Adrian Edmondson

Bottom (BBC2) is written by and stars Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall. [...] I have never in all my puff seen anything so full of tasteless sex and mindless violence. [...] It's wonderful but you can use the quote about tasteless sex and mindless violence, if you like. It'll sell more tickets.

It suffered, and it deserved to, from following Snakes and Ladders (Yorks), a satiric series set in the near future with John Gordon Sinclair] (son of toil) and Adrian Edmondson (upper class twit). Due to a cock-up, rather literally, on the works computer they get on the wrong escalators. The toiler rises exhilaratingly to the boardroom and the twit sinks to the basement.