Reply to: RIP Rik Mayall

[ZARDOZ]

What a shame, genuine hero of comedy. This is one of his best:

[stek]

I heard that the police had been called to a "sudden death", but didn't find anything to suggest foul play. Lots of people do randomly die from heart attacks and the like, but was he a heavy drinker like so many seem to be? I don't remember hearing anything like that.

All random speculation. How come nobody ever remembers Filthy Rich and Catflap?

He had to stop drinking (and smoking) after he had his accident and was diagnosed with epilepsy. Whether he did or not will undoubtedly come out in the wash.

[Doggy Styles]

The fit sounds plausible, considering he was badly injured in the head a few years ago when a quad bike he was riding tipped on top of him. ISTR he was in a coma for some time.

Five days, from the Thursday before Easter to the Tuesday after it. When he came round he said one consolation was beating Jesus 5-3.

[quackhandle]

I heard that the police had been called to a "sudden death", but didn't find anything to suggest foul play. Lots of people do randomly die from heart attacks and the like, but was he a heavy drinker like so many seem to be? I don't remember hearing anything like that.

All random speculation. How come nobody ever remembers Filthy Rich and Catflap?

I remember it well. It worked in places but I saw it as a forerunner to Bottom. Genuinely gutted, one of my comedy heros.

qh

[VectraMan]

It seems to have been either a heart attack or an epileptic fit. They won't know until they find out and may never know...

I heard that the police had been called to a "sudden death", but didn't find anything to suggest foul play. Lots of people do randomly die from heart attacks and the like, but was he a heavy drinker like so many seem to be? I don't remember hearing anything like that.

All random speculation. How come nobody ever remembers Filthy Rich and Catflap?

[eek]

The fit sounds plausible, considering he was badly injured in the head a few years ago when a quad bike he was riding tipped on top of him. ISTR he was in a coma for some time.

Head trauma can often lead to frontal lobe epilepsy, which unfortunately tends to get worse over time. (Probably Julius Caesar's epilepsy was a result of being clobbered on the head in one of his battles.)

Yep, I know my uncle died of a full on fit, my brother may do the same some time down the line, both are epileptic..

Edit, back when my brother had a fit in the early 1990s and he ended up with a clot on his frontal lobe, the surgeon was clear that there was nothing to worry about as he already suffered from the only possible side effect.

[OwlHoot]

Not if no-one knows what it is.

It seems to have been either a heart attack or an epileptic fit. They won't know until they find out and may never know...

The fit sounds plausible, considering he was badly injured in the head a few years ago when a quad bike he was riding tipped on top of him. ISTR he was in a coma for some time.

Head trauma can often lead to frontal lobe epilepsy, which unfortunately tends to get worse over time. (Probably Julius Caesar's epilepsy was a result of being clobbered on the head in one of his battles.)

[eek]

Find it strange they haven't released the cause of death yet, usually they press if all over it.

Not if no-one knows what it is.

It seems to have been either a heart attack or an epileptic fit. They won't know until they find out and may never know...

[Unix]

Find it strange they haven't released the cause of death yet, usually they press if all over it.

[Pondlife]

I feel sorry for you, you zeros! You nobodys! What's going to live on after you die? Nothing! That's what! 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!' And then one particularly sensitive and articulate teenager will say, 'But kids, do you understand nothing? How can Rick be dead when we still have his poems?'

RIP Rik (with a silent P)

[sbakoola]

What Rik Mayall dead ????? Oh. Well, then I shall write to the lead singer of Echo and the Bunnymen !!!! (about this tragedy).

I laughed so much at episodes of The Young Ones that I actually thought I was going to die.

[Flashman]

[scooterscot]

What did he die of?

[Platypus]

A Fistful of Traveller's Cheques

One of the funniest (IMO) Comic Strip episodes ever.

"everybody crazy boy ping ponky poo"

[administrator]

What a shame. Makes me feel old now.

Nothing like a healthy dose of reality

A very funny man. RIP