Adrian Edmondson: Rik Mayall And I Were the Vanguards 🧷🍳📺

Actor and comedy legend Adrian Edmondson's life has had many twists and turns, detailed in his new memoir 'Berserker!' He chats with Graham Norton all about his childhood, working with his friend and comedy-partner Rik Mayall on the Young Ones and Bottom, and his career in music 🧷🍳📺
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[@barneypaws4883]

The Young Ones was my childhood. Rik and Ade are immortals

[@philanderson5138]

exactly- it was the first thing on tv as kids that was really naughty and violent... we all quoted the phrases at school the next day

[@MrDeadhead83]

Dam right. Rik and Ade were like rock stars to me when I was a kid

[@moreheff]

I love Adrian. Comes across as such a lovely genuine (and genuinely funny) guy, but I always get a twinge of sadness that Rik is not here to enjoy their later years together. Richie and Eddie, still living in Hammersmith, in middling to old age would have been epic. RIP Rik ❤

[@colinmackenzie6277]

Saw another interview with Aide, on Riks death....and he finished in character as Vyvyan - " YOU Selfish Bastard!!!" ....Lifelong friends

[@moreheff]

@@colinmackenzie6277 Yes, I saw that as well. Rik would have loved that...

[@ED-209UHD]

Yes because he knows that his best friend Rik was murdered!

[@jimihendrix6969]

Same. I think i might watch an episode of him travelling around in a mini and a mini camper, later.

[@realmattjc]

A huge part of my younger years. Much respect Adrian and RIP Rik. Never forgotten 🙏

[@philkasafir.]

100%, I'm seeing ade in Birmingham tonight and I feel like I may shed a tear. I was a mess when rik passed. Hit me like a brick wall!

[@NailHeavenAshford]

Not a frying pan?

[@philkasafir.]

@@NailHeavenAshford CANNONBALL TAFFY O JONES?!?!

[@TheEicb]

Agree, very much (and I'm Swedish)

[@HighlandMike325]

Adrian Edmondson is possibly the coolest name ever if you were 13 in 1984.

[@Gerrythesaint]

So true

[@TolstoyPlastic]

You are correct

[@robinsayer6087]

I was 13 in 84….magical

[@toucheturtle3840]

Surely Vyvian was cooler…very metal😂

[@HighlandMike325]

@@toucheturtle3840 or Vim Fuego or Eddie Catflap

[@MiddleAgedNerd]

From The Young Ones, to Filthy Rich & Catflap, to Bottom, to Guesthouse Paradisio and the Bottom live shows, Adrian and Rik have brought me and countless others such laughter.

[@guisergestalt9510]

The dangerous brothers and comic strip presents aswell, they really are up there as being one of the best comedy duos in Britain

[@RoofLight00]

@@guisergestalt9510 Bad News one and two!

[@scarystardust6095]

Kevin Turvey

[@shaunlodwig]

heed these replies they hold treasures.

[@manonymous4737]

I saw Rik tell a story about falling through the ceiling on the bed: he suddenly got REALLY worried and said "Ade, we're going to die!" and he said that Ade looked at him and just said "Good!". Of course, it was much better when Rik told it.

[@CoopiiemanInc]

I love Ade.. bottom was the best British comedy ever (with only fools and horses) RIP Rik May Mayall.

[@user-kv2rg6mg3r]

Rising Damp was great too, and Black Adder, Red Dwarf 😂 best comedies

[@philkasafir.]

GAS MAN!!! GAS MAN!!!

[@paulwilson6357]

@@philkasafir. Is there someone who looks after you?

[@philkasafir.]

​@@paulwilson6357How do you stay so warm in here? "We make love" 😂

[@YorkshiremanReacts26]

Check out my reactions to Bottom on my KZbin channel! I’m going to be starting The Young Ones very soon too! I’ve completely fallen for Rik. I going to make such a good tribute video in June for him compiling all my favourite moments reacting to him!

[@English_Speaking_Fox]

There’s surely no way that Adrian or any of his colleagues could ever have imagined that 41 years later, middle aged podgy blokes like me would be able to remember every single line of pretty much every single episode, and never get bored of it. So much so that we still force our 20 something offspring to watch along every Xmas, with me acting out as all the characters. Line by line. Over and over. Including Scottish hamsters. Bambi being the classic example - I only have to catch a glimpse of a scene from that episode and the rest of the day I’m reciting (out loud) “crop rotation in the 14th century was CONSIDERABLY more widespread after….. John”. The Young Ones has resulted in more than a few people thinking that I am unhinged. It might have been only 0.5% of your life Adrian, but it’s given me and my old school buddies a lifetime of wonderful memories and enjoyment. So much fun sticking The Young Ones up my parents’ noses. Even better, my stuffy sister hated it. Thank you.

[@Jnoooooo]

Have you got a video?

[@emmadavis5633]

Hahaha, thank you!! I laughed out loud at that line you mentioned! I can remember the enunciation perfectly!

[@sundaypeople5791]

That's a lovely way to put your love for them & their work in words!!❤

[@MiddleAgedNerd]

Niel, your bed's on fire!

[@dechs54321]

Only 4 minutes, try saying that to Roger Banister …

[@martintimmer8574]

Being a German,I had the pleasure to watch „ the young ones „ on Dutch television. Living close to the Netherlands,we could watch their tv ,and bumped into this one.Hilarious,so absurdly funny and British. Loved it then,love it now. Adrian Edmondson was brilliant,and he still is. And a lovely guy it seems.

[@jackworsley2562]

I hope you also got to see Rik in blackadder, it was epic ❤️❤️

[@sundaypeople5791]

I'm the other German who loves YOs, Bottom & everything around Rik & the rest of them. Didn't know anything about them until some years ago, now won't live without them!❤

[@sundaypeople5791]

It's true, I only know exactly 1 more German who knows about them. That's because they didn't do anything on German telly unlike the Pythons & Rowan Atkinson

[@claudevieaul1465]

And, funny enough, I grew up in the Netherlands living close to the German border, and that's where I learned basic German from a very early age 😎🇩🇪 So early in fact, that I firmly believed John Wayne to be a German - as I didn't realise those John Wayne / Spaghetti Westerns on (I think) WDR every Tuesday evening were overdubbed 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Whoever said TV can't be educational... 😜

[@TheTVisions]

Similar thing here, I was in Denmark and we always had German TV from the late '60s onward so growing up in the '70s and '80s I watched German TV all the time that's how I learned the language before classes in school. I wouldn't have known any of the movies or music I like if I hadn't watched German TV back then. Sadly today, it's a different world with a million TV channels so kids now they're not learning the language as well as we did hearing it daily.

[@divobravo3133]

I met Adrian in 1995 at a Glebe bookshop in Sydney. He is an absolute hero of mine and I will remember it fondly for the rest of my life. He was so understated and polite, so different from what I expected after watching him avidly on The Young Ones.

[@user-kv2rg6mg3r]

Freekin cool!

[@bowda99]

Absolutely love how he’s now ready to talk about Rik. The book is brilliant btw.

[@leviddesign4537]

We all love Ade. Comic strip was genius. Mr Jolly lives nextdoor was genius. Thankyou for putting smiles on our faces.

[@leftmono1016]

Take out Nicholas Parsons. So funny.

[@growlerthe2nd712]

Never ever bloody anything ever 😂

[@carltonsergent5981]

You us us 50 quid and your car keys

[@arthurfleck1764]

At last someone has mentioned Mr Jolly.Side-splitting from start to finish.Brilliant!!!Also would like to mention Bad News.

[@feralcat07]

Esp during the Thatcher years

[@tifqureshi212]

Should be Sir Adrian Edmonson .. he’s done more for the UK than most

[@bmofano]

No

[@MrPlank0073]

If lenny can get one ohh wait

[@cheekyegg]

He's better than that

[@leemollison7508]

​@@cheekyeggAgreed, who would want to be lumped in with Sir Jimmy. 🤔

[@wendyo2561]

Graham Norton has to be the best talk show host going. His interviews are more chatting than interviewing and he lets the people talk without interrupting. Love Adrian Edmondson. He and Rik were a fantastic team.

[@paulrodsted3905]

All learm from Micheal Parkinson who pioneered the chit chat style interview

[@kirsty001]

Ade is one of those people I could listen to all day. His stories and memories are very funny

[@wideyxyz2271]

The dangerous brothers.......D a n g e r! Pure brilliance!

[@c9h13no3junkie]

The Red Baron against Blackadder and Lord Flasheart “Yuu vill spend zee rest of zee vorrr teaching home economics to novice nuns in Heidelberg!! For yuuu, ze huuuumilliationn villl be unnnnbearrrable!!!” Thanks Ade, for a lifetime of laughs, and Vim Fuego, the world guitarist in the world ! Stone cold genius 😂😂😂

[@chrisperry5244]

Ade is one of the last proper comedians and an all round top fella, he's lived a life and I'm thoroughly enjoying reading his book 👌

[@andrewhinds6560]

What a lovely, humble guy he is!

[@steve-on7kl]

What a lovely chap. Sounds like he had a horrendous childhood. Such a lovely & funny man!

[@paulshawley6490]

If you can find it, listen to the extended version of his recent appearance on Desert Island Discs. It's very moving, particularly when he talks about Rik.

[@George-dx2sd]

Been a fan of his since Young Ones days . Never knew he was an Army Brat. Quite ironic given that Young Ones was absolutely compulsory viewing in our unit . We even had guys who fitted the four characters as unlikely as it may seemLoL !!

[@chrispescod4075]

Its heart warming to see Ade looking this animated looking his happiest since those days.. Comedy game changers.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Adrian Edmondson and his work made my life better.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

I think I was about 6 or 7 when the first Comic Relief happened, it was one of the few occasions my parents let me stay up and it was because I wanted to see The Young Ones as the BBC never seemed to repeat it and I'd only seen little clips here and there and we didn't have money for a video back then. They were so different to all the other comedy on offer in Britain that I could never relate to but anarchy is something every 80's kid can relate to and every kid wanted to be Vyvyan

[@aboutthemetal8783]

In the early 2000s I worked as stage crew when ade and rick were at the theatre performing a live bottom show for two nights in a row ( maybe 3) ,I was lucky enough to meet ade and rick , rick spent quite a bit of time talking with the back stage crew and I can honestly say he's just as insane as the characters he played , he was ace to all of us , no ego whatsoever , he was like a crazy funny mate I'd known for years , I have fond memories of getting a few items from the shop for Rick , he was very very pleased that my colleagues and I managed to get him everything on his very particular shopping list , I always thought there was a reason Rick was so intense and fast , the way the sweat dropped off him even before he went full ball into his act is something I noticed , he 'marched' around like a force of nature .😁

[@GIBBO4182]

Once in every lifetime…

[@TravelChimp]

Great to see Ade doing interviews and talking about the young ones again..Botton was better though!! My comedy hero without a question of a doubt. Stupendiously funny guy. Him & Rik were just mental together 😅😅

[@lisearchbold6864]

I love that Jennifer used Eddie Monsoon, that's perfect 🥰

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

Vivian ❤ Can't believe he never won any awards for Comedy ? The Young Ones is iconic 🎉

[@DuckReach432]

In my teen years in the mid-80s (in Australia), a few guys at school were excitedly talking about this new British comedy show called, "The Young Ones." Back then, The Goodies and The Kenny Everett Show were on tv most weeknights, so I knew the Brits could do excellent comedy. The Young Ones was at another level - what a groundbreaking creation. Stunning to hear Adrian Edmonson say it was made at a rate of an episode a week.

[@thelittlethingsinlife239]

Comedy genius.. The laughs Ade and Rik gave us still echo to this day

[@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968]

Edmondson is a true legend indeed, love this man.

[@jchis9852]

"Once in every lifetime....!"

[@annother3350]

vanguards!! He's so humble!1

[@RayPierreWhit607]

I love British comedy, but these guys transcended that. Masters of the art. His wife and her comedic partners as well. And Alexie Sayle too!!!

[@myoung8951]

There are lines from all of The Comic Strip team's work that are burnt into my brain. They are the DNA of the best UK comedy (1980-1985). "Escorts, bestcorts! Come in if you're saucy!" Maximum love to Rik, Ade and Peter Richardson/Pete Richens...I love you... Xxx

[@manonymous4737]

That episode, Mr Jolly...I still use so many lines from that. "Balmy fluid! I'll have some of that!" any time I am drinking, "neh bu shi shang hong", "never ever bloody anything ever", "you're pissed, aren't you", and of course the shouting incoherently that they did while lying in (IN!) the piss trough...gold.

[@ackerjawaka4742]

Thats me Billy Balfor... The man with no name 😂 class

[@simonlawrencesings]

"If it's tonic water you want, it's tonic water you'll get!" Another one I use quite often is "Another old English pub!"

[@ackerjawaka4742]

@@simonlawrencesings so whats it like being a homosexual, is it fun...no not really, I was forced in to it because of the recession 😜 been watching them all day, just starting the strike now...if she is peeling an orange I should be loading a gun...♠️🍀

[@manonymous4737]

@@simonlawrencesings Tonic water, you say?

[@db111]

He says that The Young Ones filled 0.5% of his life to make but it filled so much more of mine, thank you.

[@LeroyKinkade]

Vim Fuego the best singer and songwriter Rock has ever had!

[@yurkshirelad]

What a legend.

[@andrewmccririck8412]

Listen to berserker on audible didn't realise how much he has done behind the screen amazing book he always keeps strong no matter what happens in life I highly recommend it

[@rhettcorbett3346]

To the station. Legend. RIP (P)Rick.

[@DarkFire1536]

Adrian seems like such a lovely individual. I grew up watching The Young Ones on MTV. I watched Drop Dead Fred last week and am now revisiting The Young Ones. ❤

[@timmygrace1]

Bottom Live shows are pure comedic genius. Rick & Adrian were a tremendous duo. Even when they made a blooper you could see how well matched and how the compliment eachothers style. The only thing i saw almost at good was 'The mighty Boosh' that are held in such high regard.

[@alanmtbuk]

I miss Rik

[@extromous]

Vim Fuego! 🎸

[@phoebecaulfield4062]

Vim! Wow - I'd forgotten about Bad News. Spider was my favourite.

[@extromous]

@@phoebecaulfield4062 I could never forget Bad News, 'cause I was actually at Donington, up front, when they played there.. Den was my favourite and I loved the conflict between Vim and Colin, really funny.. xp

[@phoebecaulfield4062]

@@extromous Wow! That really is a great memory to have. Lucky you.

[@caeserromero3013]

Available alongside My first and last memoir 2 - The sequel 🤣

[@STEVO-hn5su]

That's brilliant. Where did Edina Monsoon's name originate? Every day's a schoolday....🤣

[@MilitaryGamer83]

I saw Rik and Ade live in Scarborough 2001 I think it was when they were doing Bottom Live 4. I wish I got to meet them both

[@jordanpeters5088]

My first real fond memories is watching bottom with my parents back in the 90’s along with father ted but I still watch bottom and the young ones now!

[@jafwilding]

Adrian Street sadly passed away just this year (2023). He once beat up Jimmy Savile, when Savile was wrestling.

[@eyesonly7072]

I still have his book, How To Be A Complete Bastard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@lashersquirrelslayer]

Watching the Young Ones on MTV was a high for my friends and I and will always be a moment of time that made us happy.

[@iescapedtheasylum2015]

He’s just so awesome ❤

[@JamesJohnson-ul9ox]

My favourite Vivian line, when he got an axe in bedded in his head " well it had to happen one day Neil " 😂😂

[@karensmart2599]

Rik died warning us. Loved him then, love him more so now 🙏 love Ade also

[@Aoderic]

I watched the Young ones as a kid, although I was too young to understand most of the comedy. And I especially remember the play between Rick and Vyvyan, quite crazy 😄

[@rickyjohnson3650]

Good to see him name check Zodiac Mindwarp….Prime Mover is an absolute bop….great video aswell.

[@rael1999]

Ade, it might have been made over a short while but it gave so many people immense pleasure and comedy like music and films has that ability to take you away from troubled times for a while, so I'm sure it helped loads of people too. I was a little disappointed when you almost dismissed comedy at one point when you were interviewed a while back by saying you were doing proper acting now and almost looked at it as a step up from what you did in comedy. I think comedy is a unique and you have to have a special ability to be able to do that very well and you certainly did that along with the rest of the gang, although I always felt Christopher Ryan struggled with the part of Mike, he just didn't have that sprinkling of magic you need to deliver comic lines really well. It's the old adage , timing and how you phrase lines is everything. Great comedy never gets old, I still at times find myself watching some of Laurel and Hardy's old routines and they're pure gold. Your old mate Rik did a comedy sketch with Cannon and Ball once, an unlikely pairing, but it worked beautifully well, all down to great time and delivery.

[@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968]

Adrian Edmondson ia a true tv legend and a british hero.

[@olliemac32]

When I was in year 6, we had a leavers assembly, and everyone in the class had to do something, like some girls did a dance routine etc, my best friend Sean and I acted out a scene from bottom. I was 10 years old… Fairly certain the teachers didn’t know what Bottom was, as we basically trashed an assembly, ending with a plastic bottle hitting the headteacher and knocking his glasses off. We were obsessed, physical comedy at its very best. Can’t believe it’s been a decade since Rik Mayall died. He was my absolute hero.

[@johngore5127]

That bed stunt still makes laugh out loud even after all this time. I saw it for the first time when the show was on PBS in the 80s and made me crazy with laughter.

[@StefanMedici]

Every time I see an older Ade I miss Rick. Gone too soon. But losing your best friend (thankfully mines still alive), that's got to be like losing a sibling or a spouse. Although best friends tend to know you better than either.

[@lambchops29]

Rik and Ade made a really bad childhood bearable. I’m still laughing 40 years later.

[@Greenstone35]

The Comic Strip Presents is some of the most brilliant comedy ever made! They were young and just went for it! So much fun! I admire them all. I miss Rik Mayall so much 🙏🥰

[@ruthbutler8985]

What a great interview!! Loved the Young Ones!! 💕🇦🇺💃

[@boodikon7349]

Them virgin stars behind Adrian used to be on Vivian's forhead

[@pongping1378]

I loved Bottom the programme that brought me many a laugh over time comedy genius 🤣

[@chrischris4181]

thanks for being a total legend.

[@hedgehog1965uk]

That Joni Mitchell story was surreal. I just bought Arian's audiobook. Can't wait to listen.

[@angelajanem318]

Love Ade, watched The Young Ones every Tuesday night, can't ever remake this

[@richardsmith273]

What an absolute class fella. 👍

[@colinmackenzie6277]

SHOCKER!!! High School, 13 Years old in Dunedin, New Zealand 🇳🇿 ....English Class - yep!!! Lets watch the Young Ones in class!!!! TRIFFIC!!!!

[@user-kv2rg6mg3r]

Loved the Young Ones, congrats on the memoir! Can’t wait to read it

[@user-kv2rg6mg3r]

I seriously p*ssed myself the first time the bobbies come in and smash the pad up…then say ‘ROIGHT’. Fond fond memories

[@Adam_Lynn]

Absolute legend.

[@philkasafir.]

Seeing this legend tonight ❤ its gonna be strange without rik but it will be amazing

[@sundaypeople5791]

How was the night?❤

[@philkasafir.]

@@sundaypeople5791 it was bloody brilliant! Funny, and at times emotional. It's still crazy to think this humble, well spoken and calm man was Vyvian 🤣

[@sundaypeople5791]

@@philkasafir. Happy for you! Yes, the Vyvian/ Adrian change is perhaps the most extreme of all four of them!❤️

[@aquablushgirl]

Ade seems like such a lovely chap

[@simonsaxby7425]

Ade is a truly great bloke

[@jonharrison9222]

I get the impression he dislikes the way posterity has airbrushed Bottom from the record. Bottom got the ratings, a run of three series, the live shows and the film. The Young Ones didn’t and, as he points out, amounted to less than 14 weeks of his life.

[@stevencramsie9172]

Young Ones was groundbreaking and infinitely more strange and memorable. Fair or not, like with Fawlty Towers, less ended up being more.

[@mcfcguvnors]

Proud member of the Rick & Ade group on Facebook

[@bbb462cid]

The Young Ones was gloriously raw and brave and even innocent, and I will always remember that some of these bricks explode.

[@skimmingstone3energyrecords]

Way back in the 80s I saw the young Ones live in a tent at Glastonbury fest...

[@jafwilding]

The Innocence Mission is a great band. Glad you mentioned it, because I’d forgotten the name, so couldn’t find their album.

[@pmarmify]

I loved the YOUNG ONES series

[@DanielleA2023]

Watching The Young One's in 1984 in New Zealand 🇳🇿🤯🤣🤔💥🔥

[@barleyarrish]

Great Book Adrian, hard to put down.

[@LUFC123]

Finally the two greatest gentlemen flyers in the world meet ........................

[@patrickturner2417]

"Vyvyan you bastard!!!!"

[@sratus]

Great book.

[@OnafetsEnovap]

Happy Birthday, Adrian! :)

[@ConnbineHarvester]

The Exotic Adrian Street passed away this Summer. It's fun to listen to him talk about the times he beat the crap out of Jimmy Savile for real in the wrestling ring.

[@willcoleman6560]

Iv read it it’s brilliant

[@adrianbrown1492]

I agree about the name Ade.

[@user-uc8kr1pl6b]

Ade will always be Vyvyan to me. "This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence!" Bambi.

[@lisajohnson1528]

Bottom won best new comedy at the British comedy awards in 1992 so ade you must have forgotten that ❤ this guy rikband ade were the best x

[@Reaper4367]

Adrian, The Young Ones may have taken up less than 0.5% of your life, but it will always be a very large part of ours. Thank you Sir.

[@davidb3738]

Some of these bricks EXPLODE!

[@johnrutherford84]

Rik and ade are 100% funny 😂

[@vaguemartin]

Bad News was miles better than The Young Ones. About time someone said it.

[@sundaypeople5791]

But the YOs were the first to get the really young audience. They were adored by them! Bad News & More Bad News were great though, rewatchable again & again! Trevor!❤️😅

[@gibidygubidy]

Eddie Hitler has made me laugh harder and longer than anyone else by miles and still does. I absolutely love Ade Edmondson.