The Dangerous Brothers

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 Adrian Dangerous". Although originating before the show, they appeared in a number of brief sketches in the 1980s TV programme Saturday Live.

The act was, in essence, a prototype of the career which the pair were to forge over the next twenty years in such shows as Mr Jolly Lives Next Door; Filthy, Rich and Catflap; and Bottom - two low-life loser perverts hitting each other in spectacular slapstick ways. It was arguably more hazardous than much of the material which was to follow in later incarnations - stage props in the brief run included a live (and very large, although apparently lethargic) crocodile, blank-firing submachine guns, and Edmondson apparently consuming Vim, a well-known UK brand of powder toilet cleaner. One of the early sketches went wrong when a stunt to set fire to Edmondson's trousers left him with serious burns - although much of this was left on the broadcast version.

Sketches performed

• World Of Danger (AKA The Towering Inferno)
• Big Stunt
• Torture - featuring Norman Lovett
• Crocodile Snogging (which featured a live crocodile) and featuring John Bird
• Flying Zebra
• Exploding Politicians
• How To Get Off With A Lady - featuring Edmondson's wife Jennifer Saunders
• Babysitting - featuring Morwenna Banks as the wife and John Bird as the husband.
• Dangervision - featuring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.
• Kinky Sex

All these sketches were later released on a compilation video The Dangerous Brothers present: World of Danger.

Several Dangerous Brothers sketches are also included on the DVD compilation Saturday Live: The Best of Series One (2007).

Dangervision: The DVD

A DVD of all of the sketches featured in the show was released in 2009.

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