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The Young Ones
Sundays at 10:30pm
There are times one is grateful that one can't smell through your television set. Watching The Young Ones: is one of those times, because if you could smell through the telly, you'd need a mask. Can you imagine how that apartment -- and the characters -- must reek, and let's not even imagine their bathroom. Neil the suicidal hippie, Rick the hopped up anarchist, Vyvyan the punk, and Mike TheCoolPerson live in squalor and dish out violent slapstick that makes you squirm and, as kids say these days, throw up a little in your mouth. The Young Ones is regarded as key in the rise of "alternative comedy" in the 1980s, an in-your-face reaction to the era of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
What else have the cast members done? Find out on the Internet Movie Database:
- Rik Myall (Rick) continues to collaborate frequently with Adrian Edmondson (Vyvyan)and is often on British television. Recently he's been the voice of Lord Reginald in Sponge Bob Square Pants.
- Adrian Edmondson (Vyvyan Basterd) has lately been in the long-running BBC drama Holby City and was in 2007's Comic Relief. He's married to British comedy powerhouse Jennifer Saunders, writer and star of Absolutely Fabulous.
- Nigel Planer (Neil) is also still active as an actor and narrator on British television. He also voiced Dr. Marmalade on Sponge Bob Squarepants.
- Christopher Ryan (Mike TheCoolPerson) played Marshall on Absolutely Fabulous, Jennifer Saunders' character's first ex-husband.
- Alexei Sayle (various members of the Balowski family) played Pope John Paul II in a satire show called Bremner, Bird and Fortune.
