From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, fascinating memoir from an icon of British comedy, Adrian Edmondson.
'Everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately' - Caitlin Moran
'The Berserkers from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage ancedotes' - Ian Rankin
'This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. It is incredibly funny, but it is also a lot, lot more than that'- Miles Jupp
‘More fun than reading Hegel, and also more enlightening’ - Louis de Bernières
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Ade Edmondson smashed onto the comedy circuit in the 1980s, stormed The Comedy Store and, alongside Rik Mayall, brought anarchy to stage and screen. How did a child brought up in a strict Methodist household – and who spent his formative years incarcerated in repressive boarding schools – end up joining the revolution? Well, he is part Norse. Could it be his ‘berserker’ heritage?
With wisdom, nostalgia and uniquely observed humour, Ade traces his journey through life and comedy: starting out on the alternative scene, getting arrested in Soho, creating his outrageously violent characters and learning more about his curious (possibly Scandinavian) heritage. With star-studded anecdotes and set to a soundtrack of pop hits which transport the reader through time, it’s a memoir like no other.
Berserker [noun]: A Norse warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable; often off his tits on henbane and large quantities of alcohol; one who is out of control with anger or excitement.
Boarding school, despair, love, music, Rik Mayall – everything Adrian Edmondson writes about makes you love him desperately - Caitlin Moran, journalist and author of How to Be a Woman
The berserker from The Young Ones and Bottom tells his story with self-effacing charm and no end of backstage anecdotes - Ian Rankin
This is a bloody good book. Lots of people live interesting lives, but very few people can write genuinely interesting books about those lives. Adrian Edmondson has done both. And while it is incredibly funny, it is also a lot, lot more than that' - Miles Jupp
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Hardback
Language: English
Extent: 416
Publication Date: 28 September 2023
ISBN-13: 9781035014279
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Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Macmillan
