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Boarding school, despair, love, music, Rik Mayall – everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately -- Caitlin Moran, journalist and author of <i>How to Be a Woman</i> The berserker from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage anecdotes -- Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. And while it is incredibly funny, it is also a lot, lot more than that -- Miles Jupp, comedian and author of <i>History</i> The bravest, most affecting celebrity book of the year * Daily Express * Edmondson can be very funny and very poignant simultaneously * Daily Mirror * A hilarious romp through a golden era of comedy and a searingly honest and moving memoir * Red Magazine * Absolutely brilliant -- Marina Hyde, author of <i>What Just Happened?!</i> and co-host of The Rest Is Entertainment More fun than reading Hegel, and also more enlightening -- Louis de Bernières, author of <i>Captain Corelli's Mandolin</i> Gloriously candid and wise all at once -- Sara Pascoe, comedian and author of <i>Weirdo</i>

Boarding school, despair, love, music, Rik Mayall – everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately -- Caitlin Moran, journalist and author of <i>How to Be a Woman</i> The berserker from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage anecdotes -- Ian Rankin This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. And while it is incredibly funny, it is also a lot, lot more than that -- Miles Jupp The bravest, most affecting celebrity book of the year * Daily Express * Edmondson can be very funny and very poignant simultaneously * Daily Mirror * A hilarious romp through a golden era of comedy and a searingly honest and moving memoir * Red Magazine *

Boarding school, despair, love, music, Rik Mayall – everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately -- Caitlin Moran, journalist and author of <i>How to Be a Woman</i> The berserker from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage anecdotes -- Ian Rankin This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. And while it is incredibly funny, it is also a lot, lot more than that -- Miles Jupp, comedian and host of <i>The News Quiz</i> The bravest, most affecting celebrity book of the year * Daily Express * Edmondson can be very funny and very poignant simultaneously * Daily Mirror * A hilarious romp through a golden era of comedy and a searingly honest and moving memoir * Red Magazine * Absolutely brilliant -- Marina Hyde, author of <i>What Just Happened?!</i> and co-host of The Rest Is Entertainment

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ADRIAN CHARLES EDMONDSON is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He 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, a series that blasted its way onto our screens and tore into our preconceptions of what television comedy could be. In later years, Edmondson's career has also taken him into 'straight' acting - including at the RSC and in the BBC's War and Peace and EastEnders - and into writing 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 to great acclaim.

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