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

Published: 9 Apr 2020
Observer TV reviews The week in TV: Save Me Too, Ozark, Money Heist, Pen15 and more

Published: 5 Apr 2020

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

Published: 19 Mar 2019

3 out of 5 stars.

Vulcan 7 review – the Young Ones meet again as old dinosaurs
3 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 5 Oct 2018

3 out of 5 stars.

The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales review – warm and witty farmyard fables
3 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 2 Aug 2018

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

Published: 14 Jul 2018

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

Published: 8 Jun 2018

3 out of 5 stars.

Twelfth Night review – fun and fury from Ade Edmondson and Kara Tointon at the RSC
3 out of 5 stars.

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

Published: 10 Nov 2017

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

Published: 11 Oct 2017

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

Published: 30 May 2017
My family values Adrian Edmondson: ‘I met my wife in a strip club’

The comedian, probably best-known for playing Vyvyan in The Young Ones, on trying to propose to Jennifer Saunders while on horseback, being a hands-on dad, and telling his grandchildren fart jokes

Published: 5 May 2017

After David Walliams, publishers turn to standup comedians for children’s stories

Many comics are now turning their hand to writing books for younger readers

Published: 26 Nov 2016

Your next box set Bottom box set review – a hilarious tale of two social outcasts

Unfairly labelled juvenile and tasteless, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson’s flatshare comedy was one of the last sitcoms to boast political insight with the power to make you laugh uncontrollably

Published: 4 Jun 2015

The young ones: Rik, Ade and the 80s alternative comedy gang – in pictures

Photographer Trevor Rogers captured the 1980s alternative comedy boom with these black-and-white portraits of Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and friends

Gallery

Published: 2 Mar 2015

3 out of 5 stars.

Neville’s Island review – highly enjoyable, not always convincing
3 out of 5 stars.

Tim Firth’s 1992 comedy has plenty of laughs but suffers from a weak denouement, writes Laura Barnett

Published: 25 Oct 2014
3 out of 5 stars.

Neville’s Island review – descent into savagery stretches credulity
3 out of 5 stars.

Michael Billington: Awayday adventurers Adrian Edmondson, Robert Webb, Miles Jupp and Neil Morrissey go wild in the Lake District

Published: 21 Oct 2014

4 out of 5 stars.

Adrian Edmondson & the Bad Shepherds review – heartfelt, fascinating and funny
4 out of 5 stars.

Edmondson brings poignance to punk songs by reworking them as folk – and gives an emotional nod to the late Rik Mayall, writes Dave Simpson

Published: 9 Jul 2014

Shortcuts How Rik Mayall and his alternative-comedy generation changed UK standup for ever

His anarchic acts must have seemed outrageous to a generation reared on Jim Bowen and Tom O'Connor. Today's comics owe Rik Mayall a great deal, says Brian Logan

Published: 12:59 PM
Rik Mayall - a life in pictures

The British actor and comedian Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56. He is most famous for his roles in The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesman

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Published: 11:46 AM

Adrian Edmondson wins Celebrity MasterChef 2013

Comic actor beats Les Dennis and Janet Street-Porter with 'mind-blowing' three-course meal of venison and sea bass

Published: 6 Sep 2013

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