Bottom Live Bottom Live Bottom Live – The Stage Show is a live stage show based on the UK TV series "Bottom". It ran in 1993 and was recorded for VHS (and later DVD) release at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. It was written by its stars, Rik Mayall as Richie Richard and Adrian Edmondson as Eddie Hitler. Following a weekend lock-in in the lavatories of their local pub, Richie and Eddie return to their flat. After they unsuccessfully attempt to prepare breakfast the mail arrives, containing a letter and parcel for Richie. The letter is from the solicitors, which Eddie is
Rik Mayall and later conceded that this was "incredibly stupid, even by my standards". From 1999, Mayall was the voice of the black-headed seagull Kehaar, in the first and second series of the animated television programme, "Watership Down". In the late 1990s Mayall was featured in a number of adverts for Virgin Trains. In 1998, Mayall was involved in a serious quad bike accident. (For details see below.) The pair wrote the first draft of their feature film "Guest House Paradiso" while Mayall was still hospitalised. They planned to co-direct, but Edmondson took on the duties himself. Mayall returned to work doing