Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

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Richie attempts to lull Eddie to sleep] Richie: Night-Night, Sleep Tight. Hope the bed bugs do not bite. If they do, do a poo. Put it in a Cornish Stew. Into the ambulance, dring-dring-dring! Fish trousers elephant in Peking. Saw a busy bee; Diddle-diddle-dee. Daddy's an accountant just like me. Night-Night, God Bless. Their second argument, Marxist in inspiration, is that the law has no moral content, being merely the expression of the power of certain interest groups – of the rich against the poor, for example, or the capitalist against the worker. Since the law is an expression of raw power, there is no essential moral distinction between criminal and noncriminal behaviour. It is simply a question of whose foot the boot is on. And that is what seems to be the root of the soul-destroying BLM riots as well, of course, of terrorism. The BLM protestors got taken over and used by Marxist anarchists not socio-anarchists like me :-) who seek to destroy institutions, organisations, statues even, without ever wanting to sit and discuss how to replace racism and corruption, no they, in true anarchist form, just want to destroy. Sitting around a campfire, they have no food left.] Richie: What was that film where they ate each other? Eddie: Deep Throat, wasn't it? Richie: Oh, yeah. (beat) That was great! The depraved world of Richie and Eddie continues in this live show. It was recorded on 18 June 1993 at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton. and was the penultimate performance of the UK tour. The show allowed actors Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson to shake off the bounds of BBC censorship and take the action to the next level. The tour took place after the conclusion of the second series of the TV show, and its subsequent popularity led the pair to write and film a third series before moving on to a second live tour. Eddie: My Uncle Percy was in the trenches of the first world war. You know what he used to say? Richie: What? Eddie: "AAAH! Bloody hell! Germans! Thousands of 'em! There all going shoot me! AAAAH! Mummy, I want to go home! AAAAHHH! AAHHH! AAHHH!." Richie: (While slapping Eddie): Eddie, Shut up! Just shut up! Shut up! Episode 5 - Holy [ edit ] [Christmas Day] Richie: Right now look, there's only five hours until lunch, I've got to get my sprouts on. Don't want them all crunchy. Eddie: Not sprouts! I hate sprouts. Richie: Oh, will you stop whinging Eddie! Nobody likes sprouts! Eddie: Then why are we having them then!? Richie: Because it's Christmas!!

Dalrymple, Theodore (2001). Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Ivan R. Dee. p.iv. ISBN 9781566633826 . Retrieved 6 September 2010. Ade dramatically repeats a line from first series episode " Contest" ("slime in this ear, slime in that ear...") generating huge applause from the crowd.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 ] He is discussing his prison patients, on asking them what they'd done, they often reply, oh just a normal burglary, just a normal assault, and the wives refer to what their husbands' do as 'work'. He asks how has crime come to be seen in this way by its perpetrators? Is it, he suggests, a weakening of the inhibition against criminality? Academics have used two closely linked arguments to establish the statistical and moral normality of crime and the consequent illegitimacy of the criminal justice system’s sanctions. If you've ever looked around and thought, Gosh, why are so many more people on welfare, addicted to drugs, illiterate, born into families without two parents and generally resigned to a life of government dependent-misery and victimhood these days? 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]

a b Clark, John (December 2002). "Living and Dying in Socialist Britain". Liberty. R. W. Bradford. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010 . Retrieved 8 September 2010. The legions of helpers and carers, social workers and therapists, whose incomes and careers depend crucially on the supposed incapacity of large numbers of people to fend for themselves and behave responsibly. …their entire therapeutic worldview of the patient as the passive, helpless victim of illness legitimises the very behavious from which they are there to redeem him from. … ...the idea has become entrenched that if one does not know or understand the unconscious motives for one's acts, one is not truly responsible for them. Experiencing it on video, you get the best seat in the house without having to contend with an unruly or annoying audience, and I found the sheer exuberance of Rik and Ade's performances enjoyable.Broening, John (11 July 2010). "Book review: Conservative dissects European apathy". The Denver Post . Retrieved 1 October 2010. Later, during a fight scene Rik does in fact accidentally punch Ade in the testicles which causes them to partially break character for a few moments. Ade accepts Rik's apology, saying he's got three kids already anyway. Richie: I'm Church of England. What are you, Eddie? Eddie: I don't know. Richie: Well, what was your mother? Eddie: A wrestler.

Lily Linneker: Hello, gentlemen, sorry to have kept you waiting. Which one of you is Mr. Hitler? Eddie: Oh, that’ll be me. Lily Linneker: Any relation? Eddie: [puzzled] Well, I’ve got a mother. Lily Linneker: No, no no no, I meant Adolf Hitler. Eddie: Yes, that’s her! Richard Richard: [Looks at the audience who seems to have taken Eddie's side] Right. Wanna give me the feedline again in front of all your friends? After accidentally beating up the Gas Man, Richie and Eddie must remove an illegal gas pipe without disturbing their violent neighbour. Eddie: Hey, Richie! You know that Stork Margarine competition we entered? Richie: Yeah! Eddie: We didn't win it. Richie: What?! Well, who did? Eddie: Slip Digby. Richie: Slip Digby? The organist? Eddie: That's not what they called him in court. Richie: What was the winning caption? Eddie: "I like Stork Margarine because I've only got one leg". Richie: (pause) Not bad Eddie: Clever, clever bastard. Eddie: All we have to do now is keep quiet and very still. Richie: How long for? Eddie: Until the end of time. Richie: Righto.

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Past Winners 1992 - The British Comedy Awards - The British Comedy Awards" . Retrieved 25 August 2017. Eddie looks in disgust at the tea Richie's made] Eddie: What's this? Richie: Elm tea. The gypsies swear by it. Eddie: I bet they do! I bet they say "What the bloody hell's this?!"