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It's One Rule for Them

Adrian Edmondson has always struggled with rules. In this Essay, he remembers a particular incident that occurred when he appeared on stage with The Who.

鈥淚t became a game really, to see how quickly we could break them... If the rules hadn鈥檛 been there, we might have been better behaved.鈥

Adrian Edmondson has always struggled with rules be they rules at school, dress codes or codes of conduct that create different rules for different people. In this essay he remembers a particular incident that occurred when he appeared on stage with The Who.

Across this set of essays Adrian Edmondson considers moments of personal and social change.

His career has taken him from 20th Century Coyote (punk meets comedy) to The Young Ones to Malvolio at the RSC via Eddie Hitler in Bottom.

Adrian Edmondson studied drama at Manchester University where he met his comedy partner Rik Mayall. The influence of the absurdist dramatists he studied and his early love for The Goons, The Muppets and Monty Python are all reflected in his comedy practice. He and Rik were part of the first wave of Alternative Comedy where their glorious pursuit of laughter and anarchic performances changed the comedic landscape forever. He starred as Vyvyan in The Young Ones, the series that blasted its way onto our screens tearing into our preconceptions of what television comedy could be.

Adrian has since had a very significant career indeed. A career that has taken him in later years into 'straight' acting as well, at the RSC, 成人快手 TV鈥檚 War and Peace and EastEnders, and as a writer of books for adults and children. He has also had an award-winning music career with his band The Bad Shepherds which fused punk and folk. In September 2023 he published his autobiography, Beserker!, the wellspring of which was this series of essays for 成人快手 Radio 3.

Written and read by Adrian Edmondson
Produced by Caroline Raphael
A Dora Production for 成人快手 Radio 3

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  • Thu 8 Jul 2021 22:45
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