British comedian Rik Mayall dead at 56

Story highlightsBritish actor and Coach Factory Outlet Store comedian Rik Mayall is dead at 56Mayall is best known for starring in TV Coach.com series "The Young Ones," "Blackadder" and "Bottom"He official coach factory outlet online had lead role in movie "Drop Dead coach factory outlet online Fred," coach factory website playing imaginary friend of Phoebe CatesComedian survived a near coach factory store online fatal quad bike accident in 1998

Tributes are flowing in for much loved British actor and comedian Coach Outlet Online Store Rik Mayall, who died in London Monday at age 56.

Mayall, one of the leading lights of Britain's alternative comedy scene in the 1980s, cheap coach purses is best known for starring roles in hit TV series "Blackadder," "The Young Ones," "The New Statesman" and "Bottom."

His agent, Kate Benson, of Brunskill Management, told CNN Mayall died suddenly Monday; she did not know coach factory outlet the cause of his death.

Mayall first coach outlet sale found widespread fame in click here student sitcom "The Young Ones," coach handbags outlet which ran for two years on the BBC, and was later coach outlet online shown on MTV in the United States.

The series, which he co wrote, focused on the lives of four roommates at "Scumbag College." Mayall played politics obsessed poet Rick alongside his long term comedy Coach Outlet Store Online partner Ade Edmondson as Coach factory outlet website violent coach factory online sale punk Vyvyan.

Edmondson led the tributes to Mayall Monday, telling Britain's Press Association news agency: "There were times when Rik and I were writing together when we almost died laughing.

"They were some of the most carefree, stupid days I ever had, and I feel privileged to have shared them with him. And now he's died for real. Without me. His lines were regularly repeated in schoolyards and student official coach outlet online pubs.

Mayall survived a near fatal quad bike accident in 1998; he was in a coma for five days after the crash, on his farm in Devon, southwest England, and developed epilepsy as a result of the severe head injury he suffered when he was crushed under the bike.

In an interview several years later, he joked that he "beat Jesus" by coming back from the dead after so long. In 2006, he told Britain's Observer newspaper: "I was dead for five days. Jesus was only dead for three, coach factory outlet online login so I coach outlet store online beat him 17 April 1998 was the day I was sent back from heaven."

He said the accident left him "more aware of being alive."

House star Hugh Laurie, who worked with Mayall on "Blackadder," took to Twitter to recount a story about his co star: "A young girl, stricken with terminal cancer, once asked Rik Mayall for an autograph. He wrote: 'Young coach outlet store online Ones are never afraid.'".