Adrian Edmondson

Ade Edmondson and Beattie Edmondson interview

Beattie Edmondson has followed her famous parents into comedy -- and now she and father Ade are playing for laughs at the same theatre.

James Meehan on comedy's class issues

James Meehan calls for an end to stereotyping, on and off screening.

Adrian Edmondson pens children's fiction for Puffin

Actor and comedian Adrian Edmondson is writing a middle-grade children's fiction novel, entitled i]Tilly and the Time Machine[/i].

25 years on, Bottom is still the most underrated sitcom

Bottom could just be the most underrated sitcom of the modern era.

If You See God, Tell Him box set review

After a bump on the head Briers' Godfrey Spry believes he has to do exactly what the adverts say - with often disastrous results.

Ade Edmondson still misses Rik Mayall 'every day'

Ade Edmondson has spoken of his heartache at former comedy partner Rik Mayall's death, saying he still "misses him every day".

Comics with spectacular ha-ha homes

There are turrets and timbers, thatched roofs, private moorings and even an island. One home even has a secret garage, another boasts a 400-year-old walled garden. Yes, the titans of the comedy world have done rather nicely out of making people laugh.

My favourite photograph by Alexei Sayle

Stand-up star and writer Alexei, 63, recalls carefree days and calamities with The Young Ones' Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall.

A rerun of Rik and Ade's 2003 live Bottom touring show. They were able to be considerably muckier on stage than they ever were on the TV, so gird yourself appropriately for some turbo-charged toilet humour, riotous flatulence and invasive amateur medical procedures. Ade's Eddie Hitler invents a lager that puts the user into a coma, while Richie inherits a trunk from his uncle. The plot is thin, the violence thick and unctuous.

Ade Edmondson to appear in Star Wars VIII

I've learned that British comedian Ade Edmondson -- who played Eddie in Nineties sitcom Bottom alongside the late Rik Mayall -- has bagged a part in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VIII after impressing director Rian Johnson.