Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Adrian Edmondson

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Adrian Charles Edmondson is 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 Ones (1982–1984) and Bottom (1991–1995), which he wrote together with his collaborative partner Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For one episode 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.

English - Actor | Born: January 24, 1957

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From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

Adrian Edmondson

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

Adrian Edmondson

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

Adrian Edmondson

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Adrian Edmondson

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

Adrian Edmondson

Most modern comedy is crap.

Adrian Edmondson

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

Adrian Edmondson

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

Adrian Edmondson

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

Adrian Edmondson

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

Adrian Edmondson

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Adrian Edmondson

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

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.

Adrian Edmondson

Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Adrian Edmondson

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