Ade Edmondson

Jedi boro said:
Rick was a comic genius as to steal the show from Rowan Atkinson took some doing but he did it twice.

As for ade I remember the first interview/article he wrote about Rick after his death and why it had took him so long to make any comment. He spoke about how they had drifted apart as he was trying to go into more serious roles and Rick wanted to recreate the bottom young ones era.

I’ll have to listen to this as together they basically moulded my young viewing from the young ones black adder through to the comic strip etc

Btw I’d recommend the newly released 40 th anniversary edition of the young ones with tons of added footage.

RIP Rick.
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Rik has joked (but there is probably an element of truth to it) that he only accepted the part of Flashheart on the condition he got to be funnier than Atkinson and got all the best lines in Blackadder.

Him and Bowie dying genuinely made me cry.

Getting Ade's autobiography for christmas, looking forward to reading it.
 
I've finally found an hour to myself and listened to Ade's episode of Dessert Island Discs and it certainly brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye. I am sure we are all the same but parts of his story resonate with my own upbringing. I always remember my dad saying to my son that we don't kiss, we just shake hands. He was three at the time and didn't understand.

It is funny I would have also picked Down Town, Petula Clark - for my mum, and On My Radio, The Selecter - The first band I saw at the Rock Garden.

Thanks for sharing this link.
 
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