Author: Simon Dunn
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An Utterly Pointless Fact About Your Bottom
No, the useless trivia isn’t that Rik and Ade originally wanted to call it Your Bottom instead, everyone knows that you sad, pathtic winker. Instead, this is a fact about the episode Contest. There’s a moment when Richie forces Eddie to watch a boring documentary instead of Miss World (nice statistic), and we hear the…
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The Bottom Bugle
Often when you see a newspaper on a TV show it’s a mock up, and often it’s one that’s been mocked up from a real paper. Take this, for example, from the first episode of Bottom (Smells), which aired on the 17th September 1991, and was recorded on the 14th June 1991. The Hammersmith Bugle…
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I’m A 40-Year-Old B’Stard
Here’s a nice two-page spread from the Sunday Mirror on 14th December 1997.
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Too Many Ronnies
Here’s an episode of Alexei Sayle’s podcast, in which he chats with the writers David Renwick and Andrew Marshall.
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What’s The Opposite Of A Tennis Ball?
It’s too hot to do anything else other than work out the opposite of Chess, the opposite of a tennis ball, and the opposite of a Dinosaur Egg. Do not share. And do not enjoy.








