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
Bottom (TV series) productions. They reconvened in 1994 to film the third series. A fourth series was written but turned down by the BBC. Though the pair were working apart, a fourth series was at one point written, but the BBC declined the script, despite announcing that "Bottom" would return in a voice-over during the end-credits of the original broadcast of the final episode. (Mayall had commented, in typical style, that it was "rejected by some lesbian bitch"). Edmondson had, however, stated in interviews that he would have liked to make another series of "Bottom" with Mayall, but "in about fifteen years' time,