Rik Mayall as "Mitch" on WOOD & WALTERS (in full) скачать в хорошем качестве

Rik Mayall as "Mitch" on WOOD & WALTERS (in full)

Rik's early comic creation "Mitch" (with a voice surely based on a certain pop star he later had a number one hit with?!) as performed on episode 3 of WOOD & WALTERS first broadcast 15th January 1982. [This clip has already been posted but in poorer quality and incomplete - and I know Rik's many female admirers wouldn't want to miss out on that wink at the end!] To give the character some context, here's an extract from an interview with Rik from COMPANY Magazine in June 1982: Humour can be therapeutic; it can also be used as propaganda. Rik isn't solely concerned with getting a laugh. The selfstyled feminist, Mitch, who has found a contemporary way of exploiting women, is a reptile. 'He isn't supposed to be very funny. I wasn't looking for a laugh but for people to react with "yeuch".' Again the twist, always attempting to trip up our expectations. Mayall presented Mitch out of context, performing him on Victoria Wood's TV show, Wood & Walters. 'Just as I wanted Kevin (Turvey) to appear on a serious show, I wanted Mitch to do something serious on a comedy show.' He was upset that the producers lost their nerve and dubbed laughter over the monologue. Mitch, he acknowledges, 'was a bit of agitprop but I don't feel I have to make people recognise truth. I don't know that there's a purpose for comedians, no-one has specified what their job is. I would never tell a comedian what he ought to be doing but one of the things he can do is make people think for a moment.'