I'm Great On The Phone - Bottom - BBC 

I always thought this episode was the most poignant one of them all. Richie's desperation and frustration with life really comes through and you ALMOST start to feel sorry for him. Eddie has already given up on life, but you get the idea that Richie still has a tiny sliver of hope left that things can get better, but that hope is rapidly disappearing.

LIFE BEFORE THE INTERNET

RIP Richard Richard from all the Lads on the Ark Royal xxx

The thing about Bottom is, you think one scene is the best thing ever made and then you watch another and change your mind. Its timeless stuff. My favourite comedy of all time and I just never get fed up of it. (Dring) Hrrrh. (Dring, dring) Hrrrrrh

Richie is completely insane. This show was so good!

I´ve seen every bottom episode about a thousand times, and it never ever gets boring. I love when richie talks to himself, especially when he, and eddie are trapped in a ferris wheel, thats the funniest monologue ever if you ask me : ))

Acting within acting. How meta.

Such a shame about Rik, he was such a freaking hilarious guy! I love how he manages to be so deadpan, yet also completely absurd at the same time :D He also has a really emotive way of dropping sudden pangs of emotion into his characters, like the scene suddenly turns really sad for a moment with one line delivery, and you actually feel sorry for this ridiculous character.

Love this scene. What an amazing guy, truly missed ❤️

Fun fact: This episode (Contest) was actually recorded in 1989 (2 years before the show actually started) as the pilot episode, and then just stuck in the middle of Series 1.

I love Rik Mayall, every thing he creates is like magic to me. I've been lucky enough to witness him live twice, one aged twelve and the other aged nineteen. Each time he had me pissing my pants. From childhood to middle age this guy has had me in stitches and I know his work will continue to do so until I'm deader than a can of spam.

Love watching Eddie when he says switch on the tape recorder

i love the way eddie looks so pissed off and bored with his hands on his ears while richie is talking to himself on the phone.

Goodbye Rik. Thank you so much for the fun and the laughter. One of the best.

RIP RIK, thanks for the laughs you have given me since i was a kid. Gone too soon :/

I miss you, Lieutenant Sex Machine! We need your humour more than ever in these insane times.

Dring Dring Dring 😂 Comedy Genius and missed everyday!

I wish I was Rik Mayall. I'd look great as Rik Mayall.

Eddies face in the background 😂😂

I've always imagined being in a room with Rik Mayall is like hanging out with Santa Claus.

Really miserable to hear Rik has died. Moments like this were genuinely inspirational to me.

RIP Rik Mayall - Thank you for the belly-laughs and face-cramps which I didn't know existed until you came along . . . . Bottoms Up to you!

This guy is awesome!.........You can watch it 100x times and it`s still Hilarious

Dring ‘hhuhhhh’ Dring Dring ‘hhuuuuhhhhhuh Answers ‘Hehhhh heehhhhhhhhh helllooooohhhoooo’ I thought about this scene randomly and for no reason at work today. Odd It killed me at the time. Always will

He was the greatest on the phone! Had he just understood what all that meant...

Rik Mayall does a great nervous voice. Watch his dating video when they're at the dating agency.

"I'm more, sort of, Elizabethan, you know ..... 13th century, Shakespeare, French Revolution, all that" Love how Richie just lumps 600 years of history together 😂

rik Mayall and Adrian edmundson- absolutely amazing- pure comedy that will last for ever. Please come back to our screens!!!!!!

"Huh, there's the phone. I'm great on the phone. HELLO, great! HI!, greater"

What I mainly loved in this episode is seeing Richie constantly burn his hand on the kettle lol. "OH SHIT!!"

This is pure bloody genius cracking show and both at the top of their game ! R.I.P. Rick😄😄😄😄😄😄👍

Eddie just sitting blanking Richies insanity out as he tries desperately to entertain himself 😆 it's hilarious and so sad

Love this show. Timeless comedy! So talented

Ah yes back then when BBC had balls to make and air this kind of television.

The bit with the kettle makes me laugh to the core! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

"He's got Janey, swithc on the tape recorder" XD that always makes me laugh!

1:23 🤣🤣🤣 God I loved watching this show years ago! 😂 R.I.P Rik Mayall ❤️

i've loved bottom (the tv show) since i was about 14, one of the best comedies to have been made.

RIP MATE

R.I.P old friend

He was so amazing....

Rick was an absolute comic genius, RIP

The desperation Eddie's face shows to just be left alone. 🤣.

still funny and genius even now, Rik was gone too soon

lmao everytime i watch this i piss myself laughing... pure legend. I watched them Live on channel Dave the other nite lol

look, who is this?! hahaha!

I am probably the only 14 year old who loves this program because no my age has ever heard of it. I known this show since I was very young.

I believe Seth Mcfarlene based stewie on Rik Mayall and won’t admit it.

‘Throw away your sticks’ *BONK* ‘Ha April Fools’ That is so harsh but brilliant 😂😂 abusing his Jesus powers!

0:05 *Thinks of flash heart and bombadier* He sure was!

"I didn't expect the kettle to be hot!" Ashamed to admit that I've done & said the same thing.

I love the kettle bit XD

I still can't imagine Mark hamill sitting down and watching this gold

2:07: “Fourteen Million Billion Squillion Zillion Dollars?” Hahahahaha!

Eddie, it's him again, he's got Jamie!

I MISS Rik sooooo much, gone before his time. Never say "Was" always say "Is" because he's not gone in memory!

This is a very good sitcom.

best comedian ever hands down. just don't hurt the kids okay haha.

Rik worked on this kind of character all his life. Kevin Turvey (actuallllly) for example. My neighbour for a while. RIP Rik Mayal. 👍🇬🇧❤

Dring dring omg i cudnt stop laughing at that part lol

Ive got them all on dvd one of the best modern comedy acts ever, id i wish they would make a comeback comedy needs them.

dring eurghhh!! dring dring eurghhh!

Greatest comedy 2mins of all time

"Lieutenant Sex Machine, Homicide" is how I'm gonna answer my phone from now on. Should get a few laughs...or people will just think I'm crazy!

Rik is just the best and still missed a decade later.....

RIP. :(

love tis comedy

"Lieutenant sex machine, homicide!" 🤣🤣🤣

If anyone watched Cow And Chicken in the late 90s, it has the same vibe as Richie and Eddie's relationship.

The best duo comedy ever had

These two guys are GODS!

'Just throw away your sticks *BONK* April fool haha.' Nearly choked from laughing.

Don't leave us in all this pain Rik.

i lovde is when he says the kid bit hey don't hurt teh kid lolol best show evar watch it always hehehehe

im crying! :') love it!

Those 23 people who disliked this are obviously the ones who Richy played the April fool jokes on :)

Really got me down hearing he died :( gutted

'He's got Janie' lol

"Lieutenant sex machine homicides?"

Absolute legend!!!

Perhaps I'm the new Messiah 😆😆😆

*Richie puts hand on hot kettle* “OH SHIT!!!” Hahahahaha!

Genius and Rik Mayall are synonymous.

@MAYFLY01 That is funny when says his intelligent but he still touches a boiling hot kettle. The pretend telephone conversation his also favourite of mine.

Rik Mayall = LEGEND. 30 + YEARS OF LEGENDARY COMIC GENIOUS.

Hello? Great. Hi!? Greater

made a GIF from this

Eddie's bewilderment and trying to block out Richey makes him look like a police Man listening on head phones to the call.

Fourteen million billion squillion zillion dollars? What are you crazy? Oh you are! Sorry excuse me

My dad is like this on the phone!

OH GOD LIFE'S HORRIBLE...without Rik 😢

"get up and walk... 50 quid.... throw away your sticks, BONK!!, april fools haha"... classic

Too right!

Legend

Oh shit! This teapot is still burning xDD

Ha ha, ive read his autobiography. I love when he meets God after his accident. I wish he would have been a tad more serious in it though.

Hahahaha, oh god I'm bored. This is me.

Very Hancock/Harold Steptoe this

*Jhhing* Huhhhuhh *ChhingChing* Huhhhuhhhuhh, Hh...hahhh...helloo?

If you read about his personal life you'll find he actually is/was pretty close to being insane. Check out the time he threatened someone with a fake pistol