Goodbye, Lord Flashheart

[Charles Evans 25]

British comedian, Rik Mayall - who amongst other parts played 'Lord Flashheart' in two series of the British TV show Blackadder - has died.
*Link*

[MagusJanus]

There is only one proper way to say goodbye to such a man.

We must make dramatic entries into rooms by crashing through walls in his name!

[Orfamay Quest]

"Lord Flashheart, Lord Flashheart,
I wish you were the star.
Lord Flashheart, Lord Flashheart,
you're sexier by far."

[Snorter]

He did the narration for a children's programme called Jellabies, which my son loved, and still searches for on youtube. I often hear him playing the 'making of' documentary, with Rik praising the work of the animators.

[Kajehase]

He'll always be one of the young ones.

[Spanky the Leprechaun]

Do any of you lot know Summer Holiday by Cliff Richard?

[Bill Lumberg]

I never would have believed that the Grim Reaper and his scythe would get past Lord Flashheart's flashing blade. The bony bastard must have cheated.

In all seriousness, this is very sad. RIP, Rik, the world is already less funny without you in it.

[The 8th Dwarf]

Rick: I feel sorry for you, you zeros! You nobodies! What's going to live on after you die? I'll tell you - nothing! That's what! [struggling to hang himself] Oh, this is pathetic!
[he gives up trying to hang himself, then sees a jar of pills and attempts to overdose]
Neil: [upon seeing Rick eating the pills] Vyv, Vyv – er, can you, like, actually kill yourself with laxative pills?
Vyvyan: I don't know Neil, but I'm going to stay and find out!
Neil: I think I'm going up to my room for a bit!
[Rick swallows pills in front of Neil as he leaves]
Rick: This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"
[Vyvyan crouches down to watch Rick's rear as he talks]
Rick: And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, "Other kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?" And then another kid will say... [he then farts loudly and realises what he's been taking]

[jemstone]

Let us never think of his exits. Only his entrances.

[Balrog]

MagusJanus wrote:

There is only one proper way to say goodbye to such a man.

We must make dramatic entries into rooms by crashing through walls in his name!

*CRASH!*

HUZZAH!!!

[Tinkergoth]

I thought Adrian Edmondson's tribute was rather sweet.

“There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing. They were some of the most carefree stupid days I ever had, and I feel privileged to have shared them with him. And now he’s died for real. Without me. Selfish bastard.”

I'll be working my way through my collection of various things he's been in for the foreseeable future I think.

RIP Rik Mayall. In the words of another great Brit...

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

[GeraintElberion]

farewell, sweet prince

[meatrace]

GeraintElberion wrote:

farewell, sweet prince

Hey, I'm pretty sure that's Robert Llewellyn he's getting pounded by in that second clip.

[GeraintElberion]

I think you're right.

He only looks right with a ludicrous android costume.