Jeremy Nicholas & Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall is a comedy genius in my eyes. I met him when he was touring The New Statesman. He walked the streets of Nottingham as his character Alan B'Stard MP, abusing people for being northern. He was hilarious. When he was Rik for the interview he was a lovely bloke. He went off and changed and came back as Alan and was a right B'Stard. He stayed completely in character for the shoot. Sadly when I saw The New Statesman later on the tour in Richmond, he was ill. The understudy was good, but he wasn't Rik.
The day filming in Nottingham was a great experience though. Watch for the moment when he takes the mick out of a hapless young man.
When I was editing the feature, I had to run five contentious points past the producer of the programme. Two of them were OK, the other three had to be edited out for reasons of taste, decency and in one case blasphemy.
Top bloke though.

[@Kaleid7]

I went to see this show. I can't think of any other that I've been to that made me laugh so much from beginning to end - talk about value for money. And now he's gone, and I never got to meet him. Dr The Rik Mayall was one of a kind.

[@redheadtv967]

Loved you on stage in Bottom... and meeting you backstage at Waiting for Godot and during an interview for work... always a fan!! May you RIP Rik x

[@jdig1984]

the man is a genius i remember watching bottom for the first time and discovering rik mayall and i followed his work ever since there is no comedy like this anymore

[@Yorkshireghostguy]

Never seen this before…..brilliant ❤

[@JeremyJacobsPresenter]

"are you being sick" - brilliant

[@ADyingFaith]

Thank you for sharing.

[@LewisAndRichard]

i sometimes shop in nottingham and seeing rik on those streets is great wish i was there

[@Cleggy]

You very lucky to meet Rik Mayall and THE Alan B'stard. I am curious as to what had to have been edited out, though. Only Alan would cause the censors to shake their heads :)...

[@mrsjamescottage]

"Are You Being Sick?" The slightly less successful follow up to "Are You Being Served?"

[@onebourbononescotch]

I am so jealous. I'd love to meet him.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Was that woman he chased a real member of the public?

[@ColtraneTaylor]

@usernamesrcrap Well I'm not carrying a torch for him. It's just the way my pants get bunched up.

[@levantos]

wahoo Nottingham! :D

[@scherzomortale]

What are your impressions of Nottingham?? ' I think it's ghastly,it's very poor,i think it's very Northern,the people obviously don't wash,they can't read or speak. ! ' Classic.

[@charleswillcock3235]

What is perhaps surprising is that no-one has complained from Nottingham - but there again I do not suppose they would be able too.

[@TheAlistairDick]

Genuinely funny. A real genius in fact