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
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,