@@wynwilliams6977 After Blackadder Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie would go on to star in A Bit of Fry and Laurie for 4 series so they must have got on well...
0:07 is my favourite blooper of all time. I have no idea who the actress is but the way she says "shit I've made a terrible mistake" while still in character amuses me like nothing else
On an episode of series I of QI, the subject of facial hair in WWI era British armed forces came up, Stephen lifts his head to reveal that he taped a Melchett stache onto his face, to tremendous applause.
Too bad this show never really became the hit it should have been here in the USA because I always thought it was hilarious. I saw it, quite by accident actually, on the PBS (Public Broadcasting System) and I was hooked instantly. Rowan Atkinson is amazing. I have all the DVDs.
Well it was huge in the UK! The very final episode set in WWI when they go "over-the-top" and it fades into the poppy fields is in my opinion one of the most powerful and poignant scenes EVER recorded in any show. It still brings a tear to my eye to think about it. I urge anyone who has never seen it to click below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vH3-Gt7mgyM.html
@@clivejones7104 100% agree with you. Very moving ending. When I first saw it when young I didn't realise how powerful it was. To the ones who battled for us ❤️
Rowan A is right when he says there are few, if any, bloopers from his work. He's so focused on getting it done in the way he's planned it that he can only think about that. Michael Richards had the same meticulous approach on Seinfeld. These guys work out what they think will be best and know that they have two or three takes to get it the way they planned it, or it's lost forever. Definitely not an enjoyable way to work. There has to be an element of play, of finding stuff in the moment, of bouncing off your colleagues. I'm not saying their performances were inferior, because they weren't. I'm just saying that it must suck to have adhere so rigidly to what you've plotted in your mind's eye. Rik was almost the anti-Rowan. He was possessed of the same talent and achieved the same heights in performance, but you can tell, even outside gag reels, that he loved to play and play up.
@@pilummurialis6490 I thought of Ricky too. Of the two approaches I think I'd much rather work with Rowan's than Ricky's. There's a reason Ricky only gets through a six episode series every three years.
during the court martial scene one could notice that other judges were trying to hold back from laughing. in the bits that made it to the show. well, the one on the right anyway.
no it's Bottom, well for a start he looks much younger in DDF. he didn't just only do DDF. He has his own sitcom 'the young ones' including Bottom. Plus in loads of random programs.
Philip Croft In a documentary, about ‘Blackadder’, he said he wasn’t “much of a laugher”, in real life, no matter how funny he finds something. So maybe it’s just that he doesn’t show it very well, when he’s amused, and it makes it appear that he’s not enjoying himself, even though he actually is. He does seem like a very difficult person to read; he doesn’t give much away, physically, or with his mannerisms, and comes across as a very guarded, private person- which is exactly what he is, according to himself, and those that know him. But, it doesn’t really matter; he’s a superb actor, and has impeccable comic timing- both physically and verbally, particularly when he’s given the right/good material to work with. 😀
That was the brilliant combination of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It could have been in any of the shows mentioning Harry Enfield in the title like "Harry Enfield and Chums" etc...
