Bottom (TV series)

{{main|List of Bottom characters}}

Main characters

• Adrian Edmondson as Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Hitler.{{cite episode |title=Hole |episode-link=Hole (Bottom episode) |series=Bottom |last1= Edmondson |first1=Adrian |author-link=Adrian Edmondson |last2=Mayall |first2=Rik |author2-link=Rik Mayall |network=BBC2 |airdate=1995-01-06 |season=3 |number=1}} Edmondson described Eddie as "a very strange kind of mellow" version of Vyvyan from The Young Ones.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110051136/|title=Hitting bottom|first=Gillian|last=Reynolds|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|page=16|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=23 September 2022}} He is "a man with no morals and a devious tiny-time entrepreneur".{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110051636/|title=Rick and Ade go back to bottom|first=P. W.|last=Mackay|newspaper=The Post |location=Lichfield, Staffordshire |page=27|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=23 September 2022}}
• Rik Mayall as Richard "Richie" Richard.{{cite episode |title=Carnival |episode-link=Carnival (Bottom episode) |series=Bottom |last1= Edmondson |first1=Adrian |author-link=Adrian Edmondson |last2=Mayall |first2=Rik |author2-link=Rik Mayall |network=BBC |airdate=1995-02-10 |season=3 |number=6}} He is "an old-fashioned moralist, hypocrite and small-minded virgin".

Recurring characters

• Steven O'Donnell as Spudgun (1991–1995)
• Christopher Ryan as Dave Hedgehog (1991–1995)
• Lee Cornes as Dick Head (1991–1995)
• Roger Sloman as Mr Harrison (1991–1992)

Eddie and Richie are two pathetic, sex-crazed, slobby flatmates living in a filthy, damp flat at 11 Mafeking Parade in Hammersmith, London. Mayall described them as "unemployed survivors".{{Cite web | url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/whos-laughing-now/ | title=Who's Laughing Now?| work=Rik Mayall Interviews and Articles Archive| date=2012-03-18}} They spend their time concocting desperate schemes to convince women to have sex with them, including buying sex spray, forging money, and pretending to be aristocrats. Their plans are never successful, however, and the stress of their miserable lives can cause them to become irritable with each other. Whenever tensions hit a breaking point, Richie and Eddie end up fighting (albeit in a comical, Tom and Jerry-style, with adult themes). Both men are immature. Richie is a virgin; he is insecure and clueless on how to talk to women. Despite being a penniless slob, he occasionally projects a pompous sort of snobbery in an attempt to impress others and boost his self-esteem; he is sexually frustrated and obsessed with losing his virginity. Eddie, the more popular of the two, enjoys drinking regularly, and often secretly steals family heirlooms and cash from Richie, although he occasionally has inventive moments, like building a cash forger, an electric toilet, and a time machine. Eddie's friends, the gormless Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog, both fear Richie, believing him to be psychotic. Although the four of them sometimes venture out, usually to the local pub, the Lamb and Flag, most of the episodes are set within the confines of the squalid flat.

The opening and closing themes are cover versions of B. B. King's "BB's Blues" and The Mar-Keys' "Last Night", respectively. Both themes and the episode bridge instrumentals are played by The Bum Notes, an ensemble featuring Edmondson.

Mayall and Edmondson first met as drama students at Manchester University in 1975, when Edmondson joined the improvisational comedy troupe 20th Century Coyote, of which Mayall was a member.{{cite web| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/people/rick_mayall_person_page.shtml| title=Rik Mayall |website=BBC Comedy | access-date=23 December 2008}} The act grew in popularity following successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Comic Strip in London, which led to the pair starring in the stage and television double act The Dangerous Brothers and sitcoms The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich & Catflap. After the latter ended in 1987, the pair "drifted away" for a period before reuniting after they caught the attention of producer and executive Paul Jackson, who had also worked on The Young Ones, and pitched initial ideas they had for a new sitcom. Jackson was interested enough, and Mayall and Edmondson proceeded to write a draft script. Episodes were developed around improvisational writing, and Mayall recalled Edmondson "did the typing and he allowed me to go to the off licence to buy all the drinks."{{sfn|Mayall|2005|pp=159–160}} Upon delivering their scripts, the BBC expressed concern that the show could not sustain itself with two characters alone, to which Mayall and Edmondson used Tony Hancock and Sid James as an example, and got their way. Mayall said that the BBC was too focused on the show's content being "morally sound and politically correct", but gave the green-light on the series.{{sfn|Mayall|2005|p=161}}

The show's original working title was Your Bottom, for the humour of people having to say "I saw 'Your Bottom' on television last night", before it was shortened because Mayall said they "liked the shape of the word."{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallscrapbook.com/2021/03/18/the-youngish-ones-radio-times-1991/|title=The Youngish Ones|first=Richard|last=Johnson|date=14 September 1991|work=Radio Times|access-date=28 September 2022}} It started as a joke until they learned that Alan Yentob, then head of BBC2, disliked the title which convinced the pair to stick with it. Mayall added that the title was deliberate to make viewers think of "bottom jokes", but that it also reflects on the show's premise of "two guys at the bottom of the heap".{{Cite journal|journal=Arena|title=Who's Laughing Now?|date=1991|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/whos-laughing-now/}} Mayall and Edmondson were aware of the failures of other sitcoms, and purposely wrote tight scripts. Edmondson said writing Bottom was liberating "because it's obvious what the idea is – to be as funny as possible." The pair based Eddie and Richie on characters that they had improvised with as part of 20th Century Coyote, and on their own friendship. They made a conscious effort to avoid any pop culture or contemporary references when writing, as The Young Ones had been popular with young people and instead wanted to portray characters who had left student life behind and reached their "thirties and forties". Instead, the two were interested in more everyday scenarios "that have always been there", such as a gas meter reading. Eddie and Richie have been compared to their characters on The Young Ones, but 10 years older. After the first series had been recorded, Mayall ranked Bottom as their best work and marked "a new chapter" in his relationship with Edmondson.{{cite web|title=Bums the Word|first=Steven|last=Grant|work=Time Out|date=25 September 1991|access-date=5 January 2016|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/18/bums-the-word/}}

In June 1990, a pilot episode was recorded which was later titled "Contest" and broadcast as part of the first series. Problems over content came to light when recording began. Mayall recalled they were allowed three "bloodies" or "bloody hell"s per episode, and arguments were often had with as many as 20 BBC executives who went on the set.{{sfn|Mayall|2005|p=162}} Some executives criticised the series for being sexist, but Mayall pointed out that they would have had more women on the show if they had not cut around twenty "shagging scenes" that were written, and argued that lesbian scenes were also removed.{{sfn|Mayall|2005|p=161, 163}} After the first series was recorded in June and July 1991, Bottom was first announced in August, when the BBC reported that it had commissioned over 400 hours of new television programming for the upcoming autumn series. This included new productions from comics known as the Comic Strip in an attempt to attract viewers, with Mayall and Edmondson for Bottom and Dawn French for Murder Most Horrid.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/809150705/|title=Beeb's strip show stoppers!|newspaper=Daily Record|date=22 August 1991|page=23|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=23 September 2022}}

Bottom ended after three series in February 1995. Edmondson said that one of the reasons for stopping the show was the struggle to come up with new ideas as "we'd already hit each other with everything in the flat".{{cn|date=January 2025}} Mayall supported this view, saying they took the show as far as it could go on television while continuing the franchise with stage tours and home video releases, preferring to retain full creative control over the characters.{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/youve-got-mayall-3/|title=You've Got Mayall|work=The Evening Standard|date=20 November 2003|first=Bruce|last=Dessau|access-date=26 September 2022}} In 2000, he said that Richie and Eddie had become "bigger than we are".{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Each episode was recorded in front of a live audience. The original scripts can be found in the published script books, and several completely removed scenes were included in the VHS release Fluff that consisted mostly of bloopers. Several (but not all) of these scenes, as well as some smaller sections of dialogue also removed for timing reasons, are included in DVD releases.

The final episode of the second series, {{"-}}'s Out", was set on Wimbledon Common involving the antics of a flasher. It was not broadcast as part of the original series after Rachel Nickell was murdered on Wimbledon Common, due to which the BBC delayed its broadcast until a rerun of the second series on 10 April 1995.{{cite web |title=Bottom: 's Out, BBC Two, Mon 10th Apr 1995 |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3102f834e24b49e6a3131f4941b5fd9a |website=BBC Genome|date=10 April 1995 }}

Mayall and Edmondson held five nationwide theatre tours of Bottom between 1993 and 2003, adapting the original series into a stage show. The first tour, Bottom Live, lasted 43 dates across 10 weeks in 1993.{{Cite journal|journal=GQ|date=June 1993|title=Direct Mayall|access-date=5 January 2016|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/direct-mayall/}} The 2001 tour consisted of 76 dates, which included a show at the National Arena in Birmingham to over 4,500 people.{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/an-arse-oddity/|title=An Arse Oddity|first=Alex|last=Hemingway|date=8 November 2001|work=Oxford Student|access-date=26 September 2022}} The Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour included 40 dates.{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/rik-mayall-lucky-star/|title=Rik Mayall, Lucky Star|first=Rebecca|last=Gooch|publisher=E-Motion|date=November 2003|access-date=26 September 2022}} The stage shows were often cruder than the sitcom with stronger language, and developed over time to include settings outside the flat, including a prison cell and a remote island. There were several instances of the pair getting carried away with the planned stunts, resulting in one of them getting cuts on their head. Edmondson said: "Rik would tell them 'Don't be scared, it happens all the time.' We'd just carry on, then go off to hospital afterwards to be sewn up." A show from each tour was recorded and released for home video.

{{main|Guest House Paradiso}}

During the Hooligan's Island tour in 1997, Mayall and Edmondson sought ways of spending time before the night's performance and began to develop ideas for a script that involved Richie being a hotel manager. After some time the pair realised that they had produced a substantial work that would suit a feature film. The result was Guest House Paradiso, a spin-off to Bottom featuring Mayall and Edmondson as Richard Twat (pronounced "Thwaite") and Eddie Elizabeth Ndingobamba, respectively, with Edmondson as director. The story involves the pair operating a grotty remote guesthouse next to a nuclear power plant and feeding their guests radioactive fish, causing massive amounts of vomiting. Despite the characters and humour being in the same vein as Bottom,{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/guesthouse-paradiso-review/ |title=Empire review of Guest House Paradiso |publisher=Empireonline.com |date= January 2000}} Mayall said Guest House Paradiso was never meant to be a film version of Bottom because other sitcoms that had film adaptations "didn't work".{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/from-hell-to-paradiso/|title=From Hell to Paradiso|first=John|last=Millar|work=OK! Magazine|date=10 December 1999|access-date=26 September 2022}} Produced on a £3 million budget, the film premiered in December 1999.

In late 2004, surrounding the release of their Mindless Violence DVD, Mayall hinted that he and Edmondson may possibly be returning with another tour in the future. However, Edmondson said that it was "definitely time to stop. We're both getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous. ... We're both nearly fifty and we're starting to feel slightly undignified talking about wanking and knobs constantly."{{cite web|work=Daily Mirror|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-125541184/the-young-ones-have-grown-old-so-it-s-time-for-rik|title=The Young Ones Have Grown Old. So It's Time for Rik and I to Split|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729133335/https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-125541184/the-young-ones-have-grown-old-so-it-s-time-for-rik|archive-date=29 July 2020|date=1 December 2004|first=Barbara|last=Davies|access-date=26 September 2022}} In 2010, Edmondson confirmed that he had quit comedy, stating that his interest in it has declined for many years, and wanted to focus more on his band. He dismissed the idea of reuniting with Mayall, saying it is "very unlikely".{{cite web|work=Daily Express|url= https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/adrian-edmondson-unlikely-to-work-with-bottom-244883 |title= Adrian Edmondson 'unlikely' to work with Bottom partner Rik Mayall again after quitting comedy |author= Alun Palmer |date=27 January 2012 |orig-year=1 September 2010 |id= "[http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/172120/I%92ve-had-last-laugh%2C-says-Adrian/ I've had last laugh says Adrian]" at Express.co.uk}}

In March 2011, the duo made a surprise reunion when Edmondson took part in Let's Dance for Comic Relief. A pre-recorded segment ended with Mayall hurling a custard pie in Edmondson's face. Mayall appeared again, this time live on stage, to abruptly end Edmondson's performance by hitting him several times with a frying pan. In the final, Mayall returned once again to drop a ton weight upon Edmondson. In the following month, Edmondson revealed that he and Mayall had conceived an idea for a sitcom. "Rik and I have an idea for a sitcom for when we are very, very old. We want to set it in an old people's home 30 years hence. It will be like 'Bottom', but we will be hitting each other with colostomy bags!"{{cite web |title= Mayall and Edmondson write retirement home comedy |url= http://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000508/rik_mayall_adrian_edmondson_oap_retirement_comedy/ |work= British Comedy Guide |access-date= 14 July 2013|date= 2011-04-07 }}

In August 2012, the BBC announced that it had commissioned a series based on the Hooligan's Island stage show, where Eddie and Richie cause havoc on a deserted tropical island, set to air in 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/bbctwo-commissions.html |title=BBC Two announces raft of new commissions |work=BBC News |date=23 August 2012 |access-date=23 August 2012 |archive-date=2 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002081446/http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/bbctwo-commissions.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last= Skipper |first=Ben |url= http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/bottom-to-return-after-18-years.html |title=Bottom to return after 18 years |work=Yahoo News |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814135731/http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/bottom-to-return-after-18-years.html |archive-date=14 August 2014 |date=23 August 2012 |access-date= 19 June 2014}} However, the show was scrapped just two months later. Edmondson said "it wasn't working" and wanted to pursue other projects.{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/bbc-bottom-reunion-series-hooligans-island-scrapped/|title=BBC Bottom reunion series Hooligan's Island scrapped|first=Tom|last=Cole|date=15 October 2012|work=Radio Times|access-date=26 September 2022}} Mayall tried to have Edmondson reconsider, but he "put his foot down and said, 'It's not going to work mate.'", and wanted to wait ten years until they were older for a possible sitcom set in an old peoples home.{{cite web|url=https://rikmayallinterviews.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/bottom-tv-show-back-in-a-decade/|title=Bottom TV show 'back in a decade'|work=Belfast Telegraph|date=5 March 2013|access-date=26 September 2022}} Mayall died on 9 June 2014, putting an end to the plans.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/10/rik-mayall-happy-healthy-death-friend-young-ones|title=Rik Mayall happy and healthy moments before death, says friend|website=TheGuardian.com|date=10 June 2014}} In 2023, Edmondson revealed that he wrote the initial scripts with Mayall in the hope that the BBC would reject them. He felt Mayall was eager to revive their old characters, but struggled to accept that Edmondson was not interested. While he hoped a rejection would put Mayall's aspirations to rest, the idea was ultimately greenlit.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/desert-island-discs-adrian-edmondson-rik-mayall-b2417097.html|title=Desert Island Discs listeners in tears over Adrian Edmondson's emotional Rik Mayall memory

|first=Jacob|last=Stolworthy|date=23 September 2023|work=The Independent|access-date=18 April 2024}}

In February 2024, pay television channel Gold announced Bottom: Exposed, a 2-hour documentary on the making of the sitcom, featuring exclusive behind the scenes footage and insights from Edmondson, Paul Jackson, director/producer Ed Bye, the cast and production crew, and celebrity fans. Narrated by Stephen Fry, it aired on 18 April 2024.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/adrian-edmondson-rik-mayall-bottom-exposed-newsupdate/|title=Adrian Edmondson celebrates classic Rik Mayall comedy in Bottom: Exposed doc|first=James|last=Hibbs|date=9 February 2024|work=Radio Times|access-date=18 April 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/bottom-bbc-ed-bye-interview-rt-rewind/|title=Bottom director Ed Bye: 'It couldn't be done today'|first=Paul|last=Tanter|date=18 April 2024|work=Radio Times|access-date=18 April 2024}} On the following day, Gold aired extended versions of two episodes, "Holy" and "Digger", for the first time on television. Both were previously released, the former on the series two DVD and the latter on the 1996 outtakes video Bottom Fluff.{{cite web|url=https://virginradio.co.uk/entertainment/140326/two-extended-bottom-episodes-air-gold|title=Two extended Bottom episodes to air on TV for the first time|date=5 April 2024|publisher=Virgin Radio|access-date=18 April 2024}}

Many of the episodes' names are meant to be a humorous suffix to the word "bottom". Bottom "Fluff" was used for the outtakes for the home video releases.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Smells

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|9|17|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie take advantage of a revolutionary new sex-spray and head to the pub.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Gas

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|9|24|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = After accidentally beating up the Gas Man, Richie and Eddie must remove an illegal gas pipe without disturbing their violent neighbour.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Contest

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|1|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = After Eddie spends his £11.80 savings on a first edition copy of Parade, the pair place a bet on the "Miss World" contest.{{efn|This episode was originally created as the series' pilot in 1990}}

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Apocalypse

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|8|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = After receiving £600 from his auntie's will, Richie ends up receiving a curse from a Gypsy fortune teller.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = 's Up

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|15|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie are left in charge of their landlord's shop.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Accident

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|10|22|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie breaks his leg, but is determined not to let it spoil his birthday celebration.

}}

}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Digger

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|10|1|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie secures a date by pretending to be an aristocrat.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Culture

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|10|8|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = When their TV is 'taken away', Richie and Eddie desperately try to find ways to fend off boredom.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Burglary

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|10|15|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie catch a burglar.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Parade

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|10|22|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie get free money from an identity parade.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Holy

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|10|29|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie experience a Christmas Day miracle.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = 's Out

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|11|5|df=yes}} (postponed)
{{Start date|1995|4|10|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie go camping out on Wimbledon Common.

}}

}}

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = Hole

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|1|6|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie are trapped at the top of the tallest Ferris wheel in Western Europe which is due to be blown up the very next day.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Terror

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|1|13|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = The pair plan a Halloween party and go trick-or-treating.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = Break

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|1|20|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = The duo prepare for their holiday in Doncaster.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = Dough

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|1|27|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Eddie begins forging money, forcing the duo and their friends to enter a pub quiz to pay off a thug.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Finger

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|2|3|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Having acquired the honeymoon tickets of newly-weds Mr and Mrs Cannonball Taffy O'Jones, the pair descend upon a luxury hotel masquerading as the honeymooners.

}}

{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Carnival

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1995|2|10|df=yes}}

| ShortSummary = Richie and Eddie have the best seats for the annual Hammersmith riots, then try to make videos for the BBC.

}}

}}

In 2004, a DVD featuring a compilation of violent scenes from Mayall and Edmondson throughout their career, including scenes from Bottom, was released as Mindless Violence: The Very Best of the Violent Bits.

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Sources

• {{cite book |last=Mayall |first=Rik |title=Bigger than Hitler – Better than Christ |year=2005 |publisher=Harper Entertainment |isbn=978-0-007-20727-5}}

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• {{BBC Online|comedy/bottom|Bottom}} Comedy Guide
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• [http://www.phill.co.uk/comedy/bottom/ Bottom] at British TV Comedy Guide
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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050909020858/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/genres/comedy/filmography/031.html Britfilm's review of Guest House Paradiso]
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