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Rik Mayall, RIP

Farewell to Rick of The Young Ones

Jesse Walker | 6.9.2014 12:22 PM

The British comic Rik Mayall—the man who played the obnoxious politico Rick on The Young Ones—has died at age 56. In his memory, here's my favorite scene from the show. Mayall's the one who says, "Tell it like it is! Put 'fascist bully-boy'!"

Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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