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

@mushroomhead3619

Жыл бұрын

@@dlmdee Nope sounds like Trump.

@Smasheditin66

Жыл бұрын

@@mushroomhead3619 and Boris !!

@mattgarrett2583

Жыл бұрын

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

@davtona

Жыл бұрын

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

@class444swr3

Жыл бұрын

I see it’s the conservative leadership contest

“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

Жыл бұрын

"... _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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

*bits of lemon peel

@poppymoon777

Жыл бұрын

😂😂

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

@nickhand8054

10 ай бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

@@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 KZread. Lol

@antonk.2748

9 ай бұрын

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

@margaretgarside5617

9 ай бұрын

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

@SueDenimDomDenim

4 ай бұрын

@@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

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

@sayno2lolzisback

Жыл бұрын

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

@Perfidion

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@zapkvr

10 ай бұрын

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

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

8 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

The true value of British culture in the comedy .

@trillions5000

Жыл бұрын

Tory values, not ours.

@what-oy8il

Жыл бұрын

@@trillions5000 what are you talking about?

@trillions5000

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@trillions5000 i see

@tomfoulds2604

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@lomax343

Жыл бұрын

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

@aek72

4 ай бұрын

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

right now this could be a documentary

@srp01983

Жыл бұрын

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

@Minime163

Жыл бұрын

Hope the current prince George isn't listening.

@thoughtfox12

Жыл бұрын

Ever so clever

@SparrowwithaMachinegun

Жыл бұрын

Indeed, indeed jolly good show.

@neilwavg

Жыл бұрын

Stereotyped old tat

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

@michaelcrook6397

Жыл бұрын

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.??

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

@stonedwookie9916

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@AA-hg5fk

Жыл бұрын

Apart from the first series I completely agree

@oldtimer4863

Жыл бұрын

@@AA-hg5fk I love the first series.

@AA-hg5fk

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@jamyskis

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@ismayb754

Жыл бұрын

What's a typewriter?

@61505

Жыл бұрын

lots of greek/latin influence in the second word

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

@AdrianColley

Жыл бұрын

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

@ann_onn

Жыл бұрын

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

@trillions5000

Жыл бұрын

He's obviously Dixilicsick

@bobbyperu4683

Жыл бұрын

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

@senseweaver01

Жыл бұрын

The word is "implication"

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

@otocan

22 күн бұрын

Oh, he's in Oz now?

@pipfox7834

13 күн бұрын

​@otocan yes, he has lived in WAust for quite a few years now...

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@lomax343

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

What a shapely ankle! 😆

@pineapplepenumbra

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@whiskeyvictor5703 fine of fetlock!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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

Жыл бұрын

Very well spotted

@Julia-lk8jn

Жыл бұрын

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

10 ай бұрын

Very good catch.

Hugh and Rowan together is pure ✨ magic!

Literally the best speech George ever gave 😂

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.

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

@djtwo2

11 ай бұрын

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

@Init123-dl7pe

10 ай бұрын

Well that hardly accounts for much

@feonor26

6 ай бұрын

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

4 ай бұрын

id love a contemporary version of this

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

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 … ❤❤❤

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

@skontheroad

Жыл бұрын

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

@gryphonbotha1880

Жыл бұрын

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

@teaonrainyday888

Жыл бұрын

​@@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

11 ай бұрын

Bridgetown is based off a book

@donald8066

11 ай бұрын

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

Just love Hugh Laurie as George 🤭

@Kiwinan1701

Жыл бұрын

I loved Stephen Fry as Wellington.

@SquinkyThreepwood

Жыл бұрын

@@Kiwinan1701 I love a bit of Fry and Laurie.

@Marvin-dg8vj

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant comic acting

@funny3scene

Жыл бұрын

House

dialogue like a carelessly discarded match in a box of fireworks

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

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

@Timberwulf2

Жыл бұрын

Lol good joke,

@markcowen9538

Жыл бұрын

@@missyadams is he really? Gadzooks!

@TheExsoldier1

Жыл бұрын

He's English!! Well cover me in eggs and flour and bake me for 20 minutes!

@lindaj5492

Жыл бұрын

?House? Looks like spellcheck got in: he’s Hugh Laurie 😊

@TheExsoldier1

Жыл бұрын

@PrincessA ok so I was off by 20 mins kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYJ4squAg7PKdqQ.html 😳

This is my favourite of the Blackadder series.

@Kiwinan1701

Жыл бұрын

@@DanielOlivierArgyle They’re all excellent.

@nuntana2

Жыл бұрын

Not bad. Sense n Senility or Beer?

@trillions5000

Жыл бұрын

In fact we just love Blackadder 😁

@Kiwinan1701

Жыл бұрын

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

Sensible policies for a happier Britain 🇬🇧!

@crhu319

Жыл бұрын

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

That sarcastic chuckle was a masterpiece of comic timing

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

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.

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

@MatheusFernandes-xf4zm

8 ай бұрын

Terrivelmente evangélico

@leafbranch1872

4 ай бұрын

I think everyone can.

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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....

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Parknest

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this was the golden era of British TV.

@sosimple3585

Жыл бұрын

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

@Minime163

Жыл бұрын

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

@joelogjam9163

Жыл бұрын

"SAUSAGE TIME!"

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

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

@tanveerhasan2382

Жыл бұрын

that's the joke

Blackadder is one of the best series ever.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@timmartindale75

Жыл бұрын

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

@richard6440

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

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

@TheLowerIntestine

Жыл бұрын

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

Rare episode of House where he gets the diagnosis wrong.

We hail Prince George ... We hail Liz Truss

@adavanja5682

Жыл бұрын

Good one!! 👏👏

@SuzuranMajere

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Duchess_Van_Hoof

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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.

Only the British could come up with this. It’s bloody funny and insightful.

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

0:28 That chuckle says it all. 😂

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

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

@annasundlof2282

Жыл бұрын

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

@noahkarpinski1824

Жыл бұрын

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

@nimascolari1508

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

@@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

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

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

@pnutz9010

Жыл бұрын

'Resign' may be one way to put it

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

@Useaname

Жыл бұрын

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

@MaskedMan66

Жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

A classic scene from a classic series.

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@Johnny-sj9sj

Жыл бұрын

@@dabraham8221 Thanks!

@Marvin-dg8vj

Жыл бұрын

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@AttilaAsztalos

Жыл бұрын

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

This is the scene I always remember

@davidlathngue1210

Жыл бұрын

Great show

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

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).

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

This is great art.

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

He'd be right at home in the Truss cabinet

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

@JoseighBlogs

Жыл бұрын

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

@leftcoaster67

Жыл бұрын

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

@brendannahor1460

Жыл бұрын

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

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

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

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

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.

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

ROARINGLY splendid to have you here! 😂

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

@NinjaOfLU

Жыл бұрын

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

@AdrianColley

Жыл бұрын

There are no good comic actors, only good actors.

@martinchapple1

Жыл бұрын

and Dickie Roper in The Night Manager!

@Zongooo

Жыл бұрын

Also Blackadder and Mr Bean are the same man.

@timewalker6654

Жыл бұрын

didn't you notice bean and Blackadder are same too

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

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

Roaringly splendid...hurrah for that!!!

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

Absolutely brilliant

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

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.

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

@SueDenimDomDenim

4 ай бұрын

Are you being sarcastic with the last sitcom? 😂

@Nmax

4 ай бұрын

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

@Simon-xc5oy

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

@@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....

One of my favourite scenes :)

@Szmiber

Жыл бұрын

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

@Hulalulatallulahoop2

Жыл бұрын

@@Szmiber I love that scene too!!!

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

Жыл бұрын

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

Great, now I feel like going on a Blackadder binge.

@JonDow-ow2fc

Ай бұрын

Definitely worth it I love all of the the series set , except for the first series but that's just my personal opinion lol 😂 good old British comedy

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

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

@Mizzkan

Жыл бұрын

Sir Keir Starmer I think you will find 👍

@StaalBurgher0

Жыл бұрын

🤦‍♂️

Walking on broken glass turned into a tv show

" Sir if this bill goes through you won't have any socks "

@66impala71

10 ай бұрын

"I don't have any socks now"

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

life goes round

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

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

@rael1999

4 ай бұрын

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

Ironic to say the least, pretty how British politics works to this very day

@somerandomguy2073

Күн бұрын

That isn’t what 'irony' means.

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.

I love this show 😅

Looks like they'll be needing a suitable candidate to fight the upcoming Dunny-On -the-Wolde by-election now then!

@leftmono1016

Жыл бұрын

It’s a robber button 😉

That was comedy in 80s. Back then they'd hire an actor with the cred of Denis Lill for just one scene like this.

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

‘He’s dead sir…’

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.