We are literally days away from Christmas, so let’s sit back and enjoy some great comedy!
There’s tonnes of cool stuff on this year (which we’ll come to over the weekend) from Stanley Baxter making a long overdue return to television to a special show about Blackadder (and annoyingly they’re both on at the same time…)
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Mock the Week at Christmas!
Clip of the Week: Some Beans
From the unmatchable Blackadder II, Edmund teaches Baldrick how to count…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328Q79GoR7g
By Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, and starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny and Miranda Richardson, Blackadder II has a special place in my memories of growing up in the 1980s.
It was simply so much funnier than anything else that was [...]
Blackadder III – Dish & Dishonesty
[singlepic=26,320,240,,right]This weeks Comedy Dialogue of the Week is by Ben Elton and Richard Curtis, and comes from the first episode of Blackadder III. Prince George’s (Hugh Laurie) butler Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) works to undermine the Prime Minster’s (Pitt the Younger) plans to remove the Prince Regent’s income.
Calling on royalist Sir Talbot Buxomly to [...]
Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!
A vast list of the best put-downs on television has been compiled by the Radio Times in the UK, and it includes countless BBC comedy series.
Basil Fawlty - Fawlty Towers. To Sybil: “Oh dear, what happened? Did you get entangled in the eiderdown again? Not enough cream in your eclair? Hmm? Or did you have [...]
