{"id":14373,"date":"2014-06-10T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2014-06-10T13:02:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T18:02:34","slug":"rip-rik-mayall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/06\/10\/rip-rik-mayall\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Rik Mayall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was sad to hear about the passing of Rik. He wasn&#8217;t well known in America and I think\u00a0<em>Drop Dead Fred<\/em> didn&#8217;t help. However, if you watched MTV in the mid-Eighties when their music-video format was losing steam, you probably saw the US debut of\u00a0<em>The Young Ones<\/em>. I haven&#8217;t seen an episode in a while so I can&#8217;t say how well the show has held up over the years. During the initial showings in 1985, I did find it funny, even funnier when I got older since Rik&#8217;s character was rather universal for those attending college; the loud-mouth Lefty with little talent and whose beliefs falter when the rubber hits the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rik&#8217;s appearances in the\u00a0<em>Black Adder<\/em> series&#8217; were hilarious, namely the WWI flying ace. I think the humor was doubly funny due to Rik being the character who got the girls after being the butt of jokes in <i>The Young Ones<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Besides\u00a0<em>Fred<\/em>, you may recognize his brief appearance in the American comedy-horror flick,\u00a0<em>American Werewolf in London<\/em>. He was pub patron before the gruesome event that made David Naughton a monster.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was sad to hear about the passing of Rik. He wasn&#8217;t well known in America and I think\u00a0Drop Dead Fred didn&#8217;t help. However, if you watched MTV in the mid-Eighties when their music-video format was losing steam, you probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2014\/06\/10\/rip-rik-mayall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,115],"tags":[219,66,144],"class_list":["post-14373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversions","category-tv","tag-britcom","tag-comedy","tag-eighties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14374,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14373\/revisions\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}