Bottom: The Scripts

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Eddie: Right, how much for this carved wooden leg? Harry the Bastard: Now, there's a nice bit of objet d'art! Must be worth at least two and a half grand. Eddie: Oh! Harry the Bastard: I'll give you one pound fifty for it. Eddie: Let's haggle. Harry the Bastard: All right, a quid. Eddie: No, let's haggle upwards. Harry the Bastard: All right, 50p! Eddie: Blimey, they don't call you "Harry the Bastard" for nothing, do they? Harry the Bastard: No, they call me Ted! Richie: What was your name again? Spudgun: Spudgun. Richie: Spudgun? Why do they call you Spudgun? Spudgun: Give me a potato and I'll show you why. Eddie: No Richie, you don't want to see that. Richie: Well, why do they call you hedgehog? Hedgehog: Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you why.

And they let children play this, you say? It's pretty strong stuff, isn't it, Eddie? Knights taking prawns and then, if a prawn goes all the way, he turns into a queen! - Shut up, Richie, and play the game! - OK, OK, let's go! Hey, I know! Let's pretend I'm James Bond and you're a baddy - Q or whoever - and if I lose I have to die! - Fair enough. Adrian Edmondson as Edward "Eddie" Elizabeth Hitler. [5] Edmondson described Eddie as "a very strange kind of mellow" version of Vyvyan from The Young Ones. [6] He is "a man with no morals and a devious tiny-time entrepreneur". [7] How about a make-up artist or sex change? I demand to see a lawyer preferably a female nudie one! If you'd shut up, I'll go down the line and see if I can spot the felons.

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Just like in our post on the best screenplays to read, we’ve broken down our list of the best TV scripts into the following categories: Richie: Have you ever read The Joy of Sex? Barmaid: No, I don't read things like that. Richie: Well that's okay, we can just look at the pictures! Get off, Eddie! Give me my johnnies! I just want to do it and do it and do it to those two birds at the bar- ah, ah.. Yes! An Argie took it out with a bayonet! I don't believe this so much I'm gonna smash your face in. 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]

Let's just keep it a secret between us few people in here, right? No, tell you what, forget everything I said. Skipper, Ben (23 August 2012). "Bottom to return after 18 years". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014 . Retrieved 19 June 2014. Rather than being based on any preexisting material, Harper’s Island is an example of an excellent original concept: a group of friends and family members travel to Harper’s Island for a wedding only to discover there is a killer among them. And the protagonist’s mother was killed by him seven years ago…Ron Howard and Mitchell Hurwitz came up with the idea of a show based on a “riches to rags” family. The result was the story of the dysfunctional Bluth family, presented in a serialized format. Mad Men was conceived as a spec script by TV staff writer, Matthew Weiner in 2000. It was the originality of the concept offering a glimpse into the world of New York advertising in the 1960s that first got Weiner a job as a writer on The Sopranos. In late 2004, surrounding the release of their Mindless Violence DVD, Mayall hinted that he and Edmondson may possibly be returning with another tour in the future. However, Edmondson said that it was "definitely time to stop. We're both getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous. ... We're both nearly fifty and we're starting to feel slightly undignified talking about wanking and knobs constantly." [24] In 2010, Edmondson confirmed that he had quit comedy, stating that his interest in it has declined for many years, and wanted to focus more on his band. He dismissed the idea of reuniting with Mayall, saying it is "very unlikely". [27] Richie [after hurting his hand hitting Eddie's testicles]: You bastard! That's my wanking hand! Eddie: Uh-uh; wanking finger. Richie: Uh, uh uh; wanking fingernail. Don't go! Don't go away! Here I am! Welcome one and welcome all! - Who on earth are you? - Sorry, we've come to the wrong house.