1. Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall were appearing in a play together - then Stephen had a breakdown and ran away to Belgium without telling anyone. 2. At the end, Rik was doing an impression of 1970's sitcom character 'Rigsby' from 'Rising Damp' (Miss Jones...etc) and 'Eddie' acted as if he was doing an impression of another 70's sitcom actor, Reg Varney and complemented him as a backhanded way of saying how bad Rik's Rigsby impression was
Very well explained. I remember Stephen Fry left doing a play or something all those years ago then had like a mental breakdown or something....but never knew it was to Belgium.
The passing of a celebrity is generally not something which affects me. I think that may be because they're usually not ingrained into the fabric of who I am. But to this day I still find it incredibly difficult to comprehend that Rik isn't here. As a '90s kid growing up watching his comedy and just appreciating his writing and acting, he showed me that we never have to grow up. Life shouldn't be without him. Bollocks.
Yes, all bottom episodes were recorded in front of a live audience. However these stage shows had a much bigger audience of thousands. The normal studio-recorded episodes would've had an audience of a few hundred. That's the thing with British sitcoms. Every time you hear a laugh track on a British sitcom, it is always real. I don't think there's a single British sitcom with a fake laugh track. If there is one, it's always live. If it's a sitcom unable to be filmed in front of a studio audience, they'll show the finished show to an audience afterwards (a live screening) and record the laughter that way. Either that, or there's no laugh track at all, as with The Thick of It or Afterlife.
They're often recorded to tape then shown to an audience and that is recorded as. Bottom was one of those cases. Laughter tracks are utterly fraudulent and British audiences (rightly) hate them - there have been a few though.
Rik and Ade started these live shows after the success of the TV Sitcom. They toured the country performing the same Live show at several theatres, recording one performance for VHS / DVD release. The video you're watching is a cut of the bloopers from the first 3 live show tours. There's a few Bottom Live shows. And a couple of TV sitcom seasons (or Series as we'd say in the UK) There was also a film, Guest House Paradiso. The Sitcom, called 'Bottom', was aired in the mid 90s and came after Rik and Ade had become household names from being in The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich and Catflap etc. they were also known as The Dangerous Brothers. What you're watching here are the bloopers from all the live shows edited together, they're 'mistakes' But, what a lot of people don't know is that Rik and Ade wrote in a lot of the mistakes into the script because they knew they'd get massive laughs. like Eddie telling the crowd he was born in Southampton, he wasn't, he told every crowd he played in front of that ue was born there. Rik Myall - is one of the greatest Comedians of my life time and I miss him everyday. He'd pop up in all kinds of shows and always steal every single scene.
"But, what a lot of people don't know is that Rik and Ade wrote in a lot of the mistakes into the script because they knew they'd get massive laughs. like Eddie telling the crowd he was born in Southampton, he wasn't, he told every crowd he played in front of that ue was born there." I remember learning they did this for the first time. I had been at their first night in Nottingham for the 2001 tour, and the second night was the one recorded for the home release. Seeing them repeating mistakes ("slidle slidle slidle") did take a little of the sparkle out of it, but fuck it it made us laugh and that was the point!
All of the tv shows and all of the live performances are absolute gold. I grew up watching these two and still regularly watch the shows to this day. There is another show I loved called "Gimme Gimme Gimme". It's obnoxious, disgusting... hilariously perfect 😁
Reg Varney is an actor that was on a programme called On The Buses, but he was doing an impression of Leonard Rossiter or Rigsby from a programme called Rising Damp. Both programmes are a good watch.
I'd agree Rising Damp is worrth a watch - Leonard Rossiter was a class actor who had a flare for comedy acting. I felt On The Buses was pretty dire, and very much would only be entertaining to people stumbling back in from the pub. But, each to their own - some people obviously liked it as it got 7 series and at least one movie.
I was lucky enough to have been to these LIVE shows back in the 90's...My sides acked bad!..I lived in Portsmouth back then and the shows were performed at the Guildhall when these toured....I still have the ticket stub somewhere...The first in 1993 was filmed in Southampton, and the second in 1995 was filmed in Oxford, third in Bristol 1997, fourth in 2001 in Nottingham, fifth in 2003 in Southend-on-Sea.
Reg Varney was a comedy actor known as one of the Bus drivers on a 1970's TV series called "on the buses" he was also the 1st person in the world to use a ATM machine , a British invention from 1967 ....
This was the stage show of 'Bottom' and was produced to be on a similar vein (but very adult version), of the British 'panto' (or pantomime) which is played in theatres throughout the UK, at Christmas time. A traditional panto is for children, but with loads of adult gags and inuendo (double entendre), which 'go over the heads of children). Adult (very blue) panto's are also performed... a few live (recorded) shows are on YT and worth watching especially Jim Davidson's... EDIT: I wrote this before getting to the part were you (Connor), mentioned pantomime - Duh!
All were recorded live infront of an audience. Went to the first and third plays in Bristol. My 3 Year old grandson also loves bottom… when his mummys not around we watch it stealth mode on the phone in our pretend storm buster 4 tent. X
Most of Bottom was studio, if i remember right (not sure if they had live audience), but they also did a bunch of live tours (which is what you're reacting to).
Ade and Rik were originally in a program called 'The Young Ones' which I was lucky to grow up with that era of comedy (and earlier). Thank you for covering the older British comedy, though I know you don't understand some of the names and types of humour. It's much the same when we watch USA comedy and don't know the celebrities or other references in there. Great video
Luckily my parents never really supervised us so me & sis used to watch all these Bottom live VHS tapes. Never got the innuendo but slapstick was hilarious.
This video features clips from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd live shows, which were from 1993, 95 and 97 respectively, (They did 2 more in 2001 and 2003, and a feature film in 1999), a good rule of thumb is the longer Rik's hair is, the later it was recorded. And yes, the TV show was filmed infront of a live audience, although obviously never an audience as big as the ones you see here, maybe 100 people or something like that.
yes they record all bottom episodes like that, you might like to check out 'bottom 25 years of mindless violence' a documentary celebrating their 25 year anniversary
The live shows are on here. Should just watch em sometime. They are feature length though. They aren't anywhere as good as the series though they have their good bits. The first one is "Upscaled - Bottom Live - 1993 [couchtripper][U]" They don't relate to the tv show, since there's not really a recurring plot
Some of the late & great Rik Mayall's most iconic work was playing Rick in "The Young Ones", Richie in "Bottom" and several generations of Lord Flasheart in "Blackadder". His comic timing was running on Swiss precision and he stole nearly every scene he was in.
You are going to have to react to Man Down, Rick is amazing in it but it's funny as can be also, only show that makes my brain ache laughing. RIP Rick, so missed.
Reg Varney was an actor from the comedy series "On the buses" but Aide was taking the pi$$ as Rik was doing an Impression of Leonard Rossiter's character "Rigby" in the comedy series "Rising damp" .
Rik and Ade used to do an annual 'Bottom Live' where they would take their 'adult pantomime' to various theatres up and down the UK... as well as their televised version of Bottom that have laughter tracks etc. They were recorded without an audience in a TV studio
I think the first Bottom was recorded in 1991, as I was a secretary working at the BBC in Television Centre and one of my colleagues had tickets for the first show and was very excited.
Years ago Stephen Fry had a nervous breakdown and disappeared just before he was due to be in a play with Rik Mayall - so the joke here is that Mayall caused it. It was topical and widely reported at the time the show was on (mid 90s - early 2000s probably), but the reference is a bit obscure by today's standards. Bottom was always filmed in front of a studio audience, as you can tell from the outtakes. But it wasn't a theatre production like the live shows were.
They both mentioned on a chat show the sitcom series was sometimes recorded with an audience but sometimes not. These best of clips are of a live stage show they toured across the UK with five DVD releases from 93 to 03. Bottom: The Stage Show 1993 Bottom: The Number 2 Tour 1995 Bottom 3: Hooligans Island 1997 Bottom Live 2001 An Arse Oddity Bottom Live: Weapons Grade Y Fronts 2003
Their interaction with the audience was second to none, they fed off the reactions and would often try to screw each other over (in a banter way) and they had the ability to make a 3 second joke drag for 3 minutes.
Reginald Alfred Varney was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses and its three spin-off feature films
Bottom live 3 was mine an my best mates favourite vid when we were kids having sleep overs during the summer holidays...no wonder we turned out like me did lol 😂😂😂
I saw bottom live at the Apollo in Manchester in the early 2000's. I was must have watched the Original bottom 30 times on video and was so glad i got to watch them before Rick Mayall died
I saw them live in Sheffield! They were my comedy heroes! Absolutely hilarious 😂 RIP Rik 😢 This is a compilation of bloopers from the live tour shows, the TV show was filmed in front of a live audience.
Bottom Live happened after the TV Show - but the actual episodes were filmed in front of an audience. I was fortunate enough to go to the final Bottom Live show with a mate.
The 'Miss Jones' impersonation was from an old sit com called 'Rising Damp', the character 'Rigsby' was played by Leonard Rossiter who also played a well known character Reginald Perrin. Reg Varney played a totally diferent character in 'On the Busses' and was nothing like Rossiter.
After the TV series (which were filmed in front of a small live audience) they took the show live on tour, which is what this is from. "Pat-a-cake" is a children's nursery rhyme. Stephen Fry got bad stage fright during a run of a play with Mayall and ran away to Belgium. Angus Deayton is a British TV personality and former panel-show host. The bit from 12:15 on goes on quite a bit longer than that and is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. And Rik did an impersonation of British comic actor Leonard Rossiter, and them Ade came back saying it was a great impression of a different British actor, Reg Varney. The two of them were hilarious together. RIP Rik - gone way too soon.
Bottom (the tv series) was recorded in front of a live audience, canned laughter is a massive no no. The classic bottom you are reacting too is from Bottom Live, on stage (in a theatre). It's not the phantom of the opera but still bloody funny
Some of the older comedy sitcoms around the early 90s have done a small theatre productions a bit after being aired on TV (obviously), one of the more recent ones to do this is 'Only Fools and Horses' (not the same actors on this particular one like you see with Bottom here). This is a rare occurrence though, out of the dozens of comedy sitcoms, even from any era since or before, I can guess there is only about 3 or 4 to do this sort of transition from TV screen to Theatre (typically the theatre version only lasts a few years, if that).
The Bottom Live tours were legendary, there really wasn't anything like them before, and there certainly hasn't been since. You're right that in some ways it's a bit like panto - except it's for adults (well, uni students I guess were the key audience) and actually good. The best one is the one where they almost blow up the queen, the recording of which is almost completely ruined by a screamy laugher somewhere near the front; somebody should remaster them and cut her out tbh.
Most british comedys are filmed in front of a live studio audience, laughter tracks are very rare, almost non existent in britain. Red dwarf was filmed in front of live studio audience and black adder. Although this is deiffernt, this is a touring stage show so audience participation is encouraged.
Hey, Mc. Pat O'Cake. Its a reference to a childs nursery rhyme: Patter cake, Patter cake, bakers man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. It goes on a tad. Can't remember the rest off hand. Eddie is 'just taking the piss'. (Having a laugh, being sarchastic in a jovial way).
Reg Varney was on a sitcom in the '70s. The impression was NOT of Reg Varney... so it couldn't have been "the best Reg Varney " Eddie had ever seen, i.e. he is indicating that the impression was crap. It was actually meant to be an impression of Rigsby from Rising Damp - a different sitcom altogether.
My Parents went to see this when they came to Nottingham and Rick was absolutely laying into the audience, kinda sad it wasn't in this compilation tbh :'D
The tv show episodes (3 seasons) were recorded in front of a small live studio audience with the outtakes and mistakes edited out, the 5(?) pantomine like shows they performed over the many years where done with the mistakes and outtakes kept in.
Angus Deaton was the original host of Have I Got News For You, and was the only one on the show to use a teleprompter, as the two teams were doing their replies & reactions on the fly. Apparently Paul Merton made a crack about this in every show, but it was always cut out of the final broadcast.
These are the stage shows. Though, like most other British TV, the TV shows were recorded in front of a studio audience too. Getting into the studio audience is a big thing here! And normally free!
Well done on getting the pantomime bits ( reaction to and from the audience ) and keep on looking at the Bottom videos or anything these are in ( Everard in Blackadder ) your learning of British humour will be complete and you'll be able to explain it to your friends etc and whats even better understand pantomimes and explain them as well 😂😂😂😂
Reg Varney is a character from a sitcom called 'On The Buses' whereas he was trying to do an impression (badly) of a character called Reginald Perrin from a sitcom called 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin..'
This was a collection of specials Bottom Live 1993 Southampton Mayflower Theatre Bottom Live 2: The Big Number Two Tour 1995 Oxford New Theatre Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island 1997 Bristol Hippodrome Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity 2001 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour 2003 Southend The Cliffs Pavilion
No Conor they're not all live. The series was recorded in a TV studio in front of a TV audience, and they also did these live tours. Unfortunately Rik Mayall, an absolute legend of British comedy and loved by all passed away of a heart attack. Very sad.
Bottom was a TV serries, these are the plays they did after the TV shows were cancelled. The TV shows were done infront of live audiences. The laughter is mostly because Rick forgets his lines and everyone loves him for it. When he was in the yongones kids would run up to him in teh street and go Rick, Rick, swear at us! It is pure slapstick humour at grass roots. This is pure genius humour, don't stress that you don't "get it" as a lot of non brittish don't. The humour is very potty and high brow at the same time.
UK sitcoms were filmed in front of a live studio audiences so much of the laughter is real. This was the actual live shows that toured the UK, so not quite the same as the TV show recordings, but hilarious nonetheless 😂
You should check out em doing The Dangerous Brothers . Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous".Tis Violence Personified
What you are watching now are the tour shows. But they did record the TV shows in front of a live audience but you would never see them interacting with them like this.. By the way I was at that Southampton show.. I forget the year. I saw this exact show and it was being televised at the same time.
Angus Deaton is a comedic actor probably _still_ best known for hosting topical news quiz _Have I Got News For You,_ even though he left the show in 2002, after he made front page headlines because of doing cocaine. On the show he used autocue/teleprompter and was often the butt of jokes from the team captains because of it.
Steve fry and rik were looking at starting their own show/set and instead ed stepped in. The shows were recorded normally and not live. But they did a tour with bottom sketches for the masses. Some of their best work in my opinion i think were filmed 1993
@McJibbin They would have both been drinking and other things for hours before coming on stage. "Haven't got enough puff" Rik. As in out of breath. Adrian says "Speak for yourself". 100% weed reference, I know this because my dad was in charge of all of the lighting on their shows. Dad smoked with them, probably more haha.
Bottom is filmed in TV studio there's 3 seasons 18 episodes and 6 live shows i have seen them live it was awesome plus reg varny is of a classic TV program called on the buses
The tv show was recorded ina studio in front of alive studio audience, the bottom live shows were recorded at various thetres up and down the country. They would tour with these live shows from the early/mid 1990's up until around 2003-4 and even on the live stage shows where they werent recording for vhs/dvd release, they would fuck up and break character just as much. The whole world lost a brother when Rik Mayall passed away. I think Ade is a bit lost without him. They were a duo for 40+ years and even after all that time were genuine friends and they got each other, thats why they worked so well together. And although what they did in these shows might nit have come across as professional, it was. They had every little bit of their routine fine tuned down to the last drop. I dare say even their ad libs and other off the cuff remarks were even rehearsed and kept in the back of their brains for when needed. What they made look very easy was actually very hard to do and accomplish. They deserved more recognition than they ever received.
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1. Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall were appearing in a play together - then Stephen had a breakdown and ran away to Belgium without telling anyone. 2. At the end, Rik was doing an impression of 1970's sitcom character 'Rigsby' from 'Rising Damp' (Miss Jones...etc) and 'Eddie' acted as if he was doing an impression of another 70's sitcom actor, Reg Varney and complemented him as a backhanded way of saying how bad Rik's Rigsby impression was
Very well explained. I remember Stephen Fry left doing a play or something all those years ago then had like a mental breakdown or something....but never knew it was to Belgium.
Funnily enough the play Rik and Stephen were doing was named Cell Mates.@@tardeliesmagic
I thought it was during the time Blackadder was being filmed.
Rigsby was played by Leonard Rossiter, who (I keep forgetting) played a role in Stanley Kubrick's film _2001: A Space Oddessy_
This isn't the recording of the sitcom on BBC they toured every so often
The passing of a celebrity is generally not something which affects me. I think that may be because they're usually not ingrained into the fabric of who I am. But to this day I still find it incredibly difficult to comprehend that Rik isn't here. As a '90s kid growing up watching his comedy and just appreciating his writing and acting, he showed me that we never have to grow up. Life shouldn't be without him. Bollocks.
The only other celeb that affected me when he passed was Lemmy. Fucking Lemmy died? That should not have been possible.
Yes, all bottom episodes were recorded in front of a live audience. However these stage shows had a much bigger audience of thousands. The normal studio-recorded episodes would've had an audience of a few hundred. That's the thing with British sitcoms. Every time you hear a laugh track on a British sitcom, it is always real. I don't think there's a single British sitcom with a fake laugh track. If there is one, it's always live. If it's a sitcom unable to be filmed in front of a studio audience, they'll show the finished show to an audience afterwards (a live screening) and record the laughter that way. Either that, or there's no laugh track at all, as with The Thick of It or Afterlife.
They're often recorded to tape then shown to an audience and that is recorded as. Bottom was one of those cases. Laughter tracks are utterly fraudulent and British audiences (rightly) hate them - there have been a few though.
"Several tens of thousands"? Apparently they were recorded at the Mayflower Theatre, which has a capacity of 2,300.
@@eadweard. Right you are! Corrected
Red Dwarf had a laugh track for one of the series.
@@streaky81 Bottom had a studio audience.
Rik and Ade started these live shows after the success of the TV Sitcom. They toured the country performing the same Live show at several theatres, recording one performance for VHS / DVD release. The video you're watching is a cut of the bloopers from the first 3 live show tours.
There's a few Bottom Live shows.
And a couple of TV sitcom seasons (or Series as we'd say in the UK)
There was also a film, Guest House Paradiso.
The Sitcom, called 'Bottom', was aired in the mid 90s and came after Rik and Ade had become household names from being in The Young Ones and Filthy, Rich and Catflap etc. they were also known as The Dangerous Brothers.
What you're watching here are the bloopers from all the live shows edited together, they're 'mistakes'
But, what a lot of people don't know is that Rik and Ade wrote in a lot of the mistakes into the script because they knew they'd get massive laughs. like Eddie telling the crowd he was born in Southampton, he wasn't, he told every crowd he played in front of that ue was born there.
Rik Myall - is one of the greatest Comedians of my life time and I miss him everyday. He'd pop up in all kinds of shows and always steal every single scene.
"But, what a lot of people don't know is that Rik and Ade wrote in a lot of the mistakes into the script because they knew they'd get massive laughs. like Eddie telling the crowd he was born in Southampton, he wasn't, he told every crowd he played in front of that ue was born there."
I remember learning they did this for the first time. I had been at their first night in Nottingham for the 2001 tour, and the second night was the one recorded for the home release. Seeing them repeating mistakes ("slidle slidle slidle") did take a little of the sparkle out of it, but fuck it it made us laugh and that was the point!
All of the tv shows and all of the live performances are absolute gold. I grew up watching these two and still regularly watch the shows to this day. There is another show I loved called "Gimme Gimme Gimme". It's obnoxious, disgusting... hilariously perfect 😁
Reg Varney is an actor that was on a programme called On The Buses, but he was doing an impression of Leonard Rossiter or Rigsby from a programme called Rising Damp. Both programmes are a good watch.
Second that!
Oh, I hate you, Butler. Oh, I do hate you, man.
I'd agree Rising Damp is worrth a watch - Leonard Rossiter was a class actor who had a flare for comedy acting. I felt On The Buses was pretty dire, and very much would only be entertaining to people stumbling back in from the pub. But, each to their own - some people obviously liked it as it got 7 series and at least one movie.
Autocue is called a teleprompter in America. A device to read the script off.
Isn't that the other way around?
@@saladspinner3200 What, so you mean America is an autocue??
@@CB-xr1eg I always thought so!
please do the whole live shows they’re hilarious 😂
Seen them all 5 times & they never fail to make me laugh,i never get bored with them.
These are the live theatre shows rather than the TV studio recorded ones.
I was lucky enough to have been to these LIVE shows back in the 90's...My sides acked bad!..I lived in Portsmouth back then and the shows were performed at the Guildhall when these toured....I still have the ticket stub somewhere...The first in 1993 was filmed in Southampton, and the second in 1995 was filmed in Oxford, third in Bristol 1997, fourth in 2001 in Nottingham, fifth in 2003 in Southend-on-Sea.
I love Rik and Ade. Always rewatching their tv shows. RIP Rik ❤
Saw Bottom 2 in Leeds. The most chaotic, insane, hilarious thing I've seen in my entire life.
Fucking legends, the pair of them.
Most British sitcoms are filmed in a studio with live audiences. Red Dwarf is another great example of this.
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man....... It's an English/British nursery rhym.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Reg Varney was a comedy actor known as one of the Bus drivers on a 1970's TV series called "on the buses" he was also the 1st person in the world to use a ATM machine , a British invention from 1967 ....
I watched Bottom at the Manchester Apollo, the first tour.
The magic is in the secret, if you don't know you don't know. 😂😂😂😂😂
Like the grate watch gag?
Let's shake and make up 😂
This was the stage show of 'Bottom' and was produced to be on a similar vein (but very adult version), of the British 'panto' (or pantomime) which is played in theatres throughout the UK, at Christmas time. A traditional panto is for children, but with loads of adult gags and inuendo (double entendre), which 'go over the heads of children). Adult (very blue) panto's are also performed... a few live (recorded) shows are on YT and worth watching especially Jim Davidson's...
EDIT: I wrote this before getting to the part were you (Connor), mentioned pantomime - Duh!
All were recorded live infront of an audience. Went to the first and third plays in Bristol. My 3
Year old grandson also loves bottom… when his mummys not around we watch it stealth mode on the phone in our pretend storm buster 4 tent. X
Most of Bottom was studio, if i remember right (not sure if they had live audience), but they also did a bunch of live tours (which is what you're reacting to).
RIP Rik Mayall
Kinda like a panto. Much more like plays and such were 100's of years ago with audience interaction and lots of improv.
Ade and Rik were originally in a program called 'The Young Ones' which I was lucky to grow up with that era of comedy (and earlier).
Thank you for covering the older British comedy, though I know you don't understand some of the names and types of humour. It's much the same when we watch USA comedy and don't know the celebrities or other references in there.
Great video
Luckily my parents never really supervised us so me & sis used to watch all these Bottom live VHS tapes. Never got the innuendo but slapstick was hilarious.
This video features clips from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd live shows, which were from 1993, 95 and 97 respectively, (They did 2 more in 2001 and 2003, and a feature film in 1999), a good rule of thumb is the longer Rik's hair is, the later it was recorded.
And yes, the TV show was filmed infront of a live audience, although obviously never an audience as big as the ones you see here, maybe 100 people or something like that.
Watch the whole live shows Connor, they are hilarious and better than the TV show.
yes they record all bottom episodes like that, you might like to check out 'bottom 25 years of mindless violence' a documentary celebrating their 25 year anniversary
The live shows are on here. Should just watch em sometime. They are feature length though. They aren't anywhere as good as the series though they have their good bits. The first one is "Upscaled - Bottom Live - 1993 [couchtripper][U]"
They don't relate to the tv show, since there's not really a recurring plot
I grew up watching this on VHS ... Its why im crazy now 😂😂
These two are absolutely brilliant.
Two of our most beloved comedians! RIP Rik May all, miss him and miss them being on telly!! X
We love them in Australia ❤
Some of the late & great Rik Mayall's most iconic work was playing Rick in "The Young Ones", Richie in "Bottom" and several generations of Lord Flasheart in "Blackadder".
His comic timing was running on Swiss precision and he stole nearly every scene he was in.
You are going to have to react to Man Down, Rick is amazing in it but it's funny as can be also, only show that makes my brain ache laughing. RIP Rick, so missed.
If you think Rik is sweaty, watch some Lee Evans live. Man could fill a swimming pool by the end of a show
I was lucky enough to see every live show they ever did in Nottingham and still have some of their tour merch.
Saw the 3rd show the Hooligans Island in Oxford '97 I think. Brilliant night. Even got a flick of the Vs from Rik.
Absolute legends.
I saw Bottom live in Brum, I actually ached from laughter in the end. So funny
Reg Varney was an actor from the comedy series "On the buses" but Aide was taking the pi$$ as Rik was doing an Impression of Leonard Rossiter's character "Rigby" in the comedy series "Rising damp" .
Rik and Ade used to do an annual 'Bottom Live' where they would take their 'adult pantomime' to various theatres up and down the UK... as well as their televised version of Bottom that have laughter tracks etc. They were recorded without an audience in a TV studio
Stephen fry was doing a play with rik around the time, and due to depression he left suddenly before it opened
Indeed, he literally fled the country unannounced.
I think the first Bottom was recorded in 1991, as I was a secretary working at the BBC in Television Centre and one of my colleagues had tickets for the first show and was very excited.
We loved this even went to a few live shows. Rip rik mayall .
Seen them live twice funniest shows ive ever seen , and sad il never see them again
Years ago Stephen Fry had a nervous breakdown and disappeared just before he was due to be in a play with Rik Mayall - so the joke here is that Mayall caused it. It was topical and widely reported at the time the show was on (mid 90s - early 2000s probably), but the reference is a bit obscure by today's standards.
Bottom was always filmed in front of a studio audience, as you can tell from the outtakes. But it wasn't a theatre production like the live shows were.
I used to get these on vhs/dvd for Christmas as child.
Reg Varney...Star of 'on the Buses' a VERY long time ago
Been to a couple of these , just brilliant
They both mentioned on a chat show the sitcom series was sometimes recorded with an audience but sometimes not.
These best of clips are of a live stage show they toured across the UK with five DVD releases from 93 to 03.
Bottom: The Stage Show 1993
Bottom: The Number 2 Tour 1995
Bottom 3: Hooligans Island 1997
Bottom Live 2001 An Arse Oddity
Bottom Live: Weapons Grade Y Fronts 2003
Their interaction with the audience was second to none, they fed off the reactions and would often try to screw each other over (in a banter way) and they had the ability to make a 3 second joke drag for 3 minutes.
Reginald Alfred Varney was an English actor, entertainer and comedian. He is best remembered for having played the lead role of bus driver Stan Butler in the LWT sitcom On the Buses and its three spin-off feature films
I was lucky enough to see the last live show they did, where they travelled through time in a toilet called the TURDIS 🤣 brilliant
Bottom live 3 was mine an my best mates favourite vid when we were kids having sleep overs during the summer holidays...no wonder we turned out like me did lol 😂😂😂
I saw bottom live at the Apollo in Manchester in the early 2000's. I was must have watched the Original bottom 30 times on video and was so glad i got to watch them before Rick Mayall died
I saw them live in Sheffield! They were my comedy heroes! Absolutely hilarious 😂 RIP Rik 😢 This is a compilation of bloopers from the live tour shows, the TV show was filmed in front of a live audience.
I grew up in Sheffield and loved watching Bottom growing up.
Bottom Live happened after the TV Show - but the actual episodes were filmed in front of an audience.
I was fortunate enough to go to the final Bottom Live show with a mate.
The 'Miss Jones' impersonation was from an old sit com called 'Rising Damp', the character 'Rigsby' was played by Leonard Rossiter who also played a well known character Reginald Perrin. Reg Varney played a totally diferent character in 'On the Busses' and was nothing like Rossiter.
After the TV series (which were filmed in front of a small live audience) they took the show live on tour, which is what this is from. "Pat-a-cake" is a children's nursery rhyme. Stephen Fry got bad stage fright during a run of a play with Mayall and ran away to Belgium. Angus Deayton is a British TV personality and former panel-show host. The bit from 12:15 on goes on quite a bit longer than that and is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TH-cam. And Rik did an impersonation of British comic actor Leonard Rossiter, and them Ade came back saying it was a great impression of a different British actor, Reg Varney. The two of them were hilarious together. RIP Rik - gone way too soon.
Rick and Ade were brilliant together. Really miss Rick ❤
Rik Mayall is a very sad loss. We grew up watching them both on The Young Ones before Bottom and still miss him now
Bottom (the tv series) was recorded in front of a live audience, canned laughter is a massive no no. The classic bottom you are reacting too is from Bottom Live, on stage (in a theatre). It's not the phantom of the opera but still bloody funny
Some of the older comedy sitcoms around the early 90s have done a small theatre productions a bit after being aired on TV (obviously), one of the more recent ones to do this is 'Only Fools and Horses' (not the same actors on this particular one like you see with Bottom here). This is a rare occurrence though, out of the dozens of comedy sitcoms, even from any era since or before, I can guess there is only about 3 or 4 to do this sort of transition from TV screen to Theatre (typically the theatre version only lasts a few years, if that).
The Bottom Live tours were legendary, there really wasn't anything like them before, and there certainly hasn't been since. You're right that in some ways it's a bit like panto - except it's for adults (well, uni students I guess were the key audience) and actually good. The best one is the one where they almost blow up the queen, the recording of which is almost completely ruined by a screamy laugher somewhere near the front; somebody should remaster them and cut her out tbh.
2 legends at work!
I was lucky enough to see them live at St Albans England they were brilliant 👏
Most british comedys are filmed in front of a live studio audience, laughter tracks are very rare, almost non existent in britain.
Red dwarf was filmed in front of live studio audience and black adder.
Although this is deiffernt, this is a touring stage show so audience participation is encouraged.
These are the live show separate form the series, but yes, both have a live Audience
Hey, Mc. Pat O'Cake. Its a reference to a childs nursery rhyme: Patter cake, Patter cake, bakers man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can. It goes on a tad. Can't remember the rest off hand. Eddie is 'just taking the piss'. (Having a laugh, being sarchastic in a jovial way).
It's kind of like an adult pantomime,
RIP the great Rik Mayall
Reg Varney was on a sitcom in the '70s. The impression was NOT of Reg Varney... so it couldn't have been "the best Reg Varney " Eddie had ever seen, i.e. he is indicating that the impression was crap. It was actually meant to be an impression of Rigsby from Rising Damp - a different sitcom altogether.
All the Bottom series are recorded in front of a studio audience.
The first Bottom live was in 1993, they did 5.
My Parents went to see this when they came to Nottingham and Rick was absolutely laying into the audience, kinda sad it wasn't in this compilation tbh :'D
The tv show episodes (3 seasons) were recorded in front of a small live studio audience with the outtakes and mistakes edited out, the 5(?) pantomine like shows they performed over the many years where done with the mistakes and outtakes kept in.
Reg Varney was in a very old sitcom called On The Buses.
Autocue is when the words come up behind the camera. Joke was he forgot his lines
Also known as Autoscript or Teleprompter. 👍
Angus Deaton was the original host of Have I Got News For You, and was the only one on the show to use a teleprompter, as the two teams were doing their replies & reactions on the fly. Apparently Paul Merton made a crack about this in every show, but it was always cut out of the final broadcast.
@@Escapee5931 I’m sure I’ve seen Paul make that joke several times 😂
These are the stage shows. Though, like most other British TV, the TV shows were recorded in front of a studio audience too. Getting into the studio audience is a big thing here! And normally free!
Well done on getting the pantomime bits ( reaction to and from the audience ) and keep on looking at the Bottom videos or anything these are in ( Everard in Blackadder ) your learning of British humour will be complete and you'll be able to explain it to your friends etc and whats even better understand pantomimes and explain them as well 😂😂😂😂
Reg Varney is a character from a sitcom called 'On The Buses' whereas he was trying to do an impression (badly) of a character called Reginald Perrin from a sitcom called 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin..'
Loved On The Buses. Olive was my favourite character ❤
@@markwolstenholme3354Ooh Arthur.
This was a collection of specials
Bottom Live 1993 Southampton Mayflower Theatre
Bottom Live 2: The Big Number Two Tour 1995 Oxford New Theatre
Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island 1997 Bristol Hippodrome
Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity 2001 Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour 2003 Southend The Cliffs Pavilion
TV shows filmed in front of a live audience. But these clips are from their live theatre stage show tours.
No Conor they're not all live. The series was recorded in a TV studio in front of a TV audience, and they also did these live tours. Unfortunately Rik Mayall, an absolute legend of British comedy and loved by all passed away of a heart attack. Very sad.
Reg Varney I believe was "On The Buses"
Bottom was predominantly the 90s. The stuff with the audience what you see here is the specials.
Bottom was a TV serries, these are the plays they did after the TV shows were cancelled. The TV shows were done infront of live audiences.
The laughter is mostly because Rick forgets his lines and everyone loves him for it. When he was in the yongones kids would run up to him in teh street and go Rick, Rick, swear at us!
It is pure slapstick humour at grass roots. This is pure genius humour, don't stress that you don't "get it" as a lot of non brittish don't. The humour is very potty and high brow at the same time.
UK sitcoms were filmed in front of a live studio audiences so much of the laughter is real. This was the actual live shows that toured the UK, so not quite the same as the TV show recordings, but hilarious nonetheless 😂
Rick & Ade were the face of comedy through my teenage and adult life, when the world lost Rik Mayall we lost a legend.
You should check out em doing The Dangerous Brothers . Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, as "Richard Dangerous" and "Sir Adrian Dangerous".Tis Violence Personified
The closest an American will come to understanding what a pantomime is.
What you are watching now are the tour shows. But they did record the TV shows in front of a live audience but you would never see them interacting with them like this.. By the way I was at that Southampton show.. I forget the year. I saw this exact show and it was being televised at the same time.
Angus Deaton is a comedic actor probably _still_ best known for hosting topical news quiz _Have I Got News For You,_ even though he left the show in 2002, after he made front page headlines because of doing cocaine. On the show he used autocue/teleprompter and was often the butt of jokes from the team captains because of it.
Steve fry and rik were looking at starting their own show/set and instead ed stepped in. The shows were recorded normally and not live. But they did a tour with bottom sketches for the masses. Some of their best work in my opinion i think were filmed 1993
Im honoured you enjoyed it.... Its 1980s / 1990
@McJibbin They would have both been drinking and other things for hours before coming on stage.
"Haven't got enough puff" Rik. As in out of breath.
Adrian says "Speak for yourself". 100% weed reference, I know this because my dad was in charge of all of the lighting on their shows. Dad smoked with them, probably more haha.
Originally they had planned to call the show : My Bottom!
I went to all of the live tours!
It cut out the bit where Rik says something like "can we just get through this or we'll never get out of South f*****g hampton!!"
Bottom is filmed in TV studio there's 3 seasons 18 episodes and 6 live shows i have seen them live it was awesome plus reg varny is of a classic TV program called on the buses
Reg varney played a bus driver on a show called On the buses.
Two complete uk legends ❤
The tv show was recorded ina studio in front of alive studio audience, the bottom live shows were recorded at various thetres up and down the country. They would tour with these live shows from the early/mid 1990's up until around 2003-4 and even on the live stage shows where they werent recording for vhs/dvd release, they would fuck up and break character just as much. The whole world lost a brother when Rik Mayall passed away. I think Ade is a bit lost without him. They were a duo for 40+ years and even after all that time were genuine friends and they got each other, thats why they worked so well together. And although what they did in these shows might nit have come across as professional, it was. They had every little bit of their routine fine tuned down to the last drop. I dare say even their ad libs and other off the cuff remarks were even rehearsed and kept in the back of their brains for when needed. What they made look very easy was actually very hard to do and accomplish. They deserved more recognition than they ever received.
1:45 a shame they cut it before Eddie shouts it
Rest in peace Rik, absolute legend of comedy.
And why are you drinking water while you watch bottom??
We all know it’s a cup of steaming cold tea in a yellow mug. Or a pint of Esther ranzen x
Which one is the poison in?? 😂😂
@@stephenhumphrey7935 the yellow one!!
@@jessicapayne8622 eddie, THEYRE ALL YELLOW!
@@ProbablyAnAmateur 🍌