‘We had to cut Rik Mayall’s ejaculation scene’: Adrian

‘We had wanted to call it My Bottom, so that people at work the next day would say, “Did you see My Bottom on television last night?”’

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.