Talking Bottom

Talking Bottom The Bottom Podcast - some great mates discuss the greatest ever sitcom from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson.
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“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…”
15/07/2024

“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…”

These Bottom artworks are so good that they might replace the emergency fiver portrait. Brilliant posters from talented ...
11/07/2024

These Bottom artworks are so good that they might replace the emergency fiver portrait. Brilliant posters from talented artist Jake Smith https://ppdesignandprint.co.uk/

10/06/2024

If you liked his Nintendo ads (and who wouldn’t?!) then you’ll love Rik Mayall turning an advert for Virgin Trains into a 39-second work of comedy genius.

Zoom in on the (appropriately) Bottom horse.
10/06/2024

Zoom in on the (appropriately) Bottom horse.

09/06/2024

Rik Mayall played SO MANY iconic characters. Here during The New Statesman he drops Alan B’Stard for a moment to sneak in some Rick/Richie.

09/06/2024

TEN LONG YEARS on from losing his genius, a reminder that even adverts starring Rik Mayall were comedy gold. Here he is in two for Nintendo.

On the day he was born, God cried “Let there be light entertainment.” And there was. A pan-global phenomenon, Rik Mayall...
09/06/2024

On the day he was born, God cried “Let there be light entertainment.” And there was. A pan-global phenomenon, Rik Mayall departed us “ten long years” years ago today in search of the next adventure and has been sorely missed by millions since. Most comics are lucky if they have one hit that people know them for; Rik was loved across generations for the multitude of characters he created and lived in. Some grew up enthralled by George’s Marvellous Medicine, some quoting his writing and performance in The Young Ones the next day in school. He skewered Thatcher in the 80s and somehow made a Tory politician charming and s*xy. He was buccaneering as Flashheart and combined tragically funny loneliness with cartoon violence as Richie in Bottom. He was the perfect imaginary friend and a Bad News rock god. He wrote books and had hit singles. He toured sell-out theatre shows and made even adverts mini-masterpieces with his comedic performances. He was a dedicated husband, father and friend. He was a multi-talented legend of British comedy and we are all better for having known him.

He was, is, and shall ever be; The Man, The Myth, The Legend: Dr The Rik Mayall.

07/06/2024

Forget A Squad. Richie and Eddie are… The Professionals.

“I’ve always enjoyed playing bastards.” Mr Harrison himself, actor Roger Sloman chatted with Talking Bottom about his ca...
07/06/2024

“I’ve always enjoyed playing bastards.” Mr Harrison himself, actor Roger Sloman chatted with Talking Bottom about his career and playing Hammersmith’s most notorious slum landlord. Interview now on YouTube! https://youtu.be/gsud24v3_xA?si=F4Ejmlum7d6T7Pjv

“You’re born, you keep your head down, and you die.” Bottom shares a lot of similarities with Waiting for Godot, which R...
02/06/2024

“You’re born, you keep your head down, and you die.” Bottom shares a lot of similarities with Waiting for Godot, which Rik and Ade performed at university and then for a run in the west end in 1991, the same year Bottom first aired. Our w***y analysis is now on YouTube! https://youtu.be/xfn9GV4vxjY?si=YqGP3BoJKGzWDbXu

27/05/2024

“Just lower yourself softly over the entire area and it’ll easily hold your weight.”

“The line I get quoted most to me is “I’d rather have a pineapple inserted violently into my rectum.”” Star of stage and...
24/05/2024

“The line I get quoted most to me is “I’d rather have a pineapple inserted violently into my rectum.”” Star of stage and screen Kevin McNally recounts his time as Mr S*x in our interview which is now on YouTube, plus your usual podcast platforms! https://youtu.be/-HYh6U0asAg?si=s56uPgvmy4fnXR5f

Evening Mr Rottweiler.
18/05/2024

Evening Mr Rottweiler.

Rik and Ade’s unique physical comedy hasn’t been bettered in 30 years. What’s your favourite bit of Bottom action?
14/05/2024

Rik and Ade’s unique physical comedy hasn’t been bettered in 30 years. What’s your favourite bit of Bottom action?

Many fans who wrote to Rik Mayall were lucky enough to receive a hand-written reply. Here is just a few of his golden re...
12/05/2024

Many fans who wrote to Rik Mayall were lucky enough to receive a hand-written reply. Here is just a few of his golden responses.

"We were in rehearsals, I had the fake leg in the trousers. Rik held my shoulders and said "Watch the master at work."An...
11/05/2024

"We were in rehearsals, I had the fake leg in the trousers. Rik held my shoulders and said "Watch the master at work."And he put his hand up there, then a little bit further…” Red Dwarf’s Robert Llewellyn brilliant interview is now on YouTube! https://youtu.be/HUs_6ox4vc4?si=_Y5Lj7Zaxn3ztibx

Excited!
10/05/2024

Excited!

Rik and Ade appeared on Saturday morning kids TV show “Going Live” to plug Bottom and the Live Tour… and took it as seri...
09/05/2024

Rik and Ade appeared on Saturday morning kids TV show “Going Live” to plug Bottom and the Live Tour… and took it as seriously as you’d expect.

08/05/2024

Fun fact: David Bowie and Mick Jagger were huge Bottom fans and performed their own end credits dance in this exclusive vid.

07/05/2024

Many see Bottom as a follow-on to The Young Ones. But what if it was the actual successor - how would the opening credits look?

A fantastic behind the scenes glimpse into the work Rik and Ade put into perfecting their comedy violence on screen. Her...
04/05/2024

A fantastic behind the scenes glimpse into the work Rik and Ade put into perfecting their comedy violence on screen. Here they rehearse and shoot the iconic chess fight for the episode “Culture”.

Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson shoot the legandary chess fight scene before the full recording in front of a live audience later that day.

02/05/2024

Who has the upper hand when it comes to the end-of-episode violent freeze-frames? Richie or Eddie?

For those who prefer YouTube as a source for their listening pleasure, we’ve added most of the Talking Bottom podcasts w...
29/04/2024

For those who prefer YouTube as a source for their listening pleasure, we’ve added most of the Talking Bottom podcasts with the rest gradually going up over the next couple of weeks. Also check out Rik’s fake eye for “Candle in the eye!”.

Bottom prodcuer/director Ed Bye made this great BTS featurette to accompany the 1999 release of Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson's long-awaited Bottom movie, Gue...

28/04/2024

Even when he’s just an audience member, the camera naturally seeks out Rik Mayall and he can’t help but perform for it.

Hello Bottom lovers! Watching your tellies are you? Addling your brains??Good! We are sending a quick update in case you...
24/04/2024

Hello Bottom lovers! Watching your tellies are you? Addling your brains??

Good! We are sending a quick update in case you missed our love gas on Valentine’s Day. As before, the book is with Unbound who are poring over our pornographic doodlings and deciphering our scrawled messages such as “vzzzbx” and “fick urf you sad pathetic winker.” We hope to have news from Unbound of a planned publication date soon.

While you wait for your Bottom book fix, there was a fantastic documentary on Gold last week called Bottom: Exposed. It’s got lots of interviews and stories from a load of people who worked on the show, including Ade. We also pop up briefly wittering on like girls trying to have a period. It’s well worth a watch! (For Ade and the others, obviously, less so us. We didn’t work on Bottom but we do talk a lot of it!)

Thank you for sticking with us while we finish ourselves and the publication process off. We’re excited for when we will be able to share news of a publication date! You all will be the first to know!

Urgh, I nearly kissed you on the nob then,

Paul, Angela and Mat

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If you liked his Nintendo ads (and who wouldn’t?!) then you’ll love Rik Mayall turning an advert for Virgin Trains into a 39-second work of comedy genius.

Rik Mayall played SO MANY iconic characters. Here during The New Statesman he drops Alan B’Stard for a moment to sneak in some Rick/Richie.

TEN LONG YEARS on from losing his genius, a reminder that even adverts starring Rik Mayall were comedy gold. Here he is in two for Nintendo.

Forget A Squad. Richie and Eddie are… The Professionals.

“Just lower yourself softly over the entire area and it’ll easily hold your weight.”

Fun fact: David Bowie and Mick Jagger were huge Bottom fans and performed their own end credits dance in this exclusive vid.

Many see Bottom as a follow-on to The Young Ones. But what if it was the actual successor - how would the opening credits look?

Who has the upper hand when it comes to the end-of-episode violent freeze-frames? Richie or Eddie?

Even when he’s just an audience member, the camera naturally seeks out Rik Mayall and he can’t help but perform for it.

Tonight at 9pm on Gold Channel !

Richie and Eddie are the best of Friends.

A lot of requests for this. Farewell Mr 55p.

Just because it’s brilliant… Rik Mayall singing “I’m Evil” (“Trouble”)

“When oh when will the BBC wake up and realise that it’s fishfingers go that way round?!”

What if Bottom had actually been a sequel to The Young Ones? It’s The Older Ones!

What would Richie and Eddie do if they could time travel? Bottom meets Quantum Leap in these fantastic credits. Oh boy!

What would happen if Richie and Eddie joined CI5? It’s Bottom meets The Professionals!

You didn’t know you needed this vid in your life until now. Rik Mayall playing Alan B’Stard in The New Statesman channels Rik/Richie and gives his other show a plug, mid scene.

I’ll be there for you… you complete bastard! Richie and Eddie are the best of Friends in these alternative opening credits.

Terror is a great episode but Sean Lock sums up the child actors perfectly.

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