Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

- Ade Edmondson

Most modern comedy is crap.

- Ade Edmondson

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

- Ade Edmondson

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

- Ade Edmondson

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laugh…

- Ade Edmondson

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the…

- Ade Edmondson

We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

- Ade Edmondson

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

- Ade Edmondson

You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

- Ade Edmondson