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Talking Bottom

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  • Paul Jackson Happy Families Q&A

    August 6, 2026 · 23 min

    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 episode of Happy Families. Mat, Paul and Ange joined Paul Jackson at the St Andrews Hotel…

  • Paul Jackson - Live at The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival

    July 30, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Talking Bottom gets back on stage at the Norbury Theatre, Droitwich - joined by legendary producer and director Paul Jackson at The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival 2026 for a brilliant interview and selection of his favourite clips. FULL VIDEO…

  • Rik Mayall Comedy Festival round up

    July 23, 2026 · 31 min

    What a festival! In advance of our EPIC on-stage interview with legendary Young Ones, Red Dwarf and Bottom producer/director Paul Jackson at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival dropping next week, including the video (yes, we've got a video!)…

  • Cliff Richard and The Young Ones - Comic Relief 1986

    July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Hey, kids. It's doesn't matter what you are - Punks, Skins, Rastas, Mods, Rockers, Keith Chegwin even. Everybody everywhere; stop snogging and listen to me... this week it's all about the best charity single ever - the teaming up of The…

  • The Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones book

    July 9, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    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 public is hungry for more and you've got a ton of brilliant unused gags? Release a book, of…

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  • Oh No, Not Them (The U.S. pilot version of The Young Ones)

    July 2, 2026 · 57 min

    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 Fox decided to take one of the most uniquely British sitcoms of the decade, put it in a blender…

  • Audiobook announcement!

    June 26, 2026 · 10 min

    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 friendly pub landlord Dick Head himself - actor Lee Cornes! You can literally have Dick coming in…

  • Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

    June 25, 2026 · 35 min

    What a ruddy treat! The long-awaited Rik Mayall documentary "Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard is out now on Sky Documentaries, PLUS Sky Arts is screening the brand-new "Rik Mayall's Sketches: Rare and Unseen." It's a day of new Rik…

  • Lise Mayer interview

    June 18, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    Once in every lifetime comes a guest like this - someone who created and wrote one of the most influential, revolutionary and most-loved sitcoms ever, alongside her co-creators and co-writers Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. It's Lise…

  • The Young Ones S2 E6: Summer Holiday

    June 12, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    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 at Scumbag College AND the final episode of the show, ever, with the creators determined to end it…

  • The Young Ones S2 E5: Sick

    June 4, 2026 · 58 min

    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 recuperation escalate to violence in the streets while Neil's parents visit the fetid house. If…

  • The Young Ones S2 E4: Time

    May 29, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    After a Dallas-style opening, the boys wake hungover to discover they have travelled back in time. And even more unbelievable; Rik seems to have "done it" with a girl! Paul, Mat and Ange chat about Dallas, time travel, Rick graduating…

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About the show

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 sandwich. From Paul Tanter, Mat Brooks and Angela Pearson. The book TALKING BOTTOM: A GUIDE TO THE CULT SITCOM is now in its 2nd edition and can be ordered here: https://wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/talking-bottom Find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Youtube all @talkingbottom or drop us an email at 11mafekingparade@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/talkingbottom