Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person. Adrian Edmondson More Quotes by Adrian Edmondson More Quotes From Adrian Edmondson On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing. Adrian Edmondson looking cool posing care I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. Adrian Edmondson fail ready waiting time A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image. Adrian Edmondson looking look cool people 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 more feeling think truth Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. Adrian Edmondson professional private-life work life 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 die thought man remember I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that. Adrian Edmondson always pleasant eye exercise 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 old stop look time Most modern comedy is crap. Adrian Edmondson most crap modern comedy 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 be-different laugh expect people Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. Adrian Edmondson wrong things always smart The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes. Adrian Edmondson laugh sitting writing fun 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 childish saying good people 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 only look pants You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy. Adrian Edmondson start you dangerous comedy From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. Adrian Edmondson toilet good stage people I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance. Adrian Edmondson before never chance hero 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 back together people We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people. Adrian Edmondson so-much-fun lovely fun people We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny. Adrian Edmondson only never political funny
