Talking Bottom Podcast
1) Max Kinnings interview
This week's guest is a man whose professional career has often tighly interwoven with Rik Mayall's. He's a prolific writer of screenplays, novels, video games, plays - and was the ghost writer of Rik'...Show More
2) Dave Cohen interview
This weeks guest is a prolific comedy writer, stand-up comedian, novelist, Perrier award nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players and the man who coined the phrase “Comedy is the new rock n...Show More
3) Colin Gilbert interview
Talking Bottom chats with Colin Gilbert, the director and co-writer with Rik Mayall of The Man Behind the Green Door and Kevin Turvey Investigates. Colin also directed Rab C Nesbitt and worked on Not ...Show More
4) Live at the Edinburgh Fringe with special guest Lee Cornes!
This week it's the Talking Bottom podcast you've all been waiting for as we come to you LIVE from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! We were honoured to be joined by a very special guest - a comedian and ...Show More
5) Book relaunch and Edinburgh Fringe teaser
"Phew, that was close!" Following a catastrophic near-end more fraught than Richie and Eddie getting gunned down by the SAS, with the book Talking Bottom: A Guide to The Cult Sitcom SELLING OUT on its...Show More
6) The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Rik the Narrator
Talking Bottom reaches the final episode of this special series on The Many Faces of Rik Mayall. Everyone knows Rik had the most expressive face but he had a voice to match, too. From The Wind in The ...Show More
7) The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Rik the Narrator
Everyone knows Rik had the most expressive face but he had a voice to match, too. From The Wind in The Willows Toad to Jackanory. From Grimm's Fairy Tales to The Last Hurrah. Rik's threw everything in...Show More
8) The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Richard Davies in Man Down
Described by Man Down creator and star Greg Davies as "a force of nature" and "dream casting," Rik Mayall blessed us all with a final return to the world of sitcom, dropping in each week to steal the ...Show More
9) The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Drop Dead Fred
"Dog poo, dog poo, lovely lovely dog poo.” Move over, Harvey the rabbit. Get to buggery, Tyler Durden. This week Talking Bottom delves into Rik's foray into Hollywood, playing the world's best imagina...Show More
10) The Many Faces of Rik Mayall: Talking Bottom on Richard Dangerous and Dreamytime Escort
“The Comic Strip Presents…Mr Jolly Lives Next Door was the prototype… that was really the pilot for Bottom.” Peter Richardson summed it up perfectly in our chat with him. Our new podcast puts Rik Maya...Show More