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Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set

starring: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Steven O'Donnell, Christopher Ryan, Lee Cornes

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790780887
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0790780887
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 30 minutes
Sales Rank: 9178
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1998



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Description:
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson were the creators and stars of 1980s cult smash and BBC best-selling DVD The Young Ones. In this follow up series, they bring you Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler - two obnoxious loners desperately seeking love, money and friendship, and failing to find any of it. As they pursue their doomed quest, they experiment with pheremones, join a dating service, and dress up for halloween...as a devil and a banana.

DVD Features:
Biographies
Featurette:1. Early stand-up comedy featuring Rik and Ade as The Dangerous Brothers2. The Dangerous Brothers take on Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie3. Rik reads some very intellectual poetry
Outtakes:Early stand-up comedy by Rik and Ade




Amazon.com:
British comedians Rik Mayall and Adrian 'Ade' Edmondson vaulted to fame in The Young Ones, a high-energy but decidedly lowbrow TV show about clashing roommates. Mayall and Edmondson went on to create Bottom, playing Richie Richards (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson), two hapless dimwits floundering through life at the bottom of the social scale. Bottom provides plenty of the spastic slapstick and cartoon violence of The Young Ones, but the characters have greater dimension--even, possibly, a hint of soulfulness, which is always squashed at the first opportunity--and the dialogue has flights of loony wit ('You poor, sad, deformed urban pustule,' declares Richie when Eddie resists going camping). Richie is a middle-aged virgin, high-strung, frustrated, yet possessed of eternal hope, while Eddie is phlegmatic and utterly without curiosity or ambition. They abuse, cheat, and steal from each other, yet seem inseparable. Many episodes feature no other characters; in one, they spend the entire half-hour trapped in a carriage at the top of a ferris wheel. It may seem peculiar to say this about a show in which two men have a contest to see who can put more custard in their underpants, but Richie and Eddie bear a striking resemblance to Vladmir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's classic play Waiting for Godot. Without jobs or any real hope of a better life, they fritter their time in their grimy apartment trying to amuse themselves aimlessly, never succeeding in any of their schemes to get laid or make money. Fear not; any existential implications take a back seat to eye-poking and iron-skillet-head-smacking that the Three Stooges would admire. Full Bottom includes the entirety of the three Bottom series, 18 episodes in all. --Bret Fetzer



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - High class low brow
Anyone can be gross, adolescent, and violent, but it takes real talent and intellegence to actually ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Bottom is tops!!
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson do another great show together, although their roles and the premise ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Bottoms Up!
A hilarious 4 part DVD of the best British show ever to be made - Bottom.

The comic geniuses ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Vulgar, Vile, Disgusting, and VERY FUNNY!!!!
Bottom is about two low class losers, Richie Richards and Eddie Hitler, who live in a squalid Apartment (or ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Most HILARIOUS TV Show Ever to EXIST
You can't find a funnier show in the world. I have laughed so many times. I have watched this show countless ... Read More

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