Category: Bottom
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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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A Very Normal Bottom
Here’s an article timed to promote the first series of Bottom, the beginning of Waiting For Godot, and the release of Drop Dead Fred, all in one go. It’s full of wrong info, and proceeds from the shocking premise that actors aren’t the characters they portray, but it’s worth a read nonetheless.
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Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Ever since the first episode of Bottom came to an end, way back in 1991, and the continuity announcer told us that Rik and Ade were appearing in a production of Waiting For Godot, I’ve indelibly linked the two things together in my mind. For a long time, little information was to be found about…
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Ed Bye In His Own Words
It’s depressingly easy to forget the influence and contribution TV directors have made to comedy over the years. It’s not like the movies, which revere the director, and forget the writers, it’s the other way round really. So it was nice to stumble across this interview with Ed Bye in The Stage from the 3rd…
