1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:04,600 SIMON CALLOW: Of all the people who ever lived, 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:09,200 only one can say, "I am Rik Mayall" - 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,900 creator of The Young Ones, 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:14,260 a pan-global phenomenon, 5 00:00:14,260 --> 00:00:16,380 loved by millions. 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:20,700 On the day he was born, the gods cried, 7 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:23,300 "Let there be light entertainment." 8 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:25,300 And there was. 9 00:00:25,300 --> 00:00:27,620 He dreamt the impossible dream. 10 00:00:27,620 --> 00:00:30,580 And there will never be another. 11 00:00:30,580 --> 00:00:34,260 With Rik's death, I think people remembered 12 00:00:34,260 --> 00:00:37,860 just how golden he was in his youth. 13 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:39,940 He was a golden youth. 14 00:00:39,940 --> 00:00:43,500 He was very beautiful. An extremely handsome man. 15 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:46,020 LAUGHTER What is it? 16 00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:49,900 LAUGHTER 17 00:00:49,900 --> 00:00:51,460 Right on. 18 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:54,020 He did more wonderful stuff than most 19 00:00:54,020 --> 00:00:57,580 and when it was wonderful, it was very, very wonderful. 20 00:00:57,580 --> 00:00:59,220 HE LAUGHS 21 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,180 GRUNTS PASSIONATELY 22 00:01:06,180 --> 00:01:08,700 If there's been a funnier person, I don't know who it is. 23 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:10,580 I...you know, I couldn't name anyone 24 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:13,260 who's made me laugh any more than that man did. 25 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:15,780 LAUGHTER 26 00:01:15,780 --> 00:01:20,780 As the one person in The Young Ones who was both performer and writer, 27 00:01:20,780 --> 00:01:24,660 you know, he was the central driving force of The Young Ones - 28 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:27,340 you know, he was the greatest of us all in that way. 29 00:01:27,340 --> 00:01:30,100 MICHAEL PALIN: Rik seemed to be able to produce this stuff 30 00:01:30,100 --> 00:01:33,380 and be fairly sane and normal, 31 00:01:33,380 --> 00:01:35,100 which is great, you know? 32 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:38,020 And everybody... Action! 33 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:39,300 LAUGHTER 34 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:43,140 When you're Rik Mayall, why worry about being funny? He didn't have to worry about anything. 35 00:01:43,140 --> 00:01:45,140 He was Rik. He just had to be Rik. That was that. 36 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:49,260 Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho, Vyvyan! 37 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:51,060 Comedy weapon. 38 00:01:51,060 --> 00:01:53,660 Joke machine! Gag apocalypse! 39 00:01:53,660 --> 00:01:55,700 I pick my nose, women get pregnant. 40 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:58,140 If he was a mathematician, you'd go, "Genius." 41 00:01:58,140 --> 00:02:00,540 If he was Einstein, he'd get a Nobel Prize. 42 00:02:00,540 --> 00:02:03,180 That's how brilliant his brain was. 43 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:05,580 Not that many are beautiful and that funny. 44 00:02:06,620 --> 00:02:09,940 CALLOW: We can't believe he's gone, because he's still here - 45 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:13,700 in interviews, films and photographs never seen before. 46 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:16,740 Some things last forever, 47 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:19,580 like the legend of Rik Mayall. 48 00:02:20,780 --> 00:02:24,140 Why isn't Rik Mayall in a three-hour program? 49 00:02:24,140 --> 00:02:26,100 Why is he only in a 40-minute program, 50 00:02:26,100 --> 00:02:27,980 with other actors in it, for God's sake?! 51 00:02:27,980 --> 00:02:31,860 Surely, it should just be Rik talking about himself, on his own... 52 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:34,100 ..for...ever. 53 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:36,340 BRASS FANFARE PLAYS 54 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:39,940 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 55 00:02:45,460 --> 00:02:47,860 Rik, from the first second I met him, 56 00:02:47,860 --> 00:02:49,740 I knew that I was in the presence 57 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:54,340 of a great and extraordinary comic spirit. 58 00:02:54,340 --> 00:02:58,220 I can remember, absolutely, the moment I first laid eyes on him. 59 00:02:58,220 --> 00:03:00,660 It was at a freshers entertainment. I was a first-year. 60 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:03,220 He and Ade were third-years at Manchester University 61 00:03:03,220 --> 00:03:06,580 and he just said, "Hi. I'm Rik Mayall." 62 00:03:06,580 --> 00:03:09,420 And he said it with such... HE LAUGHS 63 00:03:09,420 --> 00:03:12,300 ..utter confidence, such utter joy in himself. 64 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:14,300 I mean, he had some quite good lines. 65 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:17,700 He said something about the first rule you have to do if you're a first-year 66 00:03:17,700 --> 00:03:20,020 is, if you're a girl, you have to shag Rik Mayall 67 00:03:20,020 --> 00:03:24,420 and if you're a guy, you have to introduce Rik Mayall to a girl that he can shag, or something like that. 68 00:03:24,420 --> 00:03:27,340 But it was the wonderful comedic confidence. 69 00:03:27,340 --> 00:03:32,260 He enjoyed being Rik Mayall enormously and hilariously. 70 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:35,780 He certainly wasn't shy in proclaiming that he was the best. 71 00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:38,020 But you can do that if you are the best, can't you? 72 00:03:38,020 --> 00:03:39,780 SIMON PEGG: His kind of shtick 73 00:03:39,780 --> 00:03:41,820 was these layers of fake modesty 74 00:03:41,820 --> 00:03:43,580 and fake arrogance. 75 00:03:43,580 --> 00:03:45,740 You know, you never could tell which was which, 76 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:47,740 but you knew, ultimately, 77 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:50,460 that he was a big-hearted and warm person 78 00:03:50,460 --> 00:03:51,980 and he didn't, you know... 79 00:03:51,980 --> 00:03:54,620 As much as he kind of grandstanded 80 00:03:54,620 --> 00:03:57,900 this insane sort of boasty personality, 81 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:01,620 he had a huge amount of humility. 82 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:05,340 Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?! 83 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:08,780 LAUGHTER Down, boy! Down! 84 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:10,980 I have always been known as 85 00:04:10,980 --> 00:04:13,580 the man with the largest penis on the planet. 86 00:04:13,580 --> 00:04:15,420 I've always kept quiet about that. 87 00:04:15,420 --> 00:04:18,060 What does a man with a two-foot cock have for breakfast? 88 00:04:18,060 --> 00:04:19,700 This morning, I had a boiled egg. 89 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:22,420 LAUGHTER 90 00:04:23,940 --> 00:04:25,260 HE LAUGHS 91 00:04:25,260 --> 00:04:27,740 Oh, Rik's penis. Good times. 92 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:30,340 It wasn't two-foot. He claims it was. It wasn't. 93 00:04:30,340 --> 00:04:32,620 Um, but in Rik's world, 94 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:34,380 you know, it is that big 95 00:04:34,380 --> 00:04:37,380 and in Rik's world, you know, anything goes. 96 00:04:37,380 --> 00:04:40,780 No, no, he did have the biggest knob in show business. 97 00:04:42,060 --> 00:04:45,460 CALLOW: Rik Mayall was born on the 7th of March, 1958. 98 00:04:45,460 --> 00:04:47,140 A Pisces - 99 00:04:47,140 --> 00:04:49,100 the poet of the zodiac, 100 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,340 destined to fill the world with love, anarchy 101 00:04:52,340 --> 00:04:54,620 and wonderful violence. 102 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:57,900 METAL CLANGS 103 00:04:57,900 --> 00:05:01,420 RHYTHMIC THUMPING AND CLANGING 104 00:05:02,540 --> 00:05:04,580 THUMPING CONTINUES 105 00:05:04,580 --> 00:05:08,780 LAUGHTER 106 00:05:11,180 --> 00:05:13,180 CLANGING 107 00:05:13,180 --> 00:05:16,380 THUMPING AND CLANGING 108 00:05:19,460 --> 00:05:21,980 Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! 109 00:05:21,980 --> 00:05:24,540 Aaaah! Brrrrrlllll! Ha-ha! 110 00:05:24,540 --> 00:05:28,180 When comedy is at its purest, at its most sublime, 111 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:30,140 is when it comes out as nothing. 112 00:05:30,140 --> 00:05:32,260 It's not a clever line, it's not some observation, 113 00:05:32,260 --> 00:05:35,380 and that's what was really sublime about Rick - 114 00:05:35,380 --> 00:05:39,540 that he could make you laugh just without...with saying nothing. 115 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:40,940 What? 116 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:42,580 LAUGHTER 117 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:45,380 What is it? What's going on? 118 00:05:45,380 --> 00:05:47,500 DAVIES: It was the first time it felt like, 119 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:49,540 "These characters are for ME to laugh at." 120 00:05:49,540 --> 00:05:53,740 Not having to struggle to work out why he's funny. He just is funny. 121 00:05:53,740 --> 00:05:56,700 You know, my grandparents disapproved of him, 122 00:05:56,700 --> 00:05:58,380 which was perfect. 123 00:05:58,380 --> 00:06:00,420 You know, it was like, "Brilliant. 124 00:06:00,420 --> 00:06:02,660 "I'm glad you don't like him cos he's not FOR you." 125 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:03,820 Yeah. 126 00:06:06,740 --> 00:06:09,740 CALLOW: Rik Mayall's words were his weapons 127 00:06:09,740 --> 00:06:11,780 and he was armed to the teeth. 128 00:06:11,780 --> 00:06:14,700 He was young, he was angry, 129 00:06:14,700 --> 00:06:17,340 he was the voice of a generation. 130 00:06:17,340 --> 00:06:19,660 APPLAUSE 131 00:06:19,660 --> 00:06:21,380 My name's Rik, OK? 132 00:06:21,380 --> 00:06:22,820 And, uh... 133 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:24,540 I've got a couple of, uh... 134 00:06:24,540 --> 00:06:26,660 This...this is probably a waste of time. 135 00:06:26,660 --> 00:06:28,580 LAUGHTER I've got... 136 00:06:31,860 --> 00:06:33,060 Right. 137 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:34,980 I've got a couple of poems here. 138 00:06:34,980 --> 00:06:38,820 Uh, I don't know if any of you are into poetry at all. 139 00:06:38,820 --> 00:06:40,460 LAUGHTER Shut up! 140 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:43,420 I've always liked being crap. 141 00:06:43,420 --> 00:06:45,060 Um... 142 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:48,780 ..playing people who are really crap at doing things. 143 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:51,260 "Perhaps I should ask Vanessa Redgrave." 144 00:06:51,260 --> 00:06:52,820 LAUGHTER 145 00:06:52,820 --> 00:06:55,300 "But I don't know Vanessa Redgrave." 146 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:56,980 LAUGHTER 147 00:06:56,980 --> 00:07:00,180 "And neither do you, theatre." 148 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:03,180 RUBY WAX: First of all, he was so beautiful, your eyes hurt. 149 00:07:03,180 --> 00:07:07,780 And then, uh, he did that poem about Vanessa Redgrave 150 00:07:07,780 --> 00:07:10,420 and I've never had that experience since, 151 00:07:10,420 --> 00:07:13,980 is that you saw the total star. 152 00:07:13,980 --> 00:07:15,420 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 153 00:07:15,420 --> 00:07:17,020 Shut up! 154 00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:23,460 CALLOW: The Mayall family was Rik and his brother and two sisters. 155 00:07:23,460 --> 00:07:25,300 His parents were teachers... 156 00:07:25,300 --> 00:07:26,820 ..of drama. 157 00:07:26,820 --> 00:07:29,860 Rik's dad was a very funny guy 158 00:07:29,860 --> 00:07:33,300 and, you know, used to...you know... 159 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,380 They'd do bits of amateur drama and everything, 160 00:07:36,380 --> 00:07:38,900 but he would, you know, do, you know... 161 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:42,220 You'd suddenly see him walking behind you on the pavement, 162 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:44,540 you know, pretending to have a limp 163 00:07:44,540 --> 00:07:47,900 or...or, you know, making a silly face or something. 164 00:07:47,900 --> 00:07:52,540 And a lot of...you know, a lot of Rik came from that. 165 00:07:52,540 --> 00:07:54,380 166 00:07:54,380 --> 00:07:57,900 There would never be anything ordinary about Rik Mayall. 167 00:07:57,900 --> 00:08:00,900 And the sign of things to come happened at his school 168 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:02,780 in Droitwich, Worcestershire. 169 00:08:02,780 --> 00:08:05,300 The children were there to praise the Lord, 170 00:08:05,300 --> 00:08:08,660 but they found the Rik Mayall. 171 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:11,100 My teacher said to me, "Now, Richard, 172 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,060 "I don't want you to sing at all because your voice is horrible! 173 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:16,420 "You have got a horrible voice, Richard. 174 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:18,060 "Now, I'm quite serious about this, 175 00:08:18,060 --> 00:08:21,740 "so I want you to move your mouth as if you are singing the hymns 176 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:23,820 "but I don't want you to make any sound at all 177 00:08:23,820 --> 00:08:25,340 "with that horrible voice of yours. 178 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:26,940 "Do you understand?" 179 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:28,060 "Yes, Miss." 180 00:08:28,060 --> 00:08:29,540 THEY CONTINUE SINGING 181 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:32,140 So, up we stood, in front of the teachers, 182 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:34,020 and I was going... 183 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:38,140 ..and pulling all sorts of faces. 184 00:08:38,140 --> 00:08:41,140 And I started getting laughs, which was fantastic. 185 00:08:41,140 --> 00:08:43,860 I was getting laughs off the audience, during the hymns, 186 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:46,460 and pulling all sorts of grotesque faces 187 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:49,660 and moving my mouth out of time with the music. 188 00:08:49,660 --> 00:08:54,140 And occasionally going kind of, "Nah, nah, nah, nah!" 189 00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:56,660 Big laughs, and I liked that a lot. 190 00:08:56,660 --> 00:08:59,220 So, I thought, "Oh, I like this. 191 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:01,700 "I like these laughs." 192 00:09:04,060 --> 00:09:06,620 The young Rik lived for kicks. 193 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:08,420 It was 1975 - 194 00:09:08,420 --> 00:09:11,220 time to follow his star to the English north, 195 00:09:11,220 --> 00:09:12,820 to Manchester, 196 00:09:12,820 --> 00:09:15,260 to change his life forever. 197 00:09:15,260 --> 00:09:17,420 There was a load of us got in 198 00:09:17,420 --> 00:09:19,220 to Manchester University, 199 00:09:19,220 --> 00:09:23,620 uh, who were kind of the sleazy, naughty boys. 200 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:26,620 That's, remember, Ade, who's a very sleazy, naughty boy, 201 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:28,460 and, um... 202 00:09:28,460 --> 00:09:30,900 ..uh, God, a couple of my mates from school, 203 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:32,980 Mike Redfern, Mark Dewison. 204 00:09:32,980 --> 00:09:35,900 And I met Lloyd Peters. He was an important person. 205 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:37,940 He's from Leeds. 206 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:39,340 We liked the physical. 207 00:09:39,340 --> 00:09:42,100 We were very into, um, not just Python, 208 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,620 but Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers. 209 00:09:44,620 --> 00:09:46,940 And he could do this amazing party trick 210 00:09:46,940 --> 00:09:50,300 where he bent the top of his ear into his earhole. 211 00:09:51,940 --> 00:09:55,500 LAUGHTER 212 00:09:59,420 --> 00:10:01,020 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE 213 00:10:01,020 --> 00:10:04,060 A very strange thing to be able to do, let's be honest. 214 00:10:04,060 --> 00:10:06,900 And it was kind of just sort of weirdly funny. 215 00:10:06,900 --> 00:10:10,060 There's quite a few talented young comedians doing some... 216 00:10:10,060 --> 00:10:11,740 HIS VOICE FADES 217 00:10:11,740 --> 00:10:15,220 LIVELY PIANO MUSIC 218 00:10:20,140 --> 00:10:21,540 219 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:24,060 CALLOW: Destiny decided the University of Manchester 220 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:26,260 would be the start of it all. 221 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:28,220 Rik was amongst friends... 222 00:10:28,220 --> 00:10:29,620 223 00:10:29,620 --> 00:10:33,460 ..and they called themselves 20th Century Coyote. 224 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:37,420 Blood, sugar, sex, magic. 225 00:10:37,420 --> 00:10:40,420 Love and violence - Rik and Ade. 226 00:10:41,580 --> 00:10:44,660 We thought, "We need someone bigger and louder and..." 227 00:10:44,660 --> 00:10:47,380 HE EXHALES "..more dangerous." 228 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:50,140 And I'm saying, "What about that blond guy?" 229 00:10:50,140 --> 00:10:51,980 And everybody was really scared of Ade. 230 00:10:51,980 --> 00:10:53,660 He had this fantastic long blonde hair 231 00:10:53,660 --> 00:10:55,340 and these John Lennon spectacles on. 232 00:10:55,340 --> 00:10:58,460 But I do remember going up and saying, "Um, hi, Ade." 233 00:10:58,460 --> 00:11:01,420 HE LAUGHS NERVOUSLY "Uh... Hi." 234 00:11:01,420 --> 00:11:03,260 He's..."What do you want?" 235 00:11:03,260 --> 00:11:04,380 HE LAUGHS 236 00:11:04,380 --> 00:11:06,500 And immediately, the relationship was born. 237 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:09,020 MUSIC: "Pretty Vacant" by the Sex Pistols 238 00:11:09,020 --> 00:11:12,500 Adrian Edmondson - the prince. 239 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,500 The one who knew what had to be done. 240 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:17,540 Together, they were everything - 241 00:11:17,540 --> 00:11:21,180 intertwined and ascending to the stuff of legend. 242 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:24,820 Oh, so pretty... 243 00:11:24,820 --> 00:11:27,620 Two stars colliding for a lifetime. 244 00:11:27,620 --> 00:11:30,740 It was fate, and there were pubs. 245 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:33,540 I'm afraid we used to pass a hat round afterwards 246 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:36,220 and then, with the meagre money we got from that, 247 00:11:36,220 --> 00:11:38,900 we'd, uh...we'd get drunk... 248 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:40,700 ..which seemed, like..."Fantastic. 249 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:44,060 "Go to pub, make a load of people laugh, get drunk." 250 00:11:44,060 --> 00:11:45,780 Where's the problem in that? 251 00:11:45,780 --> 00:11:49,660 "Show off, make some people laugh, get drunk. 252 00:11:49,660 --> 00:11:51,500 "Ask girls to come and see it, 253 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:54,340 "girls get impressed by the show, shag girls. 254 00:11:54,340 --> 00:11:56,860 "Shag girls, get drunk, have good time." 255 00:11:58,180 --> 00:12:01,620 That is...light entertainment. 256 00:12:03,260 --> 00:12:06,500 Manchester was conquered and London was calling. 257 00:12:08,220 --> 00:12:11,220 To the lawless underworld of Soho they came. 258 00:12:11,220 --> 00:12:13,620 I'll do you, sunshine. 259 00:12:13,620 --> 00:12:15,500 20th Century Coyote, 260 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:17,460 now just Rik and Ade, 261 00:12:17,460 --> 00:12:20,340 aka The Dangerous Brothers. 262 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:21,980 I first saw Rik... 263 00:12:21,980 --> 00:12:23,780 I didn't know it was Rik. 264 00:12:23,780 --> 00:12:26,180 I just knew this wonderful, extraordinary double act 265 00:12:26,180 --> 00:12:28,300 that he did with Adrian Edmondson. 266 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:30,260 And that's the first time I saw it. 267 00:12:30,260 --> 00:12:33,540 And I marked them down at the time as being... 268 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:36,900 .."These are an extraordinary... This is something pretty extraordinary." 269 00:12:36,900 --> 00:12:38,620 Yeah. "These guys are special." 270 00:12:38,620 --> 00:12:41,340 BOTH SHOUT Once there was a French goose with a beret on, 271 00:12:41,340 --> 00:12:43,100 pecking buttons in a lift with its beak. 272 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:45,100 And then it goes up and down. What's that? 273 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:47,540 LAUGHTER 274 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:50,700 We've got 'em. We've got 'em. 275 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:51,980 LAUGHTER 276 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:55,580 A gooseberry! A bloody gooseberry! Gooseberry! Gooseberry! 277 00:12:55,580 --> 00:12:59,140 I'd never seen anybody that confident onstage...ever. 278 00:12:59,140 --> 00:13:01,500 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 00:13:04,060 --> 00:13:06,620 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 00:13:08,220 --> 00:13:09,820 And Robin Williams was performing 283 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:12,500 and Rik was just...not even considering them as competition. 284 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:14,380 He was just onstage, loving it. 285 00:13:14,380 --> 00:13:16,020 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 00:13:21,820 --> 00:13:23,660 Yeah. HE SNORTS Have you got some, um...? 289 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:27,100 LAUGHTER 290 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,460 Yeah. It's all a bit wacky here, isn't it? Ha! 291 00:13:31,460 --> 00:13:34,180 We're all a bit mad. We were up till midnight last night! 292 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:35,260 Ha! HE SNORTS 293 00:13:35,260 --> 00:13:37,540 Eating biscuits, anything. We're crazy! We don't care. 294 00:13:37,540 --> 00:13:39,140 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 00:13:42,380 --> 00:13:44,860 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 00:13:47,740 --> 00:13:50,140 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 last Saturday night 308 00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:15,500 the stars were bright 309 00:14:15,500 --> 00:14:18,340 310 00:14:18,340 --> 00:14:20,780 and she said, "Yeah!" 311 00:14:20,780 --> 00:14:21,820 HE SNORTS 312 00:14:21,820 --> 00:14:24,020 and hopped and bopped 313 00:14:24,020 --> 00:14:26,580 and then we stopped 314 00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:29,420 and danced some more 315 00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:32,380 and we shared the straw 316 00:14:32,380 --> 00:14:34,380 317 00:14:34,380 --> 00:14:36,740 318 00:14:36,740 --> 00:14:38,660 319 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:41,460 320 00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:43,140 321 00:14:43,140 --> 00:14:45,140 322 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 --> 00:14:56,900 327 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,140 328 00:14:59,140 --> 00:15:00,540 329 00:15:00,540 --> 00:15:02,300 330 00:15:02,300 --> 00:15:04,100 331 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:05,980 332 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 00:15:29,460 --> 00:15:32,340 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 --> 00:18:10,500 401 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 --> 00:18:19,340 404 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 --> 00:18:38,180 410 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 --> 00:19:46,860 432 00:19:46,860 --> 00:19:48,500 433 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,580 434 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:52,260 435 00:19:52,260 --> 00:19:54,860 436 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:57,140 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 and 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 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 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 --> 00:30:17,300 664 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:20,100 665 00:30:21,380 --> 00:30:22,820 666 00:30:22,820 --> 00:30:25,820 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 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 --> 00:31:17,020 688 00:31:18,060 --> 00:31:19,260 689 00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:21,420 690 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 I'm gonna smack your face 918 00:41:49,820 --> 00:41:51,700 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 1178 00:54:30,380 --> 00:54:32,140 1179 00:54:32,140 --> 00:54:34,020 1180 00:54:34,020 --> 00:54:35,700 1181 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:37,340 1182 00:54:37,340 --> 00:54:39,020 1183 00:54:39,020 --> 00:54:41,860 of railroad track 1184 00:54:41,860 --> 00:54:44,700 1185 00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:46,900 1186 00:54:49,220 --> 00:54:51,300 1187 00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:54,060 1188 00:54:56,620 --> 00:54:58,340 1189 00:54:58,340 --> 00:55:00,100 1190 00:55:00,100 --> 00:55:01,820 1191 00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:04,100 1192 00:55:04,100 --> 00:55:05,740 1193 00:55:05,740 --> 00:55:07,380 1194 00:55:07,380 --> 00:55:10,860 and I don't go to lectures 1195 00:55:10,860 --> 00:55:12,620 1196 00:55:12,620 --> 00:55:15,660 1197 00:55:17,380 --> 00:55:19,620 1198 00:55:19,620 --> 00:55:21,860 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 1203 00:55:48,500 --> 00:55:50,460 1204 00:55:50,460 --> 00:55:52,140 1205 00:55:52,140 --> 00:55:53,740 1206 00:55:53,740 --> 00:55:55,700 1207 00:55:55,700 --> 00:55:57,540 1208 00:55:57,540 --> 00:56:00,700 to Princess Anne 1209 00:56:00,700 --> 00:56:02,100 1210 00:56:03,340 --> 00:56:05,180 1211 00:56:07,980 --> 00:56:10,180 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 1217 00:56:23,500 --> 00:56:25,140 Bloody hell!