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About the Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles Edmondsonis an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series The Young Onesand Bottom (1991-1995), which he wrote together with his collaborator Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents… series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this he created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another he played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.
He played the lead role in the Comic Strip’s 1985 feature film, The Supergrass. In the 2000s, Edmondson appeared in numerous TV programmes in drama roles including Jonathan Creek, Holby City, Miss Austen Regrets, as himself on Hell’s Kitchen and created the sitcom Teenage Kicks. Edmondson performed and wrote for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (2006-2007). In 2008 he formed a folk punk band, the Bad Shepherds, singing and playing mandola and mandolin. In 2011, he presented a series of shows for ITV: The Dales, which focused on people working in the Yorkshire Dales, and Ade in Britain in which he undertook a tour of numerous places in Britain. In 2013, Edmondson was crowned the winner of Celebrity Masterchef, and from 2019 to 2020, he appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Daniel Cook. In 2022, he also played Ebenezer Scrooge in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
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I’m waiting for the time when I fail – because we all fail – and I’m ready, I’ll take up carpentry.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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I don’t claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there’s a basis to them, and that’s why they’re more popular than other TV comedies. There’s a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
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We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
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I’ve never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour – people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them – but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
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From the stage I’ve seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
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On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don’t care about looking cool or posing.
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You’re entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
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It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
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Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
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I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
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We only have one agenda, which is to make ’em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
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People expect us to be different, but we’re not. We’re very similar people, and it’s because we’re so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh – in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
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A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
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Richie and Eddie couldn’t exist without each other. They’re two halves of the same person.
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We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
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Most modern comedy is crap.
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It’s definitely time to stop. We’re getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn’t as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
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