Category: Rik Mayall

  • Rik Pics
    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…

  • Your Bottom’s Listing
    Your Bottom’s Listing

    Let’s have a look at the listings for the debut of Bottom, on 17th September 1991. We’ll start with the Staffordshire Sentinel, because why not? It’s not often described as a black comedy, even though it’s terribly bleak. That said, we see that descriptor again, this time from Graham Young in the Sandwell Evening Mail.…

  • Rik’s Xmas Helpline
    Rik’s Xmas Helpline

    Here’s a rare little treat. Rik promoting YTV’s Christmas Line, as broadcast on 26th December 1987. I think that’s the only time I’ve seen the ear not pop back. It’s clearly been filmed during the making of the first series of The New Statesman, and that’s obviously the office set he’s in.

  • This Is The Bottom Line
    This Is The Bottom Line

    There are an awful lots of puns used when it comes to headlines about Bottom. But this article, from the Liverpool Echo on Friday 9th April 1993, to promote the upcoming Bottom: Live tour is a pretty good read. And who can resist that photo? Here’s the rest of it, and it’s worth having a…

  • I’m A 40-Year-Old B’Stard
    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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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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