Paul Jackson Happy Families Q&A
We jump back to the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival for a special bonus episode - the Q&A session with Paul Jackson after our screening of Rik's...
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The Bottom podcast - three foxy stoats discuss and appreciate the world's greatest sitcom, courtesy of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, over an Esther Rantzen cocktail and pickled onion sand...
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Paul Jackson - Live at The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival
Talking Bottom gets back on stage at the Norbury Theatre, Droitwich - joined by legendary producer and director Paul Jackson at The Rik Maya...
Rik Mayall Comedy Festival round up
What a festival! In advance of our EPIC on-stage interview with legendary Young Ones, Red Dwarf and Bottom producer/director Paul Jackson at...
Cliff Richard and The Young Ones - Comic Relief 1986
Hey, kids. It's doesn't matter what you are - Punks, Skins, Rastas, Mods, Rockers, Keith Chegwin even. Everybody everywhere; stop snogging a...
The Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones book
What do you do when you've ended your show after two series, leaving people in no doubt it's finished by killing off the characters, but the...
Oh No, Not Them (The U.S. pilot version of The Young Ones)
There's no business like show business and there's no shortage of TV execs trying to capture lightning in a bottle. In 1989, U.S. TV network...
Audiobook announcement!
You asked and we delivered! Talking Bottom: A Guide to the Cult Sitcom is now available as an audiobook, read by none other than Bottom's fr...
Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard
What a ruddy treat! The long-awaited Rik Mayall documentary "Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard is out now on Sky Documentaries, PLUS Sky Arts...
Lise Mayer interview
Once in every lifetime comes a guest like this - someone who created and wrote one of the most influential, revolutionary and most-loved sit...
The Young Ones S2 E6: Summer Holiday
All good things must come to an end and school' out not just for summer but for ever as it's the start of the summer holidays for the lads a...
The Young Ones S2 E5: Sick
The boys are surrounded by soggy tissues, and for once it's not for the reason you'd think - they've got the dreaded lurgy. Their efforts at...
The Young Ones S2 E4: Time
After a Dallas-style opening, the boys wake hungover to discover they have travelled back in time. And even more unbelievable; Rik seems to...
The Young Ones S2 E3: Nasty
Filmed in Horror-vision! It's a terrifying tale this week as the boys have a body to bury, with a flashback to bath night revealing Rick's p...
The Young Ones S2 E2: Cash
It's freezing in the student house and all the furniture has already been burned. Someone needs to get a job and that some is Neil, who join...
The Young Ones S2 E1: Bambi
The boys are back and they smell - it's so long since they did any laundry that one of Vyvyan's socks has come to life. But a fruitless trip...
Mark Arden & Steve Frost (The Oblivion Boys) interview
This week's guests are a pair of legendary comedians and actors who broke through on the alternative comedy circuit as a double act, going o...
The Young Ones S1 E6: Flood
Biblical references abound as a huge flood engulfs London, trapping the students in the house. Everyone will be fine as long as no one drink...
The Young Ones S1 E5: Interesting
It's party time in the student house, an opportunity to impress the other students and trendy lecturer, play with a toy mouse and telescope...
The Young Ones S1 E4: Bomb
"Well I'm going to tell Thatcher that we've got a bomb!" Cold War fears manifest when a large (undetonated, obviously) nuclear bomb lands ri...
The Young Ones S1 E3: Boring
Guys! Guys! Look at us! Squabbling, bickering, like children! What's happening to us? We never used to be like this! This week's episode is...