When Blackadder read about "George Stephenson's moving kettle" in the job pages, that was referring to Stephenson's Rocket, the first ever steam train.
Agreed. Connor, probably best known for being a Carry on Films stalwart. Kenneth Williams speaks very highly of him in his Diaries. Talking of Williams, of course, he was hilariously teamed with Paddick as Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne!
To English people of my generation, Hugh Laurie is a best known for comedy. The Young Ones episode Bambi, Alfresco, Blackadder as well as Jeeves and Wooster. Then he pops up in the USA as House, the highest paid actor on TV, $700,000 per episode in the end. He is the product of a very much trodden route, schooled at Eton and educated at Cambridge, probably to a lot of leg pulling as he was born in Oxford. Just like Monty Python his break came through Cambridge Footlights. BTW all but one of the cast of Blackadder are Oxbridge educated. Tony Robinson, Baldrick didn't go to university. He does have Honorary degrees and Doctorates in Archaeology because of Time Team.
The episode titles are a play on Jane Austen novel names - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Jane Austen was writing at approx. the timeline of this season, and her novels would be well known by anybody who had attended school on this side of the Atlantic, as they were part of the English curriculum.
you guys might enjoy the Jeeves and Wooster series, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry...there's a similar dynamic to this series with Laurie as an Idiot lord, and Fry as the engenius butler, fixing the various situations Laurie (*Wooster) gets into
For me, Kenneth Connor (playing one of the actors here) will always be Hengist Pod from Carry On Cleo. That's something I think Daniel and Spencer would also enjoy!
Macbeth is such a classic play that EVERY theatre company knew/knows it. So, whenever there was any problem such as a missing drunk lead-actor and "the play must go on!" the theatre company would do a play everyone knows like the back of their hand and can preform without rehearsal. Macbeth! With it being such a commonly performed play without rehearsal, the amount of accidents such as actors falling off-stage or having an embarrassing moment of unpreparedness, getting fight choreography wrong... etc, the play became known as cursed. By pure statistics of it often being preformed last moment, without rehearsal.
Also, the anarchist was protesting about automation. Early machines had funny names similar to Spinning Jenny, Rolling Rosalind etc. A fact that I learned from Star Trek VI was that workers fearing redundancy would throw their wooden shoes, called sabots in the machines to stop them. Hence the word Sabotage.
The two actors were played by two veteran comedy stars - Kenneth Connor was famous for appearing in the Carry On movie series, and Hugh Paddick was best known for the long running 1960s radio comedy Round The Horne
Also, a show that's Blackadder adjacent that I have never seen anyone react to is "The Comic Strip Presents...". There is some cast overlap (Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson), and it's a series of usually unconnected films of 45 minutes or so each - there are some continuations like the "Five Go Mad" series, "Four Men In A Car" and "Bad News" but you can watch each one stand alone.
I grew up watching Hugh Laurie and can't take him seriously as a result. When I watch House, I keep expecting him to say "Dr. thicky Lisa thicky Cuddy thicky"
Apparently, part of the superstition surrounding Macbeth is that it is the show that would be put on when another play had been forced to close early due to unpopularity, as Macbeth usually draws a crowd. Thus Macbeth has become synomynous, to those in the acting trade, with failure and, as a result, is considered bad luck to even mention.
Guys, you NEED to see "A bit of Fry and Laurie" - a sketch show by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - I'm sure it has been suggested many times already! They are both really young in it (it was made in 80-s or early 90-s I think), but comedically it was just magnificent )))
The opening sequence of Blackadder 4 was filmed in Colchester garrison Cavalry barracks built in 1862. Colchester that is an Essex town in the east of England, a military town formed by the Romans in AD 46
There is a good image showing British politicians doing the same stance as the actors in this episode. Hugh Laurie doing the American sketches on fry and Laurie was always a favourite. America song, kicking ass, the jerk my ass around military one.
A friend of mine many years ago attended a Shakespeare in the Park kind of thing while in college. One day they all decided to test the "Never say Macbeth, say the Scottish Play" and by the end of the days performances they had a broken leg, a broken arm, a fainting spell, a few other bumps and bruises. Whenever I hear an actor boring us all with their ill-educated views on life, I just want to yell "Macbeth!"
You gotta do the 'Young Ones'. For some reason the BBC copywrite season 1 but not season 2 you gotta do it guys. Please other commenters back me up on this.
Macbeth is supposed to be bad luck in the theatre, because if the turnout is bad, the troop will put on a production of Macbeth instead. Hence the superstition of the play's name.
Here in the UK Hugh Laurie is more famous for (A Bit of Fry & Laurie) than House. He performed with Stephen Fry as a comedic double act. Hugh Laurie is a comedic actor, not really known for his straight roles, except House. Check the show out, you'll love it!
It's interesting how our first impressions have shaped our expectations. The British experience of Hugh Laurie has been about as far away from House as it's possible to get so I find it difficult to adapt to his American persona. I'm far too used to the real Hugh Laurie. 🙂
Now I'd like you to do something for me please. Picture Hugh Lowrie as he is her legs apart roaring them ask yourself if there's a connection to Houses limp.
I always found House very funny... The medical junk was just a background for House being a dry sarcastic sod... I keep my copy of House on my comedy drive.
You should cover Gimme, Gimme, Gimme starring Kathy Burke. Or at least watch it for your own enjoyment. You might need to censor it too much for UA-cam.
Why is it you seem to cut out the genuine reactions (i.e. the laughter) from a reaction video - every time you start to react it gets cut to the next scene!
![American reacts to "American Tourists caught in the wild" [part 2]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0nJyQTm0IJA/mqdefault.jpg)
When Blackadder read about "George Stephenson's moving kettle" in the job pages, that was referring to Stephenson's Rocket, the first ever steam train.
The two actors playing the...well...actors are Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor. Both incredible comic actors and legends.
Agreed. Connor, probably best known for being a Carry on Films stalwart. Kenneth Williams speaks very highly of him in his Diaries. Talking of Williams, of course, he was hilariously teamed with Paddick as Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne!
To English people of my generation, Hugh Laurie is a best known for comedy. The Young Ones episode Bambi, Alfresco, Blackadder as well as Jeeves and Wooster. Then he pops up in the USA as House, the highest paid actor on TV, $700,000 per episode in the end.
He is the product of a very much trodden route, schooled at Eton and educated at Cambridge, probably to a lot of leg pulling as he was born in Oxford. Just like Monty Python his break came through Cambridge Footlights.
BTW all but one of the cast of Blackadder are Oxbridge educated. Tony Robinson, Baldrick didn't go to university. He does have Honorary degrees and Doctorates in Archaeology because of Time Team.
The episode titles are a play on Jane Austen novel names - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Jane Austen was writing at approx. the timeline of this season, and her novels would be well known by anybody who had attended school on this side of the Atlantic, as they were part of the English curriculum.
you guys might enjoy the Jeeves and Wooster series, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry...there's a similar dynamic to this series with Laurie as an Idiot lord, and Fry as the engenius butler, fixing the various situations Laurie (*Wooster) gets into
Yes, another great British TV series 🤘🙂👌
Loved their Jeeves & Wooster!
Good call!
For me, Kenneth Connor (playing one of the actors here) will always be Hengist Pod from Carry On Cleo. That's something I think Daniel and Spencer would also enjoy!
Macbeth is such a classic play that EVERY theatre company knew/knows it.
So, whenever there was any problem such as a missing drunk lead-actor and "the play must go on!" the theatre company would do a play everyone knows like the back of their hand and can preform without rehearsal. Macbeth!
With it being such a commonly performed play without rehearsal, the amount of accidents such as actors falling off-stage or having an embarrassing moment of unpreparedness, getting fight choreography wrong... etc, the play became known as cursed. By pure statistics of it often being preformed last moment, without rehearsal.
Fun fact, the anarchist with the bomb is Ben Elton. A popular political stand up comedian in the 80s and one of the writers of the series.
It’s just a fact…….🤦🏽♂️
@@kevinty7I found it fun. :P
@@alexanderharris5022 then you are as bigger loser as hic1975😂😂grow up🤦🏽♂️
He also wrote the young ones and filthy rich and catflap 😂
Also, the anarchist was protesting about automation. Early machines had funny names similar to Spinning Jenny, Rolling Rosalind etc. A fact that I learned from Star Trek VI was that workers fearing redundancy would throw their wooden shoes, called sabots in the machines to stop them. Hence the word Sabotage.
They couldn't stand it, they knew people planned it.
According to Black Adder, there was also the "Ravelling Nancy".
Luddites?
Hugh Laurie was also originally in a series called Jeeves and Wooster with Steven Fry from the books of PG Woodhouse. He was good in that too.
So glad you 2 are enjoying Blackadder, series 4 is TV gold, so can't wait for you to get onto that. 👊🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
yeah my fav too but this was a great series
The episode names are a homage to the contemporary Jane Austin novels; like Sense and Sensibility etc.
The anarchist that throws the bomb at the prince was writer Ben Elton
The Anarchist who threw the bomb was Ben Elton… The guy who wrote Blackadder, also a popular stand up comedian in the 80s
The two actors were played by two veteran comedy stars - Kenneth Connor was famous for appearing in the Carry On movie series, and Hugh Paddick was best known for the long running 1960s radio comedy Round The Horne
Also, a show that's Blackadder adjacent that I have never seen anyone react to is "The Comic Strip Presents...". There is some cast overlap (Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson), and it's a series of usually unconnected films of 45 minutes or so each - there are some continuations like the "Five Go Mad" series, "Four Men In A Car" and "Bad News" but you can watch each one stand alone.
I grew up watching Hugh Laurie and can't take him seriously as a result. When I watch House, I keep expecting him to say "Dr. thicky Lisa thicky Cuddy thicky"
Well, she's thicc enough. ;)
Name dropping and fawning to the rich & famous has been honed to a fine art - nothing changes
My favourite episode
I have only one comment: MACBETH!!!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAunaccustomed as I am...
I think that's my favourite moment in all of Blackadder.
If you like Blackadder, you should do Maid Marian and Her Merry Men next. It's written by Tony Robinson (Baldrick) and is just as good.
I still have those sodding songs as ear worms all these years later.
Apparently, part of the superstition surrounding Macbeth is that it is the show that would be put on when another play had been forced to close early due to unpopularity, as Macbeth usually draws a crowd. Thus Macbeth has become synomynous, to those in the acting trade, with failure and, as a result, is considered bad luck to even mention.
Ben Elton playing the anarchist in the theatre - a role he always wanted to play in his political student era
Guys, you NEED to see "A bit of Fry and Laurie" - a sketch show by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry - I'm sure it has been suggested many times already!
They are both really young in it (it was made in 80-s or early 90-s I think), but comedically it was just magnificent )))
The opening sequence of Blackadder 4 was filmed in Colchester garrison Cavalry barracks built in 1862. Colchester that is an Essex town in the east of England, a military town formed by the Romans in AD 46
....it gets better till the end of the series. My favourites are the "Black Adder Goes forth" episodes taking place in WW1 trenches 🤘😊👍
It also takes place in the air thanks to a man who hasn't got pants built yet to take the job on.
@gnarkillkicksass ...didn't it have something to do with the "jet movement" or something like that 🤔 🤣
Hugh Laurie was mainly a comedy player before house check out in "a bit of fry and Laurie " and Jeeves and Wooster.
The incomparable Hugh Paddick.
There is a good image showing British politicians doing the same stance as the actors in this episode. Hugh Laurie doing the American sketches on fry and Laurie was always a favourite. America song, kicking ass, the jerk my ass around military one.
BlackAdder is meant to be as tragic as it is funny and also tragic that it is funny, which is why its genius IMO
2:12 thats Ben Elton who wrote Blackadder
Young Padawan's realizing there is something called human nature - it never changes.
You might also enjoy the comedy sketches from the series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
Hugh Laurie was in the 1980 Cambridge boat race, met Stephen fry there & also Emma Thompson
Watch Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry. In this season of Blackadder he channels Jeeves.
The anarchist who threw the bomb was Ben Elton, one of the show's writers.
A friend of mine many years ago attended a Shakespeare in the Park kind of thing while in college. One day they all decided to test the "Never say Macbeth, say the Scottish Play" and by the end of the days performances they had a broken leg, a broken arm, a fainting spell, a few other bumps and bruises. Whenever I hear an actor boring us all with their ill-educated views on life, I just want to yell "Macbeth!"
Great episode
Sense and Sensibility.
Ppl who use the phrase ‘fun fact’ make me wanna vom😂😂🤦🏽♂️Ffs. Nice one fellas, enjoyed that👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️
You gotta do the 'Young Ones'. For some reason the BBC copywrite season 1 but not season 2 you gotta do it guys. Please other commenters back me up on this.
If you didn't know Laurie could be funny, you HAVE to watch A Bit of Fry and Laurie!! Great sketch show.
Interesting , we were all amazed to see Hugh being serious in House .
"A few less fat bastards, eating all the pie!"
Some things _never_ change! 😉😉
Macbeth!
great reaction looking forward to next one :)
Great as always
This is a great episode.
Hot Potato,
Orchestra Stalls
Puck to make amends
Macbeth is supposed to be bad luck in the theatre, because if the turnout is bad, the troop will put on a production of Macbeth instead. Hence the superstition of the play's name.
Thanks. I knew it was bad luck but not why.
MACBETH!!!
Ace or what !!
Right fella’s before father Ted,before I.T crowd came Black books . Same writers & all about a book shop owner. Give it a shot lads
Here in the UK Hugh Laurie is more famous for (A Bit of Fry & Laurie) than House.
He performed with Stephen Fry as a comedic double act.
Hugh Laurie is a comedic actor, not really known for his straight roles, except House.
Check the show out, you'll love it!
Compare Hugh Laurie’s acting in this to his role as an American politician in Veep
No need to over-analyse it all, lads. :) It's just a fun, witty satire on the period.
It's interesting how our first impressions have shaped our expectations. The British experience of Hugh Laurie has been about as far away from House as it's possible to get so I find it difficult to adapt to his American persona. I'm far too used to the real Hugh Laurie. 🙂
Now I'd like you to do something for me please. Picture Hugh Lowrie as he is her legs apart roaring them ask yourself if there's a connection to Houses limp.
You may check out a bit of fry and laurie
I always found House very funny... The medical junk was just a background for House being a dry sarcastic sod...
I keep my copy of House on my comedy drive.
It's only supposedly bad luck to say Macbeth in a theater.
But, that could be regional variations or just plain Rule of Funny.
Then how do they cope when performing the play?
@@darthdmc Performing it is different.
Superstitions are weird, I don't know what to tell you. 😁
You should cover Gimme, Gimme, Gimme starring Kathy Burke. Or at least watch it for your own enjoyment. You might need to censor it too much for UA-cam.
Why is it you seem to cut out the genuine reactions (i.e. the laughter) from a reaction video - every time you start to react it gets cut to the next scene!
Its strange that the Prince is "House"
Hugh Laurie was very well known as a comic actor on this side of the Atlantic long before House.
Blackadder 2nd is better than all of them
Nah, third is the one.
@@mhagainDefinitely. 3rd and 4th are the best
Wrc
You two are the worst.
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Hugh Laurie was part of a comedy double act with Stephen Fry called 'A Bit of Fry and Laurie'