One of the greatest 80’s TV comedies.  Students Rick, Neil, Vyvyan and Mike live in a students’ flat. Their humour can be labelled as extreme, ridiculous and very revolutionary. It has probably been one of the most enjoyable  shows of the time.

The Young Ones started life as a bunch of British stand up comedians who were working on an ‘alternative comedy’ movement. Some of them were already beginning to turn up on television shows like Boom Boom…Out Go The Lights and a few other small productions.

Rik Mayall played Rik, a pompous, radical wannabe. Ade Edmondson portrayed heavy metal freak Vivian. Then there was Nigel, hippy “Neil” and finally, Mike a slightly mysterious and overwhelmingly ‘normal’ character played by Christopher Ryan. Alexi Sayle also appeared regularly as their Russian landlord Jerzy Balowski.

Rik Mayall, Lisa Mayer and Ben Elton wrote the scripts. Like most great British comedies, The Young Ones certainly owes a lot to Monty Python, but rather than coping its content, it used the Python style to take the sit-com in a whole new direction.

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