Talking Bottom

Talking Bottom 101 - Paul Jackson Happy Families Q&A

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

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Talking Bottom

Episodes

Paul Jackson Happy Families Q&A

Paul Jackson - Live at The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival

Rik Mayall Comedy Festival round up

Cliff Richard and The Young Ones - Comic Relief 1986

The Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones book

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

Audiobook announcement!

Rik Mayall: Magnificent B'Stard

Lise Mayer interview

The Young Ones S2 E6: Summer Holiday

The Young Ones S2 E5: Sick

The Young Ones S2 E4: Time

The Young Ones S2 E3: Nasty

The Young Ones S2 E2: Cash

The Young Ones S2 E1: Bambi

Mark Arden & Steve Frost (The Oblivion Boys) interview

The Young Ones S1 E6: Flood

The Young Ones S1 E5: Interesting

The Young Ones S1 E4: Bomb

The Young Ones S1 E3: Boring

The Young Ones S1 E2: Oil

Rik Mayall Comedy Festival 2026 - WE'RE BACK!

The Young Ones S1 E1: Demolition

2025 Christmas round up

Max Kinnings (writer of the forthcoming official Rik Mayall biography) interview

Dave Cohen interview

Colin Gilbert interview

Live at the Edinburgh Fringe with special guest Lee Cornes!

Book relaunch and Edinburgh Fringe teaser

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Rik the Narrator

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Richard Davies in Man Down

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Drop Dead Fred

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Richard Dangerous and Dreamytime Escort

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Lord Flashheart in Blackadder

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Richie Rich in Filthy, Rich and Catflap

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Colin Grigson in Bad New and More Bad News

The Book Launch! (Also The Edinburgh Festival Fringe live show)

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Rick / Rick the Poet

The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Kevin Turvey

Talking Bottom meets Podcasto Catflappo!

Talking Bottom LIVE - at The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival with special guest Ed Bye

THE BOOK & The Rik Mayall Comedy Festival

Slapstick Festival

Bottom: Exposed

Peter Richardson interview - The Comic Strip Presents...

Helen Lederer Interview (It‘s Lady Natasha Letitia Sarah Jane Wellesley Obstromsky Ponsonsky Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Smythe Oblomov Boblomov Dob!)

Mark Searby interview

Grenville Horner interview

Jessica Mann interview