Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall has died, aged 56. so sad. I loved the Young Ones, more relevant when it aired in Thatcher's Britain than it seems watching it now and he had a gift for playing an unsympathetic character, even a frankly detestable one in The New Statesman, and adding a hit of pathos. David and I own the box set of Bottom and though it wasn't his best work, he and Ade Edmonson made one hell of a team.

Blackadder wouldn't have been the same without him.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/09/rik-mayalls-funniest-tv-moments-young-ones-bottom