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How Nigel Planer helped Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall reunite: ‘They’d fallen out but they were laughing their heads off’

The pair are considered one of British comedy’s greatest double acts, but they had their disagreements over the years

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“I didn’t take Lemmy’s advice and I got a beer glass in my face”: The wild story of the spoof heavy metal band who beat Spinal Tap by a year

Spinal Tap weren’t the first spoof heavy metal band

Metal Hammer

Jennifer Saunders and Ade Edmondson in new planning row over £250k Dartmoor extension

The celebrity couple have owned the Grade II-listed property in Devon for 30 years

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Adrian Edmondson says boomers have ‘messed things up’ for younger people

‘I think we’ve f***ed the whole thing up for them,’ actor said

The Independent UK

‘It’s the best monster ever invented’: Noah Hawley on bringing Ridley Scott’s Alien to TV

The writer-director defied expectations to turn the film Fargo into one of the best TV shows of the decade. Now he’s taking on an even bigger franchise. Can lightning strike twice?

The Guardian - UK

‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years on

The Guardian - UK

Adrian Edmondson’s ‘honest’ Rik Mayall admission resurfaces on anniversary of co-star’s death

Comedian previously opened up about his relationship with his co-star in a 2024 documentary

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Adrian Edmondson: ‘I don’t think I ever fell out with Rik. But things became thinner’

The comedian and actor on his life’s two great double acts – with Jennifer Saunders and Rik Mayall. Plus why he avoids Michelin stars and adores Johnny Rotten

The Guardian - UK

‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian Edmondson and Ed Bye on Bottom

‘We had wanted to call it My Bottom, so that people at work the next day would say, “Did you see My Bottom on television last night?”’

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: hankies at the ready for a tearjerking animal rescue series

Settle in to watch the life-saving work at South Essex wildlife hospital. Plus: a retrospective of the anarchic sitcom Bottom. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Helen Lederer on envy, rejection, fun and fame: ‘I wanted it so badly – maybe that’s not normal’

She has appeared in some of the biggest sitcoms in British comedy history, from The Young Ones to Ab Fab, but always longed for her own show. Now 69, she looks back on the hilarity of her life – and the mortification

The Guardian - UK

"The camera pans across, and you realise there are 60,000 people throwing bottles of piss at us. It was terrifying": Nigel Planer looks back at hapless metal heroes Bad News

Nearly 40 years after their infamous Donington set, 25% of fictional rockers Bad News returned last year as Almost Bad News

Louder

Noah Hawley’s Alien: An Updated Cast List For The Series, Including Timothy Olyphant

Noah Hawley's Alien series for FX has quite the cast, especially with Justified vet Timothy Olyphant as part of the roster.

Cinemablend

Myopia, allergies, sex: some things improve the older you get, say experts

While Adrian Edmondson has thrown away his glasses, studies show other ways older generations mature like a fine wine

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The week in theatre: Pygmalion; King Stakh’s Wild Hunt; It’s Headed Straight Towards Us – review

Patsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel are word-perfect in Richard Jones’s first-rate Shaw revival; Belarus Free Theatre fuse fairytale and reality; and two has-been actors hole up in a trailer in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s new comedy

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Adrian Edmondson: ‘I’ve won more prizes for vegetables than I have for comedy’

The Young Ones star on butting brick walls, the real reason he took a role in Star Wars and how he and his wife, Jennifer Saunders, split the gardening

The Independent UK

Desert Island Discs listeners in tears over Adrian Edmondson’s emotional Rik Mayall memory

‘Sobbing into my lunch,’ one listener said of Edmondson’s ‘beautiful’ musings

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Desert Island Discs listeners in tears over Adrian Edmondson’s emotional Rik Mayall memory

‘Sobbing into my lunch,’ one listener said of Edmondson’s ‘beautiful’ musings

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Ben Elton: ‘Any time period would make a good Blackadder with the right jokes’

The comedian and author on his new musical about Twiggy, remembering Rik Mayall, and why he’d like to have a word with Julian Fellowes

Daily Mirror

Theatregoers love Adrian Edmondson in his role as Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol

The former Young One has lost little of his energy or his comedic skills as he proves a big hit in the festive production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

The Guardian - UK

‘It has added political resonance this year’: why Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol still strikes a chord

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

Liverpool Echo

The Tube at 40: Fun facts about loved 80s TV show that came to Liverpool

The first episode of The Tube was broadcast on Bonfire Night, 1982

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh notebook: ‘Rik Mayall was like Bad Santa to us’

Stand-up comic Red Richardson on his pedigree comedy childhood

Daily Mirror

AbFab's Adrian Edmondson, 65, says he has lived with 'suicidal thoughts all my life'

Adrian Edmondson, best known for The Young Ones and Bottom, has spoken out about his battle with depression in a candid interview

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