Ricky Hui - RIP

Unfortunately I've just learnt that Ricky Hui has died (8/11/11). He was only 65. So sad. :(

Ricky Hui was one of the funniest comedians ever. He was "the human Droopy" and he starred - and was the funniest character - in the Hong Kong movie CHICKEN AND DUCK TALK (and many other films). I taped that film from a now defunct Danish TV channel in the 1990s and I must have watched it at least 10 times if not more. Here's a link to the news bit on ihktv about his passing. The page is translated by Google so it's NOT that all HK translations are in wonky English like the old VHS subtitles. Usually I'd ad a "LOL" but now it's not even funny. Ricky died. RIP buddy.



Above: Someone posted a collection of funny scenes from CHICKEN AND DUCK TALK.



Ricky Hui was also a Canto pop singer and here he is on stage with his brother Sam Hui and some other guy. I accidentally stumbled over a concert on a HK TV channel that I was able to watch (via satellite dish) in the 90s. I seem to remember it was a channel broadcasting from the UK but it was HK TV. The concert was Ricky Hui and I could not stop laughing. He was doing this probably romantic love song but he just had THAT face! He cracked me up.

THE HAUNTED COP SHOP 2 (Hong Kong, 1988)

VHS / US Chinatown release / fullscreen / Cantonese / English & Chinese subs

Ricky Hui and Jacky Cheung are back in a sequel that's much wilder and over-the-top than the first film! One of my favourites!! How often in films do you get to hear someone say: "I'll think of him every time I urinate" about their dead friend? LMAO.

By the way, if you wanna get hold of HAUNTED COP SHOP 2 try and find the HK video-cd as it has a great letterboxed print, not fullscreen like the video tape shown here. The English subs are fully visible on the VCD. The screen grabs in this post are from the VCD.