Category: Sitcoms
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Beeb’s Strip Show Stoppers!
When BBC Two announced its raft of new shows for the autumn of 1991, there was much talk of the £32 million bill, and some mention of the title of the new sitcom from Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. The Daily Record also noted the new show from Dawn French, and a return for Stuff…
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Win Some Bottom Boxer Shorts
I mean, as giveaways go, to celebrate, of all things, the repeat run of Bottom on UK Gold in 1996, it kind of makes sense to giveaway some boxer shorts – but surely Richie and Eddie are Y-Fronts kind of guys? The Liverpool Echo, on Saturday 16th March 1996 thought otherwise.
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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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Tricky Rik – Yuppy MP
In this article, by Jonathan Margolis, published in the Dublin Evening Herald on 14th July 1987, there’s some wonderful behind-the-scenes trivia about the research period of The New Statesman. Michael Portillo served as a political advisor on the show, and Rik was allowed to sit on the government and opposition benches. There’s even mention of…
