Blackadder, great comedy

**Tyrael** · 30th-November-2009

Blackadder is a great British comedy series with Rowan Atkinson.

Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of a BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments.

All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series is set in a different historical period with Blackadder and Baldrick as main characters. In each series they are accompanied by different characters, though several persons reappear in one series or another - for example, Melchett and Lord Flashheart.

Although each series is set in a different time era, all follow the fortunes (or rather, misfortunes) of Edmund Blackadder (played by Atkinson), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history. Although the character is quite unintelligent in the first series, he is increasingly clever and perceptive in subsequent generations (while decreasing in social status). Each Blackadder though is a cynical, cowardly opportunist concerned with maintaining and increasing his own status and fortunes, regardless of his surroundings. In each series, Blackadder is usually a cynical (almost modern) voice puncturing the pretensions and stupidity of those around him, and what might — through modern eyes — be seen as the more ludicrous and insane follies of history (from the medieval religious witch-hunts and the petty whims and insanities of various British monarchs to the bloodshed and horror of World War I).

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHDP5TFpqkw"]YouTube- Blackadder's Christmas Carol (Part 2 of 5)[/ame]

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_WdTAS65-0"]YouTube- Blackadder's Christmas Carol (Part 5 of 5)[/ame]

Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Jim Broadbent, and Miriam Margolyes

It's New Year's Eve 1999, and Blackadder makes a bold claim to his contemporaries. He claims Baldrick has built a time machine with which Blackadder will get historical evidence. What no one knows is that Baldrick really has invented a time machine, with one slight flaw. That sends Blackadder and Baldrick on a millennium's worth of adventure.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWZPR5LIb2Q"]YouTube- Blackadder Back and Forth 1[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgomGl53VE"]YouTube- [HQ] BlackAdder [2-3] Back and Forth [1999 Film][/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijn_W973Mjg"]YouTube- [HQ] BlackAdder [3-3] Back and Forth [1999 Film][/ame]

**chris1970** · 30th-November-2009

Blackadder - not just a great comedy, perhaps the best sitcom ever made, particularly the 2nd series set in Elizabethan England.

**Tyrael** · 30th-November-2009

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You can wriggle as much as you want,you can call me any name you please,you have been called on giving bad rep points using identical term"NOT FUNNY" within two day's to two Slav's or at least Eastern European's when the only common denominator is our race,explain,is it just coincidence,i think it that your Nazi past,even for a short time, has leaked through.

I already explained to you that there are thousands of people with the nickname Tyrael and how easy it is to create an account on a forum with any available nickname including yours which completely debunks your false statements. I never lived in New York and never went to high school there.

I already told you many many times that I DON't CARE what your race or ethnicity is. I don't care where you come from or what you look like.

You can repeat your unsubstantiated arguments and lies as much as you want, but you're not convincing anybody with anything.

Additionally you keep on acting like an annoying troll who keeps on making personal attacks, while you claim to be innocent and a victim of negative rep.

Just shows your hypocrisy in this matter. You're really getting annoying.

Now, of course you will reply again and again and repeat your false allegations. You're pathetic, and immature.

**Daveyone** · 30th-November-2009

The last episode WW1 was very poinyant!

**nivek** · 30th-November-2009

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The last episode WW1 was very poinyant!

Agreed, after all the funny stuff that final scene left you feeling very sad.

**ftumch** · 1st-December-2009

can i mention Blackadder?

**senach** · 1st-December-2009

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can i mention Blackadder?

Go for it sir.

**ftumch** · 1st-December-2009

Thank you, sir.

Blackadder is history (lessons for my son), is pure farce (both men and women are foolish), is pathos (see series IV). Like all good comedy, it's in the timing as much as the scripting... and Rowan Atkinson's face.. back when he was funny.

If anyone mentions Mr Bean... well... I'll....

well

**senach** · 1st-December-2009

Quote from ftumch

Thank you, sir.

Blackadder is history (lessons for my son), is pure farce (both men and women are foolish), is pathos (see series IV). Like all good comedy, it's in the timing as much as the scripting... and Rowan Atkinson's face.. back when he was funny.

If anyone mentions Mr Bean... well... I'll....

well

Whom do you think is more relevant,and also the Spanish think that Mr Bean is great,but there again they call their PM Mr Bean..

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Totally Looks Like comedic actor Mr. Bean
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