Category: Bottom
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The British Broadcasting Century
Comedy on Air: Hysterical History from The Co-Optimists to Bottom The British Broadcasting Century is a fabulous podcast, with the excellent Paul Kerensa, that charts and explores the true story of British broadcast’s forgotten pioneers. Every episode is well worth a listen, and I had the pleasure of chatting to Paul about all things comedy…
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Christopher Ryan Clippings
It’s been said enough to no longer really be insightful, but Christopher Ryan as Mike in The Young Ones was excellent. But he’s even better as Dave Hedgehog in Bottom, and his appearances in One Foot In The Grave and Absolutely Fabulous are marvellous too. It seems he has always been quietly getting on with…
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The Not So Young Ones
Here’s an article from the Dublin Evening Herald, published on Friday 4th April 2008. It’s got some factual errors in it, but worth a read nonetheless, and I really like the photo of Ade and Ben, who you don’t often see pictured together. I also like this photo spread from The Stage on Thursday 22nd…
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Rik Pics
Here’s a great cover story spread to coincide with the release of the Dangerous Brothers VHS, Drop Dead Fred, and Bottom. Click to enlarge (oo er). Here, Rik shares a page with Rowan. You can read more about his American tour of Shakespeare in Proctology: A Bottom Examination. This is a nice little preview of…
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Down Under Your Bottom
Here’s a nice spin on a familiar thing on this blog. It’s the TV listings write up for Bottom, when it first aired on the ABC in Australia, from the Torres News on 18th November 1994. That’s rather later than I would have expected it to reach there. At first blush, it does look a…
