Ade Edmondson, English comedian and musician

Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. Part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s, he and his comedy partner Rik Mayall starred in the television sitcoms The Young Ones (1982–1984), Filthy Rich & Catflap (1987) and Bottom (1991–1995), the last of which was written by Edmonson and Mayall, as well as the comedy feature film Guest House Paradiso (1999), which Edmonson directed and co-wrote. Edmondson and Mayall also appeared in The Comic Strip Presents... series of films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. For two episodes of this they created the spoof heavy metal band Bad News, and for another Edmonson played his nihilistic alter-ego Eddie Monsoon, an offensive South African television star.