Adrian Edmondson is a 66-year-old actor, writer and musician. He has appeared in anarchic TV comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, and latterly in 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi and as Scrooge in the RSC’s 2022 production of A Christmas Carol. He has recently completed his autobiography, Berserker!, and next month starts a podcast, Out to Lunch With Ade Edmondson, where he interviews a celebrity guest over a meal. Edmondson lives with his wife, Jennifer Saunders, mainly in Devon.
Why did you call your autobiography Berserker!?
I’ve always had a weird notion I was a Viking: I lived near York, or Jorvik as the Vikings called it, and my name is Edmondson, so it has obviously got a slight Scandi root. But the definition of “berserk”, as someone who’s wild and frenzied and off their tits on alcohol and henbane, seems to be a version of what I was in my youth. I was desperate for excitement.
