Absolute legend. Joyfully spent my youth quoting Rik and Ade

I was born in 1987. By 93 to 95 i was getting up in the middle of the night to watch all the videos of " Bottom "  while my older brothers and parents were all asleep...

I used to move the 1 seater from the 3 piece suite, right in front of the tele, get snacks and just sit there watching VHS after VHS  pissing myself laughing.  Alone for hours and hours.

Bottom. Rik and Ade . Cemented my comical view on life. Blimey you two were funny.

You're both absolute fucking legends 👏

And alot of people owe you.. for cheering them all up for so long.

Live long Ade. Miss ya Rik.


Sincerely

Tommy Langley

What a great interview, you can tell the Respect Lee has for Ade in this interview. Two LEGENDs.

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.

Love all your work,thank you ,you have  brightened our days.🎉

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.

This is a real little gem of an interview, thank you for sharing.

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 🙏🏽

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

Rik and Ade in an old gits comedy would've been a classic, shame it'll never happen now. Legends of comedy!

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.

Thank you both for that and all that you do.

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.

Aw I remember this interview! I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for both of these comedians. Thanks so much for posting!

Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse really beat them to it with the "Old Gits" idea.

Was 13/14 when TYO was broadcast in Australia and Ade Edmonson is absolutely correct...we were the perfect audience

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 cataloguing these uploads. I usually catch some of these on radio 4 extra but I miss most of them