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Bottom

Name: Bottom
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1991-09-17
Rating: 7.9

★ 7,9 /10 (151 Votes)

1991 EN 3 Seasons

Overview

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated. They spend their days scheming, bickering, and being nasty and sadistic to each other.

Stream

Buy

First air date

17/09/1991

Votes

151

Popularity

6.9

Genres

Comedy

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson

Networks

BBC Two

Language

Last air date

1995-04-10

Episodes

Episode runtime

30 min

Specials

19 episodes • 1993

Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one…

Adrian Edmondson

Edward Elizabeth Hitler

Rik Mayall

Richard Richard

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Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson first teamed up as 20th Century Coyote at the fledgling Comedy Store in 1980. Having established themselves as a duo they were blended in to the TV show “The Young Ones” (part written by Mayall along with Lise Mayer and Ben Elton). Rik as the annoying sociology student Rik and Ade as medical nutcase Vyvyan. This led to a partial spin off, Filthy Rich and Catflap written by Elton. The pair's characters were beginning to take shape with Richie as the hopeless out of work actor Richie Rich and Ade as his minder Eddie Catflap. Next the pair took control, writing "Bot…

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