Believe Nothing S1E1 Get Rich Quick (Part 1 of 3)

[@maccasnz3436]

I never even heard of this show! More Rik Brilliance!!

[@hermanthetosser4219]

8:24 - it's klaus schwab

[@zoolook3264]

I've been a huge Rik fan since the 80's - how the hell did I miss this? Hilarious !!!

[@sjs260563]

same!

[@Oli-jm9fc]

ITV sacked it after 6 episodes because "its esoteric tone alienates the man in the street".

[@aarde7036]

@@sjs260563 Me too!!!

[@bluebyyou7504]

Same here.

[@1963arch]

RIP Rik now heaven will be a very funny place indeed.

[@jdrancho1864]

"I"m bored, I'm bored, I'm bored' - Jennifer Saunders in every episode of AbFab. ''Boredom is the tax genius must pay to mediocrity' - I must use this line, and soon.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I know exactly how it feels

[@bluebyyou7504]

Just thought that😃

[@bluebyyou7504]

Just thought that😃

[@CutterScene]

"Filthy night?"... "No thank you." LOL

[@CalloftheWarrior1]

"Are you drooling?" "Only out of respect sir."

[@kirstenjakobsen1651]

Brilliant 👏👏😂🤣 Cnut and Albumen are hillarious!

[@LivesInLibertyCity]

How did this not get the viewing figures to commission a second series ffs, i l9ve this. Rik at his finest

[@johnking5174]

It had 2 major problems = 1, ITV aired it on a Sunday night at 10.00pm, a slot which used to be home to Spitting Image and New Statesman, but by 2002 was tired, redundant and weak. 2, It aired in the summer months of July/August 2002, when people were away on holidays, and ITV was in their weakest season of the year.

[@johnking5174]

@dougaldouglas8842 Believe Nothing was made in 2002, with a Labour government in power. When he did Alan B'stard, it was a conservative government in power. No, this was just the poor structure of ITV at the time which was collapsing.

[@rustynuts82]

Rik at his brilliant best, truly an icon of British comedy and a great person.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

Wow, a new Rik Mayall find! This is like the fourth series of Bottom! Rik Mayall lives!!!!!! And shocking to see that he had managed to find a great new partner after Adrian.

[@JPD1990]

I remembered watching this as it aired on tv and could never remember what this series was. Now i've finally found it! This is basically what Richie from Bottom thought he was!!!

[@johnhanson5943]

Especially today, I recommend you look up Rik’s last film. It’s called ‘One by One’. Are you awake yet.

[@hermanthetosser4219]

KZbin don't like a certain part of that film

[@Oli-jm9fc]

"Council for International Progress" lol that's the Council for Foreign Relations he spoofed

[@adamturner1563]

Ill never forgive myself for being 12 and not being aware of this shows existence. Love you RM

[@johnking5174]

Originally aired Sunday 14th July 2002 on ITV1 (now ITV).

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I remember this short lived sitcom with Rik Mayall.

[@87654321j]

Janet Street porter isn't mad it's just the way she stands lol 😂

[@booopdooop]

Rik looks and sounds like a young Christopher Hitchens in this vid, a little plumper and he would be his exact double.

[@charliedrake247]

Love this great 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻

[@dreamyjess]

thanks for getting this show back up here, i missed it :-)

[@JohnnyDeppObsesser]

Haha, are you per chance german? Love Rik, wish he'd do more stuff! In fact, i wish they would do a new bottom live, would be sooo amazing to go to one!

[@andywells397]

Loved him

[@StefanPriceUK]

Emily was at school with me, a few years down, we were in a school production together, I have got it on video.

[@Skylark_Jones]

He looks like Peter Stringfellow.

[@samuelspoons3553]

Adam Faith lookalike in the pub behind Rik

[@ADyingFaith]

I know, im finally more than old enough to see Bottom live and there never goin to do another one. Adrain Edmonson thinks they are to old now. I would love to see the two of them do something together again though.

[@bluebyyou7504]

A body worthy of accommodating my tadpoles.😆

[@MikeGeerlings1977]

This is good stuff !! Too bad they only made 6 episodes.

[@AceripXF]

i saw him on a tv show at my mums one day on the bbca but it wasn't this im like OMG IT'S ALBUMEN lol

[@paulgovan3507]

As elsewhere few comment-posters seem to have ever heard of the many ultra-subversive 'Comic Strip Presents' cult masterpieces - many actors out-perform even Mayall. See 'Eat the Rich', "Supergrass", "GLC"..and many more rebellious gems that would never get funding, backers or TV air-time in today's Orwellian nightmare world... Paul G

[@WiseOwlOfGallifrey]

@AricornMartian Rik Mayall is someone who should make an appearance in Doctor Who and now the series is being headed by a sucessful sitcom writer, it could be possible. Hopefully.

[@Sophiedorian0535]

My ex husband used to compare me to Dr. Awkward. I never wear blue, though.

[@captur69]

Ex husband...was he blind...

[@Sophiedorian0535]

@@captur69 Temporarily, yes. I went totallly D’artagnan on his face with my N•4 knitting needle.

[@captur69]

@@Sophiedorian0535 wow.! Beautiful and you knit...he must of been a dick...

[@cmoor8616]

So the actor in the blue dress later appears in peep show! The character Jez considers drowning..

[@JohnNewsham]

Richhard Branson 's evil twin brother

[@Limara64]

Miss you, you tart x

[@maddemo8574]

Rik is an Amazing Actor. In this case there was poor direction, poor scripting, poor supporting actors. I have to respect the fact that somebody attempted to resurrect Rik's amazing past by attempting a fusion of new statesman and bottom, but it wasn't put together great, it just doesn't work. Its so sad that this absolute genius of a man wasn't given something equal or better than new statesman or had support from Ade to make something great. But there you go. Ade turned his back on it all, to busy farming and making pies and Rik just didn't get the writers he deserved. Still we have the new statesman, bottom, young ones and filthy rich to watch over and over. Never to be forgotten, Rik, I know you wanted to give more and the world wanted it!!

[@MsMesem]

This is much better than Bottom which is for the most part slapstick and juvenile humour.

[@davidbaines1425]

I think the casting is well done. His sidekick is very good. Rik Mayall has been given a role that he does so well, without the tragic loserness. It is great to see him be so arrogant. The plots can be a bit silly, but no more than The Young Ones, or Bottom, you expect it. I wish it had been continued. It has some great and intelligent writing and laughs. By the same people who wrote The New Statesman I believe. But if you like watching Rik Mayall being Rik Mayall, it is definitely worth watching.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@@davidbaines1425 I didn't like New Statesman. I like Bottom and what I've seen of this so far.

[@SmurfsAndRaspberries]

@@ColtraneTaylor I find the New Statesman very funny, and Rik have never been as charming and sexy as he is there.

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@@SmurfsAndRaspberries It's good to know that there's some diversity to the Mayall world.

[@Rikairiify]

I prefer Rik to have shorter hair (DDF maybe?) than 'Richie length' hair myself... but boy is he good in this?!

[@JohnnyDeppObsesser]

Me too, so harsh isnt it :( Arghh, damn Ade, i would give anything for them to do just one more :(

[@Duriel1000]

This is weird, but cool

[@kellycol1000]

the similarities here between Alan B'Stard Richie and this character are hopeless with women power money and sexy facial expressions oo-er xxxxxxxxx

[@CallumBlades]

Good Evening greedy buggers

[@AceripXF]

yes we can that way there's enough to go around LOL

[@magdebates2697]

agreed specy4eyes was very suspiccciuos

[@paulgovan3507]

Because the public have been wilfully conditioned not to care or know much about global politics aka geopolitics the series attracted far fewer viewers than Mayall's 'New Statesman' and was dropped after a year. Paul G

[@MsMesem]

I'm Lance Boil....

[@BuckfastConsumer]

I wanna watch this as it is full of comedy.. But I wanna watch it for the facts they low key dropped about elites

[@ADyingFaith]

@Harriet123P I cud never hate richie and i pity and feel sorry for him right from the beginning anyway. They probably are too old to do another one which is a fact that i just hate to accept.

[@AceripXF]

omf Rik moaning holy mother that's hot lol

[@katyholmes2151]

RIP rik..we miss you so much..also am i the only one whos jelous of the woman xx

[@r4504]

LMAO. Thank god. OMG

[@AceripXF]

is the butler attracted to hime or something? lol

[@BuckfastConsumer]

It's like smithers attraction to Mr burns.. Stockholm syndrome

[@OldPetRiver]

Banks to Enlightenment...

[@JohnnyDeppObsesser]

:O Omg!! i hope so! :D

[@AceripXF]

me too LMAO

[@leejones8582]

I remember this being on late on ITV in 2002

[@JJONNYREPP]

Believe Nothing S1E1 Get Rich Quick (Part 1 of 3) 28.2.23 0010am i know... pubs do spoil a lot of must see entertainment. that said, being constantly abreast of pop kultur must be a pain... i think national sperm bank have entered the milk bottling plant...

[@stevemaggers4900]

Gold

[@mark771977]

Forgot how shite this is. I love Rik, but fuck me, this just INST funny

[@mrsilovemikeyway]

@Rikairiify i agree with you i dont like his hair too long

[@OhLookItsMauve]

I really want to like this but it's a bit crap. Rik was really giving it his all but with weak writing, weak supporting actors and really weak "jokes"it totally falls flat. Going back to The New Statesman so I can remember him at his hilarious, Machiavellian best.

[@doomjuan4892]

I could't even watch 5 minutes of this when it first came out.

[@jamesbyersmusic]

It's the same writers as The New Statesman, but yes, this was awful!

[@AceripXF]

relax it's the same for everyone hmm now where have i heard THAT b4? lol (said with sarcasim)

[@themagpie_1]

i hate canned laughter, it spoils the gag timing..

[@johnking5174]

No canned laughter used, it was all filmed in front of 300 audience members in Studio 1 at Teddington Studios

[@thetruth156real3]

The trouble is like Gervais, Mayall could only play one character. Unlike Gervais he did not have the writing talent.

[@GhostyDog]

What a load of rubbish :( unsurprising it only had one series

[@sundaypeople5791]

It's not!❤️