Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Whenever Rik and I got stuck writing a script, we would put this on and the world would immediately seem to be a more stupidly brilliant place again.
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Adrian Edmondson
English actor, comedian, musician and writer
United Kingdom · b. 1957
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About
Born in Bradford, Adrian Edmondson, 61, is best known for his TV roles in The Young Ones and Bottom, the latter of which he wrote with his comedy partner, the late Rik Mayall. Last month, he published his second children’s book, Junkyard Jack And The Horse That Talked; he has also co-written a play with Nigel Planer, Vulcan 7, which tours from September. He is married to the comedian Jennifer Saunders, has three daughters and lives in London.
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I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.
My granddaughter is only one, but she gives the best hugs. That’s when I’m happiest at the moment.
I practise stoicism. Not the stiff-upper-lip, modern stuff, but the ancient Greek philosophy. You have to accept what you can’t change. I try to face forwards all the time. When that doesn’t work, I think about buying a machine gun.
Not doing Top Of The Pops when The Young Ones’ single went to number one.
I hit a bit of lumpy tarmac driving my motorbike over the Pyrenees in the early 1980s. There was no safety barrier and I found myself riding along the edge of a precipice on half the width of the tyres for 100 yards.
I worked in the largest pork pie factory in Europe. I had a plastic mushroom-shaped thing and had to tamp down the meat into the pie base. It was a conveyor belt of pies from nine to five. The worst thing was the crackly AM radio, which was played loudly through the tinny tannoy system. I still can’t listen to I’m Not In Love by 10cc without thinking of raw minced pork.
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