Middlesbrough-born Roy Chubby Brown pays tribute to 'very talented' Rik Mayall who he met while staying in the same Liverpool hotel
Roy Chubby Brown has paid tribute to fellow comedian Rik Mayall saying he is “gobsmacked” at his death.
The Young Ones star died yesterday aged 56, with a spokesman from his management company confirming the news.
Now Middlesbrough-born Roy, 69, who now lives in East Harsley, on the outskirts on Teesside, has spoken of the “very talented” man who he met while staying in the same Liverpool hotel.
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The father of six, who is married to Helen, 46, said: “I watched him perform at small, intimate comedy clubs.
“He then had countless TV appearances before morphing into a great actor.
“He was just a really, really funny man.”
Roy says that he found Rik to be entirely different from his often loud on-screen personas.
He said: “We sat and had a drink and he was very quiet and it was me asking all of the questions.
“He was one of the first alternative comedians - he was a very talented man.
“I think we were all fans of The Young Ones as it was so different.”
Rik also appeared in Blackadder and The New Statesman and had a long-running partnership with Ade Edmondson.
In 1998, he survived a near-fatal quad bike accident at his home in Devon.
The father-of-three recovered and returned to work, appearing in last year’s Channel 4 sitcom Man Down and in the BBC series Jonathan Creek.
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