Good shout.classic...

Poor ant. 🤣

The weird thing is is that loads of soldiers, airmen, and sailors loved Kitchener

Fear the Black Vegetable!

@@AlienPsyTing1 Apparently its not what you do but what you say.

"I don't care if he's been rogering the Duke of York with a prize-winning leek"

I use it myself on occasion :)

True, wish I could talk like that 😅

I still use that line

I believe Hugh Laurie uses this line as Bertie Wooster too

At least once a week for me, been that way for years lol.

@@christall2259 Same here, my wife (who is French) thinks I am bonkers...☺️

Thats just some goobelty gock

Your dad sounds like my kinda person :)

Fantastic 😂

My boss used to say this every time i asked him! 🤣

What happens if you bring him coffee?

@@wessmoore7894 You get massive derogatory rants about 'bloody Americans'.

If you are English of course.... Cos the Yanks wouldn't have a clue about anything in this collage! (No...., college is something they went to and still came out as thick as fuck!) I've just Trumped for the World.... (sorry)....

He may be great here, but its a hard pass on another arrogant doctor show. Haven't seen it, haven't missed it.

*international treasure

see also: Veep and Avenue 5. dude doesnt stop.

@@3BoomtownKat Not every American is as you describe, or every Britain a smart arse.

Lets face it, he was the archytypical British Upper-crust knob-'ead commonly shown in many-a-comedy. BUT, based mostly on WW1's boss, Field Marshall Dougliss Haigh.

0/10

Absolutely! 👍

@@davidashton2361 I wouldn't poo-poo that claim.

They lost.

👍Thanks for sharing that information.

He is the Most Interesting Man in the World. Can you imagine how bloody insufferable it must be to be related, or friends, with him?

@@allenwilliams1306 so that was Hugh Laurie's fault was it?

Well bugger me with a pitchfork, I never knew that.

Yep!

Aye, the heartfelt "Thank God" is such a sweet touch.

Givng him that surname was inspired. Tim McInnery plays the part masterfully, his pained expressions are priceless.

´How is my moustach? Bushy enough?´ -You will combing women out for weeks, sir! 😂🪮💂🏻‍♂️

has me in stitches too... the double meaning in every sentence was hilarious, just perfect. Darling also plays his part extremely well!

Richard Curtis too

@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 absolutely

@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 So you're saying Richard Curtis's writing for the first series was as good as Ben Elton's writing from the second series through to Goes Forth? ..... Really?

@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 Good point there. That man's often overlooked! ☹️

@@MarlboroughBlenheim1 It was Elton who came in after season 1 and transformed the show. In season 1, Blackadder was the buffoon and Baldrick was the smart one. It worked so much better when the roles were swapped. Tony Robinson was much better at playing the idiot, did it dead pan, and Rowan was a much better at playing the unscrupulous Blackadder.

Thanks very much, most appreciated . We thank You Tube for allowing these GEMS to be seen without ludicrous woke interference.

make the most of it, real comedy died 15 years ago.

@@MrDaiseymay Yep!

@@MrDaiseymay Sadly I must agree with you Philip.

@@MrDaiseymay Brooklyn Nine Nine was very good for it's first 4 seasons. It was never the same when it was canceled and brought back

comedy/humour is entirely subjective. Blindly declaring the old thing is better than the new thing is just a ridiculously old fashion mindset.

Sounds like something members of the Royal family would say

Beloved enemies the Germans...

they still do. Its called the BBC headquarters

bend the knee lefties now

Now they have diversity department with nothing to offer just arguments and generating more gap and massive confusion.

No black faces....oh dear BBC

Are you suggesting that in anyway the "relentless panel shows" department might not give the same value for money in some way?

'Are you private Baldrick' 'No' 'Come on Baldrick it's me 'No it isn't'

No

@@ozosmanlitorunu But you are Captain Blackadder's batman? No I'm not

It is funny but i think even funnier is the one in Blackadder Goes Forth where Gen Melchett explains what happens to George's rabbit when he visited him for his birthday...

@@terencej72 'You had a lovely rabbit' 'Flossy' 'Thats right Flossy. You remember what happened to him'? 'You shot him' 'Yes but it was the kindest thing to do after that car had ran over him' 'Your car sir' 'Yes my car but that to was an act of mercy after that dog had been set on him' 'Your dog sir'

Please tell me you've seen that QI episode about the 'Acropolis where the Parthenon is...' then?!

RIP speckled Jim. My favourite Melchett moment.

“My only childhood friend.”

The Firing Squad was superb. "I'm a gabbler see..."

These series’ belong in a museum! "So do you Dr. Jones!"

And who could forget the last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth? Very poignant. 😢

@@dougieranger Well said ! Very moving .

I doubt that the BBC would be allowed to make comedy of this type anymore. The internal and external thought killjoy police (otherwise known as the PC brigade) would stifle it at birth. I have an ex sister in law who has no sense of humour except her all consuming greed. She constantly makes snide remarks and giggles at her own perceived sense of humour involving her wealth (she owns 2 properties and has, from what I understand from her, considerable cash reserves in several accounts.) She is constantly getting estate agents round to give her valuations of her properties. I made a humorous remark by text a few days ago regarding my right eye which I'd had laser treatment for last year. I said that my eyeball was OK but the socket had to come out. She text me back saying don't let them do it. The joke went straight over her head. I thought she was joking as well but no, she was serious. I had to text her back to say I had been joking. Unbelievable! When I go to visit I'm not allowed to tell any jokes in case I tell a dirty one. I don't stay long, but feel obliged to visit because her husband recently died suddenly of cancer (not my brother, of course!). The point I'm trying to make is that there are people out there who are totally humourless!

Pointless drivel David Ashton.

@@timmceniry9536 To be moved to reply to my comment, you must be one of them, stung into making a snivelling remark such as "Pointless drivel". Are you an overweight gender identifier who dresses in women's clothing, complete with dirty blond wig, laddered stockings, smeared bright red lipstick and a stubble face, pockmarked with untreated acne, perhaps?

A man of culture.

Try to encourage others to do the same.

I have it permanently downloaded on my pc and keep rewatching it on occasion. If there wasn't a laugh track, it would've been the best comedy show ever. I mean it still is, but..

Rowan Atkinson is the Absolute God of comedy. Fry and Laurie are archangels. Let's have no more heresy on this channel!

Oh, the first series had some brilliant moments too - such as Blackadder trying to explain how many people he'd killed at Bosworth Field, and the Spanish Infanta's translator in the bedroom....

You can't poo poo the poo poo 😁

I believe the spelling is pooh-pooh

@@john.premose only if it's Winnie-the- Pooh Pooh 😀

@@stewarthill3891 I especially loved the role of the King as played by Brian Blessed in the first series! All Blackadder episodes are a joy. Legends.

Even better when you realise Rowan is a Oxford graduate.

And even more so when you realise Hugh Laurie competed in the University Boat Race!!

@Tim DyerOne of my favourite swipes was Melchets claim that---'' Oxford is a right DUMP'

@@MrDaiseymay because Hull was a great university haha

​@@Kar4ever3and also Newcastle

A great example of stooping to conquer.

Because he had the cunning plan :P

He was the only one to accept it.

I thought he traded it for a turnip of his very own.

@@sbaxter4207 he should have held out for a great big turnip in the country!

And a "WOOF"!!! RIP to the late and great Rik Mayall.

WOOF!

WOOF

Yes ! - And "Darling" is a real surname. Imagine being an unfortunate kid at school with that name. Almost as bad as being Jimmy Mycock. When the teacher shouts, "Stand up Mycock", one can imagine the class erupting in laughter. I know a bloke called Mycock. Shame I wasn't in his class at school.

@@and7barton A bit off the beaten track, as it were, when I was in the army in Germany in the 60s/70s, being gay was a military offence. One day a couple of guys were caught in bed together which caused a huge legal (militarily) row, in as much that it couldn't be ignored. However, I'm of the opinion that they weren't gay but just so drunk that they fell asleep in the same bed after a heavy night on the sauce. They were duly charged with whatever the army act was and put the regimental jail which was also the guard house at the main gate. There was also a pay office corporal who was known for his standard greeting of, "What's your query, lad?" if you had to go to the pay office for any reason. One of the prisoners had to go to the pay office and was greeted by this corporal with his standard "What's your query lad?" The whole place erupted with laughter, as you can imagine. We have Alastair Darling, the MP. Or did have. I haven't heard anything about him for a long time so maybe he's no longer an MP.

It is said that they took ages to get used to the script readings, before they could control their laughter, and record the shows.

Well, you are, in a manner of speaking,every time you watch the series. I can't help feeling sorry for people with no sense of humour and I've met a few. They're missing out on so much in life. I try to find something amusing in every situation on a daily basis. When my brother moved up to Hull from London I said to him over the phone when he rang to tell me that it must have been a 'hull' of a journey. It went straight over his head! When my sister phoned to tell me that the son of the old lady who lived next and had just died, turned up in floods of tears I asked if they were tears of joy. Well, he was due to inherit, wasn't he! Yeah, I know, that was a bit mean, but I couldn't help it!

Unbelievably funny, witty and talented yet so humble. Small wonder he's considered a national treasure.

Quite right... I wished he had capitalised more on his comedy talent in recent years

People suffering from depression rarely see their own worth, i think that's the issue.🤔

I think he knows he's much greater that. And then much worse.

Muhammad Ali said his (Ali's, not Fry's) only fault was not knowing how really great he was.

It's even funnier if one has seen "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" where they often ended sketches with Stephen Fry belting Hugh Laurie in the face. 😆

*Wellington

@@Bobba8590 No, it's Willington.

@@CKM1909 I think you should do some research.

@@Bobba8590 The person who made this comment spelt it as "Willington" intentionally. To imitate Melchetts pronunciation. If you watched the show, you probably would've picked it up.

Out of how many millions of none generals?

@@martinkulkarni3569 Your chance of getting killed was about 50% higher if you were an officer. Don't know the figures for specific ranks, but generals were (a) much less numerous than other ranks (b) actually supposed to be in charge of things, co-ordinating tens of thousands of men along a front of several miles. That's the reason they were usually in a position a little behind the trenches, from there they could more easily work out what was going on and give orders. They had all been fighting soldiers themselves earlier in their careers, so the insinuation that they were fools and cowards who spent the war living it up in chateaux far from the front line where the real fighters died is a caricature.

@@plunketgreene3646 that's why they ordered horse charges against heavy machine guns, upper class twats

@@alemgas Well, no-one would ever accuse you of being upper class.

@@alemgas To be fair, at Waterloo, Napoleon ordered 9,000 cavalry against the allied lines. They attacked for 4 hours and the result was the same: thousands of dead horses. I guess it was just the thing to do 😉

Every day in at work.. so much💩💩💩💩💩

Pooh-pooh.

i feel one coming right now

Give it 100 years or so...😬

One can only hope that this bloody silly country of ours will grow a pair of testicles and return to some kind of normality. My fear is I may die long before this happens.

Never is a long time.

Why did you sell our gold at a knock down price

I never got it why he didn't get back to comedy, he was perfect at it. These and the 'Fry and Laurie' series (the part he played as the 'hairdresser' is hilarious) are 30 years old now so it's long overdue for him to return to comedy.

@@terrythekittieful They do say, to be good at comedy you have to be a fine actor.

Good to welcome you aboard

Oh! THANK YOU!... This frikkin COFFEE SHITE.... WTF... I hated all THAT CRAP.... Remember "Law & Order UK"? Walking down the road with a coffee cup...FFS...who insisted on that shite!!!! Like...lawyers on 20 million a year did not have access to a decent beverage within their own office..... FFS... They work in an office...but a Tea Lady is beyond them? Eh? I just do not get this idea of walking down the street with a cup of coffee in your hand...... Are you REALLY THAT SAD? I mean, REALLY? How...in the name of all that is reasonable.... does a coffee cup in your hand.... Improve your day? Please. Tell me. I really want to know. I am intrigued.

@All hail Biden Not EVERYONE does. I know people who don't.

@@Trev359 I think you may have missed the point but I do believe a brain transplant would help.

@@ndev8593 Lol !!!

"someone might actually watch it." I have stopped watching it, the BBC is 100% tory propaganda now.

A VAIN HOPE

I live in Tyneside and a dental nurse in my street has a married name of Wouldhave, and she never knew that there is a Wouldhave public house in South Tyneside! That name comes from a famous family in the history of lifeboats on the north east coast.

@@martinkulkarni3569 lol, i used to have a neighbour years ago called Tom Gotobed ( go to bed) Good job he wasnt called Ted Also, my cousin married a copper stationed in Blyth, Northumberland & he booked a guy in for being palatic drunk & asked his name for the paperwork charge sheet, the guy said Donald Duck... well you can imagine the ensuing situation until another copper came in to the station forra cuppa, saw the protesting drunk saying he wasnt lying so cop had to tell my cousins hubby that indeed the lad was called Donald Duck! Said the parents were inbreds...u gota laff

@@itallia666 the copper wasnt Sgt Bytheway was it?...steve bytheway's dad

@@tonyb5884 lol! No Tony, my cousins hubby that arrested mr donald duck was called sargent john pyle I believe the Duck family still live in Blyth though.

Elton and Curtis based all of their Blackadder situations on real English history, but with a twist. Its sad that the Americans while being generous and open people, really dont get this humour and cannot see Hugh Laurie as anything beyond a chastising doctor in House .

SPECKLED JIM!

The Flanders Pigeon Murderer.

You shot my Speckled Jim!

Captain blackadder definitely did not shoot this delicious plump breasted pigeon!

'Before we pass sentence on the deceased.. mm I mean the defendant.. mahahahaha..'

Your american so it would be difficult for you

You make it sound as if he's dead.

Its so funny when Rowan says I think you hit him very hard.. and thumps Hugh again....

Same here 🤭😁 it’s like you grow into Blackadder. It stays good over the years and as you get older you get it more and more. So good! It’s how I learned the beauty of well deployed sarcasm.

@@NicolaKaye Like a fine wine....... it develops....... .( Unlike Macron. Eh?)

Agreed... his face is the highlight for me, a fantastic bit of acting.

@@AthelstanEngland I read that vertually ALL script rehersals were impossible to get through, without hours of laughter and re-reads. They persisted so that they all got it out of their system for the final take.

If I remember right the last part where he boots him into the table, Fry did actually kick Laurie, and did slightly injure him. But all part of the dynamic between the pair. I have to say I was sad to see the end of "A bit of Fry and Laurie"

Mine too... absolutely so spot on..... The guy knows exactly how he is going to portray a character...and just GOES for it...Full Tilt. Brilliant.

'That's very kind of you sir'

@@ozosmanlitorunu Will you kindly stop interrupting! If you don’t listen, how can you tell me what you think?

The British and the Germans should never have fought against each other during this useless war. Had they been allies, the Second World War would never have happened and both Britain and Germany would be much more prosperous today.

@@theodoravonwied5441 true

There would be even better advantages if you know what I mean

Agreed the greatest people killing each other over the worst

@@theodoravonwied5441 True! But you can't change history.

I wish england was still like this , this is coming from an Irish man

I also prefer British comedy myself. Love the way they can diss something in a very irreverent yet witty and articulate manner. Monty Python is legendary and while the comedy these days can't match up to the 1970s-1990s era, some of the sketches and parodies done for Red Nose Day/Comic Relief are pretty good.

OR ANYWHERE ELSE

I'm afraid not sir , I'm a gabbler ya see , ready aim fire

Yes, that was a class move... "Mmmm, Trafalgar looks good" and so it proved! Defeated the French AND the Spaniards.... AGAIN! (Now, if only we could be so assertive over the French with their lousy policing of migrants and their sloppy attitudes to fishing.........)

It was so fascinating to hear them talk about how hard it is to take a fake punch and sell it and how Hugh is an absolute master at it.