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The Quotable Adrian Edmondson

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Adrian Edmondson's Famous Lines
Movie/TV title
The Comic Strip Presents: Five go mad in Dorest
Character name
Dick



"Oh wizard!"

"Thanks Anne, you really are a proper little housewife, not like George. She still thinks she's a boy."

"Really George! It's about time you gave up thinking you are as good as a boy. I mean, Anne is just a girl and she doesn't mind"

"You really are a brick"


"We're so greedy, aren
't we?!"

"We'll! I feel pretty hot and sticky after all that! Who's coming for a dip?"

"I'm sorry Ju, it's ... I didn't mean to let you down like that, it's just growing up feelings and relationships that's all"

"Adventures! But t
hats all we ever have. Always hearing secret conversations, digging up buried treasure, chasing people down tunnels. Why can't we do something else for a change?"

"Buck up Toby. I think you're quite nice. Come on, let's do something exciting under water."

"It must be awful being a girl and having to do all the work"

"It's no good uncle Quentin, you're a queer and that's the end of it!"

"Well that was an adventure and a half!"

Movie/TV title
The Young Ones
Character name
Vyvyan



"I've been to the Morgue!"

Vyvyan: I've got a leg!
Mike: Hey, Vyvyan, that's not unusual
Vyvyan: No, no look [brings out leg wrapped in paper] I am supposed to write an essay on it but I think I am just gonna stick it on the bonnet of my car.

Rick: I think Special Patrol Group is a stupid name for a hamster!
Vyvyan: Alright, I'll change it then! Hello, Cliff Richard!"

Vyvyan: I thought you were dead.
Neil: Well that's no reason to hassle me on the toilet Viv!

"Some of these bricks explode! That's good innit?

Mike: It's nice to have a front door!
Vyvyan: We had a front door at the last house.
Rick: Yes, Vyvyan, but it was nailed to the ceiling in the living room!
Mike: It had to be done
Vyvyan: Yeah! I had to! I was drunk!

Vyvyan and Rick: Neil, your bedroom's on fire!

"Neil, let's not beat around the bush. Are you going to make supper or am I going to have to kick your teeth in?!"

TV announcer: And don't forget to unplug your set.
Vyvyan: Why?
TV announcer: Because it will blow up you silly boy
Vyvyan: Great!!

"I as playing 'Murder in the Dark' in the cellar, and I was getting really bored. So I thought, I know, I'll crack the floor with my head"

"Viva El Presidente!"

"I've finished the new car competition. I'm gonna win a Ford Tippex any minute. It's quite easy really. All you gotta do is match up six pictures of famous noses with six pictures of famous boogies. Thought that would shock you, well it's not true, beca]use then you gotta say in ten words "What cornflakes mean to you". So I out "Cornflakes. Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes ... Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes, Cornflakes.

[playing monopoly]
Vyvyan: You've won second prize in a beauty contest
Rick: Ha ha ha!
Vyvyan: ... smash Rick over the head with the bank!

"This is my favourite programme. It'd be just typical if it was interupted by a newsflash about a seige or something like that" [a newsflash about a siege comes on]

"It's alright lads. I stole some money from Ricks bedroom this morning, so I'll get these!"

"Mine's a babysham!"

Vyvyans mum: Well aren't you going to introduce me to your friends?
Vyvyan: Oh yeah. Uh, this is a friend of mine called Mike ... uh... this is a friend of mine called Neil
Neil: Hello
Vyvyan: And thats a complete bastard I know called Rick.

"Look! Watch my trick you bastards or I'll kill you!"

Vyvyan: It's incredible, isn't it Mike? That although one goes to bed apparently free of grit, when you get up in the morning, your bed is always full of bits!
Mike: No time to comment Vyv, I can never see my matching undersheet for chicks
Vyvyan: Yeah! I have the same problem with fleas. You see, without my spectacles, fleas and bit's are almost identical. Not that a flea is going to be wearing my spectacles.

"Cornflakes for breakfast! That's disgusting Neil!"

"There just so happens to be an atom bomb in front of the door"

Vyvyan: What are you going to do Rick? Burn your bra?
Rick: Well someone's got to do it, Vyvyan! it's easy to sit on your backside, isn't it?
Vyvyan: Not if you haven't got a bottom!

Mike: Vyy?! Eat the telly!
Vyvyan: That's a completely brilliant idea Mike. I've been waiting to do this for a long time!

Vyvyan:
[smashes bottle over atom bomb] Why won't it go off Mike?
Mike: Why do you want it to go off?
Vyvyan: Who can tell?

"What I need is the drill, the hedge trimmers and some ordinary household bleach!"

"Why won't you let me set off the bomb, you bastards??"

Vyvyan: I've been wrecking the bathroom.
Punk #1: Terriffic
Punk #3: But its your house Vyv.
Vyvyan: Yeah, but it's a party, init!?

Rick: Why can't they have stories about love and peace?
Vyvyan: Because it's sissy, you girly!

Vyvyan: Wait a minute! Is your the stuff with the sticky labels with 'Rick' written on it?
Rick: Yes
Vyvyan: [mock remorse] Oh. sod it! I'm very sorry, Rick! I didn't know! I tought it was mine, and I've eaten it! Every last bit!

"it's a potion I've invented where when the patient drinks it he turns into an axe-wielding homicidal maniac! It's basically a cure. For not being an axe-wielding homicidal maniac!"

Rick: Well, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and go to the shops yourself?
Neil: Yeah!
Vyvyan: Because I don't want my forehead to rust!

***Series two coming soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - War
Character name
Mike, Hatchett, Julio, Bolson, Man in Cage, Jenkins and Zarkoff

***Slideshow coming soon***

"Have you ever seen a dead baby?"

"Ok, now remember! You're the toughest, hardest ... cruelest, umm, stupidest guys in the whole God-damned war and don't you forget it!"

"Yes, umm, you look like the young executive type to me. Probably lives in Malden, drives a volvo ... beats his wife at the weekend!"

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Beat Generation
Character name
Desmond


"We can all have a crazy time because my parents have gone away"

"I'm turning into an Italian. Look! Pointed shoes!"

"I want to do it to you!"

"Everyone is having a pretty groovy time"

"We're all crazy poets"

[Talking about his poem] "This one is about my first trauma. My girlfriend had just come back from boarding school and her pony bimbo died.Its called 'Oh Crikey'"

"I'm not a virgin, OK!"

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Bad News Tour
Character name
Vim Fuego


***Quotes coming soon***
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Summer School
Character name
Peter

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Five go mad on Mescalin
Character name
Dick

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Dirty Movie
Character name
Bean

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Susie
Character name
Martin

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents -Fistfull of Travellers' Cheques
Character name
Billy

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Gino: Full Story and Pics
Character name
Gordon/Bill

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Eddie Monsoon, a life
Character name
Eddie Monsoon
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Slags
Character name
Ace
Movie/TV Title
Happy Families
Character name
Guy Fuddle


"My life was hell. You made me suffer every possible indignity. "These are my four pretty little granddaughters you would say to your friends, "and that's a total bastard that lives with us called Guy"

"I only want to be loved Grandma!"

"Bloody ha ha ha with nobs on!"

Guy: My cars going rusty because my grandfathers died.
Doctor de Quincy: Oh I am sorry, what was it
Guy: A mini!

"Shut up and listen you half witted peasant!"

Guy: You've been laughing at me
Edith: Yes I have
Guy: Because I still have feelings? Because I'm still ... human?
Edith: No! Because your a prat! Simply being human isn't a good enough joke, everyone can do it!

"Other peoples grannies knit them jumpers or bake them delicious cakes, you blew up my car!!"

"But do they all have attractive personalities? I do you see and I thought I might be able to use my considerable social charm to win her friendship"

"Hello lovely granny.Great news! I have made contact with Cassie. It's wonderful how like you she is. She has the same endearing habit of expressing her love for me through violence."

Guy: Hello matey boy. I'd like a ticket to France please.
Ticket man: This is Liverpool. The ferry doesn't go to France, it goes to Berkenhead.
Guy: Uh, umm ... well do you think you can drop me off?

"Housemaid is English slang for girls who like to kiss in a really dirty sort of way"

"And so granny dear, I've decided to show the postcards to the local village Priest. He's the first genuine Naziz I've ever met and I must admit I rather like him."

***More Quotes Coming Soon***
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - The Supergrass
Character name
Dennis Carter
***Coming Soon***
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Consuela, or New Mrs Saunders
Character name
John
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Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Private Enterprise
Character name
Brian
Movie/TV Title
Flithy, Rich and Catflap
Character name
Edward Catflap

***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - The Strike
Characters names
Adrian, Slim and the policeman
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - More Bad News
Character name
Vim Furgo
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
Character name


Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - The Yob
Character name
Micheal
Movie/TV Title
Blackadder goes forth
Character name
Baron Von Richthoven

***Slideshow Coming Soon***

"How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing. For us, it is a mundane and functional item. For you it is the basis of an entire culture."

"I can tell you are suffering by your long faeces."

Richthoven: Ah, and Lord Flashheart, this is indeed an honour. Finally the two greatest flyers in the vorld meet. Two men of honour who have jousted together in the cloud strewn glory of the skies are face to face at last. How often have a rehearsed this moment of destiny in my dreams. The valour we two encapsulate, the unspoken nobility of our comradeship, the [Flashheart shots him dead]
Flashheart: What a poof! Let's go!
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - South Atlantic Raiders
Character name
Billy
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - GLC: The Carnage Continues
Characters names
Billy, prince and Giles Cricket Bat
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Oxford
Character name
2nd MI5 Man/Fan
Movie/TV Title
Les Dogs
Character name
Bestman
Movie/TV Title
The Pope Must Die
Character name
Father Rookie
Movie/TV Title
Bottom
Character name
Eddie Hitler


***Coming Soon***

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Red nose of Courage
Character
John Major, Coco the clown

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Space virgins from the planet sex
Character
'K', air traffic controller

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase
Character
Gregory

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Demonella
Character
Sid Vicious

Movie/TV Title
If you see God tell him
Character
Gordan Spry

Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Four men in a car
Character
Ian
***Coming Soon***
Movie/TV Title
French and Saunders - Titanic
Character
James Macaroon
Movie/TV Title
The Comic Strip Presents - Four men in a plane
Character
Ian Crisp
***Coming Soon***
Movie/TV Title
Johnathan Creek
Character name
Brenda Baxter
Movie/TV Title
Celebrity Fame Academy
Character name
As himself



"I'd really like to apologise to my teenage daughters cause it must be so embarrassing to have a dad as big a dick head as this!"

Craig: I like the fact that you made some very bold choices in the staging of it. I thought that was terrific
Adrian: That's a very kind way of saying it's crap isn't it?

"I like to move on stage. I don't like standing still cause then people see I'm a fat, balding bloke"

"Kevin had been teaching me some of James Browns moves, which I really cant do - whereas James Brown is the sort of Godfather of soul, I'm like the second cousin twice removed"

Carrie:
You hate your song. You hate the fitness and you hated the music!
Adrian: Yeah! I'm looking forward to lunch though!

"I think I've misunderstood the game. I thought the more I drank the more money we raised for comic relief.

"Well we've had some complaints from the League Against Cruelty to Microphones and Microphone stands so tonight I am doing something completely different and not touching it."

"In this thing I'm just so different from the me that sits at home cause I've always been very private. When I perform I kind of become different."

Cat: Everybody has been saying that you have a read split personality. What is the difference between the Adrian at home and the Adrian on this stage?
Adrian: I think the Adrian on this stage is alot more nervous and the Adrian at home has apparently just had two lambs! YAY!!

"Yes. What a silly sausage! What a silly emotional sausage we can be ocassionally.

"I think everyone wants to live in a nice world and you do things that make your enviroment more pleasent for yourself don't you. That's my act. That's what I do. I've never had particularly good material - I just perform like an idiot.

"My job is just trying to speak common sence and jolly people along"

Cat: What are you missing most from home?
Adrian: The ability to pick my nose without being on television.

Edith: What's that?
Adrian: That's just my microphone!

Adrian: You seem to have forgotten your bra this evening
Cat: You know what the good thing is that I don't really need one so its ok actually. They just sort of stay up there on their own.
Adrian: I'm enjoying looking at them anyway.
Cat: I'm glad your hands are tied behind your back!

Cat: You said you've regressed to being 14 years old. Is that a coping mechanism for the whole Fame Academy?
Adrian: No. Thats just the best age to be in life I think.

"Can I just say to Lesley - you told me if I was naughty last night you'd come in and smack my bottom. What happened?
Movie/TV title:
Holby City
Character name
Percy 'Abra' Durant

***Slideshow Coming Soon***

[sounding shocked] You know, sister Tyson thinks he's almost as sexy as me!!"

Dan:
Oh, Percy, could I have a word?
Abra: I'm very busy
Dan: Uh, it's rather pressing
Abra: My tummy is very rumbly

"So this surgeon goes into a pub with a slab of tarmac under his arm and says "Beer please", and one for the road ...... cause he's got a bit of road!"

Patient: I want to live!!!!
Abra: I don't blame you!

"Your mum dumped me just like she dumped the booze. You can make your own mind up which was the worst addiction."

"Real life! What's that?"

Abra: So a consultant, a registra and an S.H.O. and a scotman go into a pub and the barman says ...
Kyla: Is this some kind of a joke?
Abra: Da Da! Now that's it! You've heard both my jokes!

"Everybody is sad. Get over it. Stuff happens"

"You'll like this one! This prostitute picks up a client and as they are doing it she can't help noticing he's whispering all the time. Whisper, whisper, whisper, and eventually she says, "look if you are gonna whisper at least whisper in my ear . So he leans forward and whispers in her ear and do you know what he is saying? "I've only got a fiver!""

"Apart from a broken heart I'm on top of the world"

Dan: Missionary zeal run in the family does it?
Abra: I'm more missionary position than zeal!

"You know there used to be a time when the worst you could sell was your dignity but now you can sell your body parts"

[when deciding who will do an emergency C-section] "If someone could find me another very small little drink, I might have a bash!"

Woman asking about patient: So, he's ok?
Abra: For a man with a shoe in his left ventricle ... yeah!

"I know this place that does fantastic fruit smoothies. Makes you feel so much better about ordering the full english breakfast afterwards"

[Abra and Dan go into Abra's office] So? What now? Are you going to take me roughly over the desk?


Movie/TV Title
Teenage Kicks
Character name
Vernon

***Slideshow Coming Soon***

"I think my first priority is to get my leg over."

"I'm not bald, it's just that my face goes back a long way."

"Bloody women, they only ever want one thing, but they'll never tell you what it is!"

"I am a stud muffin!"

"I'm not suited for work. Some people are born to be boring suburban drones ... and some people are born to live on the edge, be free spirits. We're living your dreams. You should support us."

"I'm not angry, I'm just animated!"

"It wouldn't matter what I did would it? I'd never be good enough for you, because I'm your dad."

I admit it! I'm a rubbish dad! Because all dads are rubbish, and I'll tell you this - so are their kids!"

Movie/TV Title
Miss Austen Regrets
Character name
Henry Austen

Movie/TV Title
Hells Kitchen
Character name
as himself




"I've used abit of my own beef ... thats meat from a cow!"

"I love authority. I love challenging it. If there was no authority there'd be nothing to rebel against."

Marco: Ade, I like you
Ade: Thankyou!
Marco: Smiley
Ade: I'm a happy chap!

"Have you seen my blister? I does really hurt. Like proper burny hurt."

"I must say that with less swear words."

"Bizarre how frightening he [Marco Pierre White] is. Cause ... I think it's cause he is a huge physical presence and he's got a huge knife in his hand!"

Nick: [reading diners comments] Adrian. He is slightly haphazard and cheotic but one to remember.
Ade: That's what my wife says!

"It's not cheating! It's being creative!"

"Mr White showed us how to kill them [eel's] with one swift blow with the chopper. Ah, that's the sharp cleaver thing ... NOT his penis!!"

"Bruce's fart gag was one of the best. The fridge makes a funny noise. You see, bottom humour is good humour."

Ade: My wife's in tomorrow
Bruce: Do you wish for her to have a special meal?
Ade: Uh yeah, I think I'll probably be seeing her later! [laughs]

Nick: [reading diners comments] A nice bit of fish but it didn't blow me away.
Ade: It was dead!!

Marco: Has anyone been sacked before?
Ade: Yeah. I was sacked from a chrisp factory.
Anthea: What did you do Ade?
Ade: I got the timings wrong and peeled away most of the potato.

"When I was a kid there were six of us in our family and I was known as the dustbin because I was constantly hungry and I used to finish off everyones stuff and then an hour or two later say 'I'm hungry'"

"I'm a benine dictator. One of the nicest. If there is a rebellion I shall quell it viciously, savagely, instantly - probably with a very sharp knife."

"[To Danielle] Don't set fire to John Prescott. Marco will be very annoyed"

"It's for Jim Davidson so you can fuck it up if you want"

Linda: May we all have men who love us that much. It's beautiful to see.
Ade: I dont want a man to love me that much!

"Lambs are very very nice creatures. Much nicer than sheep, which are stupid and are always looking for new ways to die!"

" I would quite like to hear less of Anthea"

"I don't know what happens in the girls shower. They take alot longer to do everything. What are they doing? They've got less bits!"

"Johnny Depp with glasses is what I'm thinking. Odviously! Other people might be thinking Captain Mannering!"

"Ahhhh... Ahhhh ... I've got brain disease!"

"We've had our ups. We've had our downs. I've had my sideways which is interesting."

Marco: I can think of many reasons why they'd vote for you. You're funny, you're entertaining, you're carismatic, you're beautiful, you're intellectual.
Ade: You charmer
Marco: You're specia. You cook fish.
Ade: Alright, you can have me! Come on, chase me!!

"A cricket bat with roots is just a tree"

"Marco is incredibly sexy. I can see why the ladies would go for him. Theres something very sexy about people who can use their hands like that in that venal way, a kind of wild animal. I wouldn't be surprised if he dragged the odd person off by the hair to his office."

"Here we are, Linda Evans from Dynasty and me, the two front runners in a cooking competition. Who would have thought that would happen 25 years ago?"

"Marco's quite a good cook you know. No, he's scrubbing up really well. He'd be an asset to nearly any kitchen."

"My letter was from my Mrs. Just thinking about her made me rather weak and emotional."

"I am Marco's fish bitch. I cook his fish for him. He shouts at me for fish and I give it to him."

"God, I look so fat. I look fatter than I feel. The tele puts pounds on . I am actually quite slim.

Adrian Edmondson Quotes

  • My first ever gag was about Trill budgie food at school. They used to have an ad with the tag line, Trill makes your budgie bounce with energy!' I dressed a tennis ball to look like a budgie and bounced it off the stage and a career was born
  • We did piss-takes of Samuel Beckett. Everyone else thought he was very serious but we thought he was hilerious!
  • We did a sketch called Gods Testicles. We had a £10 budget, bought two pink duvet covers and hung ourselves from the ceiling from them. We were God's testicles arguing with each other.
  • Most of our comedy is about frustration, which most people can identify with. We also had respect for Gonzo in The Muppet Show. He was constantly seeking out new thrills and thats how we felt.
  • 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 take a quick look.
  • In 'The Young Ones' we played to our strengths. Nigel [Planer] was a real hippie and still suffers from a disease he picked up travelling in India. I was always the one who got too drunk at parties. I did twice try and drive my motorbike up some stairs of our student flat in Didsbury.
  • Vyvyan was a medical student and they are all consultants with yachts and golf club membership now.
  • The comic strip refuses to die. It's all the fault of Peter Richardson. Don't know if you remember Four Men in a Car, which went out a few years ago as a single episode about four businessmen on a car journey to Swindon, but we have just made a follow-up called Four Men in a Plane, surprisingly enough about four businessmen in a plane. I wish Pete would hurry up and write Four Men on a Carribean Beach Drinking Pina Coladas
  • I think my favourite isThe Dangerous Brothers. We were on Saturday night live. It was the nearest Rik and I got to our heroes Wyle E Coyote and Tom and Jerry.
  • If you see trouble and your not too close to it, its quite fun to watch!
  • Your ambitions are alway limited by the step you've just been at, so it never actually feels like ... its not overnight from being a stupid student to being a stupid entertainer, like we are now.
  • [talking about Rik Mayall] We are gay lovers and we are married
  • [talking about Rik Mayall] It's love, really. Physical love that's kept us together all this time
  • From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
  • One day Joni Mitchell turned up at this studio in LA, ran across the room, three her arms around me, kissed me and said, "I love you. Whenever we have Young Ones parties, I always play Vyvyan. Can you imagine Joni Mitchell playing Vyvyan? On a regular basis? "Whenever we have Young Ones parties..." she said. As if it was a regular occurence. I've always enjoyed that but Jennifer is a huge fan, so she is very jealous."
  • There is alot 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.
  • Most modern comedy is crap
  • You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
  • We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny
  • I don't know if you have noticed but we've been playing the same characters for 25 years.
  • [Speaking about partnership with Rik Mayall] It's definately time to stop. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were both starting to look abit ridiculous.
  • [Speaking about partnership with Rik Mayall] It's not that I'm not proud of our work together. I just didn't want to do so many w**k gag's anymore.
  • [Speaking about partnership with Rik Mayall] We've got a plan that if we both survive into our late sixties we will play a couple of old b**tards in an old people's home. There are so many things to hit each other with - Zimmer frames, walking sticks. It could be really funny.
  • [speaking about his role in 'Holby City] Whenever any of the girls are onset I give them the eye just incase the writers see and say "yeah, well put him with her as well"
  • [Speaking about his role in 'Holby City'] It's really funny onset cause you have these people who, you know, who are open and your sort of playing about with their bowels, and you've got an actress there and just occasionally they open their mouths and ask "Hows it going? Going well is it?"
  • [Talking about Holby City] I know it's not a very cool programme ... but I learned to do an emergency tracheotamy. If I was on an aeroplane, and someone had an upper airway blockage, I could help them out. But anything else - I'd faint at the sight of blood.
  • Heres a question for you! If you were on a airplane and you were very very poorly and they called for a doctor and there wasn't one, would you rather be treated by anyone else or by someone who had done Holby?
  • [speaking about his role in 'Miss Austen Regrets'] It's the first time my mum's ever liked me on tele
  • [Speaking about his role as Vernon in 'Teenage Kicks'] It's only his hips and his teeth that are holding him back from being a proper teenager.
  • (Speaking about his wife, Jennifer Saunders) I've got this sex icon, comedy goddess wife who earns a shed load of money.
  • Even thouh we work in the same field, we have an intense life away from our professional lives
  • Alot of comedy writing is about resolving one's issues and I don't think that would be right in a marital partnership. In comedy you chew the cud over who you are and pull things out of that, and I think it would be exposing too much. Look at John Cleese and Connie Booth. They wrote Fawlty Towers and then divorced
  • I don't know any preformer who isn't a little paranoid.
  • Is it a sitcom round our house? Unfortunately it's not. We do the ordinary stuff that everyone else does. We're dead boring!
  • It was a slow burn with Jen. She's gorgeous and we just share things. She's very nice to be close to.
  • Jennifer and I don't argue, we sulk with each other. It's much better that way.
  • You have to be able to have sex with your wife. I walk a tightrope between a love of food and wine and a fear that I'll get so fat that Jennifer won't fancy me anymore.
  • [Talking about daughter Ella] I cry when my daughter sings.
  • I think of all the things I've done, being a father is what I've tried to be the most successful at
  • I've always been keen not to let my kids swear, because swearing is such good fun. Alot of people spoil it by letting their kids swear too early, so theres nothing you can say when you are really cross.
  • We got a farm to live the rural idyll, but my wife Jennifer thinks I should see someone about my rage towards farm machinery. I really do scream myself hoarse when a harrow wont work or a tractor won't start. She thinks I need theropy for it. It is theorpy.
  • I have to say cows are much nicer than sheep
  • Sheep are infuriating, but you have to accept they're thick and in the end taste very nice.
  • I mean, I eat my own meat ... yuck!!! (laughs) .... Yeah, I do alot of yoga!
  • (on the british chat show Loose Women) Can we snog during the ad break?
  • You do a lot of comedy you don't get much snogging. Get into drama theres all sorts of ... [laughs] It's lovely.
  • Hey Pen, fancy a fuck?
  • There's a lamppost on Lexington Street in Soho which I destroyed drink driving.
  • I kicked a taxi the other day on Old Compton Street
  • I tried coke for a year. Jennifer told me I was acting like a complete tit so I stopped
  • [talking about his cocaine use] It was actually before we were married. I wasn't even that wild. I wasn't as addict, it was just something I did.
  • I used to be an arrogant twat. I'm alot more tolerant, but within me there is a rage that sometimes comes out
  • I'm gonna sign a pact with the devil and I'm going to be allowed to drink as much as I like, and it wont hurt my liver and I wont get as ASBO
  • It's trying not to be fat that alters your lifestyle the most. I'm not a social drinker, I'm a social event drinker. If it's someones birthday I will get trashed and have a bloody brilliant time.
  • I threw away my motorcycle leathers. I accepted I was never going to have a 32 inch waist again.
  • It was only a few years ago I kind of relinquished the idea that I was 19. Now I think of myself as 23 or 24. The fact that I've got kids about the same age makes no difference. I feel like I am younger than them.
  • [Speaking about his time on fame academy] I mistakingly thought I was being groovy with the young people. Then I discovered that behind my back they called me 'uncle'. I realised there is no way to be mates with young people. Its like my kids think there is no way I could know anything about youth culture, but I think I invented it
  • [Talking about modern Students] They seem alot less exciting than in my day. There was a kind of freedom when we had ... when we were paid to have fun at the governments expense.
  • [Talking about 'Teenage Kicks'] You see man like Vernon everywhere these days - guys who spent two years on the barricades and the next twenty in Homebase
  • I'm a middle class wanker!
  • [Answering a question about who he would send to the tower if he ruled the world] The Royal Family. I don't hate them as people, I just hate them as an institution. They'll be familiar with the surroundings and they are used to old buildings. I don't think there should be an honors list. My mother used to say that 'OBE' stands for other buggers's efforts, and I think she was right.
  • I don't know anyone in the world who doesn't want to be a rock 'n' roll star, I dreamt about it all through my school days. I was in a band at school and that was all that we talked about.
  • I did genuinely think Johnny Rotten was mesmerising and brilliant. It's a regret of ine to know he would hate me. I am exactly what he hates. A middle-class wanker playing at it.
  • The sex Pistols are my ultimate band, truly and sincerely I think it's the most exciting music that's ever been created.
  • Punk is a very exciting kind of music, and it was a kind of backdrop to my life from about the age of 18 onward.
  • I really love punk music, I really love folk instuments, I've joined them together and they make this noise I really like
  • Punk songs are much better than people think they are and they are actually the folk music of their day
  • I love making music. Got my first guitar when I was 13 and along the way I've picked up ten other guitars, a banjo, a ukelele, two trumpets, a banjolele, a mandolin, an autoharp, a charanga, two pianos, a tenor guitar, a triangle and even made myself some Coconuts (strangely enough - from a coconut).
  • We all get older and our eardrums start to hurt. Loud music gets abit wearing.
  • Everyone becomes reactionary the older they get; you may have started off with revolution in mind but eventually you seek comfort, slippers, cocoa and chidren behaving. Yet at the same time you want to be a rebellious teenager.
  • I've been at home developing my right hand ... (on the mandolin, you fools)
  • Traditional instruments are groovy you know and they always have been. It's just, you know, that they don't get on tele much, do they?
  • I've played guitar all my life and accidentally bought a mandolin to years ago. When I was a teen I was into folk music - Fairport Convention - but didn't know it was folk. Then punk came and blew everything away.
  • I got back into folk music seven years ago. I was playing a gig in Sheffield City Hall. There's two gigs that share the same corridor back stage. Kate Rusby was on in the other gig. i could hear it through the door and thought, 'That's brilliant!! I want some more of that.'. And I started chasing it and going to folk gigs.
  • Folks pretty popular everywhere but people in the country are more in touch with the DNA of folk, I think. I live in the countryside on Dartmoor and people are hankering for traditional things.

Quotes About Adrian Edmondson

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Ade had long straggly hair, little John Lennon glasses and really ripped trousers, I thought he was really cool and wanted to be his pal
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Rik Mayall

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He's a fabulous performer, he's a wonderful singer, marvelous dancer and very good at love making!
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Dawn French

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:Ade really is my best mate, and our relationship is the longest I've had apart from my parents. It's a kind of marriage I suppose. We're Yin and Yang. Chi-Chi and what was the other one? An-An? But I have to keep telling him, Chi-Chi, sorry, but I will not have sex with you
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Rik Mayall

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I thought he was married to Dawn French but apparently it's me!
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Jennifer Saunders

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All these extrardinary film stars came to see us. Jack Nicholson was in the audience one night. Jack Nicholson! So me and Ade went on and did knob jokes."
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Rik Mayall

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He's the greatest isn't he really. He's just a lovely chap ... He's like that in real life you see. He's a good father, you know. Lovely wife, you know. Very often faithful to his wife and everything. He's a gorgeous chap all round and you can see that reflected in his performances. He's everyone's favourite childish drunkard.
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Harry Enfield

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Jennifer has bought North Devon for him. I own South Devon. I think Ade was a bit misguided. He thought it was Hampstead. I don't know what Jennifer is doing - there aren't any shops! She is probably wandering the moors in the rain, looking for Miss Selfridge or something
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Rik Mayall

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It was great to get closer to Ade, who is quite a dark horse, a complex and profound person, as serious as he is funny. He is a shockingly bright chap, passionate about music and his family. Of all the comic strip boys he is the one I feel most sisterly towards. I'm drawn to his shadows, to the hidden. He knows I love him and he loves me back in the most affectionate unlimited way. He is the most sincere supporter you could wish to have. He has come to see me in virtually every play I have ever done and has always been honest with me, for which I respect him very much when him and Jen eventually got together (after no small amount of nudging I hasten to add), I felt that they had found, in each other, a proper mate
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Dawn French in 'Dear Fatty'

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[talking about Rik Mayall's quad bike accident] When he came around he could only grunt. Rik's acting partner Ade Edmondson, who was by his bead, tried to mask his shock by joking that he needn't worry, they'd set the next series of Bottom in the Stone Age, so they could both just grunt.
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Rebecca Gooch (journalist)

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He is into beastiality
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Rik Mayall

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Ade was just really - but discreetly - caring. Well, of course he was, he's my best mate.
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Rik Mayall

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He looks after me and I look after him, but he doesn't really need me to look after him - except to be his mate. Without being too sexist about it, he's the bloke and I'm the girl. I'm technically incompetent but emotionally believe myself to be in command. He is technically extremely competent and actually in command, but far too wily to let me know that. But its a complete 50:50. He types, I pace.
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Rik Mayall

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I'll tell you the truth, me and Adrian haven't been on the tele in the bed together for seven years ... I don't think it was exactly this one, this one's not really sticky
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Rik Mayall

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He does silly things. All my friends find him hilarious so I don't mind though.
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Freya Edmondson

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[Talking about his role as Henry Austen in 'Miss Austen Regrets']Very disciplined and self-effacing, and profoundly moving
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Olivia Williams

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