How Nigel Planer helped Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall reunite: ‘They’d fallen out but they were laughing their heads off’

The Young Ones’ Nigel Planer has revealed how he helped co-stars Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall patch things up at his own wedding.

Edmondson and Mayall formed a close partnership after meeting at university and became one of British comedy’s greatest double acts, but they became distant in later years.