Exactly. That's why the first series of Blackadder (AKA the Black Adder) wasn't so good. The first Blackadder was basically a more talkative version of Mr Bean. It was the second series that really got the show going. The third series is perhaps the best of the lot, but there's not much in it.
@@nickhand8054try the original pilot which was more like the Blackadder we know and love as the sarcastic verbal abusive brainy one but when it came to the first series they dumbed him down but all changed when Ben Elton came on board
Delivery is probably 50% of what nails good comedy. You can have the most hilarious script ever conceived by man, but if your cast don't deliver it well, it'll absolutely fall flat. If you take something like Bottom, which is essentially a combination of violent slapstick, toilet humour, and rampant verbal abuse, and give it to anyone other than Rik Mayall (RIP you mad bastard) and Ade Edmondson, it'd probably be deeply unfunny. Having the right people in the right roles is critical. (For proof of this, watch the episode "Hole", which features Richie and Eddie talking bollocks to each other while trapped on a Ferris wheel for the entire show.)
Talking "like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow's digestive system" is the pure essence of mastery of the English language, though. After all, a true speaker of English will be able to tell you to go to hell in such a way that by the time they're done, you look forward to the journey.
@@what-oy8il Ok, relax, I was referring to the subject of this particular episode, not the the idea of great comedy representing British greatness, values etc, I had just been watching our lunatic new leader Truss on TV, so blood was boiling at that moment, I agree with you totally, a nation of wordsmiths, with the best language in the world.
I couldn't agree more i think iv watch every episode a thousand times and still blows my mind how funny it is still to this day. the sarcasm is second to none. Every character is brilliant in their own way, writing is amazing, costumes, casting... total perfection. took me a while to warm up to the first series but watching it now i absolutely love it. Ben Elton definately took it to the next level after the first series though.
I love the moment when the prince says "It's almost as if someone is sneaking in, stealing my socks, and selling them on" and Blackadder gives that little laugh that says "I'm alittle surprised you worked out what I'm doing as you're normally too clueless"
I see it more as Blackadder giving a hollow laugh to acknowledge the ridiculousness of such a far-fetched notion. The Prince Regent has hit upon the outrageous truth without realising that Blackadder is the culprit - that's the joke we're all in on.
Surprise, contempt, and just a hint of nervousness that he might loose his job if the prince had a few more brain cells to rub together. It’s just masterly
This is the genius of Rowan Atkinson... one of the funniest parts of this is the simple look he gives after the Prince says, "You'd think someone was stealing them and selling them." Not sure anybody else could pull that off... Also... I dare anyone to watch this show and then some episodes of "House" and not admit Hugh Laurie is one of the greatest actors of our generation.
no chance,... fed the bull crap, rich still get fatter and richer,... and bemoan a loss, whilst the poor, and lesser too. get fked up the bum and .. and them that have the money can, them that just get by, just get by those who can't do either,,(and can get by with assistance ) some are so neglected that, (even though they try) and play along with the righty system..are just fucket.. so the only way to then is crime or what have you..? right or wrong.??
I discovered it recently, as a french i have to stop subtitles quite often cause they speak very fluently but i have to admit we were far from thet level in france. Love it.
I can never tire of Blackadder I fear we will never see the like again and damn us Brits for only having 6 episodes per series six impeccable episodes though and grateful for every single one including the specials even back and forth for the millennium anti distinctly minty … ❤❤❤
0:21 Prince George: RANTING ABOUT THE MISSING SOCKS - They just disppear! Honestly, you`d thing someone was coming in here, stealing the damn things and selling them off ! Blackadder: Chuckle ... Impossible. That was priceless, so much humor in such terse reaction, includig his knowing smile and George`s total ingorance. Brilliantly performed, really.
May be my favourite iteration of the family, with Captain Blackadder being a close second. Also, shout out of appreciation for the Prince Regent - young Hugh Laurie was really rather fit.
Hugh Laurie was quite an athlete in his younger days. He went to Cambridge mostly to row, and actually competed in the Boat Race. Then a bout of illness struck him meaning that he couldn't row. He was faced with the prospect of actually working at his degree instead, but decided that wasn't for him - so he joined the Footlights.
Blackadder: Criminal record? Baldrick: Absolutely not. Blackadder: Oh come on, Baldrick, you’re going to be an MP for God's sake ! I’ll just put down Fraud and Sexual Deviancy.
Nice little link...before hiring Jeeves, Bertie Wooster (so perfectly portrayed by Hugh Laurie) was forced to dismiss his valet for, and I quote, "sneaking his silk socks".
Of course! There was something at the back of my mind about the sock thing being familiar, but I was to blown away by Hugh Laurie being fabulous beyond words.
Hugh Lauri is so glorious at throwing his all into playing a dim-wit. And frankly, the Prince Regent is the one historical person where I couldn't care less if he's made to look like a fool. Given that they neglected to stuff a few pillows under Lauri's vest, this is still a flattering depiction.
I knew of Mr Bean and Dr House before I ever saw the Regent and Blackadder on screen together for the first time, but at that moment I learned what comedic range these two are truly capable of. What a contrast. Absolutely legendary
Black Adder was superb. Atkinson and his comic timing, way of speaking and cutting sarcasm as written by Ben Elton. Mr Bean was an utter waste of Atkinsons talents. I know some like him as Bean. But he is bumbling idiot. As Black Adder he is witty, sneaky, underhanded and sarcastic all at the same time. Its his way of speaking that makes the lines work. Having Bean gurgling in a silly voice now and then is an utter waste of Atkinson's vocal performances. Its just a shame they never made more. The first season is finding its feet, season 2 and 3 are utterly brilliant, not a bad episode in there, but the last season was a bit too depressing due to its setting in the first World War. It was still funny, but had an undercurrent of tragedy, sadness and loss, the stupidity of the waste of life, it was hard to get the same comic silliness out of that, than mucking about in Elizabethan England or with Prince George....
I care not a jot that you sound like a plate of beans negotiating it's way out of a cow's digestive system ..... Three things , brilliantly written , spoken perfectly , and i'm going to use that line :)
@@timmartindale75 I type with one finger. It is not my finger. And as long as people understand what i have typed, then it is fine by me. I type at speed , so if i make a typo, i could be several lines past it, before i even notice. And lastly , i do not care. But thanks for letting me know :)
Cast, _Mr. Edmund Blackadder (butler to The Prince)_ : Rowan Atkinson. _George, The Prince Regent (his master)_ : Hugh Laurie. _Sir Talbot Buxomly (a Member of Parliament)_ : Denis Lill.
Every single character and line in this is just perfect. Whatever the team (writers & actors) got paid, unless they are right now partying on they their own private island, it was too little.
Never gets old. Even pitch-perfect better now. Like a comment on current affairs from another channel than the BBC. And Hugh 'it's not Lupus' Laurie really nails it (as usual).
@@nimascolari1508 Imagine any main old channel airing Jeeves and Wooster anno 2023. Whole cast would have to be exchanged so as not to be excluded from the inclusivity matrix.
@@annasundlof2282 😂 yea for sure. Imagine Mind your language now. So many racial stereotypes, comedy gold that would offend so many SJWs. Thin skinned no sense of humour having people offend me. Life of Brian? Married with Children? Stop the world. I want off.
I am at the moment, whilst dividing my attention between this and ‘Roadkill’, and also contemplating ‘House’, it is of no wonder that Hugh Laurie has been reported as being one of the most highly paid actors in history. The man is a genius! And a keyboard player, a guitarist, and a champion rower, the utter, utter, utter, bastard!
I would not put him in the big dollars acting league but he has never been short of work. He is a very clever man and his Prince role was a masterpiece.
These gents have range. Atkinson went from playing a silver-tongued snake to a mute anarchistic oddball, Laurie from dimwitted dullard aristocrat to snarky medical savant.
@@gryphonbotha1880It's meant to mislead and brainwash people with it's revisionism and afrocentrism so that they can later claim that England was mixed race,make ra cist comments like "terribly White royal family" and to distract us from crimes the of these black and brown people destroying our civilised western societies
Listening to Blackadder is like munching a St. Ives pastie that has been cooked to perfection, nurtured gently in an oven just at the right temperature and served politely on a Cornish granite plate.
Now that I am older I realise that when Blackadder laughs very quietly he is as good as confessing too stealing his majesty's socks and selling them as opulent socks.
I was unfortunately doomed to auto mechanic videos & was about to lose my sense of humor. VOILA! Mass airflow sensor (& fat fingers) magically landed me here♡ Now I'll be singing the theme for 3 weeks. Thanx, gonna watch all you got.
You are absolutely right sir Talbot I like the sarcastic way of deliverance ... Because in any policy, It is no skin off my aching bones or nose ... In the fact that there are better leaves floating down the Thames that make better Regents ... Would I still try to conversate my way out of your digestion system indeed a moody point ...
I actually had a neighbor, with whom I was very friendly, who was stealing both my socks and t-shirts, with me wondering, all the while, where they were getting to. I finally realized he was doing it when my brother left a bag with his clothes in it, and his shirts disappeared. he was much too skinny for my neighbor to wear his shirts, just like I was too big.
Rowan Atkinson is always at his best when he plays intelligent, sarcastic characters. His facial expressions and vocal mannerisms are spot on.
Exactly.
That's why the first series of Blackadder (AKA the Black Adder) wasn't so good. The first Blackadder was basically a more talkative version of Mr Bean.
It was the second series that really got the show going. The third series is perhaps the best of the lot, but there's not much in it.
@@nickhand8054maybe that’s why I didn’t like the first few bits of it. I’ll have to skip ahead cuz these are all hilarious what I see on TH-cam. Lol
@@CS-ui4qj Seaons 4 is where its at! I get goosebumps every time I watch the last minutes of season 4....
That last ep. still reduces me to a sobbing mess.@@antonk.2748
@@nickhand8054try the original pilot which was more like the Blackadder we know and love as the sarcastic verbal abusive brainy one but when it came to the first series they dumbed him down but all changed when Ben Elton came on board
"Is he qualified?"
"He is a violent bigoted mindless old fool sir"
"Sounds a bit over qualified."
@@dlmdee Nope sounds like Trump.
@@mushroomhead3619 and Boris !!
@@mushroomhead3619 only one of them is actually president. Take the L
Apart from the “He” this could be Priti Patels CV…..
I see it’s the conservative leadership contest
It's not just that the script is genius, it's that it's so brilliantly delivered.
Yeah like the punchlines you can see a mile off but the delivery is just fantastic.
Delivery is probably 50% of what nails good comedy. You can have the most hilarious script ever conceived by man, but if your cast don't deliver it well, it'll absolutely fall flat. If you take something like Bottom, which is essentially a combination of violent slapstick, toilet humour, and rampant verbal abuse, and give it to anyone other than Rik Mayall (RIP you mad bastard) and Ade Edmondson, it'd probably be deeply unfunny. Having the right people in the right roles is critical. (For proof of this, watch the episode "Hole", which features Richie and Eddie talking bollocks to each other while trapped on a Ferris wheel for the entire show.)
And yet, I can't help but conclude, that had Blackbladder been offered for the first viewing, today, it would have been LAUGHED----out the door.
@@MrDaiseymay possibly. But people who didn't know it then find it funny now. 🙂
@@MrDaiseymay Not a chance. Listen to the Goons. Still funny after eighty years. And the Marx Brothers, almost a hundred years
“There are bits of lemon floating down the Thames that would make better regents than you” is the most British diss I’ve ever heard
"... _but_ you are appointed by God and I shall stick by forever!"
very patriotic sentiment, pity about not being able to vote for him anymore.
Bits of lemon peel actually, wot are floating, don't you know and all that. But that's no skin off my rosy nose 😂
Talking "like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow's digestive system" is the pure essence of mastery of the English language, though. After all, a true speaker of English will be able to tell you to go to hell in such a way that by the time they're done, you look forward to the journey.
*bits of lemon peel
😂😂
The true value of British culture in the comedy .
Tory values, not ours.
@@trillions5000 what are you talking about?
@@what-oy8il Ok, relax, I was referring to the subject of this particular episode, not the the idea of great comedy representing British greatness, values etc, I had just been watching our lunatic new leader Truss on TV, so blood was boiling at that moment, I agree with you totally, a nation of wordsmiths, with the best language in the world.
@@trillions5000 i see
@@what-oy8il hes just another terminally online muppet who does nothing bus obsess over politics, ignore him
Hugh and Rowan together is pure ✨ magic!
Yeah< but Rowan slapped my Hugh>>>>AND wHAT??..... POLITICS WILL DO.........ROWAN FFS. WE DONT DO THAT. MRS MUGGINS. DEAL WITH IT.
"Socks are like sex, tons of it about but I never seem to get any."
I feel personally attacked 😭😂
Socks are like sex. When I was a teenege boy I used socks for - well never mind.
Attacked for the socks part or the sex?😂 Maybe both? 😭
I feel the same.
Yea comp act disc
Choir ya bobs munk and wile wearing mask
Blackadder is still the best comedy ever written. No matter how many times I watch them I always have a good laugh.
I couldn't agree more i think iv watch every episode a thousand times and still blows my mind how funny it is still to this day. the sarcasm is second to none. Every character is brilliant in their own way, writing is amazing, costumes, casting... total perfection. took me a while to warm up to the first series but watching it now i absolutely love it. Ben Elton definately took it to the next level after the first series though.
Upstart Crow is right up there, though. You'd almost think it was written by the same guy.
Apart from the first series I completely agree
@@AA-hg5fk I love the first series.
@Mr Spitsworth I have watched it, I just think series 1 is nowhere near as good as the subsequent three.
I love the moment when the prince says "It's almost as if someone is sneaking in, stealing my socks, and selling them on" and Blackadder gives that little laugh that says "I'm alittle surprised you worked out what I'm doing as you're normally too clueless"
I see it more as Blackadder giving a hollow laugh to acknowledge the ridiculousness of such a far-fetched notion. The Prince Regent has hit upon the outrageous truth without realising that Blackadder is the culprit - that's the joke we're all in on.
Surprise, contempt, and just a hint of nervousness that he might loose his job if the prince had a few more brain cells to rub together. It’s just masterly
😂
This is the genius of Rowan Atkinson... one of the funniest parts of this is the simple look he gives after the Prince says, "You'd think someone was stealing them and selling them." Not sure anybody else could pull that off...
Also... I dare anyone to watch this show and then some episodes of "House" and not admit Hugh Laurie is one of the greatest actors of our generation.
Sensible policies,for a happier Britain, so no change there.
no chance,... fed the bull crap, rich still get fatter and richer,... and bemoan a loss, whilst the poor, and lesser too. get fked up the bum and .. and them that have the money can, them that just get by, just get by those who can't do either,,(and can get by with assistance ) some are so neglected that, (even though they try) and play along with the righty system..are just fucket.. so the only way to then is crime or what have you..? right or wrong.??
Love the sarcasm
Best series of Blackadder. Hugh's performance was absolutely brilliant.
I discovered it recently, as a french i have to stop subtitles quite often cause they speak very fluently but i have to admit we were far from thet level in france.
Love it.
"We were rather getting on." - It couldn't have been delivered better. 😆
I can never tire of Blackadder I fear we will never see the like again and damn us Brits for only having 6 episodes per series six impeccable episodes though and grateful for every single one including the specials even back and forth for the millennium anti distinctly minty … ❤❤❤
Quality over quantity.
@@Trigormike Exactly. Like the OP said "six impeccable episodes" per season is enough for me.
@@Trigormike Quality isn't limited to 6 episodes.
0:21 Prince George: RANTING ABOUT THE MISSING SOCKS - They just disppear! Honestly, you`d thing someone was coming in here, stealing the damn things and selling them off !
Blackadder: Chuckle ... Impossible.
That was priceless, so much humor in such terse reaction, includig his knowing smile and George`s total ingorance. Brilliantly performed, really.
right now this could be a documentary
It almost is, except for the dead bit at the end, but we could work on this..
Hope the current prince George isn't listening.
Ever so clever
Indeed, indeed jolly good show.
Stereotyped old tat
May be my favourite iteration of the family, with Captain Blackadder being a close second.
Also, shout out of appreciation for the Prince Regent - young Hugh Laurie was really rather fit.
hugh laurie fit back then, and still gorgeous in avenue 5...and i do mean gorgeous.
Hugh Laurie was quite an athlete in his younger days. He went to Cambridge mostly to row, and actually competed in the Boat Race.
Then a bout of illness struck him meaning that he couldn't row. He was faced with the prospect of actually working at his degree instead, but decided that wasn't for him - so he joined the Footlights.
What a shapely ankle! 😆
One of my ex pupils told me that he loved Stephen Fry, then later that he loved Hugh Laurie, but he had no idea that they started out together.
@@whiskeyvictor5703 fine of fetlock!
the UK houses of parliament haven't changed much in centuries. Its nice seeing the way tradition is being upheld
"the UK houses of parliament haven't changed much in centuries. ... " except that they burnt down.
Well that hardly accounts for much
Blackadder: Criminal record?
Baldrick: Absolutely not.
Blackadder: Oh come on, Baldrick, you’re going to be an MP for God's sake ! I’ll just put down Fraud and Sexual Deviancy.
id love a contemporary version of this
Nice little link...before hiring Jeeves, Bertie Wooster (so perfectly portrayed by Hugh Laurie) was forced to dismiss his valet for, and I quote, "sneaking his silk socks".
Very well spotted
Of course! There was something at the back of my mind about the sock thing being familiar, but I was to blown away by Hugh Laurie being fabulous beyond words.
Very good catch.
oh, wow, perfect reference!
Hugh Lauri is so glorious at throwing his all into playing a dim-wit. And frankly, the Prince Regent is the one historical person where I couldn't care less if he's made to look like a fool. Given that they neglected to stuff a few pillows under Lauri's vest, this is still a flattering depiction.
yes he isnt as bulbous and flatulent as the real regent.
Yes, BUT THISis the young Prince Regent
Only the British could come up with this. It’s bloody funny and insightful.
That is why we love you 🇩🇰🇬🇧
The intimation that he sat for a full 48 hrs in one place trying to pronounce a single word makes me laugh
"Anti distinctly minty" sounded like a secure base camp from which he was making repeated attempts up the lexicographic mountain.
He was anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulations.
He's obviously Dixilicsick
@@ann_onn quite right; said interfrastically so that it resplendently wibbles one's postlesnoo.
The word is "implication"
Great, now I feel like going on a Blackadder binge.
12:25 - As Brazilian , I can relate to appointing violent bigoted mindless people to High Court Judges.
Terrivelmente evangélico
I think everyone can.
You don't need to be Brazilian, anywhere will do.
This is the episode that gave me the love of the word antidistinctly-minty, very closely followed by antidisestablishmentarianism. Love Blackadder.
As an Australian we cant thank you enough for shipping that delightful criminal genius of sarcasm Ben Elton across to our shores. ;}
Oh, he's in Oz now?
@otocan yes, he has lived in WAust for quite a few years now...
You're welcome. We do share you know. 😊
@@otocan Indeed - he adopted our colony many years ago...he also made the mini-series of his wonderful book Stark here. I love his books.
Ah that makes sense why nothing funny gets made in the Uk now lol
Literally the best speech George ever gave 😂
I knew of Mr Bean and Dr House before I ever saw the Regent and Blackadder on screen together for the first time, but at that moment I learned what comedic range these two are truly capable of. What a contrast. Absolutely legendary
Black Adder was superb. Atkinson and his comic timing, way of speaking and cutting sarcasm as written by Ben Elton. Mr Bean was an utter waste of Atkinsons talents. I know some like him as Bean. But he is bumbling idiot. As Black Adder he is witty, sneaky, underhanded and sarcastic all at the same time. Its his way of speaking that makes the lines work. Having Bean gurgling in a silly voice now and then is an utter waste of Atkinson's vocal performances. Its just a shame they never made more. The first season is finding its feet, season 2 and 3 are utterly brilliant, not a bad episode in there, but the last season was a bit too depressing due to its setting in the first World War. It was still funny, but had an undercurrent of tragedy, sadness and loss, the stupidity of the waste of life, it was hard to get the same comic silliness out of that, than mucking about in Elizabethan England or with Prince George....
@@Simon-xc5oywell said
Sensible policies for a happier Britain 🇬🇧!
This just needs to be the Tory slogan in every election.
Put the peasantry back in their place.
Just love Hugh Laurie as George 🤭
I loved Stephen Fry as Wellington.
@@Kiwinan1701 I love a bit of Fry and Laurie.
Brilliant comic acting
House
Blackadder The Third was the best in my opinion. My fave episode was Amy and Amiability where Blackadder is looking for a rich wife for George.
hilarious all brilliant comedian's in one place. Our Irish so called comedy is a fuckin' embarrassment.
Yeah, this was the golden era of British TV.
@@Minime163 Don't know about now but I still love Father Ted.
@@sosimple3585 father Ted was about as good as Irish comedy got plus dermot Morgan is dead now.
"SAUSAGE TIME!"
Blackadder is one of the best series ever.
House is such a good actor. That English accent sounds really authentic!
Lol good joke,
@@missyadams is he really? Gadzooks!
He's English!! Well cover me in eggs and flour and bake me for 20 minutes!
?House? Looks like spellcheck got in: he’s Hugh Laurie 😊
@PrincessA ok so I was off by 20 mins th-cam.com/video/kNDPIGSPdFA/w-d-xo.html 😳
This is my favourite of the Blackadder series.
@@DanielOlivierArgyle They’re all excellent.
Not bad. Sense n Senility or Beer?
In fact we just love Blackadder 😁
@@nuntana2 Have to say Sense…Stephen Fry Magnificent as Wellington!
I care not a jot that you sound like a plate of beans negotiating it's way out of a cow's digestive system ..... Three things , brilliantly written , spoken perfectly , and i'm going to use that line :)
"It minds not me that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-sucking loon."
If you use that line, leave the apostrophe out of "its" - it doesn't belong there.
@@timmartindale75 I type with one finger. It is not my finger. And as long as people understand what i have typed, then it is fine by me. I type at speed , so if i make a typo, i could be several lines past it, before i even notice. And lastly , i do not care. But thanks for letting me know :)
That was the best line of the lot...and that's saying something!!
That could be considered quite rude. It has to be the ultimate putdown after hearing someone's speech.
Cast,
_Mr. Edmund Blackadder (butler to The Prince)_ : Rowan Atkinson.
_George, The Prince Regent (his master)_ : Hugh Laurie.
_Sir Talbot Buxomly (a Member of Parliament)_ : Denis Lill.
Every single character and line in this is just perfect. Whatever the team (writers & actors) got paid, unless they are right now partying on they their own private island, it was too little.
Still more trustworthy and well informed than any politician we've seen in the last 25 years...
Yes, and that's not even a joke.
Well said, sir.
dialogue like a carelessly discarded match in a box of fireworks
Honestly, British humour is the best.
Rare episode of House where he gets the diagnosis wrong.
We hail Prince George ... We hail Liz Truss
Good one!! 👏👏
I bet you didn't think two weeks ago that in two weeks you wouldn't have to hail her anymore...
@@SuzuranMajere I'm particularly gutted. I was her butler and was making a fortune selling her socks
As I understand it, she is getting a tax funded fortune out of it.
“Plump of fetlock”
It’s like he’s describing Boris already.
That sarcastic chuckle was a masterpiece of comic timing
I just binge watched the whole Blackadder series over the weekend! Been trying to find it for years!
2:39 he sits for 2 days trying to pronounce that word! Hilarious😂😂😂😂😂😂😂anti dis tible itz men... very Monthy Pythonish❤❤❤
My favorite is "The Scottish Play" (MacBeth) bit.
:You mean you have to do that every time I say 'MacBeth'?"
Hugh Laurie's acting range - from this to House to movies. So great🎉
Never gets old. Even pitch-perfect better now. Like a comment on current affairs from another channel than the BBC. And Hugh 'it's not Lupus' Laurie really nails it (as usual).
“Oh, bad luck. We were rather getting on.” lol 😆
These chaps could do a better job of running the country than the despicable creatures in power at present.
I like how he just died in mid-conversation at the end 😅
that's the joke
I'm not sure if my favourite TV show is now a rendition of real life events in modern day English politics.
...and in today's Britain, it would be - Cancelled.
@@annasundlof2282 you're completely right
There's not NEARLY enough transphobia in this show for Brits to find it entertaining
Definitely would be cancelled. E4 stopped airing certain Friends episodes due to the fat jokes aimed at Monica. Imagine that. I find that offensive.
@@nimascolari1508 Imagine any main old channel airing Jeeves and Wooster anno 2023. Whole cast would have to be exchanged so as not to be excluded from the inclusivity matrix.
@@annasundlof2282 😂 yea for sure. Imagine Mind your language now. So many racial stereotypes, comedy gold that would offend so many SJWs. Thin skinned no sense of humour having people offend me. Life of Brian? Married with Children? Stop the world. I want off.
"Anti-distinctly-minty..." Full marks to him for 'avin' a go!
Distinctly minty was the punch line to an advert of the day.
@@Useaname Thank you for the information! I never knew that. 🙂 I like little bits of background like that.
I am at the moment, whilst dividing my attention between this and ‘Roadkill’, and also contemplating ‘House’, it is of no wonder that Hugh Laurie has been reported as being one of the most highly paid actors in history. The man is a genius! And a keyboard player, a guitarist, and a champion rower, the utter, utter, utter, bastard!
and still going strong in avenue 5... check it out!
@@dabraham8221 Thanks!
I would not put him in the big dollars acting league but he has never been short of work.
He is a very clever man and his Prince role was a masterpiece.
And an evil prince, on top of all that. The best is when he appears as evil prince ludwig.
...and a bike rider, which makes him a nice guy in MY book.
These gents have range. Atkinson went from playing a silver-tongued snake to a mute anarchistic oddball, Laurie from dimwitted dullard aristocrat to snarky medical savant.
That diagnosis at the end was splendid. Why, that man would make a fine doctor!
A classic scene from a classic series.
"Talk like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow's digestive system!"
Sounds like a lot of politicians in general.
The eloquence mixed with satire is hilarious 😂
Roaringly splendid...hurrah for that!!!
You know things are bad when Blackadder is more historically accurate than Bridgerton.
😂😂😂😂
That was funny! Thanks--Needed that one!
Is Bridgerton meant to be anything other than romantic fantasy with a Georgian Britain window dressing?
@@gryphonbotha1880It's meant to mislead and brainwash people with it's revisionism and afrocentrism so that they can later claim that England was mixed race,make ra cist comments like "terribly White royal family" and to distract us from crimes the of these black and brown people destroying our civilised western societies
Bridgetown is based off a book
@@contentreview1532Yes, a fareytale, the only blacks in England at this time, polished shoes or were hookers in some exotic
"clubs".
Ah, the 80s, golden era of TV fun, i miss it tho...
Listening to Blackadder is like munching a St. Ives pastie that has been cooked to perfection, nurtured gently in an oven just at the right temperature and served politely on a Cornish granite plate.
If the granite isn't Cornish it's not worth bothering with.
This is so on the nose and yet still sadly, so relevant
This is the scene I always remember
Great show
Of course, the excellent actor playing prince George became Dr House in the USA later
I can't get over Prince George buying his own socks.
Within this hailstorm of lunacy, there is always a grain of truth
ROARINGLY splendid to have you here! 😂
Blackadder is epic
Ironic to say the least, pretty how British politics works to this very day
That isn’t what 'irony' means.
Now that I am older I realise that when Blackadder laughs very quietly he is as good as confessing too stealing his majesty's socks and selling them as opulent socks.
The extension of slavery to everyone who does not have a knighthood. Sensible policies for a happier Britain
Sir Talbot Buxomly sounds like he'd fit right in with modern Tory leadership.
Him and Reece mogg are two peas in a pod! Which is all the more surprising given they are 200 years apart!
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Bet you backslapped yourself with such an original, witty remark
That moment you realise that you and George have something in common
This is great art.
I was unfortunately doomed to auto mechanic videos & was about to lose my sense of humor. VOILA! Mass airflow sensor (& fat fingers) magically landed me here♡ Now I'll be singing the theme for 3 weeks.
Thanx, gonna watch all you got.
He'd be right at home in the Truss cabinet
Well, he'd be outlasted by a lettuce.
"Black Adder III" is one of the Greatest British Comedies EVER!!
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Have you seen the British comedy series 'League of Gentleman'? Weird, dark, funny.
As dead as that squirrel. What squirrel? BANG! Squeak..thud...Oh THAT squirrel!
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That line always creases me up!
For some reason, this just got a whole lot more relevant.
It's incredible that George and HOUSE are the same man.
Genuinely! Like, I have to _work_ to notice it!
There are no good comic actors, only good actors.
and Dickie Roper in The Night Manager!
Also Blackadder and Mr Bean are the same man.
didn't you notice bean and Blackadder are same too
3:25 "Damn his duck pond." Damn also the house for ducks he installs at tax-payers' expense.
Prophetic programme, Blackadder
That was comedy in 80s. Back then they'd hire an actor with the cred of Denis Lill for just one scene like this.
Holy Cow!!!
Can't believe that is my most favorite HOUSE!!
It was comedy first with Hugh. Great comedy is about delivery and timing and Hugh has it in spade loads lol !
“We hail you King George” sounds like the “Let’s go Brandon “
"We must move fast"
"In which direction?"
"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles: mr. Beans and dr. House." (semi-quote)
" Damn his Duck Pond ". - What a Prophecy !
( 2009 Expenses Scandal )
The most finest humor on earth, absolutely!
Hugh Laurie has knack for playing complete idiots. First this then Wooster and even playing person from USA in House.
You are absolutely right sir Talbot I like the sarcastic way of deliverance ...
Because in any policy, It is no skin off my aching bones or nose ...
In the fact that there are better leaves floating down the Thames that make better Regents ...
Would I still try to conversate my way out of your digestion system indeed a moody point ...
I always imagined Bertie looking something like Hugh Laurie. He was great in that role, too.
"damn his duck pond!"
That hits different nowadays XD
Looks like they'll be needing a suitable candidate to fight the upcoming Dunny-On -the-Wolde by-election now then!
It’s a robber button 😉
I actually had a neighbor, with whom I was very friendly, who was stealing both my socks and t-shirts, with me wondering, all the while, where they were getting to. I finally realized he was doing it when my brother left a bag with his clothes in it, and his shirts disappeared. he was much too skinny for my neighbor to wear his shirts, just like I was too big.
0:28 That chuckle says it all. 😂
One of my favourite scenes :)
mine is following with Baldrick and carrot sticking from his mouth, knocked me out
@@Szmiber I love that scene too!!!
Actual belly-laughs! Thank you (to all concerned)
The Prince Regent is a 19th century Liz Truss, only not as thick
And I haven't seen her wear socks either.
There are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make better Prime Ministers
Ouch. Lol.
Hang on Truss is a lemon Peel but Starmer is a turd