Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour the third episode of the first series. Out of all the live shows The Big Number Two Tour is the one with the most out-takes and ad-libs made on stage by both Rik and Ade. Bottom (TV series) Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour Bottom Live: The Big Number Two is a 1995 live stage show based on the UK TV series "Bottom" that was filmed at the Apollo Theatre Oxford. After a strange, half-mentioned turn of events, Richie and Eddie are about to meet the Queen. Richie is very excited over it while Eddie keeps forgetting it, because
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.