R.I.P. Rik Mayall

Oh Cliff/Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if/You really are a cliff/when fascists keep trying to push you over it!/Are they the lemmings/Or are you, Cliff?/Or are you Cliff?

That’s early on in the pilot – the first episode of The Young Ones. That was it. I just thought the character of Rick was mad and brilliant and wonderful. I was about ei…