Kevin Turvey was Rik Mayall's alter-ego, at the start of his TV career. Sadly he is now gone.
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@kevanbrown76202 жыл бұрын
Rik Mayall was my favourite comedian growing up in the 1980s as a teenager. I was in hospital after being knocked down by a car when I was 14. My friends at school got the address of Rik Mayall's fan club and they wrote him a letter telling him what had happened to me and that I was such a huge fan of his. I was lying in my hospital bed one day when my late father came to visit me and he handed me this envelope. I said "What's this Dad" he said just open it, it's from your friends. I opened it puzzled and inside was a signed photo of Rik and a letter from him saying he hoped I was okay and thanks for being a fan, and by the way don't be a twat and get yourself knocked down again. I read that letter everyday I was in hospital and I kept it for about 8 years, but I eventually lost it when I moved down south. I never forgot how that letter made me feel. Rik was brilliant as a writer and performer as Kevin Turvey, in The Young One's, The Comic Strip Presents, Dirty Movie, A Fistfull of Travellers Cheques, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, Filthy, Rich and Catflap, The Dangerous Brother's, Bottom and as Lord Flasheart in Blackadder. The funniest man on television by a mile. Miss ya Rik and thanks for everything. 😊
@pearljam619 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love this man so much. So naturally funny and the first rock star of comedy. Made me laugh on a daily basis throughout my teens. Sorely missed. We miss you Rick.
@ScrotusXL5 жыл бұрын
Miss you so much Rik😅 everything you did made me feel better about the world..Especially Kevin Turvey, “for this is the aaaaaage....of the train”👍😂
@roburaw14483 жыл бұрын
Damn he was handsome. 58 years old. The World sucks
@NxDoyle5 жыл бұрын
You get the impression, looking back at Rik's professional life, that if one door closed he'd kick another one open.
@elzbietabonthrone65844 жыл бұрын
Me and my predictor
@arianaajbeaverhausen81754 жыл бұрын
Yes, all the while screaming "you're just a door, I'm Rik fucking Mayall!" 😂😂
@robertgleadall74374 ай бұрын
@elzbietabonthrone6584=j;
@fatyowls6 жыл бұрын
He's like an assertive frank spencer!
@markrichman13368 жыл бұрын
Any new Rik stuff is gold Nice one!
@pauladams19153 жыл бұрын
New ?
@eclectica13 жыл бұрын
@@pauladams1915 Clearly means new vintage material that has resurfaced. Noggin. Use it.
@swedishchef400310 ай бұрын
Kevin Turvey! Say-no-more..
@gary261010 жыл бұрын
Have been looking for about seven years to see if anyone's uploaded this clip! Thanks for uploading.
@kevindodds94342 жыл бұрын
Simply brilliant
@Kaleiddmode Жыл бұрын
His threat to take him to the wrong station 😂
@briz19656 жыл бұрын
anyone who does not know - or did not live or watch it on tv at the time this.... it is all a put on and well done. rik went on to the young ones, bottom, comic strip - this was a snippet of time and kudos to RH for setting it up - just comedy well done
@stephenm88984 жыл бұрын
The young ones and comic strip were after Kevin Turvey
@mj.l2 жыл бұрын
@@stephenm8898 that’s what they said
@kevanbrown76202 жыл бұрын
Yeah, A Kick Up The Eighties was where Kevin Turvey starred, then The Young One's and The Comic Strip Presents both in 1982 and 1984.
@pauleyboy75 Жыл бұрын
Pure legend
@JustinRichards5 жыл бұрын
Doing a David Carradine holds a whole new meaning nowadays.
@wisteelaАй бұрын
Legend
@garyhosty9 жыл бұрын
you should have left the costello interview on too - as I recall Mr Harty asks him a personal question and Elvis says - we agreed no personal stuff and also like Mr Turvey, walked out of the interview. ah good times.
@paultreneary3 жыл бұрын
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@TheStevenWhiting3 жыл бұрын
@Gorgeous George He's always seemed not very popular :) I've never liked him.
@stephen3654 Жыл бұрын
@@TheStevenWhiting neither did Bowie or grace Jones of course!.... And by the sounds of it... his own audience
@TheStevenWhiting Жыл бұрын
Having now seen the Elvis part in another video he never walked out. Stayed till then end then did a song.
@stephen3654 Жыл бұрын
@@TheStevenWhiting why did Elvis say to Harty: 'sums you up pretty well' at the end and get applause from the audience for it?
@suzismith769710 жыл бұрын
Can't now! :(
@markwhittaker63213 жыл бұрын
A Genius.
@kdp81332 жыл бұрын
I LOVED Kevin Turvey!
@itkapatanka5 жыл бұрын
I miss Russel Harty.
@robertmoss5562 жыл бұрын
Fearless
@jamiewatkins58703 жыл бұрын
Legend x
@michaeljacksonisthekingofp64232 жыл бұрын
i miss rick mayalls good and goofy moments because hes not around any more i dont like to say dead
@lmizuki510 жыл бұрын
thanx for this - any more on costello part
@owrang97562 жыл бұрын
I don't know why I have no memory of his shows.
@jasonfunbug41332 жыл бұрын
I live in Redditch, 2 streets up from his house in The Man Behind The Green Door!!
@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Жыл бұрын
Is Latymer Rise a real street in Redditch then, or just a fictional name?
@jasonfunbug4133 Жыл бұрын
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 no its roughly 25 Easemore road, Abbeydale, Redditch, B98 8JB. And the Club where they sing downtown is on that housing estate.
@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Жыл бұрын
Number 25 was the actual house Rik was using during the filming 🎥 ?
@jasonfunbug4133 Жыл бұрын
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 it was on that row of houses. All filmed in Redditch except for the park keeper scenes. We're trying to get a statue of Kevin in Redditch town center!?
@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Жыл бұрын
@@jasonfunbug4133 so the road that is there now was houses then? great idea!
@7dave2ful10 жыл бұрын
Bring back Kevin, for Question Time Comic Relief.
@morgancarser91947 жыл бұрын
David Evans can't now poor guy 😭😭😭😭😭
@sarao27079 жыл бұрын
he did brum proud
@annother33506 жыл бұрын
He's not from Birmingham!!
@standenberg3 жыл бұрын
He’s not from Brum or Redditch, he’s from nearby Droitwich...but let’s not get territorial about it, he’s one of the best British comedy geniuses ever, and I’m proud to say he came from my ‘neck of the woods’ 😁
@robertarmstrong24703 жыл бұрын
I am watching this in 2021, Tv was funny /unpredictable then. I WANT MY FU---N NORMAL BACK!
@tomitstube8 жыл бұрын
i hear some karl pilkinton in kevin turvey.
@robertmoss5562 жыл бұрын
you may hear some kevin turvey in karl pilkington, the other way around is not possible.
@apartefilm3 жыл бұрын
kk mooi
@karengraeme62733 жыл бұрын
Kevin's ear
@birminghamuk764 ай бұрын
I realised something about Rik, the material didn’t have to be that funny - it was him, he could just make anything funny.
@sambosdyk272810 жыл бұрын
thanks
@stevehoward73 жыл бұрын
Genius
@emilywestwood401610 жыл бұрын
Isn't that David Mellor in the front row?
@mcnulty707 жыл бұрын
Emily Westwood looked like him
@ajc44773 жыл бұрын
Russel Harty comes across a being a genuinely unpleasant person.
@benmarshall4043 жыл бұрын
Think he was, if you haven’t seen the David Bowie interview he did from 1975 it certainly suggests that he is very smug and superior (in his own mind). Glad that Grace Jones gave him a slap!
@gaycha6589 Жыл бұрын
He was a proper repressed old queen
@aryasayne2 жыл бұрын
I often wonder why this was never a series or more. I think his co-writer maybe wrote it or at least wrote most of it.
@Kaleiddmode Жыл бұрын
There won't ever be comedians like Rik because of the nonsense political correctness and the woke
@Thecrazyvaclav Жыл бұрын
Utter nonsense, you just need to get out and watch more live comedy
@elzbietabonthrone65844 жыл бұрын
Me and my predictor .. GOD help me...
@jasonevans49704 жыл бұрын
I generally get off at Selly Oak..
@MrStax402 жыл бұрын
Sadly missed , taken far too early
@chriswoodcock21507 жыл бұрын
whats with riks hair in this interview
@Maxbev147 жыл бұрын
cut
@briz19658 жыл бұрын
very funny ha
@stephenm88984 жыл бұрын
Are you sure it's 'cult'?
@robbojohnson5759 Жыл бұрын
in the toilets at the erics club in liverpool he sed me names not declin eney more its elvis costelow ha ha
@youngfreak326610 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know what year this was?
@annother33507 жыл бұрын
I'd guess it was '82
@thomaswhittaker41375 жыл бұрын
1983 or 84
@paulfallon7038 Жыл бұрын
85 or 86.
@starchaser778 жыл бұрын
You know your chat show's in trouble when you're reduced to interviewing fictional characters. Would be like Alan Partridge turning up on Norton.
@johnking51747 жыл бұрын
Alan Partridge did turn up on Clive Anderson's and Jonathan Ross's talk shows.
@noriemeha3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes fictional characters are more interesting than the self-conscious, I can't-get-over-how great-I-am interviewees.
@frankknight79683 жыл бұрын
As a Redditch lad, born and bred, it was really amusing. But as for his accent, it was nowhere near a proper Redditch one.
@aryasayne2 жыл бұрын
Maybe he's from Reading really and it sounded similar. You should try not to be too judgmental when people have incorrect pronunciation because they probably learned it from Reading.