Rik does early 80s Contortionism.
Ah, go on. Spare under 40 seconds of your time to watch a non-verbal performance by Rik (a little bit Ian Curtis, a little bit Ian Jones off of TV Cream) Mayall. Except I can’t show you the 37 sec clip due to You Tube enabling disabled by request silliness. Instead I’ll just have to talk you through it.
From a female perspective (alright, from my perspective, dammit), I’m not sure it gets better than this. At least Rik sadly never looked better than this ever again. The sharp suit undercut by the thrown on red t-shirt underneath – matched with an undernourished pallor and an under priced early 80s Joy Division crew cut – check. This is a special window into a time before he started contorting his upper lip to his nose a bit too often and got stuck in the wind that way.
What’s this? What’s he going to do? And with what part of his anatomy?
His ear. Gah. Look what he’s done to his ear!
Merry Christmas.
xx
15/12/2008 at 11:18
That makes me feel a bit ill actually.
15/12/2008 at 12:15
It looks a bit like a pig’s nose.
19/12/2008 at 20:34
I was recently watching ‘Rik’s’ early Kevin Turvey performances. Still quite amusing.
Merry Christmas yourself. It’s snowing on your blog. If this comment gets soggy, I’ll hold you accountable.
22/12/2008 at 09:18
He used to get regular cysts from doing that to his ear. He once told Smash Hits that while giving an interview in character as Vim in Bad News.
Merry Christmas to you too!
22/12/2008 at 20:43
Some of it still holds up VS.
My contortion trick is my arms, which bend backwards, although it takes zero effort, it often makes people gasp.
25/12/2008 at 14:50
Merry Christmas!