Songs of Praise!
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008From Not the Nine O’Clock News…
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Clip of the Week: Some Beans
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008From the unmatchable Blackadder II, Edmund teaches Baldrick how to count…
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 on, thanks to the superb writing of insults and twists and the performances of the main players.
This clip in particular is marvellous, and one that many people who have seen the episode remember.
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Blackadder III – Dish & Dishonesty
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Calling on royalist Sir Talbot Buxomly to sway the vote in their favour, Blackadder and the Prince are astonished to find that he has died mid conversation…
EDMUND: We must move at once.
PRINCE GEORGE: In which direction?
EDMUND: Sir Talbot represented the constituency of Dunny-on-the-Wold, and, by an extraordinary stroke of luck, it is a rotten borough.
PRINCE GEORGE: Really! Is it! Well, lucky-lucky us. Lucky-lucky-luck. (as a chicken) Luck-luck-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck
-LAKK-LAKK-LAKK.
EDMUND: You don’t know what a rotten borough is, do you, sir.
PRINCE GEORGE: No.
EDMUND: So what was the chicken impression in aid of?
PRINCE GEORGE: Well, I just didn’t want to hurt your feelings. Erm, so, what is a robber button?
EDMUND: Rotten borough.
PRINCE GEORGE: Oh, yes, you’re right.
EDMUND: A rotten borough, sir, is a constituency where the owner of the land corruptly controls the both the voters and the MP.
PRINCE GEORGE: Good, yes…and a robber button is…?
EDMUND: Could we leave that for a moment? Dunny-on-the-Wold is a tuppenny-ha’penny place. Half an acre of sodden marshland in the Suffolk Fens with an empty town hall on it. Population: three rather mangy cows, a dachshund named `Colin’, and a small hen in its late forties.
PRINCE GEORGE: So, no people at all, then? apart from Colin…
EDMUND: Colin is a dog, sir.
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