Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "BBC Archive"
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I knew the UK was at the forefront of video games in the 90's but being responsible for an entire third of all videogame content is mindblowing, though I'm not surprised since I was an Amiga user and almost every major developer on that machine was British; Core, Bullfrog, DMA Design, Team 17, Sensible Software, Bitmap Brothers, Rebellion, Psygnosis, Ocean, Flair, Gremlin, Graftgold, Image Works, Reflections, U.S. Gold, etc
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@billfoster6479 Oh man, you would love Bottom. After the Young Ones came Filthy Rich & Catflap, and then after that came Bottom. Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson wrote all three shows. The show that Rik hinted at at the beginning of this interview when he said he and Adrian wanted to go in a new direction was Filthy Rich & Catflap, it starred Rik, Adrian and Nigel Planer (Neil from the Young Ones), so it was basically the Young Ones without Mike. Rik was a useless out of work actor called Rich, Nigel was his sleazy agent called Filthy and Adrian was his drunk and violent bodyguard called Catflap. It was decent but it wasn't the Young Ones.
Rik and Adrian's biggest success came in 1991 when they also ditched Nigel and decided to write a show that featured only the two of them and it was a huge hit because it was just Rik and Adrian writing jokes for themselves, it was the Young Ones without Mike and Neil, and so they basically became drunk with power and created a show that pushed every boundary possible. In Bottom they play a pair of housemate losers on the lowest rung of the ladder, Rik is a neurotic virgin and Adrian is an alcoholic psychopath and the show is about them trying to get out of the gutter, a place where their particular sense of humour utterly shines.
Bottom ran from 1991 to 1995 and then spawned a live show that toured the country and lasted for another five years, the live shows were out of this world because Rik and Adrian would forget their lines, break props, go off piste, and wrangle the audience into their insanity. I highly recommend you find the show and the live DVDs.
Bottom also spawned a movie called Guest House Paradiso in 1999 where the two deadbeats try to run a hotel. You should probably try to get the movie too.
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