Adrian Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He studied drama at Manchester University, and his early work in 80s cult classics The Young Ones and Bottom pioneered the way for alternative TV comedy in Britain. Lately he’s concentrated on ‘straighter’ roles in TV series such as War & Peace and Alien: Earth, and at the RSC as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He’s been a member of numerous bands, notably The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band and his folk band The Bad Shepherds. He presents the documentary series Sam & Ade Go Birding with close friend and fellow actor Sam West. His book Tilly & the Time Machine won a Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Award, his autobiography Berserker! was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and his 2025 radio play Waiting for Waiting For Godot recently won a Gold Award at the New York Radio Festival Awards.
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