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Adrian Edmondson

June 2024

  • ‘Full of joy’ … Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in the gross-out 90s hit.

    How we made
    ‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian Edmondson and Ed Bye on Bottom

    ‘We had wanted to call it My Bottom, so that people at work the next day would say, “Did you see My Bottom on television last night?”’

September 2023

  • Patsy Ferran as Eliza Doolittle and Bertie Carvel as Henry Higgins either side of a chart that Carvel points to with a stick, in Pygmalion at the Old Vic.

    The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Adrian Edmondson: ‘I’ve won more prizes for vegetables than I have for comedy’

November 2022

  • Owen Teale

    ‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

    Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times
  • Alexei Sayle, Ade Edmondson, Christopher Ryan and Nigel Planer, stars of The Young Ones

    ‘We took the sitcom and blew it apart’: how The Young Ones changed comedy for ever

    With flying eclairs, falling beds and exploding buses, the anarchic antics of Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike shoved alternative comedy into the mainstream. Forty years on, we ask the show’s creators how they pulled it off
  • Canny entrepreneur … Adrian Edmondson (Scrooge) and Jasper Dance (Tiny Tim) in the RSC’s A Christmas Carol.

    A Christmas Carol review – Adrian Edmondson stars in a biting tale for our times

    David Edgar’s sharp script feels close to home in this exuberant, illusion-filled version of Dickens’ seasonal but socially conscious story

September 2021

  • Once Upon a Time...at the Almeida. Pierro Niel-Mee (Victor) and Adrian Edmondson (Grandma). Photo credit - Marc Brenner (3)

    Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia review – stiff with humorous intent

    Mirth and menace fight it out in Josh Azouz’s play of shifting alliances, with Adrian Edmondson on fine form as a knitting Nazi officer

August 2021

  • Ethan Kai as Youssef and Pierro Niel-Mee as Victor in Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, at the Almeida.

    Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia review – horror, humour and forgotten history

  • Adrian Edmondson

    On my radar
    On my radar: Adrian Edmondson’s cultural highlights

May 2021

  • Ade Edmondson.

    Comedian Adrian Edmondson traps himself on window ledge

    Star of British comedies The Young Ones and Bottom had to be rescued from the outside of his house by the fire brigade

April 2020

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Lockdown culture
    Adrian Edmondson: 'Hamlet saved me from being expelled'

  • Save Me Too, created by and starring Lennie James.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Save Me Too, Ozark, Money Heist, Pen15 and more

March 2019

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    Comic Strip's riotous Soho club reborn as state-of-the-art theatre

    New Boulevard theatre aims to awaken area’s rebel spirit in the building that hosted Eddie Izzard and Rik Mayall in the 80s

October 2018

  • Nigel Planer as Hugh Delavois and Adrian Edmondson as Gary Savage in Vulcan 7.

    Vulcan 7 review – the Young Ones meet again as old dinosaurs

    Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer write and star in a Beckettian comedy about two past-it thesps making a sci-fi film on the edge of a volcano

August 2018

  • The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales

    The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales review – warm and witty farmyard fables

    An interfering duck, a bossy pig and a dozy rabbit face a series of misadventures in this cute family-friendly animation

July 2018

  • Ashley Storrie, daughter of acclaimed Glaswegian performer Janey Godley.

    Funny bones run in the family as fringe plays host to comic dynasties

    This year’s Edinburgh festival features many young standups with parents – from Mark Steel to Gyles Brandreth – who blazed the same trail

June 2018

  • The Young Ones Comedy TV show imagenet

    Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer reunite for actors satire

    Young Ones stars to appear on stage in Vulcan 7 as has-beens stuck in a literal and TV-career wasteland

November 2017

  • Adrian Edmondson in Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night review – fun and fury from Ade Edmondson and Kara Tointon at the RSC

    This take on the classic comedy plays too heavily on its Victorian setting but delivers rapturous speeches, splendid sets and some clever ideas

October 2017

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Culture webchats
    Adrian Edmondson webchat – your questions answered on Rik Mayall, hate mail and what's in a Peperami

    The former Young One revealed who he’d like to thwack with a frying pan, his guitar battles with heavy metal legends and what he makes of today’s sitcoms

May 2017

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    Children's book of the week
    Tilly and the Time Machine by Adrian Edmondson review – journey of discovery

    The actor’s tale about a seven-year-old chasing her dad through history is engaging and insightful
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