Adrian Edmondson doesn't think 'The Young Ones' would be made nowadays.
Adrian Edmondson
The 64-year-old actor starred alongside Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle, and his late pal Rik Mayall in the 1980s sitcom, but he doubts many TV executives would commission the show these days because they "wouldn’t have understood the script".
He said: "Not because of cancel culture, but because there are too many executives and they wouldn’t have understood the script. In the days of 'The Young Ones', it was one.
"Our USP was trying to concoct people that everyone would hate. Unfortunately they didn’t, they loved them. Eventually they became knitted toilet-roll covers."
Adrian is currently playing a more hated character, John Boback - a dead girl's father - in Daisy Haggard's BBC comedy-drama series 'Back to Life', and he landed a part in the second series after writing her a "fan letter".
The 'Bottom' star, who admitted he and Daisy are now "actual friends", said: "He’s completely wrapped up in grief still after 18 years. Unfortunately, he’s also kind of a paedophile."
Speaking about the comedy-drama tackling grief, he said: "It’s about being human. And kindness, which isn’t a very popular buzzword these days.
"I enjoyed the first series so much that I wrote Daisy a fan letter and that’s why I’m in it.
“She’s that mixture of absolutely no confidence and an amazing amount of talent. She’s not afraid of love, which I think a lot of writers are."
Adrian has spoken previously about having a tough time at boarding school during his younger years, and he has admitted now that he felt "abandoned" when he was packed off to a school in Yorkshire.
The star - who lived on military bases in Cyprus, Bahrain and Uganda during the early years of his life when his dad worked as a teacher - added to The Times newspaper: "My strongest memory is of being abandoned.
"[It was] a nasty place [with some] vicious people with so little self-esteem, who just took it out on everyone else."
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