We're Your Firing Squad | Blackadder Goes Forth | BBC Comedy Greats
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BBC Comedy Greats well considering the reputation of I have a cunning plan i might not
I'm a member of a punning clan!
More of a Balding Rick rather than a Baldrick tho!
Thank-you Gentleman
How cunning, a cunning as professor cunning at cunning university
I have a cunning plan, let's abolish the TV licence.
Firing squads are perfectionists, they're all about the execution
It is the details which count in life.
Readyaimfire!!!!!!
Capital PUNishment :)
You can see yourself out now.
Haha
We AIM to please....hahahaha 😆
"Sleep well sir"; I died.
So did Blackadder, almost.
jason12794 I
How did you write this?
No. You didn't
So did he
This scene is absolute gold, The writing and delivery is outstanding.
Mr Bean was aimed at kids really, but adults watching with them liked it too.
@@MrDaiseymay "Mr Bean was aimed at kids really" Hard to believe, as Mr.Bean toyed with some more adult oriented themes,
This would be a brilliant scene if it were a stand alone sketch in a sketch show.
@Henning Malland SPOT TON
@@urmo345 THAT CAME MUCH LATER, ROWANS MR BEAN, WAS HIS FIRST CHARACTER, AND DID LIMITED TOURS ,LONG BEFORE HE WAS FAMOUS, IT JUST EVOLVED
"My heart bleeds for you."
"We do aim to please, sir!"
Lollolol
Shut up Edmund ya twat
@@thejuke7988 Shut up you twat lol!
@@Bpg5012trick shut up you're are twat!
Burke, don't you mess with that Trap Door!
Now I get it 😂😂
We take pride in the terminatory service we supply.
Such subtle jokes, such brilliant writing!
I always thought it would be much better if he’d said “provide” instead of “supply”, it would even rhyme.
@@maldivirdragonwitch sounds very American
@@TheHaldiron He sounds like a eastend lad, with less than perfect heducation
"could i ask you to leave a pause between aim and *fire* ? thirty or forty years perhaps"
Gravity
"Ohhh, wish I could pause, sir, I really wish I could but I can't, you see? 'Cause I'm a gabbling man, you see: 'REDYAMFAH!!' "
By which time the First and Second World Wars have ended.
Wow. It's like you just watched the video
@@michelleresistance that's the joke ...
The delivery of “READY, AIM, FIRE” was excellent 😂😂😂
Lol right? that's so messed up...
He's a gabbler, y'see sir...
REAAIFIR!
No style or finesse but it gets the job done.
READYAIMFIRE!
Gets the job done, don't it?! :D
Fuck off Alex ya fat slag
@@thejuke7988 wind your neck in you mug.
oh i love British insults haha, funny mate
I've been practicing that too!!! Just in case....😂😂😂😂😂
British humor. Unbeatable.
76 juno "no one likes being shot first thing in the morning now do they?"
Perfect example of our (British) humour there. Sarcasm at its finest 😂😂😂
wearealltubes sarcasm is an insincere form of politeness and is not necessarily ironic. Therefore, it is a sarcasm
@wearealltubes what a fierce kid huh
N K Ouch. Made you look like a right twat.
Ughh I love British humour but hate how much they brag about how great it is. My best friend growing up had a traditional English family and I always stayed over at theirs where they would watch only British shows and they would constantly mention how shitty our North American humour is compared to their programs. Funny enough they absolutely despised Sasha Cohens work, I think they just didn’t know he was British. Lol
Can't blame Blackadder really I mean "No one likes being shot first thing in the morning!"
As long as it's after and not before breakfast
No--too right, lacking in sensitivity I thought, what happened to the ''Last Breakfast'' before the drop?
Of course no likes being shot first thing in the morning! No one like being shot at any time of day! Mostly because no one likes to die, if I recall correctly!
With the exception of Orcs.
The 'ready, aim , fire' line is delivered brilliantly by Stephen Frost...I can't count how many times I've watched it, but I still piss myself laughing. Perfect timing and delivery !
Can't simply resolute , how fast he is saying " ready! aim! fire! "
May I suggest those incontinent pants, apparently they work.
@@MrDaiseymay ...Lol is that a recommendation through experience ?
When they're leaving one of them says "whoever hits closest to the mole gets to keep his gold teeth"!
Lots to aim at
@@BBCComedyGreats aiaiaiaiaia
The first cell door that can be opened from the inside....
To be fair, he opens it using the bars in the window. It's not as if it had a handle on the inside.
Well, I imagine the provo on the other side had it covered.
Oh yes, I hadn't noticed that!
The English way I suppose. Wouldn’t want to inconvenience the prisoner.
@@thebluetriangle8700 Provo?
"My Heart bleeds for you
Well sir we aim to please"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ultimate Bloke exchange
My diary is pretty empty this week
Thursday Morning get shot
Thats about it actually
though that's something you'd write in a schedule not diary
Did you had an alarm call ?
TheB29Bomber trust me it does
@@mrcoolman2 no it doesnt
Why do people feel the need to repeat what they've just watched ?
"We're your firing squad sir." That never gets old for me. lol
Probably not the best people to be meeting, but they do seem surprisingly jolly for men who shoot people for a living!
I'm French and I've got to say, the British are the absolute masters of comedy and satire. So clever, so refined, and so hilarious. I love the razor sharp wit of the classic BBC comedy shows, especially Black Adder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, and let's not forget all the great shows Jimmy Perry, Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft made. Don't ever let people start censoring this great British institution. Laughter and satire are some of the greatest tools of enlightenment, they freed Europe from radical religion and absolutism, and are poisonous to extremist ideologies. Only tyrants are afraid of satire. Vive le Royaume-Uni!
i disagree...i grew up watching Louis de Funes....i didn't speak a word of French but i remember i have never laughed so hard....that man was a true genius of comedy
@@michaelaldan4354 may i say---that you are entirely free to say so----because I've never heard of him
Jayce ( or Joyce ?) how lovely of you to say so. Now, do us all a great favour, and, write and tell those emasculated morons at the BBC, because you see, they all have their heads up their ARSES.
Tell that to the BBC
Too late , they got us too .
I love how the British are so polite here (in a manner of speaking) that they go out of their way to introduce people to their firing squads.
It's a sad fact and disturbing fact that the British army executed 309 of it's own men during ww1 some of the boy soldiers amongst its ranks. Their 'crimes' ranged from nothing more than desertion due what we would call mental breakdowns.The term LMF low moral fibre was used as an excuse to ensure execution. constant shelling and combat would almost definitely have brought about this .Sadly the senior high command would have had given instructions that men of a low military standard would almost have certainly been made an example.The use of fear to keep the rest in line. The age ranges of thses soldiers ranged alarmingly from boys in their mid teens to men in their forties The relatives of the men shot at dawn have campaigned for many years to successive British governments to have their names pardoned .
@@DavidBrown-cp2vm Have you ever studied or looked into this subject. Do you think their crimes warrented the death penalty .Do you think that every individual that was executed by the British army in ww1 deserved to die .How would you have coped day after day under a hail of bullets and artillery fire up to your knees in mud and filth or seeing your mates blown to bits in front of your eyes and not been effected by it .I don't know what kind of an effect it would have had on me because tens of thousands of British and Empire troops did it for us including my great grandfather, you realise those men were shot by men of their own platoon with men from their own company used as spectators.The court's martial system was usually a formality so the trial was a farce and a decision by the senior officers had probably already been made before the accused had even had chance to state their case .'case closed' The trials and subsequent executions were designed to strike fear into the British army to prevent whole sale mutiny understandable since the French army had muntined. A protest against the appaling leadership and shocking level of slaughter . The British high command struggled to cope with the technology of industrlised warfare, they were no longer fighting colonial actions of bygone era. I don't understand your logic when you think that men under extreme conditions are weak and break mentally.
@@chrisholland7367 A DIFFERENT WORLD, AND TOUGH TIMES. THE BRITISH ARMY WAS THE ONLY ONE NOT TO SUFFER MASS DESERTION. OVERLAYING HISTORIC INCIDENTS WITH MODERN MORALS, VALUES, AND SENTIMENT, IS UNDERSTANDABLE, BUT POINTLESS.
@@MrDaiseymay I get what your saying.But 100 years after the end of ww1 this is still a contentious issue. They were as you've stated different times although large numbers of the French army muntined because of the sheer waste of life on pointless battles such as verdun. The British army remained loyal ,disciplined and stoic as they've always done throughout history. To maintain a level of discipline and maintain control the senior high command needed the threat of the ultimate sanction should soldiers step out of line although there are cases where men it would appear were picked at random and case made against them. Even with strong mitigating circumstances the presiding judge had probably already made up his mind and the courts martial simply went through the motions. This will always be a emoutinal issue the families who's relatives were shot at dawn.
+@@chrisholland7367 So how would you deal with desertion and/or mental breakdown under fire with your military savoire faire ? A nice cup of tea and a chat with the padre ? "Sorry, Padre but there's 500 men to see you. I've put the kettle on but there's only five minutes to hopping the bags !!
If I have one wish, it is that the USA don't try and replicate this series
most Americans don't exactly understand British comedy so I highly doubt they will.
+Matt Allen just hope your right, because they did a remake of the USA inbetweeners which made me want to slit my wrists.
+Jacqueline Poole sorry, they entirely copied the uk series.
It was on Public Brodcasting Stations in the USA in the 1980's or 1990's. I can't remember which.
What was it called?
"Is there anywhere in particular you'd like us to aim for sir?"
"Just above my head would be lovely"
Everything about this scene is perfect, the writing, timing, delivery, acting, everything. Pure comedy gold
The guy who plays the firing squad captain is absolutely brilliant.
Corporal. Two chevrons. I was one.
Corporal, not Captain.
Stephen Frost is his real name. Just incase you were wandering.
Stephen Frost is like a scary Bob Carolgees
@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM He was also was in Mr Bean as the laughing man on the train and on Whose Line Is it Anyway UK
The Blackadder lineage really came into it's own in ww1. You can't help but respect this Blackadder.
Pity he ran out of cunningness
"Hmmm sleep well sir!" Hahahahaha
Ahh the humour of the British Tommy, priceless
Humor*
*humour
@@georginasmith3484 humor*
john smith humour*
@@justsomeguy1014 humor*
2:00 The very first time I saw this when it was first aired still remains one of my biggest laugh out loud moments, even now.
There's no style, no finesse!
That "sleep well, sir" gets me every time
"My heart bleeds for you."
"Well sir, we aim to please"
Classic !!! lol
Always think of the last scene in the last episode of blackadder where they “go over the top” seriously I think it’s one of the most heart breaking things I’ve ever seen. Now when I see clips of the show that’s the one thing I think of
GREAT WAY TO CLOSE THE WHOLE SERIES.
Nah, the one scene I think of is Hugh Laurie in drag getting romanced by Stephen Fry🤣
@@MrDaiseymay it didn't end though their was a new years special
you can watch it on iplayer at the moment if you wish
Gets me every time just as much as ever. At least I've finally worked out why, on top of the obvious tragedy of so many dying in the war and the Poppy Field symbols - it's because the characters in the show were so bloody brilliant and lovable, it's the biggest downbeat of all time when you realise they're all about to die..
@@ComicBookGuy420 thats the beauty of the whole concept, it was packed with great options, we ALL have our own favourites.
I love the way he says "we're your firing squad sir!" 😂
your*
yeah--all personal sevice,like they've come to give it a spring clean
That was like a punch to Blackie's liver.
Genius is a much over used word these days but this truly is. Probably one of the most clever and funny comedy pieces ever written. ‘Sleep well sir...’
"Just a little firing squad joke there" is somehow the best line in the whole sketch
I love how cheerfully he introduces the firing squad
That final "sleep well, Sir" is really the coup de grace.
One of my best friends lives in The UK and sent me the entire series on DVD. What a friggin great show!
While in Germany in BAOR in the late 80’s we all watched blackadder religiously, absolutely hilarious, fond memories……👍
Watched this a hundred times over the years and it's still funny every time. Just brilliant.
The video is so British that it is colonizing my phone.
Should have had a flag
its so british you could slap a union jack on it and call it a dominion
@Defund the NASA Now ah yes, a flat earther and believes in whatever bullshit your reply is. I really hope you're a troll
@Defund the NASA Now oh thank god you're not one, or I'm just confused
Download a tea party game
"Look forward to seeing you in the morning . you wont , you'll have a blind fold on" brilliant . i crease myself ! classic comedy .
Absolutely genius to make the firing squad leader such a jolly good old fellow and it's also a brilliant satire about your basic infantry man. Joking and humor is a big part of staying sane on the battlefield and at the same time it's completely absurd to crack jokes amidst all the horribleness of war, as this scene demonstrates.
“Haaa…. Goodnight, sir.”
The ‘normal’ pleasantries. Gets me everytime. 😆
It's not just the great writing, it's the wonderful acting and delivery that goes with it. That typifies British humour.
I think the long history, and multi layer's of the classes, provide such a vast choice of material for self degradtation and satire.
"Gets the job don't it lads *nods* gets the job done!" LOL
Really great scene, and a classic example of British Humour and it's best. I think the fourth season of Black Adder set during World War I was probably the high point of the entire series - certainly the final episode is sheer genius, completely unexpected, and like all great humour, reveals more of the truth of a situation than any direct drama might.
Exactly! Allo Allo reveals far more of the truth of the French Resistance than the reality.
Ditto, 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum' that was exactly the truth of the British Raj.
I am a gabbler sir you see "READYAIMFIRE!!!"
🤣🤣🤣
Only the british can make comedy as perfect as this
And even the British can't pull it off any more. Blackadder is 30 years old already.
@@peterpiper7441 Have you not seen The Inbetweeners? Different style of comedy but still very much British and very much excellent.
Theres plenty of funny comedies today your just looking at the wrong side of the room
Not saying this isn't great, but 'Who's on first?'
Brit humour at its best, I'm a proud Brit
No-one likes being shot first thing in the morning. Greatest episode of them all, along with the last.
"Ahh I wish I could pause Sir, I really wish I could. But I can't, you see, because I'm a gabbler me, you see. READYAIMFIRE! 😁 No style, no finess. But, you know, it gets the job done don't it lads."
I died 🤣
Haven't watched this for must be 20 years. Writing standards, cast, delivery, timing - spot on everywhere.
Love the subtle nod to Dad's Army in this clip.
They even send him a greetings card "Here's looking at you, love from all the boys in the firing squad!!!" lol
walmingtonhomeguard Underrated!
Gotta love Stephen Frost in this scene. Always loved his work on Whose Line is it Anyway.
Some of the ideas in this series are unbelievable. Whoever would think of this? The greatest work of comedy ever created in my opinion. Whole series is top notch start to finish
And to think the Establishment complained about the film ''Oh what a Loverly War'' extracting the urine.
The humour is executed well.
Did it wear a blindfold?
Sorry but I'm a bit of a gabbler see sir, READYAIMFIRE!!!!!!
"Sleep well sir" lol
"READYAIMFIRE!!!" 🤣 Stephen Frost is awesome. If anyone isn't aware, Stephen Frost was also in the old British improvisational show Whose Line is it Anyway. Was one of their best performers in my opinion. I'm sure you can find some of his clips on here.
this series is so relentlessly funny , it's like being hit by random comedy bullets, and the most unexpected line can get you - "Rea'y-Aim-fIRE!" did it for me.
"Just a little firing squad joke, sir!"
This was the golden age of comedy, only fools, red dwarf, Blackadder. We will never see quality like this again
The writing in this....so good. I think this is probably my favourite episode of Blackadder!
Blackadder Goes Forth is the best Blackadder. The writing and performances are the absolute peak of comedy
"well sir.... We aim to please"
Oh man.. hahahahahah
Well sir, we *aim* to please.
Such a stupid dumb joke but my god is it genius 😂😂😂
This is my favourite scene of Blackadder. Absolute Gold !
Crafted genius this piece as was the entire series. The impact of the series finale as our heroes bravely go over the top in slow mo will never be equalled.
Sleep well sir 🤣😄😂
Corporal Fraser: "READYAIMFIRE!!!"
" just a little firing squad joke there, sir". Brilliant.
Only the British could create this masterpiece.
our social studies teacher is having us watch these for ww1 info
Sounds educational. (He said lying vigorously)
Fred Gibbs Teaching isn't all about being educational. Students need motivating and stimulating in order to learn efficiently.
There may not be any real useful facts you can extract from these about ww1, but it encourages students to WANT to learn more about ww1. If nothing else, there may be some Performing Arts students in the class who will benefit from quality acting techniques.
No Im sorry but i disagree...In your motivating the students part you have a point. But the number one lesson I learned in my history class first year of high school was the word "bias". The child learns for the first time in his life that official authority is not all love and gravy and that there are official lies out there, not just the ones made by bad people.
Watching that series during class time is a bad idea as it is full of stereotypes, and has nothing to do with history at all. I can only conclude that the teacher is either not good at his job or he is a crank, or member of the crank community using amateur brainwashing tactics to promote anti-imperialistic beliefs to 13 year olds so a generation can share his private selfish beliefs, which simultaneously receive patronage from his government.
Could you give examples of ''official lies'' out there?
mxt mxt I still like coffee
The change in Atkinson's expression at 0:34.
Incredible actor.
A comedy sketch within a comedy sketch. That's when you know you have quality on display and in the writing room.
The talent of the support bit players was fantastic in this series. Kudos to the writers and directors for letting them shine for those few seconds they were on screen.
One of the greatest comedy’s in British history I’ll never get bored watching this
"My diary's pretty empty this week... Thursday morning, get shot.
I think that's about it actually." xD
This was hilariously funny top notch humour. But the final scene of the last show going over the top was a serious tribute to the brave young men who served in the war . Absolutely brilliant comedy but a heart breaking tribute
Absolutely---nothing could follow that, the perfect ending, and because it was so unexpected, it really hit home. More so, than a great Fart at a Church wedding ceremony.
Perhaps he survived.not every one who went over the top died
Whoever came up with this scene is a genius. Watched it a zillion times, but it's still funny.
I love Steven Frost. I was first taken by him in UK's Whose line, his performances were always great. Seeing him here, he's just the center of it, he stole the scene.
Black Adder was a series that got better and better with each iteration. Not many shows, especially so-called comedies can say that.
“Pausing is hard for me, ‘cause I’m a gabbler, you see,…
READYAIMFIRE!”
🤣
Could I ask you to leave a pause between the words 'aim' and 'fire' - 30 or 40 years... lol
best quote ever
“Ready Aim Fire!” Love this sketch
"No one like being shot first thing in the morning do they lads" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It seems this brilliant type of humor programme doesn't exist anymore.
‘I’m a gabbler me sir, readyaimfire!’ 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Stephen Frost is just brilliant.
This is perfect execution of a perfect teleplay. Comedy perfection.
Perfect execution. Well put.
"... 'cause I'm a gabbler, you see, sir - READYAIMFIRE!!"
The last one said, "Sleep Well Sir..."
cherry on top 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As an American anglophile, I sometimes get a charge out of seeing actors from series long ago pop up on a series I am watching currently. "Hmmm, where have I seen that actor before?" Just saw the corporal's actor in a bit part on the late Richard Griffith's series "Pie in the Sky". Even more amusing to have seen my kids experience it in reverse, they see actors they were introduced to in Harry Potter and Lord of the rings/Hobbit seen later as younger actors when they walk into the room when my wife and I are watching an old Britcom. "Hey, that's Professor Slughorn!" Good times
You see, us firing squads are a bit like taxmen, sir, everyone hates us, but we're just doin' our job, haven't we, sir?
My heart bleeds for you(!)
Well sir, we aim to please
@@justasaiyanfromearth5252 see sir. We take pride in the terminatory service we provide.
The nazi death camp guards were just doing their job
I was in the military when this aired. It totally captured the black humour of the British soldier.
2019, this is still pure gold
This is one of the greatest moments in British comedy history.
One of my favourite scenes from any blackadder episode
'Sleep well sir.' LOL
*CLASSIC*
1:47 "Could I ask you to leave a pause between the word "aim" & the word "fire".... 30 or 40 years perhaps...?"
xD
I was laughing at the pause between aim and fire joke, but I cracked when he politely explained why he couldn't do that. What a show
"Sleep well, sir"
A homage to Dad's Army too. Two of the firing squad were a Corporal Jones and a Private Fraser. Perhaps Mainwaring's Jones and Fraser as young men?
Russell Tofts As I recall, Jones was invalided out of the army in 1915 due to bad eyesight. Sorry to be pedantic but I've always found that idea funny that he was already too old for the army in a manpower crisis 25 years before he joins the LDF.
dragons123ism Well, when they were being recruited, that was why Jones wrote his name on Mainwaring's desk instead of the paper!
@@dragons123ism Actually the LDV - "Local Defence Volunteers" for those lacking the knowledge; often referred to semi-derisively as "Look, Duck and Vanish."
@@roscoewhite3793 LDV - yes, of course. I can't tell you what I was thinking four years ago, but let's say it was only a typo. I wasn't aware of the joke about the initials, so thank you.
For what its worth i believe Jones is supposed to be born in 1870 so i guess at 45 in 1915 he is past it.