A mad helter-skelter rude awesomely violent unpredictable swaggering staggering joyously infantile exhilarating steamroller of a sitcom The Young Ones provided the breakthrough for the new generation of aggressive and forthright 'alternative' comedians. Join Rik Vyv Neil and Mike in their crazy and surreal comedy adventures!
Do not lean out of the window! Join Vyv, Rick, Neil, and Mike in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the iconic cult sitcom, THE YOUNG ONES. Released on Blu-ray for the very first time - so you can enjoy the squalor as never before. Including 10 new exclusive audio commentaries, featurettes and never-before-seen bonus material. From Scumbag College to the AEC Routemaster, this is the ultimate complete collection of this classic British comedy. There was Mike, the suave, sensible one; Vyvyan, the psychotic punk-metal mohican; Neil, the lentil loving hippy and Rick, right-on anarchist revolutionary and Cliff Richard fan: four students - desperate for money, excitement, girls or just something to help fill the day - sharing a house. From this simple set up came an amazing speedball of comic caricature, slapstick, infantile humour, animation, musical performances, rants, violence, abuse and surreal jokes - leaving an impression as jaw-dropping as finding one of Vyvyan's steel-capped boots through our television screens. The Young Ones brought the irreverence, anarchy and energy of the new alternative comedy movement to situation comedy - and it would never be the same again. Product Features 10 new commentaries from cast and crew Never seen before deleted scenes Rediscovered rushes from the cutting room floor Extensive photo gallery featuring the original music score and unpublished images from the production team Raw studio footage A workprint edit of 'sick' Fundamental frolics featuring an early appearance from rik And for the first time, both episodes of 'boom boom out go the lights', introduced by the producer who put alternative comedy on the telly Also including: 'alternative rebellion', 'the making of the young ones' and 'the guest stars of the young ones' featurettes
Showbiz superstar and sex symbol Richie Rich (Mayall), his generally disgusting minder Catflap (Edmondson) and dead drunk agent Ralph Filthy (Planer) are set for all sorts of adventures in this sitcom precursor to 'Bottom'!
Richie and Eddie run Guest House paradiso: possibly the worst hotel in the world.
After a decade of honing their signature characters, Richie and Eddie, across TV and stage-show appearances, British comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (The Comic Strip Presents..., The Young Ones) finally gave the pair the big-screen outing which they truly deserved in the riotous, vomit-soaked entertainment that is Guest House Paradiso. When Mr Nice (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and his family check in to 'the cheapest hotel in Britain' - run with maximum inefficiency and malfeasance by Richie and Eddie - it sets off an outrageous chain of events involving rubber underwear, a beautiful Italian film star (Hélène Mahieu), her abusive fiancé (Vincent Cassel, Irreversible), and a consignment of radioactive fish. Featuring a spectacular supporting cast, which also includes Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!, Hammer's The Old Dark House) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually), this slapstick tour-de-force is a latter-day classic of disreputable British comedy, which has to be seen to be believed. INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the original interpositiveOriginal 5.1 surround sound and stereo audio tracksThe Making of 'Guest House Paradiso' (1999): archival documentary featuring interviews with actor, co-writer and director Adrian Edmondson, actor and co-writer Rik Mayall, producer Phil McIntyre, and actors Fenella Fielding, Hélène Mahieu and Simon PeggParadiso Pegg (2023): interview with celebrated actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg in which he looks back at his time making the filmInterview with Colin Towns (2024): the prolific film and television composer discusses his scoreInterview with Sean Barton (2024): the veteran editor recalls his work on the filmInterview with Tom Brown (2024): the production designer explores the guest house's unique challenges From the Cutting Room Floor (1999): outtakes from the film's productionOriginal theatrical trailersImage gallery: promotional and publicity materialNew and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingLimited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Jon Robertson, archival articles on the making of the film, and full film creditsUK premiere on Blu-rayLimited edition of 3,000 copies for the UK All extras subject to change
You laughed at their antics in 'The Young Ones'. You loved them as the Dangerous Brothers. You enjoyed their gross-out humour as Richard Richard and Eddie Hitler in 'Bottom' on the telly. Then it got even better when they took their 'Bottom' show on the road - live with loads of improvised moments of hilarity. Now it's Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in their biggest ever tour - 'Bottom Live 4'. This is the recorded version of their most recent show entitled '2001 - An Arse Oddity'.
This box set contains all four series of Jonathan Creek to date. Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin star in this highly successful murder mystery drama series. Jonathan magic expert and amateur sleuth extraordinaire turns out to be less successful in his relationship with investigative crimewriter Maddy Magellen.... All the episodes from Series 1 and 2: 'The Wrestler's Tomb' 'Jack In The Box' 'The Reconstituted Corpse' 'No Trace of Tracey' and 'The House Of Monkeys'
Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour is reputedly the swan song for Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall's Eddie Hitler and Richie Richard. If so, it's a mixed blessing, for while much of it is funny, it's also a long way from the original BBC Bottom series. The TV incarnation was always crude, but worked hilariously because it balanced real characterisation and comically absurd ingenuity with the vulgarity. Here Edmundson and Mayall spend 90 minutes swearing as loudly and repulsively as possible and indulging in cartoon violence, which can never--for reasons of self-preservation and the legal ramifications of killing people on stage--be as insanely inventive as on television. With no other characters (where are you Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog when you're most needed?) and a barely existent story involving a device that inserts a sofa in a part of Richie where no sofa should fit, and a time machine that takes our heroes on a quest to reach the bar before the audience, the material is thinly stretched. Nevertheless, the theatre audience at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea seem to have had a fantastic time being roundly abused by the stars. Probably, you just had to be there. On the DVD: Bottom Live 2003 is presented with, for a live theatre show, a strong, anamorphically enhanced 16:9 image and perfectly serviceable, clear stereo sound. It's far from special, but notably better than the technical quality of previous Bottom live videos. The only extra is a slideshow of backstage images, which runs for a minute-and-a-half. --Gary S Dalkin
Many of the leading lights of screen and comedy began life with appearances on Saturday Night Live; on this fantastic compilation we bring you the very best of the first ever series with the likes of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Elliott Gould and Chevy Chase.
Anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson perform slapstick comedy as Richard Dangerous and Sir Adrian Dangerous.
A 7th grader, who feels guilty for the suicide of the classmate, tries to get by in this animated black comedy.
After a decade of honing their signature characters, Richie and Eddie, across TV and stage-show appearances, British comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson (The Comic Strip Presents..., The Young Ones) finally gave the pair the big-screen outing which they truly deserved in the riotous, vomit-soaked entertainment that is Guest House Paradiso. When Mr Nice (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) and his family check in to the cheapest hotel in Britain' run with maximum inefficiency and malfeasance by Richie and Eddie it sets off an outrageous chain of events involving rubber underwear, a beautiful Italian film star (Hélène Mahieu), her abusive fiancé (Vincent Cassel, Irreversible), and a consignment of radioactive fish. Featuring a spectacular supporting cast, which also includes Fenella Fielding (Carry On Screaming!, Hammer's The Old Dark House) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually), this slapstick tour-de-force is a latter-day classic of disreputable British comedy, which has to be seen to be believed. INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES 4K restoration from the original interpositive Original 5.1 surround sound and stereo audio tracks The Making of Guest House Paradiso' (1999, 38 mins): archival documentary featuring interviews with actor, co-writer and director Adrian Edmondson, actor and co-writer Rik Mayall, producer Phil McIntyre, and actors Fenella Fielding, Hélène Mahieu and Simon Pegg Paradiso Pegg (2023, 12 mins): interview with celebrated actor, writer and comedian Simon Pegg in which he looks back at his time making the film All the Right Noises (2024, 16 mins): prolific film and television composer Colin Towns talks about his score Finely Tuned Madness (2024, 8 mins): veteran editor Sean Barton discusses his working methods and the art of cutting comedy Squalid Precision (2024, 19 mins): production designer Tom Brown explores the guest house Outtakes (1999, 9 mins): mishaps and bloopers Original theatrical trailers Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Comic Strip Presents Box Set (9 Discs)
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson give the flat-share sitcom a much needed kick up the Bottom in the show which, alongside Men Behaving Badly (1992-8) injected new life into a legendarily dire genre. With glorious comic gusto they play Richie Rich and Eddie Hitler, a pair of misfits barely surviving unemployment in a Hammersmith hovel. They spend their life in frustration, minus female company or money, in facile schemes to entertain or better themselves, their best intentions always proving the catalyst for hilariously OTT cartoon-style violence. The humour benefits from being rude, crude and surreal, and though happily bereft of subtlety or sense the situations and set-pieces are always superbly constructed, delivered and directed. But that's only to be expected from a show that essentially presents two of The Young Ones a decade down the line. Mayall and Edmondson had earlier perfected their surreal double act as The Dangerous Brothers and these first episodes of Bottom find them in side-splitting form. From a misadventure with pheromone spray and the wrong sort of dogs down the pub in "Smells" to a birthday "Accident", which introduces The Young Ones' Christopher Ryan as a regular guest character, this is BBC comedy at its best. Brace yourself, 'cos this is going to hurt. On the DVD Bottom, Series 1 contains all six episodes presented in the original TV 4:3 ratio with mono sound. The transfer is flawless, if anything rather revealing the limitations of the source material. The only extra beyond optional English subtitles and a Danish dub is "Bottom Fluff" a 15-minute blooper reel that offers a masterclass in the art of swearing. --Gary S Dalkin
The best of those anarchic flat-sharers Eddie and Richie in 'Bottom'! For 25 years Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson have been battering each other senseless using fists feet bricks spades and any other seemingly innocuous object. Now gathered all on one DVD watch the best of Eddie and Richie's Mindless Violence...
Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson are back - even bigger and more Bottomly than ever - with Bottom Live 3 Hooligan's Island. Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour we find Richie and Eddie marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific. Will they build a raft and escape? Grasp the opportunity to embrace the earthly paradise around them? Or will they simply bicker and fart fight puke poke and masturbate their way through 100 minutes of the most hilariously outrageous live
Six episodes of crazy comedy written by Ben Elton! Showbiz superstar and sex symbol Richie Rich (Mayall) his generally disgusting minder Catflap (Edmondson) and dead drunk agent Ralph Filthy (Planer) are set for all sorts of adventures in this sitcom precursor to 'Bottom'! Episodes Comprise: 1. Dead Milkmen 2. Game Show 3. Dinner Party 4. A Death In The Family? 5. Breakfast Television 6. Smear Campaign
Features the complete thirty-nine episodes from the ground-breaking comedy series.
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