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Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger

Comedy

1h 16m

January 1, 1986 (39 years ago)

Overview

The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir (or occasionally Lady) Adrian Dangerous". Although originating before the show, they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live. Eventually being banned for being "too sexy and too violent", they staged a protest by returning as 'The Ben Elton Brothers', and blowing up the car park at LWT Studios. One of the final sketches prepared for Saturday Live was entitled 'Kinky Sex'. This fell foul of Channel 4 censors who banned it. The duo responded in the sketch Dangervision by apparently hijacking the programme and blowing up the wall on which the show's logo was painted in graffiti art. The banned sketch, which by modern standards seems fairly tame, was finally released on a compilation video The Dangerous Brothers present: World of Danger.

ActorAge thenAge now
Rik Mayall

Rik Mayall

Richard Dangerous

Birthday: March 7, 1958

27 June 9, 2014 (56)
Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson

Sir Adrian Dangerous

Birthday: January 24, 1957

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Morwenna Banks

Morwenna Banks

-

Birthday: September 20, 1961

2463
Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

-

Birthday: August 24, 1957

2868
Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie

-

Birthday: June 11, 1959

2666
Helen Lederer

Helen Lederer

-

Birthday: September 24, 1954

3170
Norman Lovett

Norman Lovett

-

Birthday: October 31, 1946

3978
Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders

-

Birthday: July 6, 1958

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