I heard this on Radio 1 this afternoon and was genuinely shocked.

I'm old enough to remember him from The Young Ones and The Comic Strip Presents..

Ade Edmondson made me laugh with this:

"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 b*****d."

Source

GOLD have got Bottom and the Young Ones on until about 1am if anyone is interested

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A Funny Guy
A Dangerous Brother
The People's Poet
A Love God with a Canoe in His Pocket
A Sad Greasy Fat Ugly Virgin B'stard with a Minute Penis
A Cultural Pioneer
A Comedy Immortal
Genius

Thanks for the laughter

RIP

I don't like it really, I know it's life but 24 hours ago he was alive walking his dog and now he's dead.. Honestly we take life for granted so much... Who knows when it ends? It's scary :worry:

Still sad about this

From every elizabeth.... RIP Rik :(

Its sad news. My dad is especially gutted.

RIP :(

It tells you to Enjoy Life More
as you never know it will end


The Day before he walked the Dog
then sadly Died in his sleep.

nice to see so many papers put him on the front page. and rightly so.

How could you possibly know he died in his sleep? The Ambulance service were called to his house in the afternoon.

Thats is what
was reported on the news

Link?

Police said they were called to reports of a sudden death of a man in his 50s at 13:19 BST on Monday, in Barnes in south west London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27770266

he may have been asleep or perhaps no one checked on him until later which is likely. died in his sleep but was not discovered until 1pm

Ok, well its far from a fact that he did then

Thank You LT

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/...19_634x501.jpg
this taken on Sunday

This is sad to think this is the last we see of Rik.
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/last-foo...142829654.html

Very sad :(

Yes looked like he was having fun on that Film Set.

Jake Humphrey @mrjakehumphrey · 23h

What a way to celebrate Rik's life http://ind.pn/1kgMNJJ . If you're in, here's the link https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/no...ep/id363723890 …

Bought it this morning. Even though i'm Welsh and not even supporting England.

That's so sad.

It's also a shame that he was so eager to bring Bottom back but Ade said "maybe in 10 years" and now it'll never happen.

His wife has now confirmed
it was his heart that went
after doing a morning run.


I wish older people would Not do a Run
its to dangerous

http://news.sky.com/story/1281031/ri...vent-after-run