Bottom

About Bottom

Richie Richard (socially awkward, sexually inexperienced) and Eddie Hitler (carefree alcoholic ) are two social outcasts living on the dole. Trapped together in a squalid flat in Hammersmith, London they are perpetually skint, bored and sexually frustrated.

Bottom is a comedy series made for BBC Two. Adrian Edmondson appears as Edward Elizabeth Hitler, and Rik Mayall as Richard Richard.

Its 3 seasons and 18 episodes aired between September 1991 and April 1995. That is around 6 episodes a season.

Shelv files it under slapstick comedy, surreal, fight, and breaking the fourth wall. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads. It scores 7.9 out of 10 from 150 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.

'Allo 'Allo!, The Young Ones, and Men Behaving Badly make useful companions to Bottom, all filed under dark comedy and sitcom.