Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondsonis an English comedian, actor, writer, musician, television presenter and director. He came to prominence in the early 1980s and was part of the alternative comedy boom. He is probably best known for his comedic roles in the television series The Young Onesand Bottom, for which he also wrote together with his long-time collaborative partner Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For one episode of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth24 January 1957
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.
No one else would have Richie or Eddie. That's representative of a lot of people's existences. Bottom is not as far-fetched as people might think.
We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
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.
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
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.
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
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.
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.
I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.