Quotes by Adrian Edmondson

• It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.
• We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.
• We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
• There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
• The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
• Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.
• Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
• People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
• On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
• Most modern comedy is crap.
• A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
• It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to laugh unreservedly when we are back together again.
• You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
• Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
• From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
• I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
• I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
• I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
• I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
• I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.