David Stafford, who has died from lung cancer aged 74, was a comedy polymath across television and radio, with a gift for parody and surreal humour that led him to collaborate with figures of the stature of Alexei Sayle and Benjamin Zephaniah.
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Where The Young Ones cast are now - from BRIT awards and SpongeBob to tragic death
The classic British slapstick sitcom first aired in 1982, and focused on the hilarious - if rather grubby - lives of four students sharing a house, often with disastrous results
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