{"id":203,"date":"2014-06-11T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amazingvoiceovers.com\/death-is-so-in-right-now-rik-mayall\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:35:48","slug":"death-is-so-in-right-now-rik-mayall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/11\/death-is-so-in-right-now-rik-mayall\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Death is so in right now&#8217;: Rik Mayall"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-4756007\" class=\"post-4756007 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-tv tag-rik-mayall col\">\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Comic star Rik Mayall recorded the voiceover for a short animation about death just months before he passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The black comedy \u2018Don\u2019t Fear Death\u2019 is said to be one of Mayall\u2019s last television appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The three-minute sketch celebrates the lighter side of dying and opens with Mayall, 56, saying \u2018death is so in right now\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was screened on Channel 4 in August as part of its Random Acts series and includes the line death \u2018is your passport to complete and utter freedom\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignnone img-container\"><a id=\"item-attachment_4755518\" class=\"anchor\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"957\" src=\"http:\/\/amazingvoiceovers.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/49e13_136025621_10.jpg\" alt=\"Rik Mayall in one of his final sketches: 'Death is so in right now' \" class=\"img-align-none size-full wp-image-4755518\" \/><figcaption>\u2018Death is so in right now\u2019: Rik Mayall (Picture: Rex)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, a video believed to be the\u00a0last footage of the comedy great has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Mayall is seen messing about on the set of his last film \u2013 The Escape \u2013 days before his death.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"alignnone img-container\"><a id=\"item-attachment_4755496\" class=\"anchor\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"629\" height=\"859\" src=\"http:\/\/amazingvoiceovers.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/RSSPoster_PRO\/cache\/49e13_elib_6096608.jpg\" alt=\"Bottom, starring Rik Mayall as Richie and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie\" class=\"img-align-none size-full wp-image-4755496\" \/><figcaption>Bottom, starring Rik Mayall as Richie and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie (Picture: BBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He had returned from Portugal where he was filming at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Ones and Bottom star larks about and indulges in slapstick.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2014\/06\/09\/rik-mayall-dead-ade-edmondson-pays-tribute-i-feel-privileged-to-have-known-him-4755743\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rik Mayall dies age 56: Ade Edmondson pays tribute saying \u2018I feel privileged to have known him\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2014\/06\/09\/comedy-pioneer-rik-mayall-dead-at-age-56-4755486\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rory Bremner, Tony Parsons and Rufus Hound pay tribute as comedian dies aged 56<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic star Rik Mayall recorded the voiceover for a short animation about death just months before he passed away. The black comedy \u2018Don\u2019t Fear Death\u2019 is said to be one of Mayall\u2019s last television appearances. The three-minute sketch celebrates the lighter side of dying and opens with Mayall, 56, saying \u2018death is so in right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,5,6],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amazingvoiceovers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}