I love how George doesn't consider for a second that his summary might be wrong or incomplete until Blackadder turns the page.

@bthy384

3 жыл бұрын

University education, you can't beat it

@OG_BlackBazooka

3 жыл бұрын

@@bthy384 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@oo-mu1cu

3 жыл бұрын

@@bthy384 😂😂😂😂

@frederickpurcell7478

3 жыл бұрын

The definition of kangaroo court

@tomlxyz

2 жыл бұрын

Can happen if you're too focused on reading/presentation

Lifespan of a Pigeon : 15 Years General Melchett : My only childhood friend

@AudieHolland

2 жыл бұрын

@Greg Elchert Thinking the same thing. It makes Melchett look even sillier.

@JonatasAdoM

2 жыл бұрын

@Greg Elchert Must be a British thing. Ronald Weasly had the same rat in the family for almost two decades right? The irony is that never occurred to me back then that rats have a lifespan of 2 years usually.

@toxikyle5419

2 жыл бұрын

@@JonatasAdoM Ron only had the rat for a couple years though. Also it wasn't actually a rat, but a person who had transformed himself into a rat, so still had a human lifespan.

@brooktheskeleton3973

2 жыл бұрын

A lifespan of a pigeon is 5 years at average. A lifespan of a carrier pigeon (the pigeon they are talking about this video or show) is 15 years at average. It's an "average" lifespan. The longest lifespan of a carrier pigeon ever recorded is 33 years, so it's still possible.

@elijahhawkins5882

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooktheskeleton3973 Yeah, but I think it's funnier if someone is constantly replacing the pigeon because he/she doesn't have the stomach to tell General Melchett.

I don't know how he found him guilty. That private did a fantastic job of denying everything!

@IdoTheChoombi

9 жыл бұрын

no he didn't!

@Warriorking.1963

4 жыл бұрын

The witness for the prosecution was very convincing though.

@dusathemaid

3 жыл бұрын

@@IdoTheChoombi Yes he did!

@himadridas7101

3 жыл бұрын

@@dusathemaid the joke went straight over your head, didn't it

@dusathemaid

3 жыл бұрын

@@himadridas7101 I was referencing Monty Python, so... I'd say it went straight over yours.

*Before we proceed to the formality of sentencing of the deceased, I mean the defendant* gets me every time

@alexburja

4 жыл бұрын

I love the way the other Judges laugh with him.

@AchLmao

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@danw1374

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@stayforthepeelpronpls4774

4 жыл бұрын

You should watch the bloopers. No one could get through it either

@-ShootTheGlass-

4 жыл бұрын

Watch it all but the court scene is at 1:20 m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4WYmcucmdjFg7w.html

“Can you see Captain Blackadder anywhere in this courtroom?” “THAT’S HIM, THAT’S HIM, THAT’S THE MAN, AAAHHH!!!” I died.

@jacoblaursen4812

2 жыл бұрын

And then the instant flip to joyfull commencemebt of his work "splendid, excellent"

@Sopranoscrew.311

2 жыл бұрын

Stephen Fry's performance in that scene had tears rolling down my eyes I was laughing so hard.

@mrvillan6951

Жыл бұрын

The way Captain Darling asks if the General can see Captain Blackadder anywhere in the court, and then points directly at him is brilliant.

We didn’t receive any messages and Captain Blackadder definitely did not shoot the delicious plump-breasted pigeon.

@ItsMrJoshua786

3 жыл бұрын

3 years late, but I love ur profile picture

@FigureGunplaFan

3 жыл бұрын

*_What!?_*

@jorell_lucena

3 жыл бұрын

"You want to be cremated, Baldrick, or buried at sea?"

@dodge2322

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorell_lucena erm...

@HaveANiceDayLol.

2 жыл бұрын

@@jorell_lucena "No!"

sheer genius,all the deaths on the front and General not bothered one bit but when it comes to Speckled Jim he's heartbroken hahaha

@Remlundskan

9 жыл бұрын

He didn't even react this way when his fair Georgina blew into smithereens.

@Meanmanmartin2007

6 жыл бұрын

With fifty thousand men getting killed each week who's going to miss a pigeon?

@chrisholland7367

5 жыл бұрын

nats rich During ww1 the British army executed over 300 of its own troops.

@malcolmabram2957

5 жыл бұрын

And that is exactly why it is such brilliant satire.

@Isleofskye

5 жыл бұрын

Co-incidence. I knew someone with your very name @ @@chrisholland7367

Stephen Fry's acting on the witness stand is one of the best in the whole series.

@Marvin-dg8vj

10 ай бұрын

General Melchett was a brilliant character played to perfection by Stephen Fry. He was never less than very funny sometimes stunningly good

1:23 This laugh is just amazing.

@LL-ow1qt

4 жыл бұрын

I was just about to write 🤣

@Th0ughtf0rce

4 жыл бұрын

Comedic talent overload!

@johannesnicolaas

2 жыл бұрын

Typical an aristocrate getting excited to sentence a lowly person to death.

@thiagodeandrade7081

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Wonderful.

@TheTsar1918

2 жыл бұрын

British Elmer Fudd

"THAT'S HIM!, THAT'S HIM!, THAT'S THE MAN! AAAHHH!!"

@henrikhyrup3995

7 жыл бұрын

NO IT ISN'T!

@MrDaiseymay

2 жыл бұрын

@Greg Elchert after all these years, I've only just noticed, Darling actually points strait at Blackadder, as he asks Melchett to point him out.

@enkisdaughter4795

13 күн бұрын

@@henrikhyrup3995 😅😊😊moments😅😅🎉😊z &😅😅’n😮nn😅😮😊nm 😊m 2:45 n😮my

Notice at 1:18 that Rowan is trying so hard not to laugh. That is because that short bit where Melchett said Blackadder is to be shot took ages to do, as Hugh Laurie and Rowan kept trying to make Stephen Fry laugh. You can see it in the outtakes clips where he says to Hugh leave the room, because he kept making him laugh.

@zleeloo

8 жыл бұрын

+John King please do share the link of that outtake!

@icanicant1850

8 жыл бұрын

+Yumeng Zhao Its in here Yumeng

@Whoami691

8 жыл бұрын

+John King "It's Hugh, It's Hugh Bloody Laurie!"

@SubjectRandom21

4 жыл бұрын

@@zleeloo A few years later and here it is kzread.info/dash/bejne/q4WYmcucmdjFg7w.html&frags=pl%2Cwn

@haroon69

4 жыл бұрын

SubjectRandom and the time stamp on that video is 1:17

The first Blackadder started out a prince, the second a nobleman, the third a butler and finally the fourth a mere captain in a trench. Incidentally Baldrick's descendants became dumber with each generation. So sad.

@Hittingitstiff

7 жыл бұрын

Debatable. I always thought that Blackadder was at his most Machiavellian, intelligent best in the 3rd series.

@h.s6352

7 жыл бұрын

Orn Gorn If anything changed in Blackadder as a person while going down the social ladder, it's that he became less evil and malicious. By Goes Fourth he is simply trying to do what all of us would have - escape certian pointless death by the German machine guns - and he isnt really harming anybody by doing that.

@V45194

7 жыл бұрын

A captain who was smarter than the general. A butler who was smarter than the master. Brilliant commentary on social hierarchy.

@GuruJudge21

6 жыл бұрын

Well, the Third Blackadder did become King George IV, so...

@agenttheater5

6 жыл бұрын

The Cavelier years explain their social descent. Blackadder was a royalist and a member of nobility right up until he and Baldrick were cornered in the kitchen with the baby prince by the roundheads, when Blackadder reflected that now would be the time for a man of honour to risk everything for the king, but that being a Blackadder, he's not a man of honour and quickly changed sides and wigs.

"Yes, can I have an alarm call, please?"

@delpantion6045

6 жыл бұрын

GaelicCelt1990 yes it might very well be true that Rowan Atkinson is the histories world's greatest human being and the absolute peak of humanities genius

forever to be held up as an example of English law ...

@mrwoo1

7 жыл бұрын

You've never been in the military then...

@samuelfrew7102

5 жыл бұрын

Handled realistically too. It's such a sham of a hearing that he's ordered to be freed.

@eggmeister6641

4 жыл бұрын

@@mrwoo1 You've never read a joke then...

@GeorgeMonet

4 жыл бұрын

This actually goes against English law. You cannot ask a witness who didn't see the crime take place if the accused committed the crime.

@Fif0l

4 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeMonet joke ----------------------> your head

The way Melchett walks to and from the witness box has me in stitches every time!

@danielvanr.8681

Жыл бұрын

Especially on his way back: "Excellent, splendid, first-class!" I've started saying the same at work (though with variations, depending on context) whenever something is going right (for once, hehe). My variations are usually replacing a word with "lovely stuff", or use French instead: "magnifique, merveilleux, superlatif !" 🤣

"Come on Baldrick be a bit more helpful it's me" "No it isn't!" Always gets me going 😂

@gr4y_m4n

8 ай бұрын

He was just following orders

At its best nothing can match British humor. This is brilliant.

Blackadder : "deny everything" Baldrick : "and I took that literally"

"Are you a human being?" "NO!" "But, you are a soldier, aren't you?" "NO!" "...Come now, Boldrick, this is serious." "NO IT ISN'T!"

@janarnold5569

5 жыл бұрын

True

@DigiAkuma

5 жыл бұрын

Well, Private Baldrick does know how to follow orders. He was told to deny everything, and that's what he did.

@awddfg

4 жыл бұрын

@@janarnold5569 *_FALSE!_*

@awddfg

4 жыл бұрын

@@DigiAkuma *_NOT TRUE!_*

@janarnold5569

4 жыл бұрын

@@awddfg What a nuisance

This show, among many others, shows how great the British are at making sitcoms. God bless the UK and the BBC.

@georgecrompton8663

2 жыл бұрын

Not so much anymore sadly it's mostly reality tv now, they don't have to pay them as much.

@alexanderhowarth6460

2 жыл бұрын

Were*

@johnbanks4761

2 жыл бұрын

they USED to make great sitcoms.......now they just butcher the very term

@calebsanders1078

Жыл бұрын

Eww, a brit simp

@sstuddert

Жыл бұрын

God bless the UK and the Big B…

Audience's reaction when Baldrick was called as witness. They already knew whats going to happen. And then Baldrick's face when told to deny everything was like "I got this" 🤣🤣🤣

@michaelinlofi

6 ай бұрын

The British excel at setting up a joke where the audience knows exactly what's about to happen while keeping it funny. Yes, Minister did it all the time

If i ever bought a Pigeon as a pet i would call it Speckled Jim .

I love how Baldrick just says NO!

@u.v.s.5583

7 ай бұрын

He is acting on command from a senior officer.

"Can this comedy ever be bettered???" "NO!!"

“...Sentencing the deceased - I mean the defendant!” Touch of parapraxis there, Melchett?

Blackadder: DENY everything, Baldrick. >Baldrick nods with confidence. George: Are you Pvt. Baldrick? Baldrick: NO!

@user-ok1yl3px3b

3 жыл бұрын

Well, um.. but you are Captain Blakkader's batman?

@TitanWar93

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ok1yl3px3b No!

@jrirch2089

3 жыл бұрын

@@TitanWar93 come on Baldrick be a bit more helpful it’s me!

@jsgwithastrangehat319

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrirch2089 NO IT ISNT!

@dangerdean9066

2 жыл бұрын

@@TitanWar93 *slams head on the table*

Tim McInnerry sells this scene so well! " did you own speckled Jim, which you HAND REARED since a child (looks solemn)"

British comedy at it's finest !!!

@albertmccready478

5 жыл бұрын

its probably closer to a documentary than anyone realises

Baldrick : NO!!!

@ScotishChristian

9 жыл бұрын

At least he follows orders...

Judge General Melchett : "Oh Clerk, pass me that Black Cap will you - I'll be needing that " Captain Blackadder : "I love a fair trial" ! 😀😁

"I firmly believe that like me, you will conclude that Captain Blackadder is in fact totally and utterly, GUILTY!" Sits down*

@LachlanMorris

5 жыл бұрын

OF NOTHING MORE...

@Sinkiolda

4 ай бұрын

​@@LachlanMorris than trying to his duty on a difficult circumstances!

My god! The depth of writing and performances is unmatched to this date, this is by far the best comedy I've seen. It all started for me with the queenies loud screams in season 2 which I thought was fairly funny, and it still is, but later as I started comprehending the dialogues a bit more, this was just too special. I still watch at least one episode almost fortnightly and I'm surprised I still find nuances and dialogues I'd missed all this while. Brilliant!

I adore 2 and 3, but I think this is my favourite scene. Fry is just brilliant.

@LizBiz87

6 жыл бұрын

Can't be that good, he isn't around anymore- all the rest of them have gone on to better things, where is he?

@DoubleBread

6 жыл бұрын

LizBiz87 I think he does the things he wishes to do. He's always been an incredible actor, and I mean it - his facial expressions, the humour, the gestures and of course the language. The thing is, he was born comedian. Laurie chose the path of a serious actor, Fry worked on other projects, but don't forget he's not only an actor. He worked a lot on his books and documents and had interest in real political/moral/religious issues. I think he's done well.

I lost it completely at the "no it isn't!"

Calling one of the judges to the stand... BRILLIANT move by the prosecutor!

You can tell that Stephen Fry was also caught off-guard when he said "...the formality of sentencing the deceased- I mean the defendant." It's the funniest part of the series for me

A dream team of comedians in one courtroom.

"Before we proceed to the formality with sentencing the deceased, I mean the defendant. Hehehehhe"

@tanned_cosines_

2 жыл бұрын

that unique laugh can not be reproduced 🤣🤣🤣 Stephen Fry is GawD

To be fair, Baldrick WAS just obeying an order lol

”Baldrick, do you want to be cremated or buried at sea?” ”Hmmm...” 😂

Still nothing to beat it. Stephen Fry is absolutely brilliant as Melchet.

Absolutely brilliant! The outtakes from this scene are equally hilarious as Huge Laurie had Stephen Fry cracking up.

@stevem2323

5 ай бұрын

Laurie is huge?

The way he flips the page 😂😂😂

I need to say, Stephen Fry's laugh in 'Goes Forth' is brilliant. I also need to say, I only now realise 'Goes Forth' is a play on words for it being the fourth season.

Brilliant - also love the scenes with the firing squad when they came to visit him and when they lined up to shoot him. Pure comedy genius.

@ofeyofey

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZYt8tc2bfZzgcbg.html

@alrafter1593

11 ай бұрын

Yes, they aim toplease

Darling: I call my first witness, THE KING IN THE NORTH!!

@Iosephus_Michaelis

7 жыл бұрын

Hahaha it's so weird to see Lord Percy all mature

@currahee1782

7 жыл бұрын

Before House Glover... there was House Darling.

@renlentlesstourist7574

7 жыл бұрын

Although the Duchy of Northumberland was not created until the mid to late 1700s.... Yet Blackadder quotes it during the tudor period.

@ianfindlay865

7 жыл бұрын

+The Hard Tourist Oh, please! You must be a barrel of fun on a coach tour.

@renlentlesstourist7574

7 жыл бұрын

Ian Findlay I did wonder why Coach trip turned me down!

Can't blame him. He was told do deny everything and he did EXACTLY what he was told

@stevekaczynski3793

Жыл бұрын

Also he was merely carrying out instructions when he interrupted Lady Farrow as she was about to go down on "Lord Farrow"...

@johnguthrie7141

10 ай бұрын

Blackadder was in court because of earlier denials by Baldrick and George. 😅

A little shoutout to the soldiers guarding behind who got passion in their career

That's Stephen Fry's best role imo 🤣

2:11 I’ve never seen any man changed his mood in such a quick time.

@TheArcher101

4 жыл бұрын

And him "grieving" Georgina 😂

Funniest court trial ever 🤣😂

The cast is having a good time on this show and it spills over in the brilliant performance they give

The actors playing the other two judges must have had a hard time trying not to laugh.

I write speeches for a living. Because of this skit, I make sure to check that paragraphs don't cut across pages as much as possible.

It’s sad that I never saw Hugh Laurie before House. He is really funny and I’m glad I discovered him in this

@OneofInfinity.

6 жыл бұрын

If u haven't yet, check out - Jeeves and Wooster.

@DoubleBread

6 жыл бұрын

The Northie I found Laurie through House MD as well, but I think it's mainly because I'm from the Czech Republic, not England. But damn, am I glad I had deeper interests in the Fry & Laurie duo.

I'm sure the "you know nothing " scene between Manuel and basil faulty was a big influence on the start of this scene

I remember watching this as a child and laughing SO hard at Baldrick :)

0:17 are you Baldrick? NO

Darling, pointing at Blackadder: "Can you see Captain blackadder anywhere in this courtroom?"

@233Deadman

7 жыл бұрын

OBJECTION! leading the witness.

@u.v.s.5583

3 жыл бұрын

@Bilal Khalid No further questions.

some of the best written comedy ever

there is something very genuinely fascinating about English actors. They can pull off everything so easily. Hugh Laurie is one of the best actors of our generation.

@wisemankugelmemicus1701

3 жыл бұрын

As opposed to any other actor which don’t pull off everything so easily I don’t get what you’re going on about

Me rolling on the floor every time watching this scene..😄 Atkinson, Fry, Lawrie- comedy giants.

Epic performance by Stephen Fry

hugh laurie was just brilliant.

"Deny everything, Baldrick." Didn't think that one all the way through, did you?

The bit where george reads the closing statement is absolutely comedy gold.

@kevinwestermann1001

2 жыл бұрын

You mean ... comedy green. :P

Peak of british comedy

"Splendid. Excellent. First class"

Who thought George would become a world-class life saving doctor?

THE best scene of the entire series!

It’s that little nod Balders gives to Blackadder for reassuring. That always starts the giggles 😂

I love how they were laughing before Baldrick even said anything, because they all knew what was going to happen

The writers of these episodes are at the genius level 😎

1:24 that laugh is just something else :DD

my favorite comedy scene of all time

YES YES IT'S HIM! AAAAARRRGH!!

“your only childhood friend” i love how this implies that Speckled Jim was at least 30-40 years old by the time of his demise

@AlfaGiuliaQV

12 сағат бұрын

Was the demise caused by the deceas...i mean the defendant sir?

the end line should have been '' Do you mind if i have an alarm call , i'd hate to be late'

To my friend Melv Finch R I P always missed never forgotten

Steven Fry is terrifying as Melchett...

This is bloody funny even by Blackadder standards. Classic stuff!

The best British comedy

THAT'S HIM! THAT'S HIM!! THAT'S THE MAN!!! AAAAAH!!!!!!

The best Black adder series

2:13 Splendid, Excellent, First Class 👏

I realised the only reason Blackadder escaped the execution on a technicality is because Darling called Melchett to the stand. A judge can't be a witness for the prosecution!

The BBC where on there A game in the late eighties with sitcoms Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Rab C Nesbitt, Red Dwarf evey night a classic was on.

This is absolutely wonderful.

Superb Humour,superb comedy!!!

There are to many good actors on the same clip🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻

"Like me, you will conclude that Captain Blackadder is in fact totally and utterly guilty" "of nothing more than trying to do his duty under difficult circumstances."

who would dislike this? its hilarious

@ian1231100

4 жыл бұрын

The pigeon.

Three to four legendary actor in the same room. It's too big for any tv show to handle. Need it in a single movie or series pack. BBC should understand the gems they have and need to showcase them to the world.

Splendid. Excellent. First Class.

Outstanding humour 👏👏👏👏

that nod 0:11 exuding confidence only made the rest of the dialogues much more funnier.

I'm literally died at, "That's him, that's him, that's the men, ARGHHHHHHH"

@Unsung_Earth

Жыл бұрын

Baaaaahh

1:10 - There's a series of clumsy looking edits that are a direct result of Fry and Laurie cracking up laughing.

That laugh from Stephen Fry!!

That was a good laugh in a long time.