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Adrian Edmondson on the lasting damage he suffered from filming his anarchic sitcoms, and the riotous fun he had with best pal Rik Mayall


Adrian Edmondson met Rik Mayall during their first year of studying drama at Manchester University. They hit it off instantly and formed a double act, performing their own material every week.

Just three years out of university, The Comic Strip Presents... series of TV movies was commissioned by the newly launched Channel 4 and Rik and Adrian never looked back. Adrian was devastated when Rik had a heart attack and died aged 56 in 2014, and became emotional recalling his relationship with him on Desert Island Discs last year. When John Alderton and Pauline Collins played a married couple in a sitcom called No, Honestly, I cringed at the thought they were man and wife in real life.

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