Bottom

Bottom follows in the same style as the previously successful The Young Ones, as it stars two of the actors from The Young Ones, Rick Mayall and Ade Edmonson as Richie and Eddie. The show ran for three series and numerous stage shows and a fourth series had been developed, but was not taken up by the BBC. The series follows the adventures of Richie and Eddie, two hopeless, unemployed men that have trouble attracting the attention of the opposite sex. The pair both live in a run down flat in Hammersmith. The main elements of the show involved very violent slap stick comedy, as after a gag one of them would normally end up hitting each other with an item that ...

Bottom is one of those comedies you either love or hate, its shallow, hateful and yet visually very funny. The show was written and starred Mayall and Edmondson and won awards for the BBC, it had 3 series in total and loads of sellout tours of the UK. The comedy basically follows the failed attempts at living of Richie (Rick Mayall) and Eddie (Ade Edmondson), both are unemployed, crazed, perverted losers, whose only pleasure in life seems to be in making each other unhappy, they are like the Odd Couple on crack. They spend their time thinking up crackpot ideas or alternatively simply beating each other up. Richie - Richie is a seedy ...

I am a huge fan of the Young Ones and love the follow on show Bottom as much as if not more than the this. Bottom is best described as a Marmite comedy in that you are going to either love it or hate it. The show is based on the lives of Richie and Eddie who are flat mates who live on little money, are failures in love and very much lazy work shy slackers. The comedy is very strongly based on simple toilet humour and a large amount of violence along with drinking to excess...this is not a comedy that people who are easily offended should watch as there is a lot in the show to cause offence but if you are not easily offended and are the kind of person who finds ...