Unseen Bottom

[Jonsmad]

2 hours of Bottom exposure with Ade including bits not seen coming to Gold 

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2024/02/09/54953/adrian_edmondson_to_explore_his_bottom

Including Ed bye 

[Dave]

This sounds great.

And I’m sure it will also be a tear-jerker in places, if Ade’s recent appearance on Desert Island Discs is anything to go by.

[Podey]

I just read Ade’s autobiography a week or two ago, highly recommended. Set me off on a bit of a Bottom rewatch… including watching The Youngs Ones for the first time!

[Warbodog]

Some of their Comic Strip mini-films are great too. Bad News Tour (+ sequel), Four Men in a Car (+sequel), Mr Jolly Lives Next Door. Dirty Movie less so, but memorably weird.

[Ben Kirkham]

REALLY looking forward to this!

[International Debris]

I love Dirty Movie. 

Looking forward to this!

[Rudolph]

There’s a way that Ade says “fuck off!” in A Fistful of Travellers’ Cheques that just makes me laugh like mad.

[Niki Hutchinson]

They done a few of these Retrospectives on GOLD… So I’m expect something very unique info from this one.

Also, from this photo, they re-created The Flat Set !!!

[Ben Kirkham]

Don’t think I’ll ever get over the loss of Rik Mayall, to be honest. Hope this will be the tribute that Bottom deserves. It never really gets the same recognition as The Young Ones but, for people of my generation at least, it was just as important.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

What a sad and tragic waste of a young attractive life. :(

[Ian Symes]

It took me a good while to be able to watch Rik again after he died. I was very upset, and I was worried that I’d ruin his stuff forever if I watched it and no longer enjoyed it. Then I happened to catch an episode of The Young Ones starting on Gold after whatever I’d been watching before, and laughed just as much as ever before. Since then, I’ve embraced watching as much Rik as possible, to keep the joy he brought to the world topped up. Same with Caroline Aherne and Victoria Wood, two other comedians whose deaths really hit me hard.

The mark of a truly great artist is when their art can still give you the intended emotional response regardless of outside factors. I had the same thing the day Bowie died. It was a complicated day for me for several reasons (not least that I was working on that series of Celebrity Big Brother at the time), so I remember feeling really low and putting some Bowie on to wallow in my sadness… but it turns out it’s impossible to be sad when you’re listening to the likes of Jean Genie, Rebel Rebel or All The Young Dudes.

And on a much more personal note, I recently volunteered to put together a compilation of as many Seb videos as I could find, to play at his exhibition. Was absolutely dreading it and took ages to get started, but then once I was brave enough to dive in, it was nothing but joy. No matter how much you miss someone, there’s always happiness to be found in what they leave behind.

[Ben Kirkham]

Ian, that’s one of my favourite posts in all my years visiting this website. I echo a lot of your sentiments and I certainly felt exactly the same way when David Bowie died. It’s part of getting older (I’ll be 40 next year) when you lose either people that you knew and loved or people that you admired from afar.
I’m sure Seb would be so chuffed you’re keeping his flame burning.
But I go by the old maxim that as long as someone speaks your name, you’re never really gone. Or:
“Death isn’t the handicap it used to be in the olden days. It’s doesn’t screw your career the way it used to.” x

P.S anyone curious about Bowie’s underrated and bold 90’s work could do a lot worse than to listen to his incredible 1995 album, ‘Outside.’

[Dave]

P.S anyone curious about Bowie’s underrated and bold 90’s work could do a lot worse than to listen to his incredible 1995 album, ‘Outside.’

But it’s raining, can’t I do it in the house?

[Ben Kirkham]

Excellent.

[Ben Kirkham]

https://unbound.com/books/bottom

This, by the way, has been on the cards now for about 3 years. I backed it through a kickstarter/ unbound campaign but it still has yet to materialise.

[Warbodog]

P.S anyone curious about Bowie’s underrated and bold 90’s work could do a lot worse than to listen to his incredible 1995 album, ‘Outside.’

It’s a blander pick, but Black Tie White Noise is my favourite of the 90s. I had an Earthling phase though.

[International Debris]

Never got into Black Tie White Noise, but Outside has been my second favourite Bowie album (behind Low) since I first heard it. Some astonishing material on there.

[Stephen Abootman]

This is from a few months back when this show was ordered but some interesting comments on there extracted from Ade’s book about touring, performing & writing with Rik. Be interesting to see if they touch on this side of things or if it’s just a fond look back. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/7540/bottom-exposed-documentary/

“Further issues lay ahead on the tour itself, when Edmondson perceived Mayall thinking that the crowd were laughing, not because his character Richie is funny, but because he “is a comic god”. So he began to “cut huge sections of carefully written jokes” and started playing up to his “sex god” status on stage.

“He starts being more Rik than Richie,” Edmondson writes. “Unfortunately, Rik the comic god isn’t quite as funny as the character. The character is humble, nervous, insecure, scared and desperate. Rik isn’t.

“It’s hard to explain the difference between a good laugh and a diminishing laugh. The audience will not be aware of it, but all comedians will occasionally come off stage saying: ‘What a shit audience.’ But once you start thinking the audience are shit every night, you’re in trouble.

“There’s always a point a few weeks into every tour when he’ll say: ‘None of the stuff I have is funny, let’s cut all my lines.’ And I’ll try to point out that if he stayed in character the laughs might come back.””

[Dave]

He talked about this on last year’s Desert Island Discs a bit too. The stuff about trying to write new Bottom with Rik post-accident is really heartbreaking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qlz2

Don’t listen to it if you’re feeling emotionally fragile.

[Ben Kirkham]

Update on the Bottom book (Talking Bottom):

Hello lovely Bottom book-backers! “You’re lovely aren’t you? Lovely lovely lovely lovely.” We are very pleased to be able to share a FANTASTIC update at long last… the Talking Bottom book is in now in the hands of the wonderful editors at Unbound!   A bit more time will be needed on it as we enter into a process of amendments (and the editors will be navigating some of Eddie’s pornographic doodles along the way) but, as soon as we hear a solid timeline for final publication, you will be the first to know! We are sorry about the lengthy wait but we can tell you that it was worth it – we got access to the interview materials we had been hoping for.   We truly cannot thank you enough for your patience and all your support throughout the many months while we’ve been studying Bottom quite a lot. (While we’ve been alone in the house…)We will be in touch the moment we can share a publication date.   “Kissy kissy kissy, hug hug hug,”   Angela, Paul and Mat Judging by earlier updates, it sounds like the interviews are with Ade Edmondson himself!

[Jonsmad]

Their Bottom has got Bigger. Probably with old fluff in it.

Previously extended Holy Bottom to be shown to the public & newly assembled Digger Extended by 5 minutes to also be exposed. Gold bottom night . 

https://www.nme.com/news/tv/bottom-extended-episodes-air-on-tv-first-time-3613425?fbclid=IwAR34MdzmHPvozzyFncRz1qtzUY1i2zxtlZoOqYvx6IZM69BmXc1aExfuPQI_aem_AV5Zaq2f0f4R831YnH4uQQvfMzJuGqtSbuNdoQHDerLxd7X5jdqeEyy59cFf8aHry1Y#lum9crjoxgq72erfvsi

[Jonsmad]

Thursday April 18th Bottom Exposed Documentary 

Friday April 19th from 9pm – Holy & Digger 

[Podey]

Have people read Ade’s book?

[Stephen Abootman]

Ed Bye everyone:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/bottom-bbc-ed-bye-interview-rt-rewind/

Red Dwarf mention at the end:

“For Bye and for fans, it was a welcome return. Though one he was unable to be a part of due to scheduling issues.

“There was a bit of a gap between the end of Red Dwarf on the BBC and it being picked up by UKTV and Dave and I was off doing other things. Also, Doug Naylor wanted to direct them, and he did a very good job, I think. They were annoyingly good. You can quote me on that!”

News of a planned Red Dwarf prequel book and TV series announced recently by co-creator Rob Grant had fans excitedly speculating who might be involved in the project called Red Dwarf: Titan. Does space beckon once more?

“Yes. I had a discussion with [Rob Grant] and Paul Jackson over some interesting lunches, and it’s a really exciting idea. It’s ambitious and crazy, which are two things I really like. As a director, I’m going, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.’ I can’t wait.””

[Ian Symes]

Get fucked, Radio Times, trying to drag Ed into culture war bullshit for clicks. Making people assume he’s talking about woke snowflakes rather than health and safety legislation. 

[Flap Jack]

OK, but I’d prefer it if Ed Bye chatted with Paul Tanter’s sister.

[Stephen Abootman]

Thought this was very well done. Easy for these sort of things to descend into a parade of minor celebs saying what their favourite episodes/moments were over clips of them so did well to keep the focus where it should be throughout.

[Stephen Abootman]

Not had chance to listen yet but BobbyLlew is Talking Bottom here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUs_6ox4vc4

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