Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour is the fifth and final live stage show based on the UK TV series "Bottom". It ran in 2003 (ten years after the first stage show) and was recorded for VHS and DVD release at the Cliffs Pavilion Theatre in Southend-on-Sea. It was written by and starred Rik Mayall as Richie and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie. No longer on Hooligan's Island, Richie and Eddie find themselves back in their flat in Hammersmith. Having locked himself in the lavatory for fifteen days, Eddie is disrupted when Richie
Rik Mayall six short films, which became "The Comic Strip Presents...", debuting on 2 November 1982. The series, which continued sporadically for many years, saw Mayall play a wide variety of roles. It was known for anti-establishment humour and for parodies such as "Bad News on Tour", a spoof "rockumentary" starring Mayall, Richardson, Edmondson and Planer as a heavy metal band. At the time "The Comic Strip Presents..." was negotiated, the BBC took an interest in "The Young Ones", a sitcom written by Mayall and his then-girlfriend Lise Mayer, in the same anarchic vein as "Comic Strip". Ben Elton joined the writers.