EDDIE MONSOON,A LIFE:
SEASON 2 : SHOW 6
FIRST SHOWN : FEBRUARY 4TH 1984
WRITERS: ADRIAN EDMONDSON
DIRECTOR : SANDY JOHNSON
Channel 4 ,10.30pm, 35 minutes
CAST :
ADRIAN EDMONDSON ---------- Eddie Monsoon
DAWN FRENCH ---------- Veronica
PETER RICHARDSON ---------- Tiny Townsend
JENNIFER SAUNDERS ---------- Doreen
TONY BILBOW ---------- himself
MICHAEL WHITE ---------- himself
PETER WOODS ---------- Interviewer
Relentless alcoholic, drug addict, and fame-obsessed TV personality Eddie Monsoon is the subject of a Channel 4 expose that looks back over his life and loves, while he lies bedridden in a rehab hospital.
QUOTES:
Eddie: I mean Channel 4 is *the* channel for child porn and homosexuals and I had both in my show. So why'd you have to go and ban it, just like that?
Michael White: Eddie! If you'd really want to know.
. Eddie: Yes I do
Michael: Then shut up and listen. The only reasons we had for not transmitting "Back to normal with Eddie Monsoon" are that it was obscene, libellous and in my opinion an offence to humanity.
TRIVIA:
I1) There was to have been an Eddie Monsoon episode in series 1, but was not made due to proposed content.
2) This is the origin of the name of Jennifer Saunders character in Absolutely Fabulous, Edwina Monsoon
3) "Eddie Monsoon" is a bastardized version of Adrian Edmondson's surname, this is because the Eddie Monsoon character is, as Adrian himself has said, based on his personality when he is pissed.