‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian Edmondson and Ed Bye on Bottom

‘Full of joy’ … Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in the gross-out 90s hit. Photograph: Radio Times/Getty Images

Adrian Edmondson, played Eddie

Rik Mayall and I met at uni in Manchester in 1975. We thought we were going to be serious actors and became comedians by accident. We started out at the Comedy Store in London, which was new at the time, and then the BBC commissioned The Young Ones. After that, Rik and I did a weekly sketch as The Dangerous Brothers on Saturday Live on Channel 4, and found it very hard work. Then we just happened not to work together for a few years. I was making Comic Strips, he was making The New Statesman, but we were still seeing each other socially because we were best buddies.