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Bottom. Image shows from L to R: Richie Richard (Rik Mayall), Eddie Hitler (Adrian Edmondson). Copyright: BBC
Bottom

Bottom

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC Two
  • 1991 - 1995
  • 18 episodes (3 series)

Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler are a pair of disgusting, anti-social and regularly violent losers who share a grubby flat in Hammersmith. Stars Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 276

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Why Bottom should be top

The timeless quality that squalor and desperation provide, along with the pitch-perfect execution of a double act at the heights of its power mean that Bottom deserves to be be treasured by comedy fans - and critics - for years to come.

Alex Newsome, Chortle, 14th January 2013

Bottom sequel Hooligan's Island scrapped

The previously announced Bottom reunion, Hooligan's Island, will now not go ahead as Adrian Edmondson has walked out of the project.

British Comedy Guide, 15th October 2012

'Bottom': Tube Talk Gold

In the mid-1990s, Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson brought us the chaotic, crazy carnage-fest that was Bottom.

Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 11th August 2012

I award five funny bones to Health And Efficiency (BBC1) and Bottom (BBC2). Four to Ellen and Roseanne (both Channel 4). Three to Fantasy Football League and Darts (both BBC2). Two to The High Life for Cumming and Masson, a double act working with a pair of scissors.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 7th January 1995

Bottom is an unfortunate name for a programme, inviting all manner of scatological put-downs from jaded TV critics; a more appropriate title might be Living Off Past Glories as Rik Mayall and partner rehash one more time the same limited repertoire of puerile, violent and nonsensical gestures that worked so brilliantly a decade ago in The Young Ones.

Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 9th October 1992

Bottom (BBC2) with Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson is the television equivalent of a Viz cartoon strip. Mindless violence, rampant sexism, schoolboy smut ("Have you strained your vegetables?" "No, it just these hired trousers are a bit tight.") Welcome back, lads.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 2nd October 1992

Bottom (BBC2) is written by and stars Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall. [...] I have never in all my puff seen anything so full of tasteless sex and mindless violence. [...] It's wonderful but you can use the quote about tasteless sex and mindless violence, if you like. It'll sell more tickets.

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 18th September 1991

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