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Adrian Edmondson
Edmondson in 2008
Birth nameAdrian Charles Edmondson
Born (1957-01-24) 24 January 1957 (age 67)
Bradford, England
Medium
EducationPocklington School
Alma materUniversity of Manchester
Years active1981–present
Genres
Spouse
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(m. 1985)​
Children3, including Ella and Beattie
Notable works and roles

Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957)[1] is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series The Young Ones (1982–1984) and Bottom (1991–1995), which he wrote together with his collaborator Rik Mayall. Edmondson also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this he created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another he played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.[2]

He played the lead role in the Comic Strip's 1985 feature film, The Supergrass. In the 2000s, Edmondson appeared in numerous TV programmes in drama roles including Jonathan Creek, Holby City, Miss Austen Regrets, as himself on Hell's Kitchen and created the sitcom Teenage Kicks. Edmondson performed and wrote for the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (2006-2007). In 2008 he formed a folk punk band, the Bad Shepherds, singing and playing mandola and mandolin. In 2011, he presented a series of shows for ITV: The Dales, which focused on people working in the Yorkshire Dales, and Ade in Britain in which he undertook a tour of numerous places in Britain. In 2013, Edmondson was crowned the winner of Celebrity Masterchef, and from 2019 to 2020, he appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders as Daniel Cook. In 2022, he also played Ebenezer Scrooge in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Early life

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The second of four children, Adrian Charles Edmondson was born on 24 January 1957 in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Dorothy Eileen Sturgeon (born 1930) and Fred Edmondson (1929–2014). As a child, Edmondson lived with his family in a variety of places including Cyprus, Bahrain, and Uganda, where his father was a teacher in the British Armed Forces. In the mid-1980s, his father became the deputy headmaster at the former Drummond Middle School in Manningham in Bradford.[3][4] Edmondson attended Pocklington School, East Riding of Yorkshire, from 1968 to 1975. In an interview with the Times Educational Supplement (TES), he stated that he did not enjoy his education at Pocklington, and that his group of friends considered the school's printed booklet of "endless" behavioural rules to be "a personal challenge to break".[5] Edmondson calculated that during his time at Pocklington, he received a total of 66 strokes of the cane as well as frequent slipperings.

By the time he was in sixth form, with his parents working abroad, Edmondson began to enjoy himself, "which involved lots of drinking and smoking and petty acts of vandalism." He made some good friends at the school and had a favourite teacher, Michael Aubrey.

Aubrey taught English and encouraged Edmondson to pursue drama, casting him in a number of school plays, and allowing him to take time out from other lessons to do drama. After Pocklington, Edmondson went to the Victoria University of Manchester (now known as the University of Manchester) to study drama, where he met his future comedy partner Rik Mayall, and graduated with a 2:1 degree. Edmondson and Mayall soon became best friends and before long found work on the burgeoning alternative comedy scene.

Career

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1980s

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Under the name 20th Century Coyote, Edmondson and Mayall became one of the star attractions at The Comedy Store. As their popularity grew, Edmondson, Mayall and other upcoming comedians, including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle, and French and Saunders moved from the Comedy Store to The Comic Strip club.[6][7] The Comic Strip soon gained a reputation as one of the most popular comedy clubs in London and soon came to the attention of Channel 4. Edmondson and the others were commissioned to act in 6 self-contained half-hour films, using the group as comedy actors rather than stand-up performers. The series, titled The Comic Strip Presents... debuted on 2 November 1982 (the opening night of Channel 4). The first episode to be broadcast was "Five Go Mad in Dorset", a parody of Enid Blyton's Famous Five, which drew anger from some viewers for the way it mercilessly satirised a children's classic. Edmondson starred as one of the five.

By the same time as The Comic Strip Presents... was being negotiated, the BBC signed Edmondson, Mayall, Richardson, Planer, and Sayle to star in The Young Ones, a sitcom in the same anarchic style as The Comic Strip. (Richardson later decided not to proceed and was replaced by Christopher Ryan.) The show revolved around the shared house where four students lived during their studies at Scumbag College. It was noted at the time of its first airing for its violent slapstick, and the series retains a cult following. During this time, Edmondson also appeared in a bank advertisement portraying a character very similar to his "Vyvyan" guise. Following the success of The Comic Strip Presents... and, to a greater extent, The Young Ones, Edmondson and Mayall returned to their "Coyote" dynamic in the double act the Dangerous Brothers with Edmondson as "Sir Adrian Dangerous" in Saturday Live (1985–1987). In 1983, he appeared as the lead singer "Vim Fuego" in the spoof heavy metal band called "Bad News" with his Young Ones co-stars Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, and Peter Richardson of "Comic Strip Presents...".

In 1985 Edmondson starred with his wife Jennifer Saunders in Happy Families, a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton, which appeared on the BBC and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family.[8]

In 1987, Edmondson reunited with Planer and Mayall to star in Filthy Rich & Catflap, a comic attack on showbiz, again written by Elton. He played "Edward Catflap", a coarse, drunken minder of light-entertainment nonentity "Richie Rich". In this show Edmondson displayed the same slapstick characteristics as Vyvyan in The Young Ones but was closer in personality to his later character "Eddie Hitler" in Bottom. The show was cancelled after one series. Edmondson was also slated to make a guest appearance along Mayall in the fifth episode of the ITV sitcom Hardwicke House. Due to the adverse reaction of both press and viewers, however, ITV withdrew the series after showing only two episodes and the remaining episodes – including Edmondson's scheduled guest appearance in episode 5 – have never been shown.[9] However, all seven episodes of ‘Hardwicke House’, including Edmondson’s appearance, can now be seen on YouTube.

In 1988, Edmondson released a follow-up to How To Be A Complete Bastard called The Bastard's Book of the Worst. In 1989 he made an appearance in an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth as the Red Baron, nemesis to Mayall's character, Lord Flashheart.

1990s

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Edmondson played Brad Majors in the 1990 West End run of The Rocky Horror Show, alongside Tim McInnerny as Frank-N-Furter and Ed Tudor-Pole as Riff-Raff. He also appears on the soundtrack album of the production. In 1991, he teamed with his comedy partner Rik Mayall once more, this time co-writing and co-starring in their own sitcom, Bottom. Edmondson starred as "Edward Elizabeth Hitler" opposite Mayall's "Richard Richard". The series featured the slapstick, crude humour for which the pair had become famous but with more in-depth character analysis.

Edmondson played Estragon to Mayall's Vladimir in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot in the West End, in a production that opened at the Queen's Theatre on 30 September 1991. Bottom became very popular, but it was criticised for its often vulgar humour. The show was also turned into five UK stage tours (1993, 1995, 1997, 2001 and 2003).

In 1993, Edmondson starred alongside Richard Briers in a black comedy called If You See God, Tell Him. Edmondson played Gordon Spry, whose uncle (Briers) is paralysed and has a greatly reduced attention span. His erratic behaviour causes problems for Gordon. The series comprised four episodes, each 45 minutes long, and only broadcast once. The BBC has not repeated the series, although one episode was broadcast on BBC Four on 3 December 2007.

In September 1995, Edmondson released his first (comic) novel, The Gobbler. In 1996, he played the role of Ace Face/Bellboy at the Who's performance of Quadrophenia at London's Hyde Park. A video game called Animal, featuring Peperami's "the animal", was released the same year, with the character being voiced by Edmondson. From 1997 to 1998 he voiced engine stoker Jones, a major character in the animated series Captain Star. In the 1998 ITV pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, Edmondson played Jack's mother Dame Dolly alongside Neil Morrissey, Denise Van Outen, Paul Merton, Julian Clary and Julie Walters.

2000s

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Edmondson appeared regularly as Brendan Baxter in Series 4 of the BBC mystery series Jonathan Creek, broadcast in 2003–2004. He had a lead role playing an NHS doctor in the comedy series Doctors and Nurses first broadcast in early 2004. In Surviving Disaster, a BBC docudrama about the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, broadcast at the start of 2006, Edmondson played the role of Valery Legasov. In 2005 he appeared as a celebrity model on Star Portraits with Rolf Harris. That year, he also competed on "Comic Relief Does Fame Academy" where he made it to the finale and came in 3rd place. From 2005 to 2008 he appeared as Percy "Abra" Durant in the medical drama Holby City. In 2008 he played Henry Austen in the BBC produced film Miss Austen Regrets and Vernon in the ITV sitcom Teenage Kicks. In April 2009 he appeared on the cooking show Hell's Kitchen, where he reached the final, coming second to Linda Evans.

Edmondson played the role of Captain Hook in the Canterbury Marlowe Arena pantomime during its Christmas 2009 run.

2010s

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In an August 2010 edition of Radio 4's Chain Reaction programme he said to Lee Mack that he had not really quit[clarification needed] but was focusing more on music and farming. He also said that he and Mayall often spoke of a reunion when they are old men,[10] or in fifteen years' time. Mayall appeared during Edmondson's winning performance of The Dying Swan on BBC One's Let's Dance for Comic Relief on 5 March 2011, and in September 2011, Edmondson appeared on the Sunday morning cooking show Something for the Weekend and told presenter Tim Lovejoy that he and Rik Mayall were planning to reunite and make another series of Bottom, set in an old people's home.[11]

In 2011, Edmondson hosted the ITV documentary series The Dales, in which he followed a number of families who live and work in the Yorkshire Dales, including the "Yorkshire Shepherdess" Amanda Owen.[12] He also presented the ITV series Ade in Britain that year, where he travelled to different parts of the United Kingdom in a Mini Countryman towing a small caravan, often including a performed segment from local folk singers. A second series followed in 2013.

Edmondson appeared on the BBC One series That's Britain! 2011. In each episode, his task was to report as an "insider" in how a region of Britain works. A one-off special, Britain Beware, about the history of British public information films, was hosted by Edmondson and aired on ITV on 7 May 2012.

In August 2012, the BBC announced plans for a 2013 television adaptation of Edmondson and Mayall's 1997 Hooligan's Island tour,[13] but Edmondson announced later that year that he had pulled out of the project to pursue other interests.[14] Rik Mayall, Edmondson's long-time creative partner, died on 9 June 2014.

Edmondson had a minor role in the 2012 film Blood. Edmondson and Saunders reunited with their former Comic Strip colleagues in 2012 for a Famous Five sequel, Five Go to Rehab. It aired on 7 November on Gold.

Edmondson won the 2013 BBC One cookery series of Celebrity MasterChef. In 2014, Edmondson presented Ade at Sea, a factual six-part programme for the ITV network which follows Ade in Britain. In 2014, he played DCI Warner in the three-part mini-series Prey.

He played the role of Gordon in the 2013 Chichester Festival Theatre production of Neville's Island. In 2014, he reprised the role for the show's West End run.[15] In 2015, Edmondson voiced Stanley the Dachshund in adverts for health and life insurance company Vitality.[16]

In 2016, Edmondson took part in episode 4 of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off and won the title of Star Baker. From 2 November to 3 December 2016 Edmondson starred in an adaptation of William Leith's bestseller Bits Of Me Are Falling Apart at the Soho Theatre, London.[17][18]

Edmondson's children's book Tilly and the Time Machine was published on 4 May 2017.[19] From November 2017 into 2018, Edmondson played the character of Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.[20] Also in 2017, Edmondson appeared as Captain Peavey in the eighth film of the Star Wars series, The Last Jedi, a casting decision made by the film's director Rian Johnson, a self-proclaimed fan of Edmondson's work in The Young Ones and Bottom.[21]

In August 2018, Edmondson voiced the character of Bunny in the English version of the French/Belgian animated film The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales....[22] In September 2018, Edmondson featured as Sergeant Dogberry in the episode "Sigh No More" of Ben Elton's Upstart Crow.[23] From September 2018 to November 2018, Edmondson toured with Nigel Planer in a play that they wrote together called Vulcan 7[24] (restaged in 2023 as It's Headed Straight Towards Us[25]). In 2019, Edmondson appeared in EastEnders as Daniel Cook.[26]

Music career

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In 1984, Edmondson formed the spoof heavy metal band Bad News as part of The Comic Strip Presents... series with Comic Strip regulars Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson. The band proved popular, and they released two singles (neither of which reached the top 40) and two studio albums. They also played a series of small gigs around the country, culminating in their performance at the Monsters of Rock festival in 1986.[27]

In 1986, Edmondson achieved a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart when he and his co-stars from The Young Ones teamed up with Cliff Richard to record a new version of "Living Doll" for the inaugural Comic Relief campaign. Despite having been killed off in the final episode of the series, Edmondson played Vyvyan one last time in the video. The same year he co-wrote the book How to be a Complete Bastard together with Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine.

Edmondson has directed pop videos for "Fiesta" (1988) by the Pogues, "Prime Mover" (1987) by Zodiac Mindwarp, "Like the Weather" (1988) by 10,000 Maniacs, "Please Help the Cause Against Loneliness" (1988) by Sandie Shaw and "Hourglass" by Squeeze (1987). The latter won Best Video at the MTV awards.

He also directed and appeared in "International Rescue" (1989) by Fuzzbox[28] and appeared in the music video "Terry" (1983) by Kirsty MacColl.[29]

In 1991, Edmondson formed the Bum Notes, who were a jazz instrumental band and conceived exclusively to perform theme music for Bottom.

A fan of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Edmondson performed vocals with them as part of their 2006 reformation and countrywide tour. He also contributed vocals and writing for their 2007 album Pour l'Amour des Chiens.[30]

Edmondson with the Bad Shepherds at the 2009 Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire

Together with Maartin Allcock, Andy Dinan and Troy Donockley, Edmondson founded the band the Bad Shepherds in 2008, performing punk and new wave classics on traditional folk instruments. The band released three albums and first toured in 2009, playing at places such as the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival. The Bad Shepherds also headlined the first ever Looe Music Festival in 2011. They disbanded in October 2016.[31]

In 2010, he founded the Idiot Bastard Band with Simon Brint, Rowland Rivron, Neil Innes and Phill Jupitus. The Idiot Bastard Band perform original comedy songs as well as cover versions, and their shows often feature guest performers. The group continued to perform following the death of Brint in 2011.[32]

Personal life

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Edmondson married comedian Jennifer Saunders on 11 May 1985.[33] They have three daughters: musician Ella, actress Beattie, and designer/stylist Freya.[34] He is a supporter of Exeter City F.C.[35]

Edmondson's autobiography, Berserker!: An Autobiography, was published by Pan Macmillan in September 2023.[36]

In September 2023 Edmondson was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. An extended version was broadcast in September 2024. His choices included "Downtown" by Petula Clark and "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. His favourite song was "Wide Open Spaces" by The Dixie Chicks, his book choice was Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, and his luxury item was a tab of acid.[37]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1981 Fundamental Frolics Himself Charity comedy and music show for Mencap
1983 Dead on Time! Fool Short film
1985 The Supergrass Dennis Carter
1986 The Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger Sir Adrian Dangerous All sketches from Saturday Live and un-aired compiled on VHS/DVD
1987 Eat the Rich Charles
1991 The Pope Must Die Father Rookie
1993 Bottom Live Edward 'Eddie' Hitler Live recording of Bottom stageplay filmed at the Mayflower Theatre
1995 Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour Live recording of Bottom 2 stageplay. Also writer and executive producer
1997 Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island Live recording of Bottom 3 stageplay. Also writer and executive producer
1999 Guest House Paradiso Eddie Elizabeth Ndingombaba Also writer and director
2001 Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity Edward 'Eddie' Hitler Live recording of Bottom 4 stageplay. Also writer
2003 Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour Live recording of Bottom 5 stageplay. Also writer
2006 Terkel in Trouble Terkel (voice) English dub
2012 Blood Tom Tiernan
2017 The Rizen Interviewer
Interlude in Prague Herr Lubtak
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales... Bunny (voice) English dub
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Captain Peavey
2018 The War of the Worlds: The Musical Drama Ogilvy
2019 The Rizen: Possession Interviewer
2021 Best Birthday Ever Granny (voice)
TBA &Sons John Payle Short film. Post-production

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1981 Friday Night, Saturday Morning 20th Century Coyote Series 4; Episodes 1 & 6
Oxford Road Show Series 2; Episode 1
The Comic Strip Adrian Dangerous Television film. Bonus feature on The Comic Strip Presents... DVD
1982 Kevin Turvey: The Man Behind the Green Door Keith Marshall Television films
The Magnificent One Larry
1982–1984 The Young Ones Vyvyan Basterd / Alien Spotter / Randy the Cowpoke Series 1 & 2; 12 episodes
1982–2012 The Comic Strip Presents... Various roles Series 1–9; 30 episodes. Also writer (6 episodes), director (2 episodes)
1984 Spitting Image Harold Angryperson (voice) Series 1; Episode 7
The Lenny Henry Show Various characters Series 1; Episode 4
1985 Happy Families Guy Fuddle Episodes 1–6
Saturday Live 20th Century Coyote Pilot episode
1986 Sir Adrian Dangerous 8 episodes including sketches featuring The Dangerous Brothers
Screen Two Alun Pickersgill Series 2; Episode 5: "Honest, Decent and True"
1987 Filthy Rich & Catflap Edward Catflap Episodes 1–6
Hardwicke House Tiny Episode 5: "The Old Boys".
Guest appearance with Rik Mayall. Was due to be broadcast on 18 March 1987, but never shown.
An outtake on YouTube was the only footage available to the public, until all episodes were uploaded to the site in 2019.
1988 French and Saunders John Series 2; Episode 5: "Potholing"
1989 Press Gang Simon Knowles Series 1; Episode 3: "One Easy Lesson"
A Night of Comic Relief 2 Vyvyan Television special for Comic Relief
Blackadder Goes Forth Baron von Richthofen Episode 4: "Private Plane"
Snakes and Ladders Giles Episodes 1–7
Hysteria 2! Himself Standup special for The Terrence Higgins Trust
The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball Standup special for Amnesty International
1990 Screen One Phil Burke Series 2; Episode 1: "News Hounds"
1991 Comic Relief Vim Fuego Red Nose Day television special
1991–1995 Bottom Edward 'Eddie' Hitler Series 1–3; 18 episodes. Also writer
1992, 1994 Absolutely Fabulous Hamish Series 1; Episode 6: "Magazine" and Series 2; Episode 4: "New Best Friend"
1993 Jackanory Storyteller Series 31; Episodes 25–29: "Harvey Angell: Parts 1–5"
If You See God, Tell Him Gordon Spry Mini-series; Episodes 1–4
1994 Anna Lee Dominic Jones Episode 4: "The Cook's Tale"
French and Saunders Tim Goodchance Episode: "French and Saunders' Christmas Carol"
1995 The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye Zyke Television film
Look at the State We're In! Dewhurst Mini-series; Episodes 1–5
1997–1998 Captain Star 'Limbs' Jones (voice) 13 episodes
1998 French and Saunders James Macaroon Episode: "The Making of the Filming of the Making of Titanic"
Jack and the Beanstalk Dame Dolly Television films
1999 The Man Alex
2003–2004 Jonathan Creek Brendan Baxter Series 4; Episodes 1–5
2004 Doctors and Nurses Dr. Roy Glover Episodes 1–6
2005 Twisted Tales Ed Barnes Episode 10: "Cursed House"
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy Himself - Competitor Series 2; Finished in 3rd Place.
2005–2008 Holby City Percy 'Abra' Durant Series 7–11; 45 episodes
2006 Surviving Disaster Valery Legasov Docudrama mini-series; Episode 3: "Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster"
2007 Miss Austen Regrets Henry Austen Television film
A Bucket o' French & Saunders Hamish Compilation specials; Episode 4
Top Gear Himself - Performer Series 9; Episode 7: "Top Gear of the Pops". Part of Red Nose Day 2007
2008 Teenage Kicks Vernon Episodes 1–8. Also writer
Celebrity Mastermind Himself - Contestant Series 6; Episode 2; Finished in 3rd Place
2009 Hell's Kitchen Series 4; Episodes 1–15; Finished in 2nd Place
2010 Pete & Dud: The Lost Sketches Performer Television film
2011–2013 Ade in Britain Himself - Presenter Series 1 & 2; 50 episodes
The Dales Series 1–3; 36 episodes. Edmondson explores the Yorkshire Dales, getting to know the area and meeting the residents.
2012 The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff Headmaster Wackville Episodes 1 & 2
2013 Celebrity MasterChef Himself - Contestant Series 8; Winner
2014 Ade at Sea Himself - Presenter Episodes 1–6
Prey ACC Warner Series 1; Episodes 1–3
Celebrity Fifteen to One Himself - Contestant Series 1; Episode 3
2014–2015 Ronja, the Robber's Daughter Noodle Pete (voice) English version; 23 episodes
2016 War & Peace Count Ilya Rostov Mini-series; Episodes 1–6
One of Us Peter Elliot Mini-series; Episodes 1–4
2017 Genius David Hilbert Season 1; Episode 7: "Einstein: Chapter Seven"
2017, 2020 Bancroft Supt. Cliff Walker Recurring role. Series 1 & 2; 7 episodes
2018 Urban Myths Leslie Conn Series 2; Episode: "David Bowie and Marc Bolan"
Upstart Crow Sergeant Dogberry Series 3; Episode 4: "Sigh No More"
2018–2020 Save Me Gideon Charles Recurring role. Series 1 & 2; 4 episodes
2019 Strike Back: Revolution James McKitterick, British High Commissioner to Malaysia Season 7; Episodes 1 & 2: "Revolution: Parts 1 & 2". Known as Strick Back: Silent War in the UK
Cheat William Vaughn Main role; Episodes 1–4
Summer of Rockets Max Dennis Mini-series; Episodes 5 & 6
2019–2020 EastEnders Daniel Cook Series regular; 38 episodes
2019, 2022 Richard Osman's House of Games Himself - Contestant Series 3; Week 1, and Series 5; Week 9 (House of Champions)
2020 Death in Paradise Charles Crabtree Series 9; Episode 1: "La Murder Le Diablé"
Out of Her Mind Lewis Episodes 4–6
Celebrity Mastermind Himself - Contestant Series 18; Episode 7; Winner
2021 The Pact Richard Clarke Series regular. Series 1; Episodes 1–5
Midsomer Murders Hugo Welles Series 22; Episode 3: "Happy Families"
Back to Life John Boback Season 2; Episodes 1–5
The Trick Edward Acton Television film[38]
2022 A Spy Among Friends[39] Sir Roger Hollis Mini-series; Episodes 1–6
2023 Rain Dogs Lenny 5 episodes
2023–2024 Toad & Friends Toad (voice role) Animated series[40]
2024 3 Body Problem Denys Porlock Series 1; 3 episodes
Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story Phil Green 4 episodes

Video games

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Year Title Role Notes
1987 How to Be a Complete Bastard Himself (likeness)
1996 Animal Peperami (voice)
2022 Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Captain Peevey (voice)

Theatre

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Year Title Role Venue
1990 The Rocky Horror Show Brad Majors Piccadilly Theatre, London
1991 Waiting for Godot Estragon Queen's Theatre, London
2006 The Rocky Horror Tribute Show Concert Brad Majors (shared) Royal Court Theatre, London
2013 Neville's Island Gordon Theatre in the Park, Chichester
2014 Duke of York's Theatre, London
2015 Rocky Horror Show Live Second Narrator Playhouse Theatre, London
2016 Bits of Me Are Falling Apart Performer and co-adaptor Soho Theatre, London
2017 Twelfth Night Malvolio Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
2018 Vulcan 7 Gary Savage and co-writer UK tour
2019 The Boy Friend Lord Brockhurst Menier Chocolate Factory, London
2021 Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia Grandma Almeida Theatre, London
2022 A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Narration

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Year Title Notes
1995 Stark Audiobook reading of the Ben Elton book
The Cat in the Hat Audiobook reading of the Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat
Green Eggs and Ham Audiobook reading of the Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham
Fox in Socks Audiobook reading of the Dr. Seuss book Fox in Socks
The Gobbler Audiobook of Edmondson reading his book of the same name
1996 The Cat in the Hat and Other Stories Audiobook of Edmondson reading Dr. Seuss' stories (Re-released 2007)
2005 Pirates Audiobook

Books

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Year Title Publisher ISBN
1986 How to be a Complete Bastard Virgin Books ISBN 978-0863691829
1988 The Complete Bastard's Book of the Worst Virgin Books ISBN 978-0863692826
1995 The Gobbler William Heinemann ISBN 978-0434001491
2017 Tilly and the Time Machine Puffin Books ISBN 978-0141372457
2018 Junkyard Jack and the Horse That Talked Puffin Books ISBN 978-0141372495
2023 Berserker! Macmillan ISBN 978-1035014279

Discography

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Albums
Year Title Band Notes
1987 Bad News Bad News Album by The Comic Strip's spin-off band (Re-released 1989 and 2004)
1988 Bootleg Bad News Second album by Bad News
1991 Cash in Compilation Bad News Compilation album of randomly picked tracks
2007 Pour l'Amour des Chiens Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band Vocals and writing
2009 Yan, Tyan, Tethera, Methera The Bad Shepherds debut album by the Bad Shepherds
2010 By Hook or By Crook The Bad Shepherds Second album by the Bad Shepherds
2013 Mud, Blood & Beer The Bad Shepherds Third album by the Bad Shepherds
Non-album songs
Year Title Artist Notes
1986 "Living Doll" Cliff Richard with the Young Ones In character as Vyvyan from The Young Ones
1991 "Last Night" The Bum Notes Cover of the Mar-Keys track, used in the credits for Bottom
1992 "This Wheel's on Fire" Julie Driscoll and Ade Edmondson As the theme song for sitcom Absolutely Fabulous

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