Review". Publishers Weekly. 248 (43): 67. 22 October 2001. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011 . Retrieved 15 November 2010. The first few minutes of the recorded show on VHS and DVD feature exterior shots of the Mayflower Theatre, short interviews with some of the audience members in the theatre lobby, and a brief look inside Rik and Ade's dressing rooms. Eddie is trying to teach Richie how to play chess] Richie: Right, let me get this sorted out. Now the bent vicar stands next to the queen. And the queen goes in every direction. Eddie: That's right. Richie: [looking disgusted] And they let children play this, you say? I mean, it's pretty strong stuff, isn't it Eddie? You know, knights taking prawns? And apparently, if a prawn goes all the way he turns into a queen! Episode 3 - Burglary [ edit ] Richie: Eddie, do you want to be skinned alive and buggered? Eddie: (Pointing handgun at Richie) I'd like to see you try! Lily Linneker: (pointing to the television) Can you see alright? Eddie: (confused) No, that’s why I wear glasses. Richie: I have excellent eyesight. Which is remarkable when you think about it. Dalrymple, Theodore (2001). Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Ivan R. Dee. p.vii. ISBN 9781566633826 . Retrieved 6 September 2010.

Eddie begins forging money, forcing the duo and their friends to enter a pub quiz to pay off a thug. On 4 April 1994, all six single Bottom video releases were re-released as three "complete" double VHS releases. The Bottom Live Tour began at the Rhyl New Pavilion on 14 April 1993 and concluded at Plymouth Pavilions on 21 June 1993. Mayall, Rik (2005). Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ. Harper Entertainment. ISBN 978-0-007-20727-5. But isn't Assange right too: here he is talking about what Wikileaks is all about and interalia, forces us to remember the idealism with which we all start out and now I'm talking about Rupert Murdoch:

Series 1 [ edit ] Episode 1 - Smells [ edit ] [Richie Pushes Eddie in to the sex shop. Eddie acts nervous.] Shop Assistant: Can I help you, sir? Eddie: This is a sex shop, isn't it? Shop Assistant: Yes. Eddie: (slaps money down) I'll have five quids worth then! Shop Assistant: Very droll, sir, I haven’t heard that one before. Eddie: Haven't you? Shall I tell it again? Shop Assistant: No thank you sir, I'd rather have a pineapple inserted violently into my rectum. Eddie: You've been working here too long mate. Remember too, the biggest beneficiaries of the welfare state are not the poor. It's the middle class and higher, who get most from the governments--in pensions, insurance, home-mortgage deductions, subsidized higher education, employment in government-subsidized industries. Corporate welfare is no aberration in the system: it /is/ the system. ( Tony Judt makes some of these points in Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.) The first tour took place between the second and third TV series and revolves around Richie's relationship with a blow-up doll and Eddie scheming to get his hands on some money that Richie has inherited from his uncle. Set in their Hammersmith flat, the live version was very much an extension of the telly show, albeit even ruder and cruder now that they didn't have to placate the BBC censors. The massive success of the tour proved there was an appetite for more Bottom on and off TV. Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour (1995) Between 1990 and 2000, "Theodore Dalrymple," whose real name is Anthony Daniels, worked as a physician at City Hospital and Birmingham Prison, both located in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England. [1] [2] During this time, he wrote essays on topics related to his work, such as his discussions with patients and inmates. Individual essays began being published periodically in the American quarterly magazine City Journal in 1994. [3] [4] The collection does not contain all of the essays he wrote about his experiences, but only the ones he considered the best, whether for their humour or their truth. [5] The legions of helpers and carers, social workers and therapists, whose incomes and careers depend crucially on the supposed incapacity of large numbers of people to fend for themselves and behave responsibly. …their entire therapeutic worldview of the patient as the passive, helpless victim of illness legitimises the very behavious from which they are there to redeem him from. … ...the idea has become entrenched that if one does not know or understand the unconscious motives for one's acts, one is not truly responsible for them.

a b c d Reynolds, Gillian. "Hitting bottom". The Daily Telegraph. p.16 . Retrieved 23 September 2022– via Newspapers.com. a b Hocutt, Max (6 December 2002). "Life at the Bottom". MentalHelp.net . Retrieved 1 October 2010.Martin, Darryn (7 January 2004). "Life at the Bottom Created by Those on Top". Los Angeles Sentinel. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012 . Retrieved 6 September 2010.

a b Underhill, James W. (2009). Humboldt, worldview and language. Edinburgh University Press. p.129. ISBN 9780748638420 . Retrieved 6 September 2010. Work has been moved to lowest-wage, lowest-environmental-protection, countries. Mom and Pop businesses can't compete with multinationals. Work no longer pays the rent. Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain, James Bloodworth. The New Poverty, Stephen Armstrong. When Richie is gallivanting around the stage with Monica, the inflatable doll falls awkwardly and the head lands in his crotch. An unintended, but amusing, moment which Rik Mayall laps up. You see. I’ve had a Dalrymple experience and it was like this. My doctor has his rooms in a Dalrymple part of town. Everybody who goes in looks like they’ve either just come out of a stretch, or they’ve just been sentenced to one…or might even on the run from one. The older women clearly all have sons whom they might even be visiting that very afternoon in the slammer. I’m the only one, I deduce, who has never set foot in gaol. Oh. There is that time I was put in gaol in Slovakia, but I’m not counting that because I wuz innocent. Whereas these people are clearly all guilty. Of something.In March 2011, the duo made a surprise reunion when Edmondson took part in Let's Dance for Comic Relief. A pre-recorded segment ended with Mayall hurling a custard pie in Edmondson's face. Mayall appeared again, this time live on stage, to abruptly end Edmondson's performance by hitting him several times with a frying pan. In the final, Mayall returned once again to drop a ton weight upon Edmondson. In the following month, Edmondson revealed that he and Mayall had conceived an idea for a sitcom. "Rik and I have an idea for a sitcom for when we are very, very old. We want to set it in an old people's home 30 years hence. It will be like 'Bottom', but we will be hitting each other with colostomy bags!" [28] In August 2012, the BBC announced that it had commissioned a series based on the Hooligan's Island stage show, where Eddie and Richie cause havoc on a deserted tropical island, set to air in 2013. [29] [30] However, the show was scrapped just two months later. Edmondson said "it wasn't working" and wanted to pursue other projects. [31] Mayall tried to have Edmondson reconsider, but he "put his foot down and said, 'It's not going to work mate.'", and wanted to wait ten years until they were older. [32] Mayall died on 9 June 2014, putting an end to any future Bottom projects. [33] a b c d Weaver, Theresa K. (16 December 2001). "Portrait of the poor both sharp and bleak". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010 . Retrieved 8 September 2010. Richie: Why are the Scots such arseholes, Eddie? Eddie: Do you mind? I happen to be part Scottish myself, you know! Richie: Really, Eddie? Which part? Eddie: My arsehole. The book also explains the philosophy of social determinism held by those Dalrymple interviewed, and how the welfare state and the socialist tenets within it help feed this mindset. However, Dalrymple never directly accuses socialism and the welfare state in his essays, instead focusing on the beliefs and reasons for why the patients and inmates take the destructive actions that they did. This is expressed with determinism in that they believe that their actions must be based on their childhoods or the failure of society in the past to help them. [16] [17] Those patients that Dalrymple speaks with "seem surprised and tell him that he's the first person they've ever talked to who suggests that they can change their lives for the better," further emphasising the mindset in which their society has placed them. [18] I probably wouldn’t have like this book if I had read it in California. I wasn’t exactly a bleeding-heart liberal, but I acted outraged when Bill Clinton reformed the welfare system. Only a heartless conservative would be against providing subsistence to the weak and the vulnerable. I had enough compassion in me, like any other yuppie, not to want to see those poor single moms thrown out in the cold. I couldn’t believe people had fallen for Ronald Reagan’s myth of Cadillac-driving welfare queens.