Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey Patsy became one of television’s

Patsy became one of television’s great camp icons the moment Absolutely Fabulous hit the airwaves in the early ’90s

or forced institutionalization

three middle-aged men (played by Ben Gazzara

and alive with possibility

for reasons no one questioned

Rick The People's Poet (The Young Ones/Rik Mayall) Color:Dark Grey Patsy became one of television’sThe Peoples Poet The Young Ones Tee (19821984) Angry, chaotic, and completely convinced of his own brilliance, Rick crowned himself The Peoples Poet in The Young Onesdelivering wildly overdramatic political monologues to absolutely anyone trapped nearby. Played by Rik Mayall at full intensity, Rick turned student radicalism into performance art: fist in the air, scarf flying, and zero self awareness. The joke was never the politicsit was the ego