:33:52,980
as a fan of comedy
and as a person, I think.
744
00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:55,500
MAYER: It was just
incredibly good fun.
745
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:59,020
It was like a holiday of
massive drinking, gambling,
746
00:33:59,020 --> 00:34:01,340
getting sunburnt
747
00:34:01,340 --> 00:34:04,780
and making a film at the same time.
748
00:34:05,780 --> 00:34:09,220
The swagger within Rik Mayall
was straining at the leash
749
00:34:09,220 --> 00:34:11,900
when along came the biggest
of big characters -
750
00:34:11,900 --> 00:34:13,540
Lord Flashheart...
751
00:34:13,540 --> 00:34:16,020
I really did think old Flash
would have turned up.
752
00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:18,660
..best man for
Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder.
753
00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:22,300
I remember when he first entered
in front of the audience,
there was an audible gasp.
754
00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:24,300
It's me.
755
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:26,300
And he burst onto the set
756
00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,540
and the audience just went,
"Ohh! Who's that?"
757
00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:31,860
Flash by name, Flash by nature.
758
00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:34,940
Hooray! ALL: Hooray!
759
00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:37,860
MCINNERNY: We were all into
our characters and, uh...
760
00:34:37,860 --> 00:34:40,100
..and letting the comedy
take care of itself.
761
00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:44,260
And then...and then this force of
nature erupts on the set, you know?
762
00:34:44,260 --> 00:34:46,780
And you kind of get
carried along in its wake.
763
00:34:46,780 --> 00:34:48,260
I mean, including Rowan.
764
00:34:48,260 --> 00:34:51,220
You know, you're just kind of
hanging onto Rik's shirt-tails,
really.
765
00:34:51,220 --> 00:34:53,980
Thanks, bridesmaid! Like the beard!
766
00:34:53,980 --> 00:34:55,700
LAUGHTER
767
00:34:55,700 --> 00:34:57,940
Gives me something to hang onto!
768
00:34:57,940 --> 00:35:00,060
LAUGHTER
769
00:35:00,060 --> 00:35:01,580
Nobody knew it was Rik
770
00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:03,780
cos he was wearing this
extraordinary blonde wig
771
00:35:03,780 --> 00:35:06,580
that he'd had commissioned secretly
from the make-up ladies,
772
00:35:06,580 --> 00:35:09,140
which was adorned with tiny
seashells, which was his idea,
773
00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:10,980
which nobody
could possibly have seen.
774
00:35:10,980 --> 00:35:12,940
But he was a kind of
mad perfectionist as well.
775
00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:15,500
LAUGHTER
I've got a plan!
776
00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:17,260
And it's as hot as my pants!
777
00:35:17,260 --> 00:35:18,620
LAUGHTER
778
00:35:18,620 --> 00:35:22,100
When I joined Blackadder
and started writing Blackadder II,
779
00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,020
I was determined that there
should...Rik should be in it.
780
00:35:25,020 --> 00:35:27,340
He could not be a regular -
he wouldn't have wanted to be
781
00:35:27,340 --> 00:35:29,500
and they certainly probably
wouldn't have had him.
782
00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:30,780
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
783
00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:33,100
Flashheart is a great character.
It's well-written.
784
00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:36,060
That was what Rik could do - inspire
you to write good stuff for him.
785
00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:39,060
So long, suckers! Next time
you get bored with your lives,
give me a call.
786
00:35:39,060 --> 00:35:40,780
And I'll come round and kill you!
787
00:35:40,780 --> 00:35:43,540
Bye, Edmund, and thanks for
everything! Hooray!
788
00:35:45,780 --> 00:35:49,420
The scene-stealing Flashheart
came twice,
789
00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:52,380
returning to make life
in the First World War trenches
790
00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:54,500
even worse for Captain Blackadder.
791
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:55,700
Ha!
792
00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:57,380
Eat knuckle, Fritz!
793
00:35:57,380 --> 00:35:58,820
LAUGHTER
794
00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:02,740
The First World War, you don't
really kind of think of it as sex,
795
00:36:02,740 --> 00:36:06,060
but Flashheart comes on
and his gear is so sex!
796
00:36:06,060 --> 00:36:08,500
I mean, it's such total, 200% sex.
797
00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:12,220
Mmm! And it just made me move
and just be... It was great.
798
00:36:12,220 --> 00:36:14,420
I've got my pistol,
I've got my lariat.
799
00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:17,860
I've got everything I need.
It's just...I am a living penis!
800
00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:19,980
LAUGHTER
Mind if I use your phone?
801
00:36:19,980 --> 00:36:22,860
If word gets out that I'm missing,
500 girls will kill themselves.
802
00:36:22,860 --> 00:36:25,180
LAUGHTER
I wouldn't want them
on my conscience.
803
00:36:25,180 --> 00:36:26,980
Not when they ought to be
on my face!
804
00:36:26,980 --> 00:36:28,900
LAUGHTER
805
00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:32,180
He pretty much stole
everything he was ever in.
806
00:36:32,180 --> 00:36:33,940
Flash is not dead!
807
00:36:33,940 --> 00:36:35,740
I simply ran out of juice!
808
00:36:35,740 --> 00:36:36,860
LAUGHTER
Yeah.
809
00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:41,140
And before all the girls start
saying, "What's the point of living
any more?" I'm talking about petrol.
810
00:36:41,140 --> 00:36:42,940
Woof, woof!
811
00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:44,700
He made no secret of it -
he'd walk in and say,
812
00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:46,300
"Right, I'm going to steal it."
813
00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:47,940
You know, and then he would.
814
00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:50,660
And I think nobody
ever minded because...
815
00:36:50,660 --> 00:36:53,020
..Rik's greatness
was so unique to him
816
00:36:53,020 --> 00:36:54,820
that even if he did steal something,
817
00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:57,660
in a way, he didn't
detract from anybody else
818
00:36:57,660 --> 00:37:00,220
because he was like this sort of
firework in the middle of it.
819
00:37:00,220 --> 00:37:02,740
Rowan was sort of
blown out of the water by Rik.
820
00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:05,180
You know, it's like he's playing...
821
00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:07,620
He's not playing by the rules.
822
00:37:07,620 --> 00:37:11,540
He's actually come on and just
ripped through the whole episode
823
00:37:11,540 --> 00:37:13,180
and stolen it,
lock, stock and barrel.
824
00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:17,420
Iiiiit's me!
825
00:37:17,420 --> 00:37:18,980
Hooray! Hooray!
826
00:37:23,620 --> 00:37:27,140
The UK was now ruled by
a new breed of politician,
827
00:37:27,140 --> 00:37:29,660
and Rik wanted to fight back.
828
00:37:31,020 --> 00:37:33,500
He met the writers, Marks and Gran,
829
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:35,980
to plot his revenge
on the government.
830
00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:42,580
I said, "I want a real bastard,
a real bastard who's in the..."
831
00:37:42,580 --> 00:37:45,740
And we were talking about how much
we hated the Conservative Government
832
00:37:45,740 --> 00:37:48,020
because of the unhappiness
that they'd caused.
833
00:37:48,020 --> 00:37:50,700
I mean, real pain and hardship
and unemployment and...
834
00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:55,300
They'd...destabilised the only
kind of defence that they had -
835
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,060
the union movement.
836
00:37:57,060 --> 00:37:59,340
But, really, we just
want to get some laughs.
837
00:37:59,340 --> 00:38:02,420
And I need a target,
I need someone I hate, to be.
838
00:38:02,420 --> 00:38:04,860
And, uh...so I said, "bastard",
839
00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:07,780
and someone probably -
Laurence or Maurice -
840
00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:10,380
said, "Well, we'll call him
B'Stard. Yeah, that's good."
841
00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:16,060
Conservative MP Alan B'Stard
842
00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:20,020
was the super-villain
Rik was born to play.
843
00:38:20,020 --> 00:38:23,220
Hello. Alan B'Stard. Biggest
majority in the House of Commons.
LAUGHTER
844
00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:27,660
He beautifully embodied
the evilness of that regime.
845
00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:29,340
Remember the Falklands, guv.
846
00:38:29,340 --> 00:38:31,100
Indeed, I do. I made a fortune.
847
00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:32,580
LAUGHTER
848
00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:38,340
To carry that kind of arrogance
and sneer and snobbery and bigotry,
849
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:42,620
without making it
too horrible to watch,
850
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,660
was...was...it's really,
really clever.
851
00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:47,740
PALIN: He just...I think Rik
had a power to what he did,
852
00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:49,540
which made him always watchable.
853
00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:53,260
I mean, he does Alan B'Stard and
all that - nasty, nasty character.
854
00:38:53,260 --> 00:38:56,020
But there was something kind of
terribly watchable about him.
855
00:38:56,020 --> 00:38:58,140
I'm your new French mistress.
856
00:38:58,140 --> 00:38:59,700
Yeah.
857
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:03,420
LAUGHTER
858
00:39:09,620 --> 00:39:11,420
Sex, violence, cash.
859
00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:12,940
And more sex.
860
00:39:12,940 --> 00:39:15,300
It's very sexy, that show.
861
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,820
Very sort of...se...
862
00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:19,100
I mean, it was.
It was quite a horny show.
863
00:39:20,820 --> 00:39:22,900
I told you what would happen
864
00:39:22,900 --> 00:39:25,500
if you failed your French oral
again.
865
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:26,660
What?
866
00:39:26,660 --> 00:39:27,660
Ooh!
867
00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:29,340
LAUGHTER
868
00:39:29,340 --> 00:39:30,980
Ow! Ow!
869
00:39:32,220 --> 00:39:34,060
That hurts! I know!
870
00:39:34,060 --> 00:39:36,380
It's supposed to hurt.
871
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:37,740
Get off!
872
00:39:37,740 --> 00:39:40,620
You wicked boy! Stupid trollop!
873
00:39:41,860 --> 00:39:44,780
I'm not a masochist, I'm a sadist!
I pay to beat people.
874
00:39:44,780 --> 00:39:47,500
Fizzing with energy,
that performance.
875
00:39:47,500 --> 00:39:50,940
Even though he's playing
a Tory Cabinet Minister, I mean...
876
00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:53,380
"Tory Cabinet Minister"
and "fizzing with energy"
877
00:39:53,380 --> 00:39:55,540
don't normally sit together
in a sentence, do they?
878
00:39:57,740 --> 00:39:59,460
And so to the USA,
879
00:39:59,460 --> 00:40:01,500
to wreak havoc with the big movie,
880
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,140
with Drop Dead Fred.
881
00:40:04,140 --> 00:40:08,300
Some Americans presented me
with a script about Drop Dead Fred,
882
00:40:08,300 --> 00:40:10,020
who's an imaginary friend,
883
00:40:10,020 --> 00:40:12,620
which, in 1990,
I went over to make in America.
884
00:40:12,620 --> 00:40:15,860
These are good New York writers
and it was a huge success.
885
00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:19,740
Bleh! Aaagh! Hello, Snotface!
886
00:40:20,780 --> 00:40:23,420
Yuck! What happened to you?!
887
00:40:23,420 --> 00:40:25,780
Look at you! You're all older!
888
00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:27,500
You're even uglier!
889
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:30,740
Eugh! I'm sorry. I'm going to have
to be sick all over you immediately.
Lie down.
890
00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:34,060
After all his adventures,
891
00:40:34,060 --> 00:40:36,780
Rik now returned to his other half,
892
00:40:36,780 --> 00:40:38,260
Ade Edmondson.
893
00:40:38,260 --> 00:40:40,900
They were about to hit
the sweet spot.
894
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:43,140
The only way was up.
895
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:44,820
Bottom.
896
00:40:44,820 --> 00:40:46,660
The Young Ones was your teens.
897
00:40:46,660 --> 00:40:51,020
Then they say Filthy
was about your, uh, 20s.
898
00:40:51,020 --> 00:40:55,740
Let's say that Bottom was about
your 30s, where there's just...
899
00:40:55,740 --> 00:40:58,100
Youth has gone,
it's just, like, shit now
900
00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,460
and life is fucking nothing.
901
00:41:04,220 --> 00:41:08,220
ELTON: When Rik and Ade invented
these two absurd, endlessly
bickering characters,
902
00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:11,380
living this half-submerged life
903
00:41:11,380 --> 00:41:14,820
in a sort of sleazy world
of nothingness,
904
00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:16,620
it was Rik and Ade at their best.
905
00:41:16,620 --> 00:41:20,020
OK. OK, OK.
906
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:21,940
Let's sort this out.
907
00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:24,180
Now, we're good friends, Eddie.
908
00:41:24,180 --> 00:41:26,020
We've known each other
for a long time.
909
00:41:26,020 --> 00:41:27,700
We can talk.
910
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:31,140
And there is something I have been
meaning to say to you for the last
25 years.
911
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:33,500
LAUGHTER
Oh! What's that?
912
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:35,420
I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!
913
00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:38,620
Go away and crawl away and die
in a ditch somewhere, you bastard!
914
00:41:38,620 --> 00:41:40,380
Bottom was fantastic.
915
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:42,900
It was two people that
shouldn't be together, but are,
916
00:41:42,900 --> 00:41:46,100
uh, that just...constantly
at...going at each other.
917
00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:49,820
# Someday,
I'm gonna smack your face
918
00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:51,700
# Someday, I'm gonna
smack your face... #
919
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:56,060
They were an unbeatable combination
of physicality and violence.
920
00:41:56,060 --> 00:41:59,220
They're like a real-life
Tom and Jerry, you know?
921
00:41:59,220 --> 00:42:01,140
LAUGHTER
922
00:42:04,980 --> 00:42:07,860
SQUELCHING
Aaaagh!
923
00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:17,020
Ade and Rik
really spent a lot of time
924
00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:19,700
working out exactly
where the camera should be
925
00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:22,300
so that...it really looks like
926
00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,340
you've hit somebody properly
with a frying pan.
927
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:26,460
It takes a lot to do.
928
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:30,660
They were capable of really,
really smart, blistering satire,
929
00:42:30,660 --> 00:42:35,540
fantastic sort of politically
skewed, you know, contemporary
comedy.
930
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:38,860
And, yet, you could see
what they loved doing
931
00:42:38,860 --> 00:42:41,020
was punching each other
in the face, you know?
932
00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:43,460
LAUGHTER
Right.
933
00:42:47,020 --> 00:42:49,300
Yes, it was crass
and, yes, it was stupid.
934
00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:51,420
It was REALLY stupid.
But it wasn't half funny.
935
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:53,300
I mean, I'm laughing now,
remembering it.
936
00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:56,180
But him and Ade were...
It was priceless, you know?
937
00:42:56,180 --> 00:43:02,140
No-one did...uh, crude comedy
so poetically, I don't think.
938
00:43:02,140 --> 00:43:04,220
It had an unreality.
939
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:06,940
That was absolutely
what Rik and Ade were about.
940
00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:08,060
Yeah!
941
00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:10,340
An absurd unreality of two idiots
942
00:43:10,340 --> 00:43:13,380
who could never really compete
in the real world.
943
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:17,180
RIVRON: People sort of fell for him
and were worried for him, you know?
944
00:43:17,180 --> 00:43:20,380
Because he was this sort of...
just complete idiot,
945
00:43:20,380 --> 00:43:24,020
but trying to...trying to mean well,
but getting it wrong.
946
00:43:24,020 --> 00:43:25,860
And it was like, "Oh!"
947
00:43:25,860 --> 00:43:27,500
You know, they just wanted
to cuddle him
948
00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:31,260
and sort of, you know, befriend him
and take him under their wing.
949
00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:34,660
The whole soliloquies about life
and not having a bird,
950
00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:37,020
living with each other
and being miserable.
951
00:43:37,020 --> 00:43:38,420
I love that.
952
00:43:38,420 --> 00:43:40,060
It's Friday night,
953
00:43:40,060 --> 00:43:42,900
and everywhere you look,
there's buildings full of people,
954
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:44,460
all doing it.
955
00:43:44,460 --> 00:43:45,700
LAUGHTER
956
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:48,740
They're all doing it and doing it
and then stopping and having a fag
957
00:43:48,740 --> 00:43:50,380
and then doing it a bit more.
958
00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:52,580
There's not a single
one of them saying,
959
00:43:52,580 --> 00:43:54,980
"Hang on a minute,
this really isn't fair.
960
00:43:54,980 --> 00:43:57,540
"I mean, here's us, doing it
and doing it and doing it,
961
00:43:57,540 --> 00:44:00,500
"and there's poor old Richie
and he hasn't done it...ever.
962
00:44:00,500 --> 00:44:02,260
"He hasn't got anyone to do it TO.
963
00:44:02,260 --> 00:44:05,660
"I'll tell you what - I'll pop down
and do it to him for a bit
and then pop back up.
964
00:44:05,660 --> 00:44:07,300
"Would that be all right?"
965
00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,620
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
966
00:44:12,380 --> 00:44:15,220
Bottom was the Rik and Ade
masterpiece -
967
00:44:15,220 --> 00:44:18,180
men leading lives
of noisy desperation
968
00:44:18,180 --> 00:44:21,060
had never been
so spectacularly funny.
969
00:44:21,060 --> 00:44:24,380
And Rik's adoring fans
loved every minute.
970
00:44:24,380 --> 00:44:26,900
APPLAUSE CONTINUES
Thank you!
971
00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:28,620
Thank you.
972
00:44:28,620 --> 00:44:29,820
APPLAUSE STOPS
973
00:44:29,820 --> 00:44:31,980
Ohhh!
974
00:44:31,980 --> 00:44:33,820
I mean, as soon as he comes on...
975
00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:35,620
I mean, Rik would, you know...
976
00:44:35,620 --> 00:44:38,780
Immediate...rapport
with the audience.
977
00:44:38,780 --> 00:44:42,260
Immediate. That's who he's...that's
who he's relating to, really.
978
00:44:42,260 --> 00:44:44,260
He was a big show-off, you know?
979
00:44:44,260 --> 00:44:46,980
He...he loved...he loved performing.
980
00:44:46,980 --> 00:44:48,620
He loved showing off.
981
00:44:48,620 --> 00:44:53,620
He didn't really mind people
looking at him, you know?
982
00:44:53,620 --> 00:44:55,620
"Hey, look, everyone. Yes, it's me."
983
00:44:55,620 --> 00:44:59,460
LLOYD: Rik's public loved him,
adored him, even,
984
00:44:59,460 --> 00:45:01,180
in a way that...
985
00:45:01,180 --> 00:45:04,660
Few comedians get that kind of love.
986
00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:08,420
You respect Cleese mightily,
or Peter Cook or...
987
00:45:08,420 --> 00:45:12,100
But whether people love them
as if they knew them,
988
00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:15,180
I think is not quite the same
as what Rik had.
989
00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:17,380
There's something
that came through the persona
990
00:45:17,380 --> 00:45:20,740
which made a direct connection
with people, which is very unusual.
991
00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:26,460
In 1998, in the fields
around his home in Devon,
992
00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:30,180
Rik Mayall had an accident
which changed his life.
993
00:45:30,180 --> 00:45:33,100
The comedian Rik Mayall is in
hospital with serious head injuries
994
00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:36,220
after an accident
at his country home in Devon.
995
00:45:36,220 --> 00:45:38,780
He fell while riding
a four-wheel motorbike
996
00:45:38,780 --> 00:45:41,420
and was taken by air ambulance
to hospital in Plymouth.
997
00:45:41,420 --> 00:45:43,740
Doctors say his condition is stable.
998
00:45:46,620 --> 00:45:49,980
I was technically dead
for five days.
999
00:45:49,980 --> 00:45:52,100
What's fantastic about that
1000
00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:54,100
is that, um...
1001
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:58,020
..it happened on what my kids call
"Crap Thursday",
1002
00:45:58,020 --> 00:46:00,220
because it was the day
before Good Friday.
1003
00:46:00,220 --> 00:46:01,660
Easter '98.
1004
00:46:01,660 --> 00:46:03,620
And I died that Thursday
1005
00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:06,620
and then, uh, I came back
on the Monday,
1006
00:46:06,620 --> 00:46:08,340
which is the day after Easter day.
1007
00:46:08,340 --> 00:46:10,380
Lord knows I'm a modest man,
1008
00:46:10,380 --> 00:46:12,820
but I beat Jesus by two days.
1009
00:46:14,260 --> 00:46:16,660
SALE: The accident seemed to
have stripped him back down
1010
00:46:16,660 --> 00:46:18,780
to his essence, really,
1011
00:46:18,780 --> 00:46:24,460
of this very sweet,
slightly vulnerable, um...
1012
00:46:24,460 --> 00:46:30,020
..rather kind, gentle man, really.
1013
00:46:30,020 --> 00:46:33,340
HE LAUGHS
Oh! Ha-ha-ha!
1014
00:46:33,340 --> 00:46:35,140
Rik and Ade
resumed their partnership
1015
00:46:35,140 --> 00:46:38,820
with the mayhem
of Guest House Paradiso.
1016
00:46:38,820 --> 00:46:41,220
We were wondering
if you had any rooms.
1017
00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:43,340
Yes, we'd like two rooms, adjoining.
1018
00:46:43,340 --> 00:46:45,100
Yes, with a sea view, please.
1019
00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:46,540
Gosh.
1020
00:46:46,540 --> 00:46:49,660
You're quite forthright, aren't you,
in your demands?
1021
00:46:49,660 --> 00:46:52,460
My word, Eddie.
Important people here.
1022
00:46:52,460 --> 00:46:54,860
Well, first things first,
1023
00:46:54,860 --> 00:46:56,780
you got any valuables...
1024
00:46:56,780 --> 00:46:58,940
..that you'd like me
to put in the safe?
1025
00:46:58,940 --> 00:47:00,460
PEGG: Working with Rik was...
1026
00:47:00,460 --> 00:47:02,580
You know, I was starstruck,
you know?
1027
00:47:02,580 --> 00:47:04,540
And we'd sit and talk about
The Young Ones
1028
00:47:04,540 --> 00:47:06,660
and Rik...he'd not long
had his accident
1029
00:47:06,660 --> 00:47:09,460
and he was kind of...he was
a self-confessed scatterbrain,
1030
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:11,140
so I would know more about the show
1031
00:47:11,140 --> 00:47:13,340
and remember more about it
than he did.
1032
00:47:13,340 --> 00:47:15,100
But it was so fun to be around him
1033
00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:16,900
and see how he interacted
with the crew.
1034
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:18,700
You know, everyone seemed to love
him
1035
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:21,060
and he was...he was
quite openly insecure
1036
00:47:21,060 --> 00:47:22,940
about, um, stuff.
1037
00:47:22,940 --> 00:47:25,780
You know, like, he'd do a take
and if the crew didn't giggle,
1038
00:47:25,780 --> 00:47:27,340
he'd want to know why, you know?
1039
00:47:27,340 --> 00:47:29,940
And it was like, "Cos they're
being professional, Rik.
1040
00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:32,940
"They're trying not to ruin the take
by snorting over the sound."
1041
00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:37,940
Rik Mayall's return to television
in Jonathan Creek
1042
00:47:37,940 --> 00:47:39,740
was another triumph.
1043
00:47:41,140 --> 00:47:43,420
Marella Carney
had already departed this world
1044
00:47:43,420 --> 00:47:45,060
by 12 noon yesterday,
1045
00:47:45,060 --> 00:47:47,580
a good four hours
before she shot herself.
1046
00:47:47,580 --> 00:47:50,540
If you can come up with a better
trick than that, Mr Creek,
1047
00:47:50,540 --> 00:47:52,820
I'd like to see it some time.
1048
00:47:52,820 --> 00:47:56,420
There would be countless more
television series and films.
1049
00:47:56,420 --> 00:47:58,460
We always got maximum Rik.
1050
00:47:58,460 --> 00:48:00,020
And the Bottom tours
1051
00:48:00,020 --> 00:48:02,500
brought the house down
every night...
1052
00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:03,900
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1053
00:48:03,900 --> 00:48:08,380
..in every city across
the United Kingdom of Rik Mayall.
1054
00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:10,380
Come on!
1055
00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:16,740
You fat prick! Aaah!
1056
00:48:16,740 --> 00:48:21,140
Like good whiskey,
Rik Mayall got better with age.
1057
00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:23,180
The devilment deepening...
1058
00:48:23,180 --> 00:48:24,420
HORN BLARES
1059
00:48:24,420 --> 00:48:26,460
..the behaviour unhinged.
1060
00:48:26,460 --> 00:48:29,740
And as Greg Davies's father
in Man Down,
1061
00:48:29,740 --> 00:48:32,340
a performance as good as it gets.
1062
00:48:32,340 --> 00:48:33,620
THEY BOTH LAUGH
1063
00:48:33,620 --> 00:48:35,540
Certainly since my late 20s,
1064
00:48:35,540 --> 00:48:38,340
people have been telling me
that I look like him and, uh...
1065
00:48:38,340 --> 00:48:41,340
So, when I knew I had a sitcom,
1066
00:48:41,340 --> 00:48:43,260
he was the fantasy casting
to play my dad.
1067
00:48:43,260 --> 00:48:44,900
Him as a performer is...
1068
00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,860
He held nothing back.
1069
00:48:47,860 --> 00:48:50,300
He threw caution to the wind.
He would throw himself...
1070
00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:52,860
He threw himself over a car
in a bear suit.
1071
00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:55,660
Aaaaagh!
1072
00:48:58,180 --> 00:49:00,220
There was a really great
atmosphere on set.
1073
00:49:00,220 --> 00:49:02,820
I had a hug every morning
from Rik Mayall.
1074
00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:06,580
Yeah. Every morning, on set,
I was greeted with a hug.
1075
00:49:06,580 --> 00:49:09,220
Does he need a hug from the bear?
1076
00:49:09,220 --> 00:49:11,380
Come and have a hug from the bear!
No!
1077
00:49:11,380 --> 00:49:13,100
And he'd put his arms around me
1078
00:49:13,100 --> 00:49:15,500
and he whispered,
"Comrade," in my ear.
1079
00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:17,460
And I thought, "Yeah.
1080
00:49:17,460 --> 00:49:20,060
"I won't be forgetting
this moment in a hurry."
1081
00:49:26,940 --> 00:49:31,620
Rik Mayall died
on the 9th of June 2014.
1082
00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:35,740
LLOYD: He was on all the front
pages.
1083
00:49:35,740 --> 00:49:38,140
I mean, all of them,
across the whole range of...
1084
00:49:38,140 --> 00:49:40,780
You know, red-tops to broadsheets,
1085
00:49:40,780 --> 00:49:45,260
which I can't really think of
another person in recent years
1086
00:49:45,260 --> 00:49:47,260
that the same was quite true of.
1087
00:49:47,260 --> 00:49:49,460
There was one wonderful thing.
1088
00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:51,980
I think it was the front page
of The Times.
1089
00:49:51,980 --> 00:49:55,500
And Michael Gove had been saying,
1090
00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:58,340
"We must, in schools,
1091
00:49:58,340 --> 00:50:01,100
"inculcate British values."
1092
00:50:01,100 --> 00:50:05,220
And next to it was a picture
of Rik looking absolutely mad.
1093
00:50:05,220 --> 00:50:07,940
And I'm sure The Times
must have done that on purpose.
1094
00:50:07,940 --> 00:50:09,940
It was a wonderful,
wonderful front page.
1095
00:50:11,060 --> 00:50:14,140
SAYLE: When he died, there was this
extraordinary outpouring of
affection
1096
00:50:14,140 --> 00:50:16,380
that you...you know...which was...
1097
00:50:16,380 --> 00:50:19,060
In a way, you just saw
how many people loved him, really.
1098
00:50:19,060 --> 00:50:21,700
I think there was
that big outpouring when he died
1099
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:23,900
because, um, he never
offended anyone.
1100
00:50:23,900 --> 00:50:26,260
He liked everybody.
1101
00:50:27,300 --> 00:50:32,060
DAVIES: I wasn't surprised at all by
the national reaction to him dying.
1102
00:50:32,060 --> 00:50:34,980
No, I wasn't surprised at all.
1103
00:50:34,980 --> 00:50:38,380
Quite right. I think that's what he
would have said. "Quite right too."
1104
00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:41,140
MAYER: It's really wonderful
for his family
1105
00:50:41,140 --> 00:50:43,380
and his kids and...
1106
00:50:43,380 --> 00:50:46,860
He would have been...he would have
been very pleased, I think.
1107
00:50:46,860 --> 00:50:50,140
ELTON: What's great
is that his children
1108
00:50:50,140 --> 00:50:53,340
will be able to look at
what was said,
1109
00:50:53,340 --> 00:50:54,980
and it's all true,
1110
00:50:54,980 --> 00:50:58,620
about how very special
their father was,
1111
00:50:58,620 --> 00:51:02,260
not just to them but to the world.
1112
00:51:03,860 --> 00:51:06,420
Rik, the student
from Scumbag College,
1113
00:51:06,420 --> 00:51:08,420
failed his degree.
1114
00:51:08,420 --> 00:51:11,580
But 20 years later,
Rik Mayall, the man,
1115
00:51:11,580 --> 00:51:15,260
was awarded an honorary doctorate
by the University of Exeter.
1116
00:51:15,260 --> 00:51:17,860
Older, wiser,
1117
00:51:17,860 --> 00:51:21,380
Dr Rik Mayall
knew the secret of life.
1118
00:51:22,740 --> 00:51:25,940
Let me give you youngsters
a present.
1119
00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:31,220
Five mantras to carry with you
through your lives.
1120
00:51:31,220 --> 00:51:32,740
These are mine.
1121
00:51:32,740 --> 00:51:36,020
Number one - all men are equal.
1122
00:51:36,020 --> 00:51:40,460
Therefore, no-one can ever be
your genuine superior.
1123
00:51:40,460 --> 00:51:45,740
Number two - your future
is as bright as you make it.
1124
00:51:45,740 --> 00:51:50,460
Number three -
change is a constant of life,
1125
00:51:50,460 --> 00:51:53,820
so you must never, ever
lose your wisdom.
1126
00:51:54,860 --> 00:52:00,220
Number four - if you want to live
a full and complete human life,
1127
00:52:00,220 --> 00:52:02,340
you have to be free.
1128
00:52:03,620 --> 00:52:05,460
And number five -
1129
00:52:05,460 --> 00:52:09,700
love is the answer.
1130
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:13,420
Love is the answer. Bon voyage!
1131
00:52:13,420 --> 00:52:17,220
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
1132
00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:24,500
MAYER: He was unique.
1133
00:52:24,500 --> 00:52:28,580
People like Rik
don't come along very often.
1134
00:52:28,580 --> 00:52:30,540
Blimey - 56, you know?
1135
00:52:30,540 --> 00:52:32,820
That's...that's...that's too young.
1136
00:52:32,820 --> 00:52:34,300
Yeah.
1137
00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:38,580
MCINNERNY: It does seem impossible
that that amount of energy
1138
00:52:38,580 --> 00:52:41,540
can be extinguished, you know.
1139
00:52:43,180 --> 00:52:45,460
It's where you find yourself,
you know,
1140
00:52:45,460 --> 00:52:47,620
wishing you were a Buddhist
or something and...
1141
00:52:47,620 --> 00:52:50,740
"Well, it must go somewhere else,
then. It must go into somebody
else."
1142
00:52:50,740 --> 00:52:51,860
You know?
1143
00:52:51,860 --> 00:52:55,020
That moment, somebody's been born
with Rik's energy and talent.
1144
00:52:55,020 --> 00:52:57,980
That would be...that would be...
you know, that would be something.
1145
00:52:57,980 --> 00:53:00,500
HENRY: The last time I saw him
properly was a birthday party
1146
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:02,940
and he was just very funny
and very charming.
1147
00:53:02,940 --> 00:53:05,540
He wanted to work.
He was pitching ideas.
1148
00:53:05,540 --> 00:53:07,820
You know, he wanted...
LAUGHS
1149
00:53:07,820 --> 00:53:10,380
He wanted to do
an interracial cop buddy movie
1150
00:53:10,380 --> 00:53:13,260
where everybody thought we were gay.
1151
00:53:13,260 --> 00:53:14,380
LAUGHS
1152
00:53:14,380 --> 00:53:15,940
RIVRON: He loved the business.
1153
00:53:15,940 --> 00:53:17,700
He loved that everyone else
was doing it.
1154
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:21,020
He loved the fact that, you know,
it was a means of making money.
1155
00:53:21,020 --> 00:53:24,260
It was just like...he was in
this sort of complete heaven
1156
00:53:24,260 --> 00:53:28,140
where he could express himself
so faultlessly and so naturally,
1157
00:53:28,140 --> 00:53:30,220
and just be very,
very successful at it.
1158
00:53:30,220 --> 00:53:32,620
He was just like...
every day was a joy when he woke up.
1159
00:53:32,620 --> 00:53:34,500
It was amazing.
1160
00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:38,620
His incredible generosity of spirit,
love of his friends
1161
00:53:38,620 --> 00:53:40,300
and endless optimism
1162
00:53:40,300 --> 00:53:43,020
was with him all his life.
1163
00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:45,580
And I miss him very, very much.
1164
00:53:47,540 --> 00:53:51,060
"Once in every lifetime
comes a love like this.
1165
00:53:51,060 --> 00:53:52,860
"I need you.
1166
00:53:52,860 --> 00:53:54,220
"You need me.
1167
00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:58,180
"Oh, my darling, can't you see?
1168
00:53:58,180 --> 00:54:00,220
"Young ones.
1169
00:54:00,220 --> 00:54:03,500
"Darling, we're the young ones.
1170
00:54:04,900 --> 00:54:07,300
"The young ones shouldn't be afraid
1171
00:54:07,300 --> 00:54:11,300
"To live...love.
1172
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:13,460
"There's a song to be sung.
1173
00:54:13,460 --> 00:54:16,940
"Cos we may not be the young ones...
1174
00:54:16,940 --> 00:54:18,740
"..very long."
1175
00:54:22,580 --> 00:54:24,300
APPLAUSE
1176
00:54:24,300 --> 00:54:27,220
BLUES MUSIC PLAYS
1177
00:54:28,580 --> 00:54:30,380
# If you're looking for trouble
1178
00:54:30,380 --> 00:54:32,140
# You've come to the right place
1179
00:54:32,140 --> 00:54:34,020
# If you're looking for trouble
1180
00:54:34,020 --> 00:54:35,700
# Just look right in my face
1181
00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:37,340
# I was born standing up
1182
00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:39,020
# And talking back
1183
00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:41,860
# My daddy was a piece
of railroad track
1184
00:54:41,860 --> 00:54:44,700
# Because I'm evil
1185
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:46,900
# My middle name is Misery
1186
00:54:49,220 --> 00:54:51,300
# Yes, I am evil
1187
00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:54,060
# So, don't you mess around with me
1188
00:54:56,620 --> 00:54:58,340
# I don't wipe my bottom
1189
00:54:58,340 --> 00:55:00,100
# When I go to the loo
1190
00:55:00,100 --> 00:55:01,820
# I'm rude to policemen
1191
00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:04,100
# And I pick my nose too
1192
00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:05,740
# There's no stopping me
1193
00:55:05,740 --> 00:55:07,380
# I'm bloody mad!
1194
00:55:07,380 --> 00:55:10,860
# I smoke marijuana
and I don't go to lectures
1195
00:55:10,860 --> 00:55:12,620
# Cos I'm evil
1196
00:55:12,620 --> 00:55:15,660
# My middle name is Jeremy
1197
00:55:17,380 --> 00:55:19,620
# Yes, I'm evil
1198
00:55:19,620 --> 00:55:21,860
# So don't you mess around
with me! #
1199
00:55:21,860 --> 00:55:25,060
Mess around, everybody!
1200
00:55:29,860 --> 00:55:30,940
Guitar!
1201
00:55:34,580 --> 00:55:36,700
HE STRUMS DISCORDANTLY
1202
00:55:46,940 --> 00:55:48,500
# I live with my mum
1203
00:55:48,500 --> 00:55:50,460
# But she gets on my wick
1204
00:55:50,460 --> 00:55:52,140
# And when I'm told off
1205
00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:53,740
# I'm deliberately sick
1206
00:55:53,740 --> 00:55:55,700
# So look out, you squares
1207
00:55:55,700 --> 00:55:57,540
# I'm an angry young man
1208
00:55:57,540 --> 00:56:00,700
# I once showed my willy
to Princess Anne
1209
00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:02,100
# Because I'm evil
1210
00:56:03,340 --> 00:56:05,180
# My middle name is Jeremy
1211
00:56:07,980 --> 00:56:10,180
# Yes, I am evil... #
1212
00:56:10,180 --> 00:56:11,220
Rock!
1213
00:56:11,220 --> 00:56:14,060
So...don't...you...
1214
00:56:14,060 --> 00:56:16,460
..mess...a...
1215
00:56:17,580 --> 00:56:20,500
..round...with...
1216
00:56:20,500 --> 00:56:23,500
# Meeeeee! #
1217
00:56:23,500 --> 00:56:25,140
Bloody hell!
88841
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