I’m the youngest of 3 and when my dad would work away my mam would sit and watch bottom with all of us. I was 7, my brother was 8 and my sister was 9. But we would sit and listen to my mam buckle laughing and laugh at her laughing. We would quote bottom to one another all the time (“that! Is great uncle Bulgaria!”) (“what? You sucked water in through your eyes?”) it’s been such a huge part of all our lives, it sounds over the top saying that, but it genuinely has been. My sister and I got some Malibu, dressed up as Rik and Ade as Richie and Eddie and had a chess night. To this day my sister calls me uncle Eddie and every Christmas she wraps Brussel sprouts to give me and makes a toilet roll periscope which says “fek urff you sad pafftic winka”. Thank you Mr Edmondson for all the joy and laughter you’ve given all my family for years and years. I look forward to reading your book.

@robindevaynes657

7 ай бұрын

That was a joy to read. I wish I had someone to reenact it with. It's quite a trick to do all the parts yourself, to yourself... lol

@bluebellbeatnik4945

4 ай бұрын

mam?

I had the privilege of seeing Rik and Ade in Bottom Live Hooligan's Island, at Liverpool Empire... they were even funnier in person. From my front row seat I laughed from start to end. The best, most superb & truly brilliant comedy double act ever! Rik forever missed.

@JJONNYREPP

6 ай бұрын

Adrian Edmondson: The Waterstones Interview 1505pm 15.11.23 his tale about school and feeling he might not be liked... compadres he doesnt see for over 20 years or so later... ummmmm... i had a similar feeling with not seeing kids i hadn't seen or had contact with since primary school. a vague pentimenti hits you as you search someone's face or the back of someone's head: is that so and so..? hmmmmmm, it favours thingy... i mean your veracity with old timey school anecdotes are brought into question just because you may not have recognized someone from 30 years or more.... a tad harsh of the jury, i feel.. but there you go - the rather better off him than me permeates most aspects of society......................... most aspects of these people whatever ilk seems to rest on military life - whether it's having had to follow a parent about the world or being stationed in a certain part of the globe with yer national service chums.

Ade and Rik are amongst my top comedy heroes. Bottom would make me crease with laughter. They made my adolescence so much more bearable.

It’s genuinely so beautiful to hear Ade talk about the love he and Rik shared throughout their friendship, particularly the details about how they use to write each other’s characters. Sometimes there’s just that one person in your life that you were sort of just meant to meet and through that you become the best version of yourself. That’s most definitely Ade and Rik.🖤🤘

My dad changed my life in 1995. I was 10 years old and sitting upstairs and he shouted me down and said "You'll like this." "This" turned out to be 'Bottom's Out' and I have never laughed so hard in my entire life! I was literally in pain! From that I discovered Comic Strip Presents... Young Ones etc. THANK YOU Adrian!!!

“Have we got a video, then?” 😂 In the early ‘80s, aged 15, I was jettisoned from my very working class home in Tasmania to a rather ‘pukkah’ post-colonial boarding school in Singapore (scholarship girl). On my first day in an advanced English class (where I wasn’t invited to read aloud due to my unacceptable colonial accent), I was sat next to a Geordie lad (also a fish-out-of-water) who, upon learning that my name is Vivienne, greeted me with “Have we got a video then?” and I’d found a friend. Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall and The Young Ones became a kind of life-buoy for me - giving me a common ground upon which to communicate with my new peers. They also kept me sane when, after two years, my big overseas adventure ended and I was plonked back into my home environment and had to work a desperately shit-boring job for a few years to save up enough money to go to university. Adrian is such an erudite, thoughtful man and an excellent actor, but he’ll always be Vyvyan to me, and for that I am eternally grateful. 🙏❤️

@EmptyGlass99

7 ай бұрын

That was standard conversation in the 1980s when you went to your mates house and they'd bought a VHS: "Have you got a video then?" "Yes, we've got a bloody video!!!"

@thomaswillans4085

7 ай бұрын

YES WE'VE GOT A VIDEO😂😂😂

@mplsmark222

26 күн бұрын

I was thinking of this scene as I watched this interview. Ade could not be any more different than his character Vyvyan. I would love to see Ade in his Vyvyan makeup and costume at the age he is now, . Though I think the character was suppose to be pre-med student.

The Young Ones was a turning point to me. Absolute staple of my childhood. So was Bottom.

The Young Ones just changed tv, it was a must watch...absolutely brilliant in its days, I still sometimes look up KZread and watch it..

What a lovely, interesting man. About fifteen years ago, he was sitting next to me on a terrace outside a Belgian beer tavern in Ghent, but I was too starstruck to say anything. Also, he was there on a stag do with a bunch of his friends, so it really didn't feel like the right time to bother him. Listening to this interview now, with him saying he didn't like the fame that came with the acting trade, I'm glad I didn't approach him.

@jackworsley2562

7 ай бұрын

That’s very cool how nice you got to see him and not be that person. I used to see his Wife in the supermarket and would just smile and say hi, fame must be a big burden some days. Glad I took the same approach as yourself and treated them as people.

@petelester8394

10 күн бұрын

It must be difficult being a recognised person sometimes, having people walking up to you and saying lines over and over or asking for an autograph. Maybe they could use some colour coding system or something so you know they are open for autographs or something like that- say if they love the admiration. A difficult one.

Have enjoyed Adrian's work ever since The Young Ones; he made our days in a south London boys school bearable: a lovely human being as well as a comedy genius and skilled actor. For my 40th birthday a good friend who was working at a festival Adrian was appearing at asked him for an autograph. It reads 'Happy 40th birthday Paul you t**t! Love Adrian Edmondson.' The only autograph I have ever owned and makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.

Great interview. I always assumed they were both extrovert off stage but hearing Ade open up about his introvercy really struck a chord with me. Dragged through the streets expected to party and entertain when all you really want to do is go to a restaurant and have a bite to eat. Losing a good comedian is always heart breaking for me and Rick was so fantastically unique, silly and brilliant he's one of those people I just miss and think about daily. This is the first time I've heard Adrian speak in a close and intimate setting about things. Was also a great insight into his formative years in boarding school and the struggles that brings. While being 'privileged' enough to such an education that undoubtedly brings benefits not open to most there are also the mental health problems that go with it. If only there was a happy medium where people could leave school with both their opportunities AND mental health in tact. Love you Ade.

Adrian you are very much loved by all who know you and all your fans !!! especially me !!! I've been a massive fan of yours since the young ones and followed your career throughout the years !!!

I'm looking forward to reading this. I really wish i went to see Ade at the Lowry in Salford last week when he was on. My all time comedy hero. Him and Rik have made me laugh an absurd amount over the past 30+ years. I'm one of the sad pathtic winkers that try to slip in a bottom quote wherever possible as often as poss 😅

@v8will

7 ай бұрын

I think I have the same play telescope ;)

I’m 33 this year and bottom is a massive part of my childhood, I had a cool mum And you guys will always be Eddie and Richie! Thanks guys. And rip RIK X

This is what happens when parents/society decide what education a highly sensitive creative person should have - thank God Ade rebelled and became a Berserker! Thanks for the laughs Ade ❤

Saw him live at The Lowry on Sunday night and he's on fine form. Got a copy of the book! Reading it and it's fabulous. All hail to Ade.

Their work with Bad News and More Bad News has left an indelible mark of hilarity on my life….the depth of talent in the writing, and the parody that I see in rock music that they so brilliantly portrayed, is to me a mark of true genius ….i still quote lines from those amazing episodes and album to this day. Thank you Rick, Ade, Nigel and Peter .

A lovely interview! Credit to both sides for it being so relaxed but interesting. Same was true for David Mitchell. Thanks. Subscribed.

What a lovely intimate interview. Lovely energy and peaceful to watch and drink in a tiny fragment of who Adrian Edmondson is. I really enjoyed this and am now subscribed. Thank you.

Still remember watching the young ones in the early eighties. Made me laugh. The comedy was slap stick, yet raw and boisterous. Couldn’t have been more than ten at the time. Can’t believe mum allowed me to watch it at such a young age. Good times, drinking tea mum made while dunking biscuits and laughing and almost choking on rich tea biscuits.

Fantastic interview with a comedy genius. Bottom is definitely one of funniest sitcoms of all time. I remember going to see Bottom Live 2 at the Grand theatre in Leeds, and it was absolutely brilliant, and very funny.

Thanks for a lovely interview both of you.

Just brilliant!

Really enjoyed this. It's so rare to see him in this mode, he's not generally what I'd call a raconteur - charming, witty and interesting, but not a storyteller for hire type of fella. For many of us growing up in the 80s, Ade and co were our Pythons and Goons, with similarly massive cultural influence. To this day I would say there are hundreds and thousands of closet Rich and Eddies running about, pretending to be responsible adults. So good to hear Ade talk about Rik with such deep and genuine fondness. No hagiography, just "beautiful and uncomplicated". Love that.

That was more of a conversation than an interview, and all the better for it. I saw Rik and Adrian in Waiting for Godot, and I remember feeling ridiculously starstruck when they came on stage. I'll definitely be reading this book - sounds like their relationship was more nuanced than I realised.

Thanks so much for posting.

What a lovely interview, on both parts thank you Waterstones

What a lovely thoughtful man.

What a great interview.

Yes! I always thought of Bottom, like so many great British sitcoms, as a Waiting for Godot. Never voiced it though, coz it sounds a bit twatty. ❤

Ade thank you for putting the slapstick back in comedy love all your work and Bottom especially as I'm from W6 😂

Legend !

Beautiful genuine interview, too short :-)

absolutely lovely. big fan of this lad :)

Happy Birthday, Adrian! :)

Ade and Rik, will always be part of me growing up, absolutely hilarious

A great regret of mine is not seeing Waiting for Godo back then. They’re truly up there with the greatest double acts of all time. Some part of me still hopes for a Laurel and Hardy style cartoon version of Bottom. Their’s was a cartoon I grew up really enjoying along with Tom and Jerry and sealed my love of screwball/slapstick before I even knew of Keaton and Tati. I know it will likely never happen, though there are wonderful cartoon designs out there. Ade and Rik are truly in the same Pantheon as far as I’m concerned. I feel incredibly lucky and I’m very grateful to have grown up when I did to have seen them first time round. I still hold out hope one day Universal Pictures will restore the print of Guest House Paradiso. True masters of the form. 💥🤓😏🍳

Rik being popular and Ade being awkward is exactly what I'd expect.

In late 80s Sunderland, Rik and Ade were playing locally and RM did a tv clip tompromote a pub safety scheme. A mate was the copper who took part in the skit of hoying out of Idols fun pub in town centre for "working his ticket" as we say in mackem land. Said Rik and Ade were two nice lads. Another mate met them backstage at Empire theatre and said Ade a great lad.

What a lovely chap

I was about 7 when I saw The Young Ones and the Comic Strip Presents stuff. It was all a hugely influential mind bender for a kid of that age. Along with that and the other Ben Elton series was very formative. There is NOTHING that weird now for kids, which is sad. I feel very lucky to have grown up at that time partly because of exposure to it all.

I went to a C of E girls boarding school in Surrey 1971-1976. Aged 9 to 13. A very different experience from what these two men describe. I yearned to go to boarding school. We boarders made close friendships. When leaving to move to Australia, certainly I was pleased to create a new life after 4 years, but that's not unusual. Teenagers like to create new versions of themselves. Facebook brought us all back together, and our shared experience has created a wonderfully warm and supportive international friendship group.

Legend

You just knew what the 'most replayed' was going to be about.

My dad got me out of bed when I was like six or seven to come downstairs and watch the Young Ones. I swear to god that 20 minutes of totally stupidity shaped my whole life. You can have as many highbrow gags as you like but give me a hippy getting hit by a punk rocker with a cricket bat any day! "Bored, bored, bored, bored..."

Boarding School: Explains to me why all the High Streets are boarded up.

Strange to see Vyvyan Basterd in a suit😅

A national treasure

Try being the fourth of four boys, and then the long awaited daughter turns up. That really was bottom of the bill stuff. In adult years, whenever I phoned home for a chat, the call would always go like this: 'Hi Dad, it's Stephen ...' [pause] ... 'Oh, Stephen!!!' Now, this could be embarrassing, really, because it wasn't as if the opening gambit was lacking a clue, or two. Firstly, it was someone addressing him as 'dad'. Secondly, the name was 'Stephen', and by a most astounding coincide, he happened to be a father to a son called Stephen. Oh, dear.

Hi Ade!

I still cherish my copy of "the Gobbler".

He's cool

👍👍👍👍👍

Love Ade, he helped to create glorious comedy always playing the madman but in real life he's a nice funny but ordinary guy

How do you get invited onto this podcast?

@philroberts7238

8 ай бұрын

You need to write a book. Preferably an entertaining one that a publisher is prepared to risk its money on.

@walkerzupp8393

8 ай бұрын

I've done that lol - but I'm not a big-hitter like Ade. I'm just interested in the whole process, that's all.

Ade what I found in talking with former British boarding school attendants is that they also have the feeling that their father didn't like them but, I came to the conclusion that father and child were too similar in character so it's not dislike, it's competition and one will have to go to prevent trouble later on and these fathers were probably right but took the wrong action. that said the decision to do so created other troubles later on in a lot of cases one of mutual distrust instead of mutual respect and it's mutual respect that comes from reconciling with adolescent problems from the past but now these fathers have to deal with anger from the past in the here and now so boarding schools can be a very stupid concept.

Sorry for not knowing 🫣 but who is the guy interviewing?

@WaterstonesTV

7 ай бұрын

Will Rycroft

Never, ever, bloody anything, ever. I've lived my life by that rule.

Ade I have heard said that Bottom is Tom & Jerry in life action but these folks got it wrong because they simplify it and to pull off cartoon humor in life action for actual real humans is near impossible if you are not Buster Keaton. also in the life shows a harder bit came along, life timing and narrative around the screw-ups. in one of the life shows Eddy is banging Ritchie's head on some sewage pipes with melody the timing was eh, off! In the TV version but since the narrative was so captivating nobody cared! and that is soo! brilliant! and a testament to good writing when you believe the characters on stage anything will be in the scope of their reality so you will believe anything they do even when they get the timing wrong for a femtosecond.

feels weird seeing Ade 'being normal', im so familiar with his characters that i don't know who this is lol

Have you got a video?......

@nicknelson9450

7 ай бұрын

"we"

Who is this old guy? Is he an actor?

Vivienne

@DaleHodgkins0n

7 ай бұрын

Vyvyan.

I wish he just did the raspy voice all the time.

I support Adrian's assertion that his 'Bottom' has tremendous depth. It is a masterpiece, rest assured. However, Rik's 'meta' Ritchie in the live shows, the sexual panther playing sad wanker is a brilliant addendum to the core text. Kind of a fugue, whereby the characters of Eddie and Ritchie merge with the 'real' Ade and Rik, if you will. Fiction is the truth and truth fiction, two sides of the same rubber band ... Rik says it best in Bottom 2 (i think): 'shut up you CUNTS ... this is fucking ART!'

@JJONNYREPP

6 ай бұрын

Adrian Edmondson: The Waterstones Interview 1520pm 15.11.23 his bottom has tremendous depth? i really wouldn't know. i read a quote somewhere about a guy who ate nothing but mushrooms for 3 months and ended up with an anus akin to the base of a zoo keeper's boot. i have no idea what that means in relation to shape or size of the nether region but i am sure it has just as much comedic fuel to run on as "his bottom having tremendous depth".. oooooooooo-errrrrrrr, missus etc etc etc etc... art? um... i think they explored some aspects of their tired and wearied personas but it came out in a similar vein. exploded with each similar character played as opposed to grew. i doubt there was much exploration of the darker sides of their beings - other than greed, filth and violent odes. slamming someone's head into a fridge door for 30 secs straight does have it's comedic merits but then seeing rik electrocute himself during the trick or treat scene (refer to bottom tv show) says it all. however amusing that skit was. and it was amusing. tearfully so.............. they weren't allowed to divert from rik or vyv or the dangerous brothers' violence and stupidity, really. so they made a rod for their own backs, there. i mean, even during other alleged varied presentations eg: comic strip.... i am still thinking the best character portrayal ade presented (beyond vyv or the eddie hitler characters) was the demented northern bull fighter................................... telling people to fuck off as he ate his steak......... obviously an idea garnered from Geroge Formby singing: the Lancashire toreador ditty. this was probably a dead and defunkt music hall, pissed at having to die an inglorious death, having it's final flurry and fury expressed in revisionist revolt!! just as punk rock had intimated around a similar era in time late 70's early 80's that this was the case.... no one really talks about filthy rich and catflap. but then maybe it was too close to home for the BBC and ITV to tolerate - refer to alleged misdemeanors of the old light entertainment troopers of yesteryear - who, it would seem, turned out to be perverted provosts and drop outs and talentless has-beens vying for mass attention and daring to don the garbs of mass appeal... as for alternative comedy which his anything but and for all the clever nods to alleged highbrow art melded within these capers - it was all based on tat and being crap and was exemplified by a drunken rik running outside some pub doors, throwing up as he tried to present the opening titles to the tube music show with some daring do and never before encountered British savant garde wit. ahahahaah LOL is the best explanation i can give re: their comedy. they didnt diverge from LOL but then i doubt we would have had it any other way..... p.s i wonder if, in his biog, he mentions rik waylaying himself, ade, at every turn to bag the bird they saw down the pub the other day and being a tad tired that the same old routine was played out time and time again just so rik could nob her before he did or before he could even speak to her? dunno that seems to be their relationship to my mind...

Were heavy metal 🤪

You could also say a 2nd child, being a new baby takes the shine off the first born!

Put it in a draw?😊

With age he has become the spit of Neil Kinnock. More entertaining though.

He may be many things but comedian is not one of them.

Rik isn’t here to defend himself.

Can I borrow, a cup of sugar.... Please?...