From Mr Bean to Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson breaks down his most iconic characters 

I'm pretty sure he talks quite a lot in Johnny English though.....

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@@burnflaze2346 I’m pretty sure sarcasm is far beyond your reach though…

@@Dontevenknowfam It wasn't sarcasm... I think the definition of sarcasm is beyond your reach.

@@Dontevenknowfam Didn't have to be so mean about it

''Extremely smart.'' You are right about that, as Atkinson's IQ is 178 which is exeptional.

Who cares about how people talk it aint that deep if he was extremely smart he would Exercise

@@ZakiZak If he were smart ...

@@SpeccyMan i typd it out fast g i dont hav time to check mitakes in my texts lil bro

Probably quite random but while watching this he reminded me a lot of the way my step dad acts and talks. Very carefully as you said.

He got a knighthood though

​@@Cat-qo3cnso he is sir atkinson? 😍

@@Prave1987 yes

​@@Prave1987 it would be Sir Rowan, but no. He has a CBE.

In that case, the Governors' Award at the Emmys is more likely.

Yeah, it is.

Ikr? :')

and according to google he's died about 50 times lol

that’s the way of life

He looks fit and healthy for a man aged 67! He didn’t change that much in all those years

Lol what

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@IEatFatClit or that Mr bean will be relevant forever 😅

Lol get a life ffs.

I feel like Rowan Atkinson could have pulled off a role as Bilbo Baggins really well, if he was offered that role; he really has that British wise elderly man look to him.

Remember when he turned the light off by shooting it with a gun?

Yooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@YourFeelingsSucks or when he painted his room.

@@M1ggins That was hilarious, one of his friends betrayed him, the dynamite goes off and the silhouette of him reaching for his hat was there. I remember the roller-coaster too, he was un-impressed, annoyed and fell asleep.

Mine is the Christmas episode. He's in the store messing around loll

*play

@@THE_flushingtoilet thanks genius

@@smipy learn proper English and no one will correct you dumbfuck

yes. its called PSYCHICAL comedy

@@TheConorsmithusa No it's called PHYSICAL comedy

I cried my eyes out when my dad told me that Mr.Bean is not a real person

yes

@@Picnicl 😂😂😂

You’re right- that was a well created sitcom with some truly classic lines and moments- underrated.

I was waiting for that one

Sadly, that series could never be made today with PC gone mad. PC Goody was very mad indeed.

@@dannyarcher6370 sun dried tomato eating namby pambies

Detective grimm funny as f!!k

absolutely the accessibility of Mr Bean is like Pingu. doesn't need words to be understood.

Fawlty Towers is also known worldwide! "Don't mention the war!" - Basil Fawlty

how are you doing today?

Coping with the daily stress we all have to face in the USA. @@zuanidrys462

This is amazing!! Happy he had this impact on you!

I used to work in a refugeecamp where many Kurdish people from Iraq lived. When we had a movienight they choose to watch Mr Bean. No words are needed to have a good laugh with Mr Bean, no matter which country you are from.

A man in a war spelling the name of a country THEY FOUGHT A WAR IN wrong after looking over and editing their comment seems extremely odd.

I hesitated to click on this because i've never seen an interview with him when he's the slightest bit light hearted, even when he was on a children's TV show! That's why he's a professional 'actor'. One of the best maybe? 🤨🤷‍♂

He does have an IQ higher than Einstein after all. And yes, that is true

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Yes very mysterious still that’s true, I didn’t know why I was left with so many questions after the video ended

@@tomatoesims he really has a higher IQ than Einstein that's fact. Einstein's IQ is 160 while Rowan's IQ is 178

I agree with you. Rowan Atkinson is a master of improvisation. I am amazed at how he can take any situation or object & put a comic spin to it. Jonathan Winters was also a great master of improvisation. Any role Rowan Atkinson takes on will always end in hilarity. He is a comic genius.

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Oh......Teddy...

জনি ইংলিশ দেখেছেন? চরম হাসির ।

Everyone watches this at childhood

This is quite funny to me considering he has a sketch where he straight up played the devil.

Reminds me of Creed from office throwing his car keys and no one and saying "keep it running"

Literally my fave scene

The sea urchin part is funny. Also the darude sandstorm part where he smashes the girls face is good

It's his confused face and slight lean sideways after it flies out the window that makes it even funnier

I've never seen it until right now and I'm properly wheeze/belly laughing!

Same

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and one of the smartest person alive - 178 IQ

He WAS a legend. Now he's a crybaby for the Tories.

@@BuildinWings No, he still is.

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Yes. His comedic sense is invaluable, honestly. 💯

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@@kyameows Idiot

Yes

Yeah yeah

wait timestamp? was it the part he talked about Chaplin talked about looking closer everything is a tragedy but everything becomes a comedy with a long shot? I can't remember it word for word but was it something like that?

He's also got a degree in electrical engineering

@@Naffacakes98 electrical engineering, best engineering

He's actually quite intellectual and "present", yes. Present is a good word.

@@ahpadt weird way to spell materials

@@ahpadt There is nothing called best engineering. but if u account the money u can get than software engg provides the highest pay rolls now . at that time idk

Thank you honey ❤❤

He’s very popular in the Middle East too. Slap stick comedy is universal. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s popular elsewhere around the world too.

I saw something similar in Australia on a ferry out to an island. There was a tiny TV that started playing Mr Bean, and a whole group of Japanese tourists gathered round and were all laughing away. It was a really nice moment somehow, sharing comedy without having a common language.

with practically no dialogue Mr Bean is universally understood with no extra costs for the publisher/station/venue

Still today! Lots of Vietnamese students LOOOVE Mr Bean! The fact that there is no speech means that even if they can only speak a little English, they can still enjoy it. That's what makes Mr Bean so amazing. I've mostly seen them watch the live action one from the 90s, but more recently they watch the animated version that started in 2002.

I can say the same from Bangladesh

It’s amazing listening to him speak and tell his accumulated wisdom from many years of comedy and film!

And he can entertain us without saying a word.

As expected from a British, always uses proper English words.

@@ephxphany2346 netflix

@@hasanaliakhmedov6826 it's not on netflix🤔

@@ephxphany2346 bbc i player

I agree. The first and the second season are pure gold.

​@@airnidzo 2 and 3 for me, I usually skip 1 because they hadn't found their groove yet

his...what?!

oh dear me my little friend, you have a lot to learn

@Greg Elchert honestly i can't imagine any other person just saying "Bob" to make me laugh

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@@raoulduke8720 you haven't seen the meme apparently 🤣🤣🤣

i thought so too! i grew up with mr bean and hearing rowan atkinson talk in interviews is always such an experience. they are essentially polar opposites- and yet he portrayed mr bean so convincingly. its still so mind boggling to me how different he really is from this character. which should be common sense but still, mr bean and rowan atkinson are closely intertwined in my brain because he performed the character so convincingly like he really lives this role 24/7.

More quietly 🤫

Have you seen what he said about Boris Johnson though? Pretty disgusting.

Thats called being from UK

@@milanmorris-gibson5836 I don’t know what Rowan said about him but it’s probably true and deserved. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

his blackadder characters sound like him, as does his Johhny English; it's just Mr Bean who is almost mute

Check out his speech - here on RU-vid - against censorship! It's called "In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech". He's a smart bloke.

He voiced Zazu in the 1994 animated The Lion King

Then you'd probably enjoy his appearence in Top Gear, years ago. Just awesome.

I think this was partially in part to Rowan Atkinson's stammer. (you can hear it a bit in this interview) Over-articulation and playing a character helps him talk more fluidly while acting. His way of saying 'bob' is an oft used example.

You just reminded me about that. Wow. Yeah that was unexpected at the time and hilarious 😂

It was beautiful. It was a a peak Mr bean moment. He ends up there somehow. It's wonderful.

Rowan Atkinson was always at his peak

Well, at least it saves having to get up for the light switch.

JESSE WE NEED TO SAVE TEDDY FROM THE NEO NAZIS

He is said to have an IQ of 178 and he also has a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

and absolutely filthy rich. Blackadder would be proud

My first thought was why didn't they shoot Man vs. Bee at his house? :D

Not just a comedic genius, but also an actual genius. If the information I have is correct, he has an IQ score of 178.

I am the same i can watch him for hours he just has that charisma to him when i was young every time i went round my nans she had recorded mr bean on vhs from tv and i'll watch it everytime over and over and still love it i can now and then the cartoon ones came out that was good. He is a english hero i put him up there with michael caine and david attenborough as the best british people today.

Yeah. Watch him talk about free speech, really eloquent. (It’s on youtube.)

@Maryo_Nicle7 Just because a person is a professor does not mean they are automatically more intelligent than others they are more knowledgeable in the subject they professor in yes but normal smartness is hard to determine as some of the best professor in the world are good in what they subject but can be a idiot when it comes to simple things and they tend to be more objective to new things or idea's and like to always be right but rowan is not like that as i know of as dont know him in person.

Mr. Bean is indeed a genius and a member of MENSA

@@giggity4670 simply saying a person is an intelligent person doesn't automatically means they're downgrading others 🤣 chill, the comment is just simply complimenting him as his speech was eloquent, which is quite an impressive attribute to have and him being a professor must have at least contributed to that attribute

Watch Blackadder, yes it's a comedy, but there's a lot of drama in there as well. Especially s4 which is set in world war I.

He's very versatile as a Actor and a allrounder in many Things and a fine driver on the race track. Mr Bean is his best character because he's so many things in one character. Mr Atkinson is good.👨‍🏫🏖

I saw him on stage in a play called "Quartermaine's terms" which is essentially a tragedy. He was fantastic.

He's played Maigret (a detective show) in several specials in the last few years.

If you want to see him break down comedy, I recomend you watch "Funny Business." It's a sweet little Mockumenty about performing comedy.

He looks excellent for his age.

He is alive?!???

@@namangupta4791 Yes

@@namangupta4791 oh stop. Back in your cage.

Me too

Wow... to me he was Blackadder and Mr Bean... and the guy from Thin Blue Line.

My son is 3 and can’t get enough of Mr. Bean. I’ve watched more Mr. Bean with him than I have my entire life. The scotches are an absolute classic. The cartoon is also hilarious.

Mr Bean when I was kid, Blackadder when I got older

@@abcxyz53 i think you meant to say you arent smart enough to understand it

@@abcxyz53 Twitter didn't exist when he made my bean or the blackadder.

@@abcxyz53 Get a little smarter, then you would understand!

@@abcxyz53 it's a shame you're not educated enough to understand intellectual comedy and particularly Blackadder which will go down in history (no pun intended) as one of the greatest comedies ever conceived.

I didn’t know he did stand up, thank you

Mr Bean is very rewatch able. The amount of times I’ve watched it and it’s still hilarious.

I really wish he would make like a final goodbye to mr bean movie, just to tie it all up since its unlikely we will see anything like it anymore

@@Glade4 I think that’s what Mr Bean’s Holiday was. I think that was excellent. The perfect send off to the character.

Ah, yes. Mr. John Elton might disagree though.

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Which one? lol

@@johnmc3862 the British version. The American version sucks!

You have Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn and Johnny English Strikes Again.

@@kryptism can you tell me what's the difference? I have not seen the British version

Blackadder really is peak British comedy

Emma Thompson wasn't in Blackadder, was she?

I don't think so.

@@harvestmoon_autumnsky you’re probably right lol I must have mixed up a couple of shows

where can i watch it?

You really hit the nail on that one. It still boggles me how Rowan Atkinson is not only Mr. Bean but also Emile Mondavarious.

@@scottjameson5358 and Zazu in the original Lion King

@@aoisora1445 Even in The Lion King, you can still see some small resemblance of Zazu with Blackadder. Emile is just so different, if Mr. Bean is a polar opposite of Rowan Atkinson, then Emile is basically a younger sinister version of him, which, mind you, is not actually the real Emile, if you know what I mean. 😆

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Even if he didn't play any characther except Mr. Bean he would still be a genius. He already deserves te praise for that one alone.... ICON

He did four episodes of a TV series about the French detective Maigret - the polar opposite of his part as Mr. Bean, and I enjoyed watching it.

He was Zazu in the Lion King

The more the better

Blackadder is better than Mr. Bean.

@@silafuyang8675 out of all languages you chose to speak the language of FACTS 👌🏻

@@silafuyang8675 I agree with you. A few episodes into Blackadder (after hearing so much about it), I am hooked and found it more entertaining than Mr. Bean. But English is not my first language and my first few years of learning English back when I was a child in school was hard. So I guess you could say Mr. Bean was more appaling as it has no language barrier, which is why it had a big international hit and why literally everyone in the world knows him for it. And now that I am older, maybe a bit better profiecient in English, I could understand and relate more to Blackadder.

@@silafuyang8675 honestly the reason why Mr bean is popular is because since most people don't understand English, any jokes in Blackadder would fly over their heads.

@@Hitoshuratdn I also do not understand English very well, actually I hate English, it is a disgusting language. Anyway, Blackadder has much better acting (and excellent actors), more wit, historical satire and much more to it. Mr. Bean is more like a childish humour.

I believe the boy spoke Russian. Which added an extra barrier. Not only couldn't bean and the boy understand each other. Neither could understand the French people around them.

Single-handedly??? Have you never heard of Charlie Chaplin?

@@fredsullivan5060 I’m confident enough to say that people know Mr Bean more than Charlie Chaplin no hate on him just sayin

@@fredsullivan5060 Mr. Bean is more widely known than Charlie Chaplin. There are clips of Mr. Bean on RU-vid they get 40 million views even higher

In his case it works, in others not so. It works for him because, as he said, his true self is the exact opposite of the silly characters he plays. The portrayal of acts in entertainment should be taken as entertainment only. The world is very different in real life. More often than not, the people who need dialog to convey their emotions, are expressionless introverts who can't work their facial muscles or body language to the extent that Mr. Atkinson can. In other words, his character is unique because he portrays the character being able to do something that logic tells us he shouldn't be able to do. You wouldn't find a Mr. Bean-like actor portraying Mr. Bean because in reality, such a character would not be well-received, and certainly wouldn't make it to the big screen. I have great respect for him as a comedian and he is a brilliant actor. Although I'd prefer to convey my emotions without dialog, society would disagree and I would be seen as antisocial and non-conformist, or worse, shunned.

Johnny English Strikes Again was only 4 years ago....

He never went away though? He's been fairly active, especially for a man his age.

@@HOTD108_ Just ask James Acaster haha

I never realized in all these years, that he had a stutter! That surprised me

@@slbarbieri1725 Yes and that's why he pronounced the name 'Bob' like he did in Blackadder.

He’s saying he won’t do “idents or introductions”… Meaning he won’t introduce GQ or this “iconic characters” series of videos.

Rowan Atkinson is amazing in comedy

So glad to hear that. How are you doing now? Rowan inspired me to travel the world. Seeing Europe in his work motivated me to see the world beyond the inner city that I grew up in. Amazing how he’s touched us in different ways.

That’s how I feel about Craig Ferguson. We all have one with our own conditions. Finding them is always the most magical part. I’m so happy you found yours, and I also agree that Rowan can bring just about anyone out of a slump. Comedy in general is just the most beautifully curing remedy ❤️

Fitting that, because in Rowan’s own words, the characters he tends to play are ‘selfish, self-centred or self-obsessed’

Am I jumping the gun, or are the words "I have a cunning plan" marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?

Series 2 is a classic among classics, still the funniest thing I’ve ever seen….

bladder was comic genius. he's never played a role since that I've enjoyed remotely as much

His early to mid 80s comedy is brilliant. Also have you seen his live sketch where he's the devil? It's comedy genius.

I vastly prefer Blackadder to Mr Bean. Really find mr Bean more annoying than funny,

Such an incredibly underrated series!

@@itsalltakenup Underrated by whom? I think it is and was very highly rated.

@@triarb5790 I think it's not that well know outside of the UK. But that's what you get with socialised television, poor syndication.

the Blackadder shows had superb writing and all the cast was top notch; the jokes were great and they even tackled social issues

And... BRIAN BLESSED!!!

You have my most enthusiastic CONTRAFIBULARATIES 😂

@@gannon3578 contrafibularities? That's a common word down our way

@@josephthomas4846 perhaps my favourite episode from season 3

We are your firing squad, sir

Good morning Darling. 😀 The best name ever given to man

No, he knows comedy TIME PERIOD. XD

Looks like Mr Bean, sounds like Blackadder

You can't expect so less from a comedy god