Mr Jolly lives next door is hands down the greatest premise for any comedy ever. A hitman has an office next door to an escort agency and the note saying "take out Nicholas Parsons" goes through the wrong letterbox. It is genuine genius.
Thank you so much for posting this (and indeed the rest of the series) - aside from one episode, I missed the entire series of Chain Reaction on its original broadcast run, and it's a delight to randomly happen across this particular one. Looking forward to ploughing through the rest of the episodes, now - it's such a good thematic concept. Ade Edmondson was one of my childhood comedy heroes, having first discovered The Young Ones in 1982 when I was barely out of primary school (ahh, halcyon days), and it's great to get some extra insights into the formative years of he and Rik's working relationship. Great interview all round by Lee Mack. Thanks again!
I remember how sad I felt when I heard Rik died. I don't know what year exactly but I first saw the Young Ones on Mtv late on, I think Sunday nights. Drove my mom mad cause I couldn't keep from laughing, in Vyv's words, very noisily. Being from a small town in Tx., most people I tried to get to watch it just couldn't get it. The british accents, the slang, mostly, it just didn't register. But I was all in. I tried to see anything any of the boys were in and French and Saunders too. That particular group of comedy geniuses have brought me so many laugh's and continue to now. I could never say a big enough Thank you to them.
Rik is still such a massive loss nearly 9 years since he passed. With Ade they were just brilliant. I still watch Bottom and FR&CF. And still laugh my head off it.
Wonderful hearing from one of the comedy greats. I still have and regularly watch the Bottom series and stage shows. Rik and Ade heroes of mine to this day.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1640pm 10.5.23 both acts, here, renowned for shouting.... lee during his panel show and stand up routines and ade via young ones, bottom... filthy rich and catflap etc etc... i would have been about 9 years old when young ones aired - and the only question asked of me was: why were you up so late? it was the show to end all shows for infant school and secondary school kids... says a lot about the humour, really....
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1706pm 10.5.23 they thought a joke about the morning sun rising... morning has broken as neil sits watching out his window...
Lee Mack is so incredibly quick witted, so for him to show so much restraint in this interview tells me he was just a little bit in awe of a comedy genius. I saw one of the Bottom live shows and Rik & Ade were just amazing; they worked so well together. Such a tragedy that 'The Old Ones' can never happen. RIP
Rik is one of my comedy heroes but he wouldn’t have had the success he had without Ade. The Dangerous Brothers was eye opening for me as a kid. Everything they ever did together was brilliant. Thank goodness Ben Elton wrote that essay!
Went to see Bottom live back in 2001 in Blackpool. I used to love seeing both of them going out of character when they done a live show. Bottom brilliant live. Glad I was there to witness that live show.
Don't leave it there tell us more, who is your Dad? I actually lived quite near Ade's parents in Bradford and near the school he went to.@@thesprawl2361
@@jamesrowden303 Rik called Ade and said he had an idea for a new show and would Ade like to get together and work on a script but Ade said no because he didn't think he was funny anymore.
I saw the Bad Shepard's at the Lamer tree Festival, they do bizarrely wonderful punk cover songs done in a folk music style. There was all these lawyers & estate agents with their wine cooler box`s dancing around to the sex pistol`s & the clash tunes. It was a very odd British moment.
Great stuff. I remember the very first Comic Relief live show in 1986: it was like Woodstock for the whole alternative comedy scene, especially the Young Ones. I have never seen anything so funny since.
Thought this was going to be more recent. It stung when Ade mentioned he and Rik talked about doing a geriatric version of Bottom in the "future". It would've been great.
Ade and Rick were the highlight of my childhood, I was 12 when the Young ones came on tv, I then got hooked on The comic strip presents, especially the legendary “ Bad news /More bad news “ . The wealth of one-liners over those two episodes gave me and my friends decades of laughs, re-quotes and now my son has also got the bug and regularly listens to the Bad News albums with all the hilarious dialogue. Rip Rick ( Colin Grigson )I was hoping that one day you guys would make 1 more Bad news …..but I guess that chance has now gone. Thanks for the side-splitting laughter for all these years.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1648pm 10.5.23 dangerous brothers was basically the template for all that came after - and they seem to have been regurgitating the same routines ever since... fav dangerous brothers moment being: a hand shoved into a food blender... rik standing in dog shit during the bad news documentary... rik getting himself electrocuted during a trick or treat sesh is also worthwhile pointing out as a must-see moment.
Let's not forget comic relief 1986 or 1987! The young ones with Cliff Richard! Cliffs own cover song with the young ones. Living doll. Rik as Rick!! Member we pomisd ciff we wouldn't be wude!.
@@joemcconnell2674 Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1926pm 23.7.23 what about comic relief...? sat in the nude wearing a comic relief red nose on yer nob is not to be sniffed at... indeed, i wouldn't sniff it, would you...?
@@sundaypeople5791 Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson. 18.4.24. I used to have it on video, the dangerous brothers compilation... Rik put his hand in a blender. big larfs. not to mention the DB skits of being fired from a cannon, head through plate glass. you know, I didn't comprehend how tiresome old censorious "friends" were... complaining about the dangerous brothers slapstick and yet hurrahing a middle eastern conflict or a Balken war... surely well crafted antics via the screen or stage beats the literal violence of the streets or conflict zone any day of the week??? We are allowing douche bags, those who can't discern thespian contrivance with literal mind numbing mass murder or death, to come to the fore...old argument. Old act....
Ade was much chipper when Rik was alive and I understand that, can you imagine being Rik's best friend and what a loss that would be in your life. I'm still really sad about Rik passing but glad that Ade is still with us and I follow him on Twitter.
Two of my favourite comedians and so different in their approach. Highly entertaining. Shame Ade conflates Graeme Garden (of the Goodies) with Graham Chapman (of the Pythons) when talking about Marty Feldman's sad demise. We need more like this.
Did you see both of Ade's eyes roll to the right briefly near the beginning? Don't ask me for the timestamp because it was in an alternative reality. That I genuinely experienced. Somebody else was definitely in there looking through two small holes!
I was confused when he started talking about Rik & then released when this was recorded. I love the idea they had for a future project, would have been brilliant. RIP Rik Mayall
Love this. Slight dissonance every time Rik is mentioned in the present tense, and you have to remember it was recorded 4 years before he left us. Thank Evie!
lovely interview,clearly taped before Ricks passing..shame,somehow I would love to know how he feels about that,as he kept fairly quiet about it and a rumour floated they fell out before Rick fell over. I totaly respect him for being so dignified and not pandering to anyones curiosity,but still I'd love to know as I love them both.
@@meh3247 Ade's reaction to Rik's death was surprising. I thought he would have been devastated, but he didn't seem that upset about it, if I'm honest. I think there is truth to the rumour that they fell out, I don't think they were close anymore, prior to Rik's passing.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1652pm 10.5.23 i enjoy stand up. i have no idea why he has such a downer on it.... the old guard which are still doin' the rounds eg: mick miller - are still funny... these guys all have their histories rooted in the music hall tradition - whether tedious stand up or weirdly absurdist alt comedy... there's no getting away from that...
Weird hearing this back. Rok and Ade reunion didn't happen. Also Ade's daughter Beattie is arguably better known as an actress than a comedian. Great interview
Jimmy Carr does standup and its quite funny but some of the stuff nis a bit drawn out. If youve seen his show, youll know precisely what I mean. It has been decades since I saw an original comic. His name was Nick the noise and he played support for Kevin Fuckin Wilson. Also very funny.
FYI the comics name is Kevin "bloody" Wilson, real name Dennis Bryant. Must have been 20+ years ago as well since he has been touring with his daughter for many years who he usually has as his opening act. Her stage name is Jenny Talia aka Tammy jo Bryant
Rik Mayall interviews Rik Mayall. MAYALL: Hi, Rik. People say you're fantastic. I'd like to start there. MAYALL: Excellent. Thanks. That's a good place to start. Yes, I'm fantastic. What can I say? MAYALL: That you're fantastic. MAYALL: I am. {mayall's ghost ridicules the comedian interviews comedian format from beyond the grave}
Mr Jolly lives next door is hands down the greatest premise for any comedy ever. A hitman has an office next door to an escort agency and the note saying "take out Nicholas Parsons" goes through the wrong letterbox.
It is genuine genius.
What a great interview, you can tell the Respect Lee has for Ade in this interview. Two LEGENDs.
I'm sorry. Lee mack isn't fit to wipe Adès arris. Ade legend mack just isn't going out apart from selling out.
Absolute legend. Joyfully spent my youth quoting Rik and Ade
Lee is a friggin genius. He needs to do much more of this. Hes so great at it.
Thank you so much for posting this (and indeed the rest of the series) - aside from one episode, I missed the entire series of Chain Reaction on its original broadcast run, and it's a delight to randomly happen across this particular one. Looking forward to ploughing through the rest of the episodes, now - it's such a good thematic concept. Ade Edmondson was one of my childhood comedy heroes, having first discovered The Young Ones in 1982 when I was barely out of primary school (ahh, halcyon days), and it's great to get some extra insights into the formative years of he and Rik's working relationship. Great interview all round by Lee Mack. Thanks again!
I remember how sad I felt when I heard Rik died. I don't know what year exactly but I first saw the Young Ones on Mtv late on, I think Sunday nights. Drove my mom mad cause I couldn't keep from laughing, in Vyv's words, very noisily. Being from a small town in Tx., most people I tried to get to watch it just couldn't get it. The british accents, the slang, mostly, it just didn't register. But I was all in. I tried to see anything any of the boys were in and French and Saunders too.
That particular group of comedy geniuses have brought me so many laugh's and continue to now. I could never say a big enough Thank you to them.
Yeah it's bittersweet Ade talking about Rik here and what they want to do together.
Rik is still such a massive loss nearly 9 years since he passed. With Ade they were just brilliant. I still watch Bottom and FR&CF. And still laugh my head off it.
Filthy rich and flatcap is probably my fave comedy of all time...the oliver twisto pick pocket scene...who wants to know fatso. ..lager frenzy...lolol
@@tonyb5884 not forgetting their lovely game of Triv lol
@@soeffingwhat now I know that one...lol
@@tonyb5884 Got it, Tarby lol
@@soeffingwhat rekjivich comma Iceland, fullstop. .lol
Wonderful hearing from one of the comedy greats. I still have and regularly watch the Bottom series and stage shows. Rik and Ade heroes of mine to this day.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1640pm 10.5.23 both acts, here, renowned for shouting.... lee during his panel show and stand up routines and ade via young ones, bottom... filthy rich and catflap etc etc... i would have been about 9 years old when young ones aired - and the only question asked of me was: why were you up so late? it was the show to end all shows for infant school and secondary school kids... says a lot about the humour, really....
This is a real little gem of an interview, thank you for sharing.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1706pm 10.5.23 they thought a joke about the morning sun rising... morning has broken as neil sits watching out his window...
wow, Lee mack is one of my favourite comics of this generartion and Rick and Ade are my all time favourites. Great interview
Evie, thank you so much for putting this up any interviews with Ade, are hard to come by especially since the passing of Rik, thank you 🙏🏽
Aw I remember this interview! I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for both of these comedians. Thanks so much for posting!
Lee Mack is so incredibly quick witted, so for him to show so much restraint in this interview tells me he was just a little bit in awe of a comedy genius. I saw one of the Bottom live shows and Rik & Ade were just amazing; they worked so well together. Such a tragedy that 'The Old Ones' can never happen. RIP
Or he was being a good interviewer
Thank you both for that and all that you do.
Evie thank you so much for cataloguing these uploads. I usually catch some of these on radio 4 extra but I miss most of them
That was a treat! Thank you!
Loved this.
These two are great.
Thanks.
Very enjoyable listen. Thanks.
Fascinating interview, so sad Rik died, another of my kings of comedy, imagining the Old Gits...if only...thanks for sharing this👍
Rik is one of my comedy heroes but he wouldn’t have had the success he had without Ade. The Dangerous Brothers was eye opening for me as a kid. Everything they ever did together was brilliant. Thank goodness Ben Elton wrote that essay!
My dad used to do stand up with them before he became an illustrator.
Went to see Bottom live back in 2001 in Blackpool. I used to love seeing both of them going out of character when they done a live show. Bottom brilliant live. Glad I was there to witness that live show.
Don't leave it there tell us more, who is your Dad?
I actually lived quite near Ade's parents in Bradford and near the school he went to.@@thesprawl2361
HE STILL WOULDVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL
Young ones were the highlight comedy of my youth. Such as shame Rik left us too early. Would've loved to see Rik and Ade doing a show again
I love them both, but it would be rubbish now with old comedians.
@@jamesrowden303 Rik called Ade and said he had an idea for a new show and would Ade like to get together and work on a script but Ade said no because he didn't think he was funny anymore.
He was Classic In The Young Ones...
I saw the Bad Shepard's at the Lamer tree Festival, they do bizarrely wonderful punk cover songs done in a folk music style. There was all these lawyers & estate agents with their wine cooler box`s dancing around to the sex pistol`s & the clash tunes. It was a very odd British moment.
Fantastic interview
Great interview!
Fabulous , thank you
Great stuff. I remember the very first Comic Relief live show in 1986: it was like Woodstock for the whole alternative comedy scene, especially the Young Ones. I have never seen anything so funny since.
Two very funny fellas. God bless you both.
Fantastic comedy from Ade and Rik, young ones was my favourite
Thought this was going to be more recent. It stung when Ade mentioned he and Rik talked about doing a geriatric version of Bottom in the "future". It would've been great.
Rik and Ade in an old gits comedy would've been a classic, shame it'll never happen now. Legends of comedy!
short but sweet. great listen,
It would have been amazing to have seen they old ones I would have loved it
Definitely were Kings of the world. And still are. Very insightful.
superb posting, the world is a far gloomier place without both Ade and Rik, I grew up on them both. A legendary pair of comedy genius.
You know Ade isn’t dead right?
This is a great interview. Re: could you do The Young Ones today? Well, The Mighty Boosh.
Lovely conversation.
Amazed to hear a reference to the Batley Variety Club - my home town (back then) :)
it is mine. Its a shit hole now though
Thank you Adrian Edmundson🙏
Brilliant. thanks from Hanks
Thank you 😁
Top flight interview. Very balanced and non combative.
Ade and Rick were the highlight of my childhood, I was 12 when the Young ones came on tv, I then got hooked on The comic strip presents, especially the legendary “ Bad news /More bad news “ . The wealth of one-liners over those two episodes gave me and my friends decades of laughs, re-quotes and now my son has also got the bug and regularly listens to the Bad News albums with all the hilarious dialogue. Rip Rick ( Colin Grigson )I was hoping that one day you guys would make 1 more Bad news …..but I guess that chance has now gone. Thanks for the side-splitting laughter for all these years.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1648pm 10.5.23 dangerous brothers was basically the template for all that came after - and they seem to have been regurgitating the same routines ever since... fav dangerous brothers moment being: a hand shoved into a food blender... rik standing in dog shit during the bad news documentary... rik getting himself electrocuted during a trick or treat sesh is also worthwhile pointing out as a must-see moment.
Let's not forget comic relief 1986 or 1987! The young ones with Cliff Richard! Cliffs own cover song with the young ones. Living doll. Rik as Rick!! Member we pomisd ciff we wouldn't be wude!.
@@joemcconnell2674 Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1926pm 23.7.23 what about comic relief...? sat in the nude wearing a comic relief red nose on yer nob is not to be sniffed at... indeed, i wouldn't sniff it, would you...?
@@JJONNYREPP Don't remember the blenderthing or did you mix it up with Rik chopping his finger off in ' Bottom'?
@@sundaypeople5791 Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson. 18.4.24. I used to have it on video, the dangerous brothers compilation... Rik put his hand in a blender. big larfs. not to mention the DB skits of being fired from a cannon, head through plate glass. you know, I didn't comprehend how tiresome old censorious "friends" were... complaining about the dangerous brothers slapstick and yet hurrahing a middle eastern conflict or a Balken war... surely well crafted antics via the screen or stage beats the literal violence of the streets or conflict zone any day of the week??? We are allowing douche bags, those who can't discern thespian contrivance with literal mind numbing mass murder or death, to come to the fore...old argument. Old act....
I was just watching Five go mad in Dorset on the weekend. With lashings of ginger beer.
Edmondson is brilliant.
Ade was much chipper when Rik was alive and I understand that, can you imagine being Rik's best friend and what a loss that would be in your life. I'm still really sad about Rik passing but glad that Ade is still with us and I follow him on Twitter.
It would've been nice to see this interview.
Guest House Paradiso absolutely hilarious film.🤣
Two of my favourite comedians and so different in their approach. Highly entertaining. Shame Ade conflates Graeme Garden (of the Goodies) with Graham Chapman (of the Pythons) when talking about Marty Feldman's sad demise. We need more like this.
Bottom! Brilliant!
Great interview.
That was really sweet. Might’ve got a lump in my throat when he talked about the Old Gits
Did you see both of Ade's eyes roll to the right briefly near the beginning? Don't ask me for the timestamp because it was in an alternative reality. That I genuinely experienced. Somebody else was definitely in there looking through two small holes!
Great comedians
I was confused when he started talking about Rik & then released when this was recorded. I love the idea they had for a future project, would have been brilliant. RIP Rik Mayall
we had that book of Goon show scripts in our house too it was great full details of staging and everything
Lee Mack did really well to keep that interview going and make it funny.
Mr Jolly lives next door and Filthy Rich and Catflap were genius.
True
I can't use Fairy Liquid without grinning since that episode 😁
What Alex Lowe is doing with his Barry from Watford and Clinton Baptist characters is very funny.
Just discovered the podcast a few weeks ago. So funny.
Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse really beat them to it with the "Old Gits" idea.
Fantastic. “Watched” the whole thing!
Love this. Slight dissonance every time Rik is mentioned in the present tense, and you have to remember it was recorded 4 years before he left us. Thank Evie!
I'd love to hear Eddie do a long form Radio 4 show..
Like Woman's Hour... but for Sad Old Gits.
Oh, it's from 2010. I wondered why they kept referring to Rik in the present tense.
Thanks!
lee mck is such a 70's comic sometimes
Interview from 2010, was wondering why Riks death wasn’t mentioned.
Brilliant
I love to read his autobiography if he does one.
The Elephant in the Room is Norman Wisdom
Great interview. I'm a fan because of Bottom.
Cheers Evie
Ade you are a real icon!
I miss Rik, and Im sure you do too.
You really are lovely and we are better people because of it, cheers @Evie 💝
Magic.
lovely interview,clearly taped before Ricks passing..shame,somehow I would love to know how he feels about that,as he kept fairly quiet about it and a rumour floated they fell out before Rick fell over.
I totaly respect him for being so dignified and not pandering to anyones curiosity,but still I'd love to know as I love them both.
They didn't fall out, Ade was devastated and you really need to wind your nosey little nose in mate, their lives don't have anything to do with you.
@@meh3247 I think I said that myself,I know this.thx for setting me straight.
@@meh3247 Ade's reaction to Rik's death was surprising. I thought he would have been devastated, but he didn't seem that upset about it, if I'm honest. I think there is truth to the rumour that they fell out, I don't think they were close anymore, prior to Rik's passing.
Ryk and Ade are my Gods.
Vim Fuego!
He lets his guitar speak for him.
Alan metcalfe - painter and decorator
Chubby is a legend and still going. Not many comedians can say that. Some are truly funny then end up in Holby city. Even worse, working for the BBC.
I got the same book as Ade. Half the pages were repeated in the book.
Lee Mack Interviews Ade Edmondson 1652pm 10.5.23 i enjoy stand up. i have no idea why he has such a downer on it.... the old guard which are still doin' the rounds eg: mick miller - are still funny... these guys all have their histories rooted in the music hall tradition - whether tedious stand up or weirdly absurdist alt comedy... there's no getting away from that...
Lee’s knock knock joke re: Spike Milligan was really funny.
Bottom was brilliant
Sadly we’ll never see the Old Ones.
I love Lee Mack but I think the title should be more like "Lee Mack Interrupts Ade Edmondson"
Poor Lee mack .... was such a tragic loss
See if you can explain your pointless comment 😂 .. wtf does it even mean?
Bottom is brilliant 10/10 comedy
Very sad when Ade says “we have a plan for a reunion in 10 or 15 years” 😢
When was this recorded?
2010
He may think of himself as a guitarist - but he is no Den Dennis.
Weird hearing this back. Rok and Ade reunion didn't happen. Also Ade's daughter Beattie is arguably better known as an actress than a comedian. Great interview
actually, in 2023 Ade seems to have that whiteish beard Lee refers to at the start of this. Do you think this was its source?
Wish Lee would just let Ade talk. He keeps nipping in with his own quips.
Rick would get the girls, & I would get them 2-3 weeks later 😂😂😂
Odd listening to this as they talk about Rick Mayal, as he was dead 4 years later....
It’s so weird hearing Ads real voice…
I miss Rik.
Very sad they were planning a new series and we’ll never get to see it…. And also that he’s dead obviously
I love alternative comedy, sone folk call it tragedy
Jimmy Carr does standup and its quite funny but some of the stuff nis a bit drawn out. If youve seen his show, youll know precisely what I mean. It has been decades since I saw an original comic. His name was Nick the noise and he played support for Kevin Fuckin Wilson. Also very funny.
FYI the comics name is Kevin "bloody" Wilson, real name Dennis Bryant. Must have been 20+ years ago as well since he has been touring with his daughter for many years who he usually has as his opening act. Her stage name is Jenny Talia aka Tammy jo Bryant
Was Rik Mayall killed by Floella Benjamin and Nick Glegg. Christchurch Crusaders?
No
@@shanustheanus #patwa Sinbad or Jack Sparrow? Cliff Richard and Elton John?
'The Boogaloo' Slags v the Hawaiians. Captain Cook.
Didn't Rik know about a paedophile ring at the BBC before he died? Perhaps he was going to expose it? And he made that film 'One By One'
Lee Mack in the Slags?
Rik Mayall interviews Rik Mayall.
MAYALL: Hi, Rik. People say you're fantastic. I'd like to start there.
MAYALL: Excellent. Thanks. That's a good place to start. Yes, I'm fantastic. What can I say?
MAYALL: That you're fantastic.
MAYALL: I am.
{mayall's ghost ridicules the comedian interviews comedian format from beyond the grave}
i really would love to hear that as full interview! haha! xD