Prince Charles celebrates his 60th birthday this year, and among various engagements Thursday November 13th was the date that The Princes’ Trust - an organisation setup by Charles to help young people - held an evening of A-list comedy entertainment in his honour at the New Wimbledon Theatre in London.
The performers were Rowan Atkinson, Robin [...]
John Cleese – Completely Different Emcee
Rowan Atkinson Live - Amazing Jesus
This is a superb piece from Rowan Atkinson’s legendary one-man show (which also featured Angus Deayton for a time)
httpv://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzXJMU1sLc
School Master
The phrase “classic comedy” gets bandied around pretty much willy-nilly these days, but this is a true vinage.
Click play to watch Rowan Atkinson at the 1979 Secret Policeman’s Ball…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ad1f6ZCTbg
Songs of Praise!
From Not the Nine O’Clock News…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2GFfpgTBt0
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 [...]
