Rik Mayall's Chaotic Jackanory Rip Off | Grim Tales Review

[@larsland]

Your videos are always so well put together!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Aw thank you so much! That really does mean a lot coming from you!

[@borninblack]

This was a fantastic show and loved it all them years ago I always said this would have been a good stage show but that never happened.The diversity of Rik was brilliant and I would also highly recommend those who have not seen it to find it and watch it. Thanks for another brilliant essay I only found your channel last week and have binged all your videos keep up the good work love your stuff.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah it's wonderful! He did love performing to an audience too! And thank you so much! Your comment made my day!

[@MRWALL.i6732]

I remember having a VHS copy of the Dark Crystal and a advert for this played before the film and for years I wondered what it was, many years later I found out about it and it was just after I learnt about who Rik Mayall was! it was like he was always there and I never noticed him before!

[@EnchantedEssays]

Oh really! I hadn't really heard of him until he died, and I don't think I saw him in anything until about a year ago. Thanks for watching!

[@larsland]

These facial expressions are ICONIC.

[@EnchantedEssays]

Yeah he was brilliant at those!

[@Willllow]

I don't know if you've heard of Crackanory before, but it's a show with a similar format as Jackanory that aired on Dave a few years ago, but aimed at more adult audiences. There's not much info about it online (I downloaded a bunch of the official audiobooks and put 'em on my channel back when the series was 'popular') but I'm sure you would be interested in giving it a look - one of the episodes, the Weatherman, is even narrated by Mayall himself!

[@UKCOMEDYVIEWER]

The full Rik Mayall Crackanory has been uploaded here: vimeo.com/107622993

[@sundaypeople5791]

The Weatherman is Rik's last appearance on TV & was broadcast some months after he died which made it somehow special-special!❤

[@StarvedForTime]

Thankyou for reminding me this existed, it was SO SO good. Core memory unlocked.

[@EnchantedEssays]

You're very welcome! I always love reintroducing people to things! Thanks for watching!

[@PlayCONtent]

I'm so glad this video exists! it does mean I can no longer say 'As far as I know I've made the only Grim Tales review on KZbin' but...I never said that anyway because no one I know really knows about the show (or would indeed care, actually). I desperately hope there'll be some sort of DVD/streaming release one day...I hope the same about Jackanory actually, they've done a few but they tend to be the stories that are easy to find or that a lot of people already know quite well like Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland (I like both a lot but I'd still fancy seeing some of the lesser known stories they covered)

[@EnchantedEssays]

I hadn't realised that you'd reviewed it too! I must check it out! Yeah it's a shame. At the BFI in London, they have a media library where you can watch old TV shows, some of which haven't been released, so maybe there's some there. Thanks for watching!

[@soapybsuds]

this style of show is super familiar to me. did they show reruns of this regularly or have another show with the same premise?

[@EnchantedEssays]

There was a reboot of Jackanory when I was little. The CBBC one didn't last long, but CBeebies had one called Jackanory Junior that lasted longer. That might have been what you saw

[@soapybsuds]

@@EnchantedEssays yep, that sounds about right

[@CaretakerWanted]

Thank you for your piece on actors working on some films for money. I'm sure the people who complain about that didn't choose money as a leading factor in their decision to apply 🙄

[@EnchantedEssays]

Indeed! Thanks for watching!

[@robertwright7937]

I've never seen this before. Magic. Thank you. I'll be looking this up.🙏

[@EnchantedEssays]

Wonderful! I'm so glad! Thanks for watching!

[@robertwright7937]

@@EnchantedEssays It's really good to find stuff with Rik in it I've never seen! You can only watch Bottom outtakes for so long....😄

[@EnchantedEssays]

@@robertwright7937 Indeed 😂

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

What was that one clip of him in that large dining room and he had long hair? 😊

[@EnchantedEssays]

It was a Jackanory he did called "The Frog Prince: The Twuth" I think. It should still be on KZbin. Unfortunately, there was him doing Jack in the Beanstalk on Jackanory but it was taken down a while ago

[@TamiJoeris-ge5dg]

@@EnchantedEssays I found it abd saved it to a new Playlist. Thank you. :) I also made a Playlist for George's Marvelous Medicine. :)

[@MoxieMcMurder]

I loved this show!

[@EnchantedEssays]

It was brilliant, wasn't it! Thanks for watching!