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 effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
From Adrian Edmondson
On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.
We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.
A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.
I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
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 laughing so hard.
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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