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]

Dalrymple's great subject is the underclass – he's worked with them for years as a doctor in an inner city area and in prisons, he knows what he's talking about, this is a guy I respect, and he's thrusting before our horrified faces the terrible facts of the matter. He sounds like a right wing git half of the time but maybe I'm turning into a right wing git because mostly I think he's got it dead right but sometimes he's just like a slightly more intellectual Jeremy Clarkson who can write well and maybe his books are nothing more than the posh version of Is It Just Me or is Everything Shit 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. Richie: So when you ask me, [impersonating Eddie] "Uh, what's for breakfast?" I would say 'something a little unusual. Eddie: What, like a really crap impression of me? All of a sudden? 10 weeks into the tour? Just 'cos the cameras are on? Richie: Eddie, how did you get this drunk on one pound seventy-five? Eddie: There's a sale on at the chemists. Old Spice... 25p a bottle.

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Eddie and Richie are filling out forms for a dating agency)] Lily Linneker: Right, well, ah, let’s have a look at your forms then, shall we? All right. Oh, I see – you want someone homely, with cooking skills, fun to be with… and a whazzo pair of jugs? Eddie: That’s right. Richie: But obviously we’re flexible. Eddie: Ah, but not about the jugs. Richie: No, we have to be firm on the jugs. Eddie: And the jugs have to be very firm. Broening, John (11 July 2010). "Book review: Conservative dissects European apathy". The Denver Post . Retrieved 1 October 2010. Eddie: What's so great about being a nation of shopkeepers? Richie: What's so great about being a nation of shopkeepers? Eddie: Yeah. What's so great about it? Richie: Well it makes us superior to everyone else. Because we know how to run a corner shop.

a b Hemingway, Alex (8 November 2001). "An Arse Oddity". Oxford Student . Retrieved 26 September 2022. Dalrymple, Theodore (2001). Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Ivan R. Dee. p.vii. ISBN 9781566633826 . Retrieved 6 September 2010. Talking about the Parrot] Richie: What was that thing he used to say? Eddie: Get off, Get off I'm not a sexual animal? Richie: No, not that one the other thing? Eddie: Oi Richie get me another drink you overweight twat! Richie: That's the one. In 2004, a DVD featuring a compilation of violent scenes from Mayall and Edmondson throughout their career, including scenes from Bottom, was released as Mindless Violence: The Very Best of the Violent Bits. [24] See also [ edit ]

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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. Lofgren, Mikael (23 November 2008). "Theodore Dalrymple: 'Livet på samhällets botten'/'Our culture, what's left of it' ". Dagens Nyheter. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012 . Retrieved 8 September 2010. ( English) a b c Pearse, Meic (December 2002). "Life at the Bottom: the worldview that makes the underclass Review". Third Way. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. 25 (10): 27. Richie: Go on, slidle over to the front and... sidle (laughs) slidle over to the front... Eddie: You want me slidle over to the front? Richie: I often write while I'm on stage. It's a great new word I've invented "slidle". Bottom: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour 2003 [ edit ] Richie: [Thinking Eddies has a woman hidden in the bathroom]: Ah...ah...ah ha. Have you got a woman in here? A woman in here?! That's against house rules. we agreed, you're not allowed any women in here unless you get one for me at the same time, so we can really "do" it. Like in my favorite video: "Noddy goes Lap-Dancing".

Richie: Molière! Molière! Oh, he could bash out a tune or two. [To a tune from The Four Seasons] Tum-tum tiddly-tum tum-tum-tum, tum – and the other twiddly bits. He was Scottish you know. Eddie: Who, Vivaldi? Richie: No Eddie, I'm talking about composers. Honestly, it's football, football, football with you, isn't it? What makes Dalrymple unique among this company of heroes is that he is actually a working English physician who served for many years in hospitals located in or near England's worst urban slums. He's seen the needle and the damage done. He's seen gang violence, street violence, ethnic violence, domestic violence . . . and it's all here. All of it. The third live incarnation of Bottom is notable for introducing a complete change of setting for the characters. No longer in Hammersmith, Richie and Eddie find themselves stranded on a tropical island and try and find ways to pass the time until they are rescued. Things get a little more urgent, however, when they discover a 15 megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the island. There were plans in 2012 to adapt Hooligan's Island into a spin-off BBC series but it sadly never came to fruition. Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity Richie has returned from hospital] Richie: I couldn't believe that nurse - all I said was "Hello, have you seen 'The Singing Detective'?" and she twatted me with a kidney dish!a b c d Reynolds, Gillian. "Hitting bottom". The Daily Telegraph. p.16 . Retrieved 23 September 2022– via Newspapers.com.