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Rick Mayall dies at 56
bb1 Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:21 pm
http://news.sky.com/story/1278803/rik-mayall-comedian-and-actor-dies-aged-56
Rik Mayall: Comedian And Actor Dies Aged 56
Mayall was best-known for the TV shows The Young Ones and Bottom, both of which he starred alongside Adrian Edmondson.
Comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56, his management has said.
Mayall was best-known for the TV shows The Young Ones and Bottom, both of which he starred alongside Adrian Edmondson.
He was also in several other programmes including The New Statesman, The Comic Strip Presents and Blackadder.
The star was left seriously ill after a quad bike accident in 1998 which left him in a coma for several days.
But he was working until recently.
Mayall found fame playing would-be anarchist Rick in The Young Ones which ran from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.
The show featured anarchic, offbeat humour and it helped to bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s.
The programme also featured Edmondson as punk Vyvyan, Nigel Planer as paranoid hippie Neil, and Christopher Ryan as shady Mike.
A statement from Mayall's management, Brunskill, said: "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Rik Mayall who passed away this morning.
"We will be issuing a further statement in the fullness of time."
Terribly sad news.
Rik Mayall: Comedian And Actor Dies Aged 56
Mayall was best-known for the TV shows The Young Ones and Bottom, both of which he starred alongside Adrian Edmondson.
Comedian and actor Rik Mayall has died aged 56, his management has said.
Mayall was best-known for the TV shows The Young Ones and Bottom, both of which he starred alongside Adrian Edmondson.
He was also in several other programmes including The New Statesman, The Comic Strip Presents and Blackadder.
The star was left seriously ill after a quad bike accident in 1998 which left him in a coma for several days.
But he was working until recently.
Mayall found fame playing would-be anarchist Rick in The Young Ones which ran from 1982 to 1984 in two six-part series.
The show featured anarchic, offbeat humour and it helped to bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s.
The programme also featured Edmondson as punk Vyvyan, Nigel Planer as paranoid hippie Neil, and Christopher Ryan as shady Mike.
A statement from Mayall's management, Brunskill, said: "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Rik Mayall who passed away this morning.
"We will be issuing a further statement in the fullness of time."
Terribly sad news.
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Re: Rick Mayall dies at 56
lily Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:24 pm
To be honest, I don't know who he was. However, I am sorry to hear the news.
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bb1 Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:25 pm
I think you would know his face, Lily, he's been in all sorts of things, mainly comedies.
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Lamplighter Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:30 pm
Now that is very sad - I only ever saw him in Blackader. RIP Lortd Flasheart. LL
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bb1 Mon Jun 09, 2014 4:41 pm
I'd forgotten that! 
He was wonderful at that sort of role - I loved him as Alan B'stard-
He was wonderful at that sort of role - I loved him as Alan B'stard-
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bb1 Sun Jun 22, 2014 10:22 am
Aw, 'Nursie's' passed away, too-
Patsy Byrne: Blackadder's 'Nursie' Dies Aged 80
Tributes from Blackadder fans pour in for Patsy Byrne, the second star of the cult TV series to die in as many weeks.
Patsy Byrne, the actress who played Nursie in TV comedy Blackadder, has died aged 80.
She is the second star of the hit 1980s show to die in as many weeks after Rik Mayall, who played Lord Flashheart in the second and fourth series, passed away after a sudden heart failure.
Her death earlier this week was confirmed by staff at Denville Hall, a care home for elderly actors in Hillingdon, northwest London.
Byrne and Mayall worked together during the second series of Blackadder in 1986, with Mayall's character memorably asking Nursie, whose real name was Bernard: "Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?"
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http://news.sky.com/story/1287114/patsy-byrne-blackadders-nursie-dies-aged-80
Patsy Byrne: Blackadder's 'Nursie' Dies Aged 80
Tributes from Blackadder fans pour in for Patsy Byrne, the second star of the cult TV series to die in as many weeks.
Patsy Byrne, the actress who played Nursie in TV comedy Blackadder, has died aged 80.
She is the second star of the hit 1980s show to die in as many weeks after Rik Mayall, who played Lord Flashheart in the second and fourth series, passed away after a sudden heart failure.
Her death earlier this week was confirmed by staff at Denville Hall, a care home for elderly actors in Hillingdon, northwest London.
Byrne and Mayall worked together during the second series of Blackadder in 1986, with Mayall's character memorably asking Nursie, whose real name was Bernard: "Am I pleased to see you or did I just put a canoe in my pocket?"
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http://news.sky.com/story/1287114/patsy-byrne-blackadders-nursie-dies-aged-80
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