Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!
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Goodbye to one dangerous brother.
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Here’s a listing in the Listener for the very first screening of the first episode in NZ;
Friday 30th August 1985 on TV One followed by a five-minute news catch-up and then Gary McCormick hosting “12 O’Clock Rock” (which IIRC was generally pretty crap). Though I have a lot of respect for Rik Mayall’s subsequent work, nothing quite captured the Zeitgeist as much as The Young Ones did; it was the perfect show for the times.I also have Rick to thank for introducing me as a teenager to Trotsky who I had never heard of until then. It sent me first to Encyclopedia Britannica and then to the history books to find out more (but I knew enough about 1930’s history to find Alexei Sayle’s Mussolini impersonations hilarious).
Sean Plunket gave over virtually his entire show on Radio Live this morning to the passing of Mayall; it made for a great nostalgic radio show.
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I was 12 in 1985 and going through Form 2 at primary school. In my class there was (and it still seems pretty surreal) a punk with dyed hair, safety-pins the whole shebang. A 12-year-old punk. Anyway, I don't remember being friends but I'll never forget that she put me on to the Young Ones. The first episode I saw was the University Challenge one. I didn't really understand what was going on but after a few more episodes I was sold.
I wouldn't mind seeing a few old episodes.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Here’s a listing in the Listener for the very first screening of the first episode in NZ;
Shot!
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what do you reckon the odds of Cliff singing at the funeral are?
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Wow first screened on 30th Aug 1985 in NZ despite airing originally on the 9th Nov 1982 in the UK. NZ was so awkwardly behind back then.
I remember watching that very first show in NZ and I must say that it was very influential to a just turned 15 year old youth that was me then.
I suspect if my parents had stayed up to watch I would not have been allowed to watch it. Subversive material!!!
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Ah, so I was 10 in 1985. I remember watching the Young Ones involved the ritual of programming our crappy Beta video, so it must have been a Saturday morning treat for my brother and I. Better than What Now!
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For me Rick Mayall and Ad Edmondson's greatest achievement was "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door", which is what I'm about to watch in remembrance. Everything about it is fried gold, from Nicholas Parsons to Peter Cook.
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Sacha, in reply to
Cliff singing at the funeral
I'd sponsor that
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Sacha, in reply to
semi-bestial?
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Che Tibby, in reply to
gary mccormack hosts a rock special on rick springfield... remember how bleak i said the 80s were?
some crimes should never be forgotten.
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Virginia Brooks, in reply to
'community viewing'
Absolutely. Genius.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Yeah, all the 'tube ones are geoblocked where I am for some reason.
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I think I first saw the Young Ones at primary school, sometime in the late 1980s - early 1990s, probably about the same time as the the New Statesman. He was a huge early influence on us at school - I think someone taped it on TV and we shared around the tapes as well.
I blame Rick for me having an aversion to taking sociology at university.
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Sacha, in reply to
out.standing
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BenWilson, in reply to
I don’t want to re-watch The Young Ones because I have a sneaking suspicion it’s one of those things that had it’s time and place
That was my feeling upon fighting my way through a few of them. The golden moments were still golden, but the bits in between dragged on.
But Rick certainly had the lion's share of those golden moments. Many has been the time I've had to resist hard the urge to mimic him kicking the TV set to death.
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From Kevin Turvey right through to Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
From a cold flat in Peel, Isle of Man to the Comic Strip box-set just 2m from my shoulder, Rik Mayall has amused me for over 30 years.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
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Peter Richardson as Mike... I will never watch it the same again. But why am I writing this here, anyway? Nobody ever listens to me. I might as well be a Leonard Cohen record.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
More Bad News never gets tired.
And the fact that they actually played Monsters of Rock.
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I found the Bad News CD in Queenstown one summer for a tenner, which was quite a bargain. Dammed if I know what happened to it though
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Craig Young, in reply to
Ah, now this is why his New Statesman episodes were so incisive and spot-on. It's such a damned shame we don't have a political comedy show that similarly skewers the Key regime on the end of a sharp satirical poke.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Ah, now this is why his New Statesman episodes were so incisive and spot-on. It’s such a damned shame we don’t have a political comedy show that similarly skewers the Key regime on the end of a sharp satirical poke.
I'm not even sure there are any for David Cameron, Tony Abbott, or Stephen Harper either.
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Hebe, in reply to
Funny parallel: Twitter feed today shows a pic of John Key with an enormous drill at the Fielddays. Last night I was watching a News Statesman episode that has Alan B'stard pulling out an enormous (very similar drill) to use on Piers. If I had the means I would do a split screen
At 5m55s:
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
If I had the means I would do a split screen
I have access to some video editing software, so I might try giving it a crack.
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