Adrian Edmondson Quotes

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
Adrian Edmondson

Good, Seen, Stage

It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
Adrian Edmondson

Laugh, Together, After

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
Adrian Edmondson

Fun, Lovely, Ghana

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
Adrian Edmondson

Cool, After, Looking

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
Adrian Edmondson

Life, Work, Same

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
Adrian Edmondson

Truth, Feeling, Why

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
Adrian Edmondson

Hard, Thought, Remember

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Adrian Edmondson

Time, Waiting, Fail

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
Adrian Edmondson

Exercise, Eye, Pleasant

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
Adrian Edmondson

Hero, Before, Chance

It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
Adrian Edmondson

Time, Old, Show

Most modern comedy is crap.
Adrian Edmondson

Comedy, Modern, Crap

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
Adrian Edmondson

Cool, Care, Looking

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
Adrian Edmondson

Laugh, Different, Else

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Adrian Edmondson

Smart, Wrong, Getting

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
Adrian Edmondson

Person, Two, Same

The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
Adrian Edmondson

Fun, Writing, Laugh

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson

Good, Saying, Pretending

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
Adrian Edmondson

Funny, Political, Strictly

We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
Adrian Edmondson

Laugh, Off, Unless

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
Adrian Edmondson

Start, Comedy, Dangerous

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actor

Born: January 24, 1957

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