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  • Contains adult humour The King has decided who the next Archbishop of Canterbury will be. Unfortunately for Blackadder that's him. Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCComed...
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  • @BBCComedyGreats
    @BBCComedyGreats  4 роки тому +5

    Watch our Blackadder playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLZwyeleffqk5r8Ze_qSF9nKi_9hfjH0qO.html

  • @tigermunky
    @tigermunky 4 роки тому +273

    Not many people know this, but Brian Blessed was actually suffering from laryngitis when this was filmed, which is why he is only able to raise his voice to a whisper.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому +20

      Yeah, he's too quiet. Can't hear a thing

    • @marinaweaver330
      @marinaweaver330 4 роки тому +4

      LOL!

    • @JavertRA
      @JavertRA 4 роки тому +15

      He's actually more terrifying at the end there than when he's at his booming best.

    • @petejones879
      @petejones879 Рік тому +1

      Brian had a speaking part?

    • @Darkstar263
      @Darkstar263 9 місяців тому +2

      That threat was actually more terrifying spoken quietly.

  • @andrewtongue7084
    @andrewtongue7084 Рік тому +24

    Brian Blessed, with that formidable, booming voice - it was when he uttered matters quietly that the true menace of his character was revealed - fantastic actor !

  • @dastardlybadger
    @dastardlybadger 4 роки тому +213

    "Percy? What exactly did god do to the Sodomites?" - "I don't know, my lord, but it can't have been more unpleasant than what they did to each other..."

    • @andreasnilsson5020
      @andreasnilsson5020 4 роки тому +10

      Ben Tatsch Baldrick actually
      But I love that quote

    • @dastardlybadger
      @dastardlybadger 4 роки тому +3

      @@andreasnilsson5020 You're right, I got it confused. He does tell him to go "fetch Lord Percy" soon after, so I had to have been Baldrick.

    • @mmabagain
      @mmabagain 4 роки тому +3

      Me thinks He burned them to a crisp!

    • @joshuakohlmann9731
      @joshuakohlmann9731 6 днів тому

      Not a line you'd be likely to get away with these days!

  • @Darkstar263
    @Darkstar263 9 місяців тому +7

    I love Edmund's grovel walk.

  • @treehousekohtao
    @treehousekohtao 4 роки тому +54

    Director - i want you to overact
    Brian - YOU WANT ME TO OVERACT!?!?!

  • @richards9407
    @richards9407 4 роки тому +55

    The best bit is the 'twanggggg' noise.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому +1

      Especially as it was his Mum

  • @Darkstar263
    @Darkstar263 5 місяців тому +3

    I love the way Brian Blessed delivered that threat at 3:33. Really intimidating.

  • @greva2904
    @greva2904 4 роки тому +109

    I always loved the first series of Blackadder, though most people seem to have dismissed it

    • @1969gawa
      @1969gawa 4 роки тому +20

      I totally agree with you,personally my favourite out of them all. I have been shot down for stating this.

    • @canopus101
      @canopus101 4 роки тому +13

      The best of the bunch, easily. More attention to humour, less to contemporary politics.

    • @chriswatson7965
      @chriswatson7965 4 роки тому +13

      I consider myself a connoisseur of humour, and I can guarantee that the comic quality of the first series is unmatched by any of the others with the possible exception of the Forth. I am not certain of the reason for its lack of acceptance by a great number of people, though I have a range of hypotheses. It certainly is completely different to any of the other series or episodes.

    • @canopus101
      @canopus101 4 роки тому +4

      @@chriswatson7965 I agree with your liking of the first series, the fourth had its moments but was not as good.

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 4 роки тому +8

      Grev A I like each series for different reasons, but I too don’t understand the prejudice against the first series. This is the series with the unforgettable translator for the Infanta in it. Also, I think there is a royal decree that anything with Brian Blessed in it should be held to be sacred because he is a national treasure.

  • @crishoudini2232
    @crishoudini2232 4 роки тому +55

    these are great. thank you so much for uploading them, I hope someday I can afford to watch the whole series.

    • @BBCComedyGreats
      @BBCComedyGreats  4 роки тому +5

      In the mean time you can watch our Blackadder playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLZwyeleffqk5r8Ze_qSF9nKi_9hfjH0qO.html

    • @6150RE
      @6150RE 4 роки тому +1

      @@BBCComedyGreats Awesome playlist!

  • @Murat531454
    @Murat531454 2 роки тому +7

    First series is the best, no contest in my book 🙏🏻

  • @mikewish19
    @mikewish19 4 роки тому +16

    "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?!"

  • @bongobrandy6297
    @bongobrandy6297 4 роки тому +40

    Before Game of Thrones, there was Goats of Throne.

  • @yulegoat9987
    @yulegoat9987 4 роки тому +13

    Thats a very modest codpiece

  • @jakirakumahata5701
    @jakirakumahata5701 4 роки тому +16

    Every time I try to talk to a room full of people I start with "MEMBERS OF THE COURT."

  • @marinaweaver330
    @marinaweaver330 4 роки тому +10

    Brian Blessed's hair looks like Joan Collins in Dynasty!

  • @843idfa
    @843idfa 4 роки тому +28

    The Black Russian!

  • @Brit4164
    @Brit4164 Рік тому +9

    If you're read the history of this, it's spot on. The Crown essentially dictated to the Church what would happen.

  • @medinabello19
    @medinabello19 4 роки тому +5

    Pure genius.

  • @vesper9547
    @vesper9547 4 роки тому +12

    Rowan Atkinson is matchless!

  • @Myles0Harcourt
    @Myles0Harcourt 10 місяців тому

    That sycophancy is utterly brilliant

  • @stevespell2766
    @stevespell2766 2 роки тому +3

    Flash Gordon flying blind on a rocket cycle.

  • @joshuakohlmann9731
    @joshuakohlmann9731 6 днів тому

    Brilliant as Rowan Atkinson is, I didn't imagine there'd ever be a scene in which he was upstaged by a codpiece.

  • @florian8599
    @florian8599 4 роки тому +5

    Oh dear, if the King did THAT, we all know what the answer from Rome would be...

    • @alecblunden8615
      @alecblunden8615 4 роки тому +2

      Who knows? If this was before the Investiture Controversy, the Roman bishop had nothing to do with clerical appointments in the kingdoms of Europe.

    • @Ericwvb2
      @Ericwvb2 4 роки тому +6

      "I've talked to God, who by sheer and unexpected coincidence told me to do exactly the same thing I personally want to do."

    • @MrThorfan64
      @MrThorfan64 5 місяців тому

      Well this is meant to be a sort of caricatured version of Medieval Europe, so it works for the purposes of a historical joke.

  • @CiceroSolo
    @CiceroSolo 2 роки тому +5

    The great shame Black Adder is the other seasons didn't merge the sharp comedic writing with the intelligence and ambition of the first.

  • @Big_Steve11
    @Big_Steve11 4 роки тому +7

    Brian Blessed has one of the biggest mouths in the world

  • @roguishpaladin
    @roguishpaladin 4 роки тому +2

    Here's a What If? scenario for you all. Now, this question isn't meant to disparage any of the actors involved - Brian Blessed, Robert East, Stephen Fry, and Hugh Laurie all deserve respect as actors. Let's say, however, that you could go back in time and replace Brian Blessed with Stephen Fry and Robert East with Hugh Laurie (and then swap Tim McInnerny into the Harry role, thus putting Laurie into the Percy role). Assume that all of the involved actors are as skilled as they will ever be in a Blackadder series (just to preempt all the "Laurie hasn't hit his prime yet" comments). Do you do it?

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 Рік тому

    What's with Brian's hair?

  • @robbiephillips8103
    @robbiephillips8103 4 роки тому

    Flee!

  • @dang.s
    @dang.s 4 роки тому

    Who played the King?

    • @nadinos
      @nadinos 3 роки тому +3

      Brian Blessed

  • @teddywetz4897
    @teddywetz4897 3 роки тому

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @robbiephillips8103
    @robbiephillips8103 4 роки тому

    Fingers cross

  • @drunkenmaster6434
    @drunkenmaster6434 4 роки тому

    Fleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @netneutrality2024
    @netneutrality2024 Рік тому

    flee

  • @ttplug6700
    @ttplug6700 4 роки тому +6

    first