Russell Harty, Kevin Turvey & Elvis Costello

Kevin Turvey was Rik Mayall's alter-ego, at the start of his TV career. Sadly he is now gone.

[@kevanbrown7620]

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]

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.

[@ScrotusXL]

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”👍😂

[@roburaw1448]

Damn he was handsome. 58 years old. The World sucks

[@NxDoyle]

You get the impression, looking back at Rik's professional life, that if one door closed he'd kick another one open.

[@elzbietabonthrone6584]

Me and my predictor

[@arianaajbeaverhausen8175]

Yes, all the while screaming "you're just a door, I'm Rik fucking Mayall!" 😂😂

[@robertgleadall7437]

​@elzbietabonthrone6584=j;

[@fatyowls]

He's like an assertive frank spencer!

[@markrichman1336]

Any new Rik stuff is gold Nice one!

[@pauladams1915]

New ?

[@eclectica1]

@@pauladams1915 Clearly means new vintage material that has resurfaced. Noggin. Use it.

[@swedishchef4003]

Kevin Turvey! Say-no-more..

[@gary2610]

Have been looking for about seven years to see if anyone's uploaded this clip! Thanks for uploading.

[@kevindodds9434]

Simply brilliant

[@Kaleiddmode]

His threat to take him to the wrong station 😂

[@briz1965]

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

[@stephenm8898]

The young ones and comic strip were after Kevin Turvey

[@mj.l]

@@stephenm8898 that’s what they said

[@kevanbrown7620]

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]

Pure legend

[@JustinRichards]

Doing a David Carradine holds a whole new meaning nowadays.

[@wisteela]

Legend

[@garyhosty]

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.

[@paultreneary]

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[@TheStevenWhiting]

@Gorgeous George He's always seemed not very popular :) I've never liked him.

[@stephen3654]

@@TheStevenWhiting neither did Bowie or grace Jones of course!.... And by the sounds of it... his own audience

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Having now seen the Elvis part in another video he never walked out. Stayed till then end then did a song.

[@stephen3654]

@@TheStevenWhiting why did Elvis say to Harty: 'sums you up pretty well' at the end and get applause from the audience for it?

[@suzismith7697]

Can't now! :(

[@markwhittaker6321]

A Genius.

[@kdp8133]

I LOVED Kevin Turvey!

[@itkapatanka]

I miss Russel Harty.

[@robertmoss556]

Fearless

[@jamiewatkins5870]

Legend x

[@michaeljacksonisthekingofp6423]

i miss rick mayalls good and goofy moments because hes not around any more i dont like to say dead

[@lmizuki5]

thanx for this - any more on costello part

[@owrang9756]

I don't know why I have no memory of his shows.

[@jasonfunbug4133]

I live in Redditch, 2 streets up from his house in The Man Behind The Green Door!!

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Is Latymer Rise a real street in Redditch then, or just a fictional name?

[@jasonfunbug4133]

@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 no its roughly 25 Easemore road, Abbeydale, Redditch, B98 8JB. And the Club where they sing downtown is on that housing estate.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Number 25 was the actual house Rik was using during the filming 🎥 ?

[@jasonfunbug4133]

@@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]

@@jasonfunbug4133 so the road that is there now was houses then? great idea!

[@7dave2ful]

Bring back Kevin, for Question Time Comic Relief.

[@morgancarser9194]

David Evans can't now poor guy 😭😭😭😭😭

[@sarao2707]

he did brum proud

[@annother3350]

He's not from Birmingham!!

[@standenberg]

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’ 😁

[@robertarmstrong2470]

I am watching this in 2021, Tv was funny /unpredictable then. I WANT MY FU---N NORMAL BACK!

[@tomitstube]

i hear some karl pilkinton in kevin turvey.

[@robertmoss556]

you may hear some kevin turvey in karl pilkington, the other way around is not possible.

[@apartefilm]

kk mooi

[@karengraeme6273]

Kevin's ear

[@birminghamuk76]

I realised something about Rik, the material didn’t have to be that funny - it was him, he could just make anything funny.

[@sambosdyk2728]

thanks

[@stevehoward7]

Genius

[@emilywestwood4016]

Isn't that David Mellor in the front row?

[@mcnulty70]

Emily Westwood looked like him

[@ajc4477]

Russel Harty comes across a being a genuinely unpleasant person.

[@benmarshall404]

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]

He was a proper repressed old queen

[@aryasayne]

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]

There won't ever be comedians like Rik because of the nonsense political correctness and the woke

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

Utter nonsense, you just need to get out and watch more live comedy

[@elzbietabonthrone6584]

Me and my predictor .. GOD help me...

[@jasonevans4970]

I generally get off at Selly Oak..

[@MrStax40]

Sadly missed , taken far too early

[@chriswoodcock2150]

whats with riks hair in this interview

[@Maxbev14]

cut

[@briz1965]

very funny ha

[@stephenm8898]

Are you sure it's 'cult'?

[@robbojohnson5759]

in the toilets at the erics club in liverpool he sed me names not declin eney more its elvis costelow ha ha

[@youngfreak3266]

Does anyone know what year this was?

[@annother3350]

I'd guess it was '82

[@thomaswhittaker4137]

1983 or 84

[@paulfallon7038]

85 or 86.

[@starchaser77]

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.

[@johnking5174]

Alan Partridge did turn up on Clive Anderson's and Jonathan Ross's talk shows.

[@noriemeha]

Sometimes fictional characters are more interesting than the self-conscious, I can't-get-over-how great-I-am interviewees.

[@frankknight7968]

As a Redditch lad, born and bred, it was really amusing. But as for his accent, it was nowhere near a proper Redditch one.

[@aryasayne]

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.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

More Birmingham.

[@flapjackfred]

Repatriation?

[@robertmoss556]

racist graffiti

[@paulfallon7038]

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