For many years I used to watch bottom live 1 - 3 on vhs when I was growing up & only in the past decade did I find out there was a 4 & 5, so happy to find them considering I watched the original trilogy like 1000 times each
🎵1:23:05 - In case anybody's too young to recognise the song: it's 'Child in Time' by Deep Purple. Ian Gillan sang the original vocal. He did it rather well.🙂
Just heard this song for the first time and heard Ade straight away. Thought I was going crazy so came here to see if I'd recognised it correctly, glad I'm not the only one to make the connection, cheers! Saw this live in Hammersmith as well. Wahey the lads!
Was very fortunate to see them live, bloody marvellous and an it’s a damn shame he went too soon and denied us more of his genius, in the words of Ade ‘selfish b@@@@@d’ 😢
I can't believe I was sick when they came to Liverpool 😭 and my best mate went with his family just to make it worse! Chance I'd never get again. 2 legends 1 sadly missed!
Still enjoying live shows. Love the uncensored humour, unlike today's programs, all rubbish. Older programs are better more humour and decent jokes and violence. Today's programs are to coddle sensitive who hate this kind of humour. Glad I was brought up in that era than today's society.
First comment wow not sure what to type ?????? If ur filling a void with alcohol or drugs try to find out what would truly make u happy have a life don't just live x
Awesome show, great to see it again. Rik you bastard, fucked of 8yrs ago and left us to deal with the shit . A true giant of the art, who else could play the handsome womaniser and the worlds most unfuckable guy so believeably. He's up there with Freddie Starr for talent in my book. Not forgetting Ade, they were the funniest double act ever. Missing Rik so much but atleast we still have his catalogue of work to fall back on. ❤
It’s quite possible the channel owner had comments disabled (as I do, on a couple of my channels) and then either deliberately enabled them, or else accidentally enabled them by making some related change, or else meant to leave them disabled but some RUclips update switched them on. If you created a channel before Google bought RUclips, or before Google created their default single sign-on system, or before RUclips was folded into that system-which was only done belatedly-then tbh it’s been really difficult to maintain control over that channel’s settings, since the controls for those settings have moved all over … or have disappeared entirely while the setting remained unchanged, only to then reappear while changing the setting. Putting software engineers in charge of a user interface almost always results in needless complexity, and Google have roughly 1,000x more software engineers than they do human interface designers.
There is 5, bottom live 1993, bottom live big number 2 tour 1995, bottom live hooligans island 1997, bottom live an arse oddity 2001 and this one bottom live weapons grade y fronts 2003.
Adrian called an end to it all. I just read about this in Ade Edmondson’s biography, Berserker. He said the problems really started during the Bottom Live 5 tour. He said that Rick’s ego started to take over the performances more and more. Rik forgot that his genius was in creating and performing brilliant and funny characters and was often performing more as Rik the Comedy Genius and Rik The Sex God and less in character as Richie The Sad Loser. Which meant the lines were often not funny. The laughs were tailing off on too many shows. They’d discuss why they weren’t getting so many big laughs anymore. Ade had to point out to Rik that if he stayed in character more often the laughs would come. (Interestingly, this recording is quite funny but I guess it’s because Rik was in character as Ritchie quite consistently that night). Ade also decided that he no longer wanted to do it any more because he didn’t want to be just “that bloke from Bottom”. He started to feel trapped and unsatisfied. But Rik didn’t seem to understand the decision. Ade says: “For the next decade, whenever I ring him up to suggest we have lunch, just to chew the fat, just to be friends rather than colleagues, he always assumes this is going to be the time I suggest we get the act back together again. Things aren’t helped by his head. His head that suffered badly in the late 90s when he fell off his quad bike onto a concrete slab. He recovers well initially - we make a feature film and do two tours after it - but despite his ongoing medication, he has the occasional seizure and it feels like something is deteriorating, that his memory isn’t what it was. Every time we have lunch I have to explain my reasons all over again. It becomes our Groundhog Day. He arrives bright and chirpy, thinking this will be the day we start working together again, and every time I have to explain that I just wanted to see him, to be friends, and he looks sad and confused. I start to dread our lunches.” In the end Ade got fed up having to be the one to blame for them not working g together any more so he decided to agree to another project and see if the BBC brought it, knowing full well that they wouldn’t. Then he could blame it on the BBC that they weren’t working together. So they did a pilot script for a sitcom based on Hooligans Island. Ade says it wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t their best and certainly didn’t deserve to get commissioned. He was confident his trick would work. Except the BBC wanted to go to a series. They were working on Hooligans Island scripts for the series. In the past they regard all the jokes equally as theirs, with each joke needing both of them to work. But Rik started counting jokes and questioning who has the most jokes. Ade says: “And I realise that the double act is properly over. There is no trust anymore. We are just two individuals. He’s fighting for himself not for us. It’s a relief in a way because it’s no longer simply my fault that the act has reach the end - like a frost bitten vine, it has withered and died. It was glorious when it was alive, I’m immensely proud of everything we did together, still makes me laugh, but I’m glad we didn’t do a dodgy final series.” Ade called an end to the Hooligans Island series and it never got made. Adrian never deserted Rik as a friend, and frequently says in his book that Rik was a true comedy genius. But the act was no longer working and I think he just wanted to preserve the friendship. I think Rick’s accident may have had a lot to do with it. A lot of people said, when he died, that they recently saw him and he was fine, performing brilliantly and in good form. But many who knew him say that he was still having seizures and sometimes his memory was so bad that he didn’t always recognise people. I wonder if that changed him. If so, it’s really sad. It’s hard to see, from this video, that it was this tour that made Adrian feel it was starting to go downhill. I do t know what the rest of the tour was like, other than what Adrian says in his book. But they both gave us such a rich comedy legacy, and I prefer to remember that. I felt saddened when I read this bit in the book and I feel it saddened Adrian as well.
This is like the end of their run and it's absolutely the weakest of the live shows. You'd be better off watching the television show or at least go in at Bottom Live 1, the ones after Bottom Live 3 are pretty lame.
@@TheDWB For the audience there's their whole lifestory, comic career in the atmosphere when they watch them. Here you are in 2003, they met, started in 1975/ studied at Manchester University... ...changed Brit.comedy in the 80s. Start with ' The Young Ones' and imagine being a schoolkid in Thatcher's Britain.❤️
are starting at the very endof a book and not understanding why you don't know the story. Go back to the 80s The Young Ones and the Dangerous Brothers and Filthy, Rich and Catflap then Bottom and then the live shows. You'll understand it all then. The funniest double act ever.
30 years later we see Vyv hitting Rik in a grimy flat. This isn't funny, it's just really sad.. These two built an entire career from stage prop slapstick, saying fart, bottom and bastard a lot and somehow this was considered "alternative" comedy.
These 2 have been funny since the Young Ones, series I wish the other 2, joined these two, in there quest in the Bottom series nd there Live shows... Would've been Awesome...
The amount of bullocks I've seen in this one comment alone is unbearable, an entire year later and you still trigger my urge to tear that damn beard off you to show the baby you really are
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Ric was a force of nature. The world got much darker when he passed. R.I.P Ric
I love watching the live shows back to back as a pick me up, when ever I’m feeling low. ....Rick you selfish git, you’ve been sorely missed.
Natural anti depressant
30:49 "Oh hold me firm, Earth!" - "Oh fuck it he's acting..." - classic. 😂
Saw this live in Manchester. So glad I got to see them before the very sad passing of hysterical genius Rick. RIP.
Best comedic duo to exist. Absolute icons, RIP Rik Mayall ❤
I grew up on the young ones.
R.I.P. RICK...you are sadly missed!❤
For many years I used to watch bottom live 1 - 3 on vhs when I was growing up & only in the past decade did I find out there was a 4 & 5, so happy to find them considering I watched the original trilogy like 1000 times each
Terrific pair of comedians. Always sad when one of the partners dies. Seems to leave the other in a void.
Years later, and every time I see Rik and am reminded he's dead I still feel sad.
@@DodderingOldMan British icons. Just none around at the moment.
@@saturdayplayer2492 yes it's a woke load of Bollox .. but atleast we have the greats to look back on
every heart felt moment they have ironically on stage, hits different now.
P po y
🎵1:23:05 - In case anybody's too young to recognise the song: it's 'Child in Time' by Deep Purple. Ian Gillan sang the original vocal.
He did it rather well.🙂
Just heard this song for the first time and heard Ade straight away. Thought I was going crazy so came here to see if I'd recognised it correctly, glad I'm not the only one to make the connection, cheers!
Saw this live in Hammersmith as well. Wahey the lads!
I was lucky enough to go to all 5 tours, I laughed till I cried. Total genius :) RIP Rik
I wish I had been able to see all of em. I saw the first Live one at Winter Margate 1993.
I saw this live in 2003. Great fun and this video brings back great memories. Thanks
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RIP RIK YOU WERE PURE COMEDY MAGIC SADLY MISSED A TRUE GREAT OF COMEDY
Was very fortunate to see them live, bloody marvellous and an it’s a damn shame he went too soon and denied us more of his genius, in the words of Ade ‘selfish b@@@@@d’ 😢
I can't believe I was sick when they came to Liverpool 😭 and my best mate went with his family just to make it worse! Chance I'd never get again. 2 legends 1 sadly missed!
Thanks for the upload! Love these so much
Gutted these 2 will never bring out such amazing comedy ever again
Total genius. I miss Ryk.
Still enjoying live shows. Love the uncensored humour, unlike today's programs, all rubbish. Older programs are better more humour and decent jokes and violence. Today's programs are to coddle sensitive who hate this kind of humour. Glad I was brought up in that era than today's society.
1:03:02 good to see they meet that reference
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Human shitoshima...... fudge me.... this pair, glad I went 1& 2 before watching this or it would have been messy..... fecking brilliant
It was a sad day when Rick left us way too early
I miss Rik....
The final chapter.
Rik Mayall is my hero, and not meaning to sound disrespectful to his memory, but these live shows are testimony of his lunacy and madness.
Saw this in London x marvalouise
Yes yes yes..
The perfect morning to be ruddy filthy and a wee bit hammersmith...
Cheers subbed good stuff
Wonder who owns them now and if both houses are worth more because they were in the show !!
Oh wow. Thats the actor that voices the goblin on princess and the goblin. Cool. The one that picks his nose and flicks it lol he looks like him.
It is him lol
Amazing
Rip you are mist good humor 😉😉😉😘
Who?
Rik died
@@huskitaloves8654 Of shame. Writing and appearing in 19th century vaudevillian slapstick shit like this.
Does anyone know who they are imitating when they go all American?
Rik was gorgeous.
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First comment wow not sure what to type ?????? If ur filling a void with alcohol or drugs try to find out what would truly make u happy have a life don't just live x
Awesome show, great to see it again. Rik you bastard, fucked of 8yrs ago and left us to deal with the shit . A true giant of the art, who else could play the handsome womaniser and the worlds most unfuckable guy so believeably. He's up there with Freddie Starr for talent in my book. Not forgetting Ade, they were the funniest double act ever. Missing Rik so much but atleast we still have his catalogue of work to fall back on. ❤
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Their the best R.I.P. Rick
This was posted 7 years ago, but the oldest comment is a month old. 🤔
You Tube comments are screwed, not all of them are showing, it's been like that for at least 2months in my case.
Still loved all this time later
It’s quite possible the channel owner had comments disabled (as I do, on a couple of my channels) and then either deliberately enabled them, or else accidentally enabled them by making some related change, or else meant to leave them disabled but some RUclips update switched them on.
If you created a channel before Google bought RUclips, or before Google created their default single sign-on system, or before RUclips was folded into that system-which was only done belatedly-then tbh it’s been really difficult to maintain control over that channel’s settings, since the controls for those settings have moved all over … or have disappeared entirely while the setting remained unchanged, only to then reappear while changing the setting.
Putting software engineers in charge of a user interface almost always results in needless complexity, and Google have roughly 1,000x more software engineers than they do human interface designers.
This was the 4th live show and last. Not sure where you got 5 from.
1st at home with.blow up doll 2nd they end up in prison 3rd hooligans island 4th being back on the island makes this the 5th
There is 5, bottom live 1993, bottom live big number 2 tour 1995, bottom live hooligans island 1997, bottom live an arse oddity 2001 and this one bottom live weapons grade y fronts 2003.
Anyone ever wonder why they fell out though nobody ever said why not rik or ade
The most common rumour is that Ade didn't want to keep doing the Bottom stuff and it led to them drifting apart in Rik's final years.
As far as I know or recall they NEVER SPLIT.
Adrian called an end to it all. I just read about this in Ade Edmondson’s biography, Berserker.
He said the problems really started during the Bottom Live 5 tour. He said that Rick’s ego started to take over the performances more and more. Rik forgot that his genius was in creating and performing brilliant and funny characters and was often performing more as Rik the Comedy Genius and Rik The Sex God and less in character as Richie The Sad Loser. Which meant the lines were often not funny. The laughs were tailing off on too many shows. They’d discuss why they weren’t getting so many big laughs anymore. Ade had to point out to Rik that if he stayed in character more often the laughs would come. (Interestingly, this recording is quite funny but I guess it’s because Rik was in character as Ritchie quite consistently that night).
Ade also decided that he no longer wanted to do it any more because he didn’t want to be just “that bloke from Bottom”. He started to feel trapped and unsatisfied. But Rik didn’t seem to understand the decision. Ade says:
“For the next decade, whenever I ring him up to suggest we have lunch, just to chew the fat, just to be friends rather than colleagues, he always assumes this is going to be the time I suggest we get the act back together again. Things aren’t helped by his head. His head that suffered badly in the late 90s when he fell off his quad bike onto a concrete slab. He recovers well initially - we make a feature film and do two tours after it - but despite his ongoing medication, he has the occasional seizure and it feels like something is deteriorating, that his memory isn’t what it was.
Every time we have lunch I have to explain my reasons all over again. It becomes our Groundhog Day. He arrives bright and chirpy, thinking this will be the day we start working together again, and every time I have to explain that I just wanted to see him, to be friends, and he looks sad and confused. I start to dread our lunches.”
In the end Ade got fed up having to be the one to blame for them not working g together any more so he decided to agree to another project and see if the BBC brought it, knowing full well that they wouldn’t. Then he could blame it on the BBC that they weren’t working together. So they did a pilot script for a sitcom based on Hooligans Island. Ade says it wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t their best and certainly didn’t deserve to get commissioned. He was confident his trick would work. Except the BBC wanted to go to a series.
They were working on Hooligans Island scripts for the series. In the past they regard all the jokes equally as theirs, with each joke needing both of them to work. But Rik started counting jokes and questioning who has the most jokes. Ade says:
“And I realise that the double act is properly over. There is no trust anymore. We are just two individuals. He’s fighting for himself not for us. It’s a relief in a way because it’s no longer simply my fault that the act has reach the end - like a frost bitten vine, it has withered and died. It was glorious when it was alive, I’m immensely proud of everything we did together, still makes me laugh, but I’m glad we didn’t do a dodgy final series.”
Ade called an end to the Hooligans Island series and it never got made.
Adrian never deserted Rik as a friend, and frequently says in his book that Rik was a true comedy genius. But the act was no longer working and I think he just wanted to preserve the friendship. I think Rick’s accident may have had a lot to do with it. A lot of people said, when he died, that they recently saw him and he was fine, performing brilliantly and in good form. But many who knew him say that he was still having seizures and sometimes his memory was so bad that he didn’t always recognise people. I wonder if that changed him. If so, it’s really sad.
It’s hard to see, from this video, that it was this tour that made Adrian feel it was starting to go downhill. I do t know what the rest of the tour was like, other than what Adrian says in his book. But they both gave us such a rich comedy legacy, and I prefer to remember that. I felt saddened when I read this bit in the book and I feel it saddened Adrian as well.
Maybe it's because I'm not British but, I haven't so much as cracked a single smile or a little chuckle. I don't get it.
This is like the end of their run and it's absolutely the weakest of the live shows. You'd be better off watching the television show or at least go in at Bottom Live 1, the ones after Bottom Live 3 are pretty lame.
@@TheDWB For the audience
there's their whole lifestory,
comic career in the atmosphere when they watch them. Here you are in 2003, they met, started in 1975/ studied at Manchester University...
...changed Brit.comedy in the 80s.
Start with ' The Young Ones' and imagine being a schoolkid in Thatcher's Britain.❤️
are starting at the very endof a book and not understanding why you don't know the story. Go back to the 80s The Young Ones and the Dangerous Brothers and Filthy, Rich and Catflap then Bottom and then the live shows. You'll understand it all then.
The funniest double act ever.
30 years later we see Vyv hitting Rik in a grimy flat. This isn't funny, it's just really sad.. These two built an entire career from stage prop slapstick, saying fart, bottom and bastard a lot and somehow this was considered "alternative" comedy.
If it’s really sad it must be hitting to close to home 😂😂😂
Who do you find funny then? Nish Kumar?
@@SteveBownMusic Who?
Well the current crop of so-called 'comedians' don't make me laugh. These two do,however.
These 2 have been funny since the Young Ones, series
I wish the other 2, joined these two, in there quest in the Bottom series nd there
Live shows... Would've been Awesome...
the cringe is unbearable
Yes, your cringe inducing presence is quite painful
@@shbu2127 doubt it will ever be as bad as Rick Mayall's "funny faces"
Yes, your comment was full of cringe.
@@akahopkinz
Tey'll stay heroes, with or without you!
Obv. you don't know enough about them.❤️
The amount of bullocks I've seen in this one comment alone is unbearable, an entire year later and you still trigger my urge to tear that damn beard off you to show the baby you really are