Holy

After a fire last episode on my DVD which was 'Culture' not 'Parade' as listed here, "Bottom" is back on track with some decent laughs in one of the silliest Christmas episodes of a TV show you will ever see.

Plot In A Paragraph: It is Christmas Day and Richie and Eddie are celebrating Christmas and decides to invite Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog to join them for Christmas dinner and fun and games. Where Richie finds a baby boy on the front doorstep and believes the baby is Jesus, Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog are the three Kings as they are all wearing paper crepe hats that resemble crowns, and he is the chosen one, the virgin who has been kept pure by God.

Silly, rude, perverted and hilarious.

I find Bottom in Holy (1992) is another hilarious Christmas Special from the year 1992, Because of the late Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's slapstick violent style of humour as well as their memorable moments. The way Richie attempted to cook the roast Turkey and the roast vegetables, but it was a failure for himself, his flatmate Eddie Hitler, Dave Hedgehog and Spud Gun. Suddenly, Ritchie and his flatmates have discovered the baby boy called Johnny, Who is the grandson of the grumpy landlord Mr. Harrison, and they gave him Terry's All Gold Chocolate Box, a Frankenstein's Monster Face Mask and the men's aftershave called Grrrr as Christmas presents for the nativity scene of the young Jesus Christ for heartwarming reasons. I find it way more hilarious than Peep Show in Seasonal Beatings (2010). I'm giving this a 9/10 and Merry Christmas.

Richie, Eddie, Spudgun and Dave Hedgehog celebrate Christmas.

With so many Christmas themed comedies out there, it's a pretty saturated market and much humour repackaged in different guises. 'Holy' does it in a distinctly Bottom style with the characters fighting, swearing and letching their way through a disastrous Christmas Day.

Richie is so enthusiastic with over-the-top festive spirit, he is the excitable child who gets up ridiculously early to open his presents and also the stressed out mum in charge of dinner and party games. All the while Eddie just wants to get drunk and watch television.

We have all the typical Bottom humour with some hilariously violent sight gags and simple yet funny one-liners. The final scene that follows Richie finding a surprise on their doorstep is one of the all time classic moments of BBC comedy. The whole concept of this situation is genius and Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Steven O'Donnell and Christopher Ryan are superb.

Series 2 is a particularly strong chapter of Bottom and this episode probably edges it as the best of them. However, comedy is in the eye of the beholder, so others might disagree.

If you still remember the jokes over 25 years later. It must be good. If you still find yourself laughing watching the repeats, then this really is a Christmas cracker.

This is the one where Richie finds a baby outside the door on Christmas day.

Eddie, Dave Hedgehog and Spudgun are the three wise men with gifts. Terry's All Gold, Frankenstein mask and Grrr aftershave. Richie is a virgin.

Now as the mother of Jesus, he will make sure Eddie gets a roasting just like the spuds in the Christmas dinner.

As with other Bottom episodes. It is rude cartoonish violent slapstick. In this one Richie nearly gets hung as he tries to deliver the presents to Eddie.