Blackadder - Sensible policies for a happier Britain

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  • čas přidán 28. 09. 2022
  • From Series 3, Episode 1: Dish and Dishonesty
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  • @stephenfowlie742
    @stephenfowlie742 Před rokem +3826

    "Is he qualified?"
    "He is a violent bigoted mindless old fool sir"
    "Sounds a bit over qualified."

    • @mushroomhead3619
      @mushroomhead3619 Před rokem +84

      @@dlmdee Nope sounds like Trump.

    • @Smasheditin66
      @Smasheditin66 Před rokem +40

      @@mushroomhead3619 and Boris !!

    • @mattgarrett2583
      @mattgarrett2583 Před rokem +9

      @@mushroomhead3619 only one of them is actually president. Take the L

    • @davtona
      @davtona Před rokem +18

      Apart from the “He” this could be Priti Patels CV…..

    • @class444swr3
      @class444swr3 Před rokem +36

      I see it’s the conservative leadership contest

  • @Emporkommling
    @Emporkommling Před rokem +1939

    “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

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem +83

      "... _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.

    • @andrewlockett4569
      @andrewlockett4569 Před rokem +34

      Bits of lemon peel actually, wot are floating, don't you know and all that. But that's no skin off my rosy nose 😂

    • @jaredkennedy6576
      @jaredkennedy6576 Před rokem +88

      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.

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast Před rokem +8

      *bits of lemon peel

    • @poppymoon777
      @poppymoon777 Před rokem +2

      😂😂

  • @callumbarrington898
    @callumbarrington898 Před 10 měsíci +672

    Rowan Atkinson is always at his best when he plays intelligent, sarcastic characters. His facial expressions and vocal mannerisms are spot on.

    • @nickhand8054
      @nickhand8054 Před 9 měsíci +28

      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.

    • @CS-ui4qj
      @CS-ui4qj Před 9 měsíci

      @@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 CZcams. Lol

    • @antonk.2748
      @antonk.2748 Před 8 měsíci +7

      @@CS-ui4qj Seaons 4 is where its at! I get goosebumps every time I watch the last minutes of season 4....

    • @margaretgarside5617
      @margaretgarside5617 Před 8 měsíci

      That last ep. still reduces me to a sobbing mess.@@antonk.2748

    • @SueDenimDomDenim
      @SueDenimDomDenim Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@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

  • @anniebroadbent7961
    @anniebroadbent7961 Před rokem +661

    It's not just that the script is genius, it's that it's so brilliantly delivered.

    • @sayno2lolzisback
      @sayno2lolzisback Před rokem +18

      Yeah like the punchlines you can see a mile off but the delivery is just fantastic.

    • @Perfidion
      @Perfidion Před rokem +15

      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.)

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay Před rokem +5

      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.

    • @anniebroadbent7961
      @anniebroadbent7961 Před rokem +2

      @@MrDaiseymay possibly. But people who didn't know it then find it funny now. 🙂

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@MrDaiseymay Not a chance. Listen to the Goons. Still funny after eighty years. And the Marx Brothers, almost a hundred years

  • @dm121984
    @dm121984 Před 9 měsíci +288

    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"

    • @eileenflannigan709
      @eileenflannigan709 Před 7 měsíci

      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.

    • @minui8758
      @minui8758 Před měsícem +18

      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

  • @davekeith1480
    @davekeith1480 Před rokem +1259

    The true value of British culture in the comedy .

    • @trillions5000
      @trillions5000 Před rokem +7

      Tory values, not ours.

    • @what-oy8il
      @what-oy8il Před rokem +20

      @@trillions5000 what are you talking about?

    • @trillions5000
      @trillions5000 Před rokem +14

      @@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.

    • @what-oy8il
      @what-oy8il Před rokem +2

      @@trillions5000 i see

    • @tomfoulds2604
      @tomfoulds2604 Před rokem +9

      @@what-oy8il hes just another terminally online muppet who does nothing bus obsess over politics, ignore him

  • @notbloodylikely4817
    @notbloodylikely4817 Před rokem +245

    "Socks are like sex, tons of it about but I never seem to get any."
    I feel personally attacked 😭😂

    • @lomax343
      @lomax343 Před rokem +6

      Socks are like sex. When I was a teenege boy I used socks for - well never mind.

    • @aek72
      @aek72 Před 3 měsíci +3

      Attacked for the socks part or the sex?😂 Maybe both? 😭

  • @DanielleKingdjdinosaur
    @DanielleKingdjdinosaur Před rokem +1720

    right now this could be a documentary

    • @srp01983
      @srp01983 Před rokem +54

      It almost is, except for the dead bit at the end, but we could work on this..

    • @Minime163
      @Minime163 Před rokem +18

      Hope the current prince George isn't listening.

    • @thoughtfox12
      @thoughtfox12 Před rokem +4

      Ever so clever

    • @SparrowwithaMachinegun
      @SparrowwithaMachinegun Před rokem +5

      Indeed, indeed jolly good show.

    • @neilwavg
      @neilwavg Před rokem +3

      Stereotyped old tat

  • @nathancox6249
    @nathancox6249 Před rokem +373

    Sensible policies,for a happier Britain, so no change there.

    • @michaelcrook6397
      @michaelcrook6397 Před rokem

      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.??

  • @SuperVolsung
    @SuperVolsung Před rokem +908

    The intimation that he sat for a full 48 hrs in one place trying to pronounce a single word makes me laugh

    • @AdrianColley
      @AdrianColley Před rokem +62

      "Anti distinctly minty" sounded like a secure base camp from which he was making repeated attempts up the lexicographic mountain.

    • @ann_onn
      @ann_onn Před rokem +74

      He was anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulations.

    • @trillions5000
      @trillions5000 Před rokem +3

      He's obviously Dixilicsick

    • @bobbyperu4683
      @bobbyperu4683 Před rokem +11

      ​@@ann_onn quite right; said interfrastically so that it resplendently wibbles one's postlesnoo.

    • @senseweaver01
      @senseweaver01 Před rokem +3

      The word is "implication"

  • @Willam_J
    @Willam_J Před rokem +1468

    Fun fact: Antidisestablishmentarianism was the longest word, in the English language, until ‘Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’ came along.
    Bonus fact: The longest word that you can type, using only the top row of keys on a typewriter, is the word ‘typewriter’.

    • @kevynhansyn2902
      @kevynhansyn2902 Před rokem +67

      damn you good sir, I just learned a new world of new longer words.

    • @jamyskis
      @jamyskis Před rokem +30

      On a UK/US/Canada/Aus/Nz typewriter only, notably. German keyboards have the Z and Y swapped out, while the W is swapped out for Z on French keyboards.

    • @TheYoungMoriarty1
      @TheYoungMoriarty1 Před rokem +34

      Anyone else just waste 5 minutes training themselves to pronounce this properly?

    • @ismayb754
      @ismayb754 Před rokem +25

      What's a typewriter?

    • @61505
      @61505 Před rokem +9

      lots of greek/latin influence in the second word

  • @kdhavle
    @kdhavle Před rokem +213

    "We were rather getting on." - It couldn't have been delivered better. 😆

  • @oldtimer4863
    @oldtimer4863 Před rokem +522

    Blackadder is still the best comedy ever written. No matter how many times I watch them I always have a good laugh.

    • @stonedwookie9916
      @stonedwookie9916 Před rokem +12

      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.

    • @jonberger
      @jonberger Před rokem +6

      Upstart Crow is right up there, though. You'd almost think it was written by the same guy.

    • @AA-hg5fk
      @AA-hg5fk Před rokem +3

      Apart from the first series I completely agree

    • @oldtimer4863
      @oldtimer4863 Před rokem +4

      @@AA-hg5fk I love the first series.

    • @AA-hg5fk
      @AA-hg5fk Před rokem +7

      @Mr Spitsworth I have watched it, I just think series 1 is nowhere near as good as the subsequent three.

  • @nickwyatt9498
    @nickwyatt9498 Před rokem +157

    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".

    • @AI-dp3rd
      @AI-dp3rd Před rokem +7

      Very well spotted

    • @Julia-lk8jn
      @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem +5

      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.

    • @susannahmyers8828
      @susannahmyers8828 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Very good catch.

  • @acari27
    @acari27 Před 28 dny +4

    As an Australian we cant thank you enough for shipping that delightful criminal genius of sarcasm Ben Elton across to our shores. ;}

  • @Julia-lk8jn
    @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem +270

    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.

    • @mikeohagan2206
      @mikeohagan2206 Před rokem +11

      yes he isnt as bulbous and flatulent as the real regent.

  • @shialtin
    @shialtin Před rokem +283

    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.

    • @dabraham8221
      @dabraham8221 Před rokem +11

      hugh laurie fit back then, and still gorgeous in avenue 5...and i do mean gorgeous.

    • @lomax343
      @lomax343 Před rokem +13

      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.

    • @whiskeyvictor5703
      @whiskeyvictor5703 Před rokem +7

      What a shapely ankle! 😆

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra Před rokem +8

      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.

    • @stevegreen8262
      @stevegreen8262 Před rokem +4

      @@whiskeyvictor5703 fine of fetlock!

  • @Tonedefdom
    @Tonedefdom Před rokem +247

    Literally the best speech George ever gave 😂

  • @markzgmr
    @markzgmr Před rokem +116

    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.

  • @z-wo4ue
    @z-wo4ue Před rokem +331

    You know things are bad when Blackadder is more historically accurate than Bridgerton.

    • @skontheroad
      @skontheroad Před rokem +9

      😂😂😂😂
      That was funny! Thanks--Needed that one!

    • @gryphonbotha1880
      @gryphonbotha1880 Před 11 měsíci +55

      Is Bridgerton meant to be anything other than romantic fantasy with a Georgian Britain window dressing?

    • @teaonrainyday888
      @teaonrainyday888 Před 11 měsíci +2

      ​@@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

    • @contentreview1532
      @contentreview1532 Před 10 měsíci +5

      Bridgetown is based off a book

    • @donald8066
      @donald8066 Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@contentreview1532Yes, a fareytale, the only blacks in England at this time, polished shoes or were hookers in some exotic
      "clubs".

  • @gabrielleangelica1977
    @gabrielleangelica1977 Před 3 měsíci +7

    Hugh and Rowan together is pure ✨ magic!

  • @az-wr1lb
    @az-wr1lb Před rokem +151

    the UK houses of parliament haven't changed much in centuries. Its nice seeing the way tradition is being upheld

    • @djtwo2
      @djtwo2 Před 10 měsíci +2

      "the UK houses of parliament haven't changed much in centuries. ... " except that they burnt down.

    • @Init123-dl7pe
      @Init123-dl7pe Před 9 měsíci +3

      Well that hardly accounts for much

    • @feonor26
      @feonor26 Před 5 měsíci +5

      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.

    • @clementpoon120
      @clementpoon120 Před 3 měsíci +2

      id love a contemporary version of this

  • @user-jg5ie8rc1s
    @user-jg5ie8rc1s Před 10 měsíci +45

    This is the episode that gave me the love of the word antidistinctly-minty, very closely followed by antidisestablishmentarianism. Love Blackadder.

  • @SueDenimDomDenim
    @SueDenimDomDenim Před 3 měsíci +20

    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 … ❤❤❤

  • @cartesiancircle
    @cartesiancircle Před rokem +159

    Just love Hugh Laurie as George 🤭

  • @jamesl9371
    @jamesl9371 Před rokem +78

    Sensible policies for a happier Britain 🇬🇧!

    • @crhu319
      @crhu319 Před rokem +5

      This just needs to be the Tory slogan in every election.

  • @andre_santos2181
    @andre_santos2181 Před 9 měsíci +27

    12:25 - As Brazilian , I can relate to appointing violent bigoted mindless people to High Court Judges.

  • @LukePinna
    @LukePinna Před rokem +185

    House is such a good actor. That English accent sounds really authentic!

  • @samalvey8168
    @samalvey8168 Před 11 měsíci +12

    "Talk like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of a cow's digestive system!"
    Sounds like a lot of politicians in general.

  • @Parknest
    @Parknest Před rokem +175

    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.

    • @Minime163
      @Minime163 Před rokem +3

      hilarious all brilliant comedian's in one place. Our Irish so called comedy is a fuckin' embarrassment.

    • @Parknest
      @Parknest Před rokem +13

      Yeah, this was the golden era of British TV.

    • @sosimple3585
      @sosimple3585 Před rokem +18

      @@Minime163 Don't know about now but I still love Father Ted.

    • @Minime163
      @Minime163 Před rokem +1

      @@sosimple3585 father Ted was about as good as Irish comedy got plus dermot Morgan is dead now.

    • @joelogjam9163
      @joelogjam9163 Před rokem +10

      "SAUSAGE TIME!"

  • @fabiosplendido9536
    @fabiosplendido9536 Před 26 dny +2

    Still more trustworthy and well informed than any politician we've seen in the last 25 years...

  • @richard6440
    @richard6440 Před rokem +205

    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 :)

    • @DieFlabbergast
      @DieFlabbergast Před rokem

      "It minds not me that you are the son of a certified sauerkraut-sucking loon."

    • @timmartindale75
      @timmartindale75 Před rokem +7

      If you use that line, leave the apostrophe out of "its" - it doesn't belong there.

    • @richard6440
      @richard6440 Před rokem +2

      @@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 :)

    • @geopolitix7770
      @geopolitix7770 Před rokem +2

      That was the best line of the lot...and that's saying something!!

    • @TheLowerIntestine
      @TheLowerIntestine Před rokem

      That could be considered quite rude. It has to be the ultimate putdown after hearing someone's speech.

  • @saxongreen78
    @saxongreen78 Před rokem +51

    For some reason the 'bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames' gave me the biggest laugh back in the day. 😊

  • @Kiwinan1701
    @Kiwinan1701 Před rokem +86

    This is my favourite of the Blackadder series.

    • @Kiwinan1701
      @Kiwinan1701 Před rokem +4

      @@DanielOlivierArgyle They’re all excellent.

    • @nuntana2
      @nuntana2 Před rokem +1

      Not bad. Sense n Senility or Beer?

    • @trillions5000
      @trillions5000 Před rokem +2

      In fact we just love Blackadder 😁

    • @Kiwinan1701
      @Kiwinan1701 Před rokem +2

      @@nuntana2 Have to say Sense…Stephen Fry Magnificent as Wellington!

  • @richardclarke376
    @richardclarke376 Před rokem +35

    dialogue like a carelessly discarded match in a box of fireworks

  • @mongoose621
    @mongoose621 Před 11 měsíci +15

    That sarcastic chuckle was a masterpiece of comic timing

  • @e32b61
    @e32b61 Před rokem +36

    “Plump of fetlock”
    It’s like he’s describing Boris already.

  • @fatbelly27
    @fatbelly27 Před rokem +11

    The extension of slavery to everyone who does not have a knighthood. Sensible policies for a happier Britain

  • @SidneyBroadshead
    @SidneyBroadshead Před rokem +12

    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.

  • @petervanrayne5120
    @petervanrayne5120 Před rokem +22

    Rare episode of House where he gets the diagnosis wrong.

  • @MediaFilter
    @MediaFilter Před rokem +25

    I like how he just died in mid-conversation at the end 😅

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +18

    "Anti-distinctly-minty..." Full marks to him for 'avin' a go!

    • @Useaname
      @Useaname Před rokem +1

      Distinctly minty was the punch line to an advert of the day.

    • @MaskedMan66
      @MaskedMan66 Před rokem +1

      @@Useaname Thank you for the information! I never knew that. 🙂 I like little bits of background like that.

  • @nimascolari1508
    @nimascolari1508 Před rokem +60

    I'm not sure if my favourite TV show is now a rendition of real life events in modern day English politics.

    • @annasundlof2282
      @annasundlof2282 Před rokem +6

      ...and in today's Britain, it would be - Cancelled.

    • @noahkarpinski1824
      @noahkarpinski1824 Před rokem +4

      @@annasundlof2282 you're completely right
      There's not NEARLY enough transphobia in this show for Brits to find it entertaining

    • @nimascolari1508
      @nimascolari1508 Před rokem +4

      Definitely would be cancelled. E4 stopped airing certain Friends episodes due to the fat jokes aimed at Monica. Imagine that. I find that offensive.

    • @annasundlof2282
      @annasundlof2282 Před rokem +6

      @@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.

    • @nimascolari1508
      @nimascolari1508 Před rokem +1

      @@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.

  • @theodoornap9283
    @theodoornap9283 Před 3 měsíci +6

    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

    • @Simon-xc5oy
      @Simon-xc5oy Před měsícem

      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....

  • @Julia-lk8jn
    @Julia-lk8jn Před rokem +39

    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.

  • @marjetka01
    @marjetka01 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Blackadder is one of the best series ever.

  • @Oi....
    @Oi.... Před rokem +25

    He went on to resign the throne & become a doctor.

    • @pnutz9010
      @pnutz9010 Před rokem +2

      'Resign' may be one way to put it

  • @tygerbyrn
    @tygerbyrn Před rokem +7

    “Oh, bad luck. We were rather getting on.” lol 😆

  • @jeanbonnefoy1377
    @jeanbonnefoy1377 Před rokem +112

    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).

  • @MrFox-rf3cu
    @MrFox-rf3cu Před 11 měsíci +6

    My favorite is "The Scottish Play" (MacBeth) bit.
    :You mean you have to do that every time I say 'MacBeth'?"

  • @seanryan3020
    @seanryan3020 Před rokem +4

    I just binge watched the whole Blackadder series over the weekend! Been trying to find it for years!

  • @OJB42
    @OJB42 Před rokem +19

    A classic scene from a classic series.

  • @robintyson591
    @robintyson591 Před rokem +94

    We hail Prince George ... We hail Liz Truss

    • @adavanja5682
      @adavanja5682 Před rokem +1

      Good one!! 👏👏

    • @SuzuranMajere
      @SuzuranMajere Před rokem +18

      I bet you didn't think two weeks ago that in two weeks you wouldn't have to hail her anymore...

    • @A-small-amount-of-peas
      @A-small-amount-of-peas Před rokem +16

      ​@@SuzuranMajere I'm particularly gutted. I was her butler and was making a fortune selling her socks

    • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
      @Duchess_Van_Hoof Před rokem +2

      As I understand it, she is getting a tax funded fortune out of it.

  • @Johnny-sj9sj
    @Johnny-sj9sj Před rokem +52

    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!

    • @dabraham8221
      @dabraham8221 Před rokem +3

      and still going strong in avenue 5... check it out!

    • @Johnny-sj9sj
      @Johnny-sj9sj Před rokem +2

      @@dabraham8221 Thanks!

    • @Marvin-dg8vj
      @Marvin-dg8vj Před rokem +4

      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.

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger Před rokem +2

      And an evil prince, on top of all that. The best is when he appears as evil prince ludwig.

    • @AttilaAsztalos
      @AttilaAsztalos Před rokem +2

      ...and a bike rider, which makes him a nice guy in MY book.

  • @gregoryjclark81
    @gregoryjclark81 Před rokem +1

    Roaringly splendid...hurrah for that!!!

  • @ilikemilkshake22
    @ilikemilkshake22 Před 9 měsíci +3

    "We must move fast"
    "In which direction?"

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 Před rokem +30

    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.

    • @AwesomeFish12
      @AwesomeFish12 Před 11 měsíci

      If the granite isn't Cornish it's not worth bothering with.

  • @George.Andrews.
    @George.Andrews. Před rokem +83

    It's incredible that George and HOUSE are the same man.

    • @NinjaOfLU
      @NinjaOfLU Před rokem +10

      Genuinely! Like, I have to _work_ to notice it!

    • @AdrianColley
      @AdrianColley Před rokem +7

      There are no good comic actors, only good actors.

    • @martinchapple1
      @martinchapple1 Před rokem +4

      and Dickie Roper in The Night Manager!

    • @Zongooo
      @Zongooo Před rokem +5

      Also Blackadder and Mr Bean are the same man.

    • @timewalker6654
      @timewalker6654 Před rokem +2

      didn't you notice bean and Blackadder are same too

  • @Nmax
    @Nmax Před 4 měsíci +3

    Blackadder is the finest comedy i have had the pleasure to see along with Red Dwarf and Are you being served

    • @SueDenimDomDenim
      @SueDenimDomDenim Před 3 měsíci

      Are you being sarcastic with the last sitcom? 😂

    • @Nmax
      @Nmax Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@SueDenimDomDenim nope are you being served is a British classic

    • @Simon-xc5oy
      @Simon-xc5oy Před měsícem +3

      @@SueDenimDomDenim Are you being served was funny. It was very funny. It was of its time, but the one liners and characters are all superbly played and brilliantly written. The German week episode springs to mind. They whole staff has to dress up in German lederhosen etc. And Mr Lucas comes strolling on in the costume, looking vaguely ridiculous. And its clear he is not happy. And then John Inman come tottering in as Humphries. And his shorts are so short and tight he is walking on tiptoe...
      And Inman goes deadpan - " I cant think why...but my eyes are watering!!"
      And the audience is in hysterics, Lucas is laughing and you can see he means it as what Inman is doing is priceless, Lucas is laughing at Inman and Humphries at the same time. The whole show was full of moments like that. Yes its dated, yes certain characters would not be welcome by the up tight brigade today. But back then we could laugh at anything and send things up and people just had fun. The show got very high ratings and was a huge success for years. I would take Are You Being Served, or any of the Croft etc sitcoms over the what passes for comedy today...

    • @SueDenimDomDenim
      @SueDenimDomDenim Před měsícem +1

      @@Simon-xc5oy probably before my time I’m more of a blackadder fan but there’s enough comedy for everyone I was just being cheeky 😂

    • @Simon-xc5oy
      @Simon-xc5oy Před měsícem +2

      @@SueDenimDomDenim Fair enough. It was sort of before my time as well. I became aware of it around 1977 when I was a tiny kid. I knew it was massive as everyone was talking about it. The stars of the show kept popping up on childrens tv and seaside special etc. Its worth watching even today. From a historical point of view it covers all the class structure battles that used to take place a lot in England. The pecking order and also a lot of what is going on in the 1970s is reflected in the show as well. Mr Grainger, the old chap on the mens wear counter is in the early season till the late 70s when he passed away. These are the best episodes with the original cast when it was at its peak. It started to tail off a bit after Trevor Banister who played Mr Lucas left. As a kid he was my joint hero along with Mr Humphries. They are two polar opposites. Lucas is a sex mad women chaser of the old school type. And Humphries is as gay as the hills and yet when the pair of them are together its hysterical. Yes its camp and un pc now and very dated but its still funny. Lucas is always winding up Mrs Slocombe and mocking her and she gets irate with him. Mollie Sugden is just brilliant in it, I used to love her and Wendy Richards as well...they are just brilliant at playing the characters. Its sad to me now, to think they are all dead and gone, like the cast of Dads Army etc as at times it still seems like yesterday. See if you can find some of the episodes. The one when they take over the toy department is brilliant as well....

  • @roystonvehicles9129
    @roystonvehicles9129 Před rokem +5

    Absolutely brilliant

  • @charliedrosario999
    @charliedrosario999 Před 9 měsíci +9

    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.

  • @RedZeshinX
    @RedZeshinX Před 11 měsíci +5

    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.

  • @chaosphoenixhex
    @chaosphoenixhex Před 11 měsíci +2

    That diagnosis at the end was splendid. Why, that man would make a fine doctor!

  • @branojuraj9063
    @branojuraj9063 Před rokem +7

    Ah, the 80s, golden era of TV fun, i miss it tho...

  • @jamesbyrne9312
    @jamesbyrne9312 Před rokem +19

    This is the scene I always remember

  • @user-rr6jj5mr6f
    @user-rr6jj5mr6f Před rokem +16

    That moment you realise that you and George have something in common

  • @brendannahor1460
    @brendannahor1460 Před rokem +5

    "Black Adder III" is one of the Greatest British Comedies EVER!!
    🤔

    • @JoseighBlogs
      @JoseighBlogs Před rokem +1

      Have you seen the British comedy series 'League of Gentleman'? Weird, dark, funny.

    • @leftcoaster67
      @leftcoaster67 Před rokem +3

      As dead as that squirrel. What squirrel? BANG! Squeak..thud...Oh THAT squirrel!

    • @brendannahor1460
      @brendannahor1460 Před rokem

      @@leftcoaster67 🤣🤣🤣
      That line always creases me up!

  • @sayno2lolzisback
    @sayno2lolzisback Před rokem +6

    This is so on the nose and yet still sadly, so relevant

  • @markjlewis
    @markjlewis Před 9 měsíci +3

    Sir Talbot sound very similar to Jacob Rees-Mogg with his views on servants, poor people and those who don't have a knighthood.

  • @Hulalulatallulahoop2
    @Hulalulatallulahoop2 Před rokem +23

    One of my favourite scenes :)

    • @Szmiber
      @Szmiber Před rokem +2

      mine is following with Baldrick and carrot sticking from his mouth, knocked me out

    • @Hulalulatallulahoop2
      @Hulalulatallulahoop2 Před rokem +1

      @@Szmiber I love that scene too!!!

  • @beckyminnich8803
    @beckyminnich8803 Před rokem +1

    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.

  • @haveatomato
    @haveatomato Před rokem +3

    ROARINGLY splendid to have you here! 😂

  • @lomax343
    @lomax343 Před rokem +12

    3:25 "Damn his duck pond." Damn also the house for ducks he installs at tax-payers' expense.
    Prophetic programme, Blackadder

  • @bobbyt8547
    @bobbyt8547 Před rokem +14

    He'd be right at home in the Truss cabinet

  • @peterjames7073
    @peterjames7073 Před 11 měsíci +8

    " Damn his Duck Pond ". - What a Prophecy !
    ( 2009 Expenses Scandal )

  • @marypowell606
    @marypowell606 Před rokem +3

    Holy Cow!!!
    Can't believe that is my most favorite HOUSE!!

    • @rael1999
      @rael1999 Před 3 měsíci

      It was comedy first with Hugh. Great comedy is about delivery and timing and Hugh has it in spade loads lol !

  • @mikechristian-vn1le
    @mikechristian-vn1le Před 11 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @andrewmaccallum2367
    @andrewmaccallum2367 Před měsícem

    Absolutely spiffing!

  • @GodzillasaurusJr
    @GodzillasaurusJr Před 3 měsíci +2

    I can't get over Prince George buying his own socks.

  • @colinstewart1432
    @colinstewart1432 Před rokem +4

    For some reason, this just got a whole lot more relevant.

  • @bryanodriscoll2123
    @bryanodriscoll2123 Před rokem +18

    These chaps could do a better job of running the country than the despicable creatures in power at present.

  • @multa765
    @multa765 Před 3 měsíci +1

    This is great art.

  • @YAUUN
    @YAUUN Před měsícem +2

    Sir Talbot Buxomly sounds like he'd fit right in with modern Tory leadership.

  • @DavidEsp1
    @DavidEsp1 Před rokem +6

    Actual belly-laughs! Thank you (to all concerned)

  • @edgleason8918
    @edgleason8918 Před rokem +4

    I always imagined Bertie looking something like Hugh Laurie. He was great in that role, too.

  • @Rat_Queen86
    @Rat_Queen86 Před rokem +2

    I love this show 😅

  • @strikeforcealpha9343
    @strikeforcealpha9343 Před 3 měsíci +2

    4:07 you can see Blackadder, turning and looking at the man... thinking. The fuq, is he dead?

  • @AndyM_323YYY
    @AndyM_323YYY Před rokem +27

    Sir Talbot Buxomley? Nowadays, they clean him up, brush his teeth and call him Rees Mogg.

    • @Mizzkan
      @Mizzkan Před rokem +8

      Sir Keir Starmer I think you will find 👍

    • @StaalBurgher0
      @StaalBurgher0 Před rokem +1

      🤦‍♂️

  • @eddjordan2399
    @eddjordan2399 Před rokem +3

    life goes round

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay Před rokem +2

    Within this hailstorm of lunacy, there is always a grain of truth

  • @berniethekiwidragon4382
    @berniethekiwidragon4382 Před 3 měsíci +1

    0:28 That chuckle says it all. 😂

  • @protectandsurvivelivinghis3206

    Nice to see the Tory Party election manifesto 2024 getting an early airing.

  • @nickhand8054
    @nickhand8054 Před rokem +10

    An example of the quality of wit in this show: "it's as if someone was coming in here, stealing my socks and selling them off".
    Blackadder just laughs dismissively. We, the audience, fall off our chairs laughing. We know.

  • @shadrach6299
    @shadrach6299 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I just can’t believe that’s Dr. Gregory House

  • @michaelmcginn7260
    @michaelmcginn7260 Před 9 měsíci

    Superb 👏

  • @ttoughtask7296
    @ttoughtask7296 Před rokem +51

    The Prince Regent is a 19th century Liz Truss, only not as thick

    • @adventtrooper
      @adventtrooper Před rokem +1

      And I haven't seen her wear socks either.

    • @revenant7734
      @revenant7734 Před rokem +8

      There are bits of lemon peel floating down the Thames that would make better Prime Ministers

    • @etherealtb6021
      @etherealtb6021 Před rokem

      Ouch. Lol.

    • @Mizzkan
      @Mizzkan Před rokem +1

      Hang on Truss is a lemon Peel but Starmer is a turd

  • @patbournes5281
    @patbournes5281 Před rokem +20

    “We hail you King George” sounds like the “Let’s go Brandon “

  • @gregbradley7482
    @gregbradley7482 Před rokem

    Thanks for that!!!! 😊

  • @donny6775
    @donny6775 Před rokem +2

    Blackadder: Funny UK stuff
    Black Adder: Crusty socks and lots of tissues for your post-activity recovery

  • @87654321j
    @87654321j Před rokem +30

    2:03 Sounds like David Cameron or Boris Johnson 😂

    • @nickroberts1596
      @nickroberts1596 Před rokem +11

      Or Liz Truss.

    • @monochromaticlightsource2834
      @monochromaticlightsource2834 Před rokem +10

      Or Sir Kneel Stammerer.

    • @chrisgibson5267
      @chrisgibson5267 Před rokem +3

      @@monochromaticlightsource2834 Who?
      Sorry....I'll see myself out.

    • @crwonshe
      @crwonshe Před rokem

      They are all puppets reading their script, the world is a stage and you can see it now more than ever the theatre only ends when no longer we participate in their play.

    • @Minime163
      @Minime163 Před rokem +2

      Boris all the way.