US Army Veteran Reacts To "Blackadder - S4E3 - Major Star"

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  • @coot1925
    @coot1925 9 місяців тому +50

    The drag act was introduced into the army concert party because there were no women on the front line back then and someone had to sing the female music hall classics.
    Another show called "It ain't half hot mum" which was based on a British concert party in Burma during WW2 is a real classic.
    Melvin Hayes plays Bombardier Beaumont, AKA Gloria as the drag act.
    ✌❤🇬🇧

  • @jimpalmer9263
    @jimpalmer9263 9 місяців тому +49

    Daniel is correct- its not about Stephen Fry, it’s a comment on the emotional distance that upper class men had from women at the time. Goes Forth is a wonderful series; glad you guys can appreciate it.

    • @matthewwalker5430
      @matthewwalker5430 9 місяців тому +7

      It's also just standard British theatrical comedy, riffing on the likes of Carry On and Pantomime - it's not a "product of it's time", Mrs Brown's Boys is still going strong to this day. We Brits have never really had issue in cross-dressing for comic effect, it's only really this modern era where American influences have people questioning it and trying to figure out some hidden meaning. There doesn't need to be a hidden meaning, it's just a joke .... but, yes, the joke is at the expense of George's naive stupidity and Melchitt's Upper Class stupid naivety

    • @LoneRanger100
      @LoneRanger100 9 місяців тому +2

      Yea nothing funnier than the pythons cross dressing, esp terry jones! Dunno why, it just is. See also Fry and Laurie in their sketch show.

    • @LoneRanger100
      @LoneRanger100 9 місяців тому +4

      Prob goes back to the fact men had to take all the parts, male or female in early days of theatre, so it’s totally normal.

    • @wilhelmredhood7296
      @wilhelmredhood7296 9 місяців тому +1

      Correct I think. Rumour has it that the word ‘drag’ originates from the phrase ‘dressed as girl’ which appeared in the stage directions for early plays including Shakespeare’s as a shorthand acronym.

    • @CTheRobot
      @CTheRobot 9 місяців тому

      @@matthewwalker5430eurgh Mrs Browns Boys is one of the least funniest shows I’ve ever seen… BUT I appreciate that you were making a valid point all the same 😂

  • @AnthonyKellett
    @AnthonyKellett 9 місяців тому +6

    This 'Bob' was the same actress who played 'Bob' in Series II, when she was going to marry Blackadder... Until Flash turned up!

  • @toejamtimmy4402
    @toejamtimmy4402 9 місяців тому +25

    The 4th series is my favourite. Their intention when writing it was never to mock the soldiers but to highlight the stupidity & arrogance of high command that leads to a complete disregard for life… they just do it in an extremely funny way.
    Enjoy & thank you for all the entertainment 😁

    • @chrislyne377
      @chrislyne377 9 місяців тому

      Unfortunately it's also a completely false narrative. The 'lions led by donkeys' idea is a myth that needs to be put firmly to bed

  • @daviddring2365
    @daviddring2365 9 місяців тому +36

    I think quite a few Americans dont realise Charlie was a Londoner

  • @SavageGrace
    @SavageGrace 9 місяців тому +8

    It's great that Bob, the character, also crops up in "Upstart Crow", the Shakespeare comedy with David Mitchell. Same time period as BA II.

  • @TerranSol
    @TerranSol 9 місяців тому +11

    Just to give you guys something to look forward to.
    Black adder goes forth last episode has possibly the most perfect and beautiful ending of any TV series ever in the history of entertainment.

    • @mrvoodoo5498
      @mrvoodoo5498 9 місяців тому

      I can't disagree with this opinion. 25 mins or so of incredibly funny and poignant comedy about a desperate situation. All involved should take a bow.

  • @andybigwood5260
    @andybigwood5260 9 місяців тому +24

    In UK theatre it is a historic tradition that the older woman 'dame' is played by a guy and the hero 'best boy' is played by a girl.... so it has nothing to do with USA's toxic politics

  • @FSMDog
    @FSMDog 9 місяців тому +28

    Waiting for the reaction to the last episode....
    People will know why

    • @Mezamesasu
      @Mezamesasu 9 місяців тому +8

      Golden moment in British television.

    • @mattymoowhite
      @mattymoowhite 9 місяців тому +3

      Too soon...

    • @ddullaway
      @ddullaway 9 місяців тому +1

      Wobble

  • @steve26553
    @steve26553 9 місяців тому +20

    Hugh Laurie and Steven Fry who plays Melchet were a great comedy double act on UK TV long before he turned to serious acting in House.
    You should check out their show called "A bit of Fry & Laurie"
    Other good ones are "That Mitchell & Webb Look" (David Mitchell and Robert Webb) and "Armstrong and Miller"

    • @ianjardine7324
      @ianjardine7324 9 місяців тому

      I'd also recommend "Jeeves and Wooster" starring Hugh Lorrie as the inbred cretin Berty Wooster and his long suffering butler Jeeves played by Stephen Fry.

  • @PeterSmith-bj4ml
    @PeterSmith-bj4ml 8 місяців тому +2

    As a Brit I like your reactions. Minor point, in this one you left out the very last line. Darling said, No hard feelings I hope Blackadder? Blackadder said, No, not at all, then offered Baldrick's dead slug as a candy to Darling. Liquorice Allsort (a very popular British candy) Darling? Darling said, Thank you and took the slug to eat it. Very funny touch to the ending, although it doesn't sound it if you don't know the type of confection, being American.

  • @tonygriffin_
    @tonygriffin_ 9 місяців тому +14

    "This is the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun." My favourite metaphor in the whole Blackadder series.

    • @kgroovr
      @kgroovr 9 місяців тому +1

      I still favour "more cunning than a fox that has been made professor of cunning at Oxford university"

  • @MrNikolidas
    @MrNikolidas 9 місяців тому +8

    "Care for a Liquorice Allsort?"
    *Opens slug box*

  • @goodshipkaraboudjan
    @goodshipkaraboudjan 9 місяців тому +2

    "The three twerps were one twerp short....AGAIN!"
    I don't know how I missed that in earlier viewings. Stephen Fry nailed that line, nearly pissed myself.

  • @BenBanjo87
    @BenBanjo87 9 місяців тому +32

    Ironically, Charlie Chaplin was a big influence on Rowan Atkinson's development of the 'Mr. Bean' character 😂😂

  • @johnmcaleer7099
    @johnmcaleer7099 9 місяців тому +8

    This is why british humour is held in such high regard

  • @oli3437
    @oli3437 9 місяців тому +11

    Just wait until you guys see Rik Mayall’s episode with the return of his character Lord Flasheart
    It’s the best episode of this and every season

  • @wolf_of_fenric
    @wolf_of_fenric 9 місяців тому +5

    Drag acts were a part of the British Music Hall tradition, which is referred to in the episode, which was a thing in Britain from Victorian times to the early twentieth century. Music Hall was a kind of cheap, variety entertainment in a Music Hall where the audience were sat at tables and eating or drinking while the show was on, which consisted of popular songs, novelty acts, comedy etc etc. The entertainment could be bawdy and raucous, and the atmosphere rowdy. They faded out in the interwar years as things like jazz clubs or cinemas took their place.

  • @burnsyboyy7534
    @burnsyboyy7534 9 місяців тому +2

    You guys will love the next episode, probably the best Blackadder Episode ever made. 👍

  • @Paul_Allaker8450
    @Paul_Allaker8450 9 місяців тому +1

    TV gold, never equalled. Great reaction guys. 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @xplorer841
    @xplorer841 7 місяців тому

    I never thought I'd see some regular American lads enjoying Blackadder and getting the cultural references. I'm delighted to be proven wrong. Great job guys, keep it up!

  • @Loki1815
    @Loki1815 9 місяців тому +6

    Charlie Chaplin was born in my Manor, The Elephant and Castle, the same as Michael Caine.
    Sir Micheal decided to take a walk around the Elephant to reminisce. He looked across the road and there on the other side was Charlie Chaplin doing the exact same thing!

    • @ianstopher9111
      @ianstopher9111 9 місяців тому +1

      You watched the same interviews with Michael Caine that I have 😀

    • @Loki1815
      @Loki1815 9 місяців тому

      ​@ianstopher9111 OK then, the time MC's mum was a Char lady working under, who's mum????

  • @jacksmith4460
    @jacksmith4460 9 місяців тому +3

    24:50 Daniel is spot on, he fully gets it

  • @lizcollinson2692
    @lizcollinson2692 9 місяців тому +1

    I think George's reaction to Blackadder asking if he agreed to be engaged was just perfect.

  • @paullarge5983
    @paullarge5983 9 місяців тому +1

    Can't wait for you to do the episode with Rik Mayall and Ade Edmunson. Long time fan and a much anticipated series. Thanks as always guys. ETS

  • @Tomurow
    @Tomurow 9 місяців тому +5

    Just as Bob was a play on the ‘boys dressing as girls’ Shakespearean plays of the time in Blackadder II, so here she is a riff on the popularity of music hall drag acts from the early 20th century. The sex-starved troops used to love (and likely be titillated by) dudes doing comedy routines as dames. There’s still a strand of this tradition that runs through recent British comedy, such as The League of Gentlemen or Little Britain.

  • @paulguise698
    @paulguise698 9 місяців тому

    Hiya Spencer and Daniel, my great great Uncle Isaac died of his war wounds in 1919 after the first world war, my Great Uncle Isaac died of lung cancer even though he never smoked a cigarette or cigar in his life, I like the line "they've overthrown Nicholas the second, who used to be bizarre", this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

  • @jaaskai
    @jaaskai 9 місяців тому +1

    I hope you will understand the meaning of the season finale seen. The insanity of war. I cry every time. And as a Finnish guy looking at Ukraine now, knowing that we could be next, the horrors my grandfather suffered in the trenches during 1939 - 1945 are becoming my future.

  • @bartconnolly6104
    @bartconnolly6104 9 місяців тому +4

    Bob is a repeat charachter from the slap,my thigh Elizabethan Shakespear8an episone of Blackadder.

    • @jimcook1161
      @jimcook1161 9 місяців тому +1

      ...And wait for the next one!!!

  • @myopicautisticmetal9035
    @myopicautisticmetal9035 9 місяців тому +3

    A Mustache like a private hedge! Or a dead slug!

  • @RachelTheVlogger
    @RachelTheVlogger 9 місяців тому +1

    I first saw Hugh Laurie in the Blackadder series then the film Stuart Little, then House.

  • @JonnyVision88
    @JonnyVision88 9 місяців тому +3

    Stephen fry and Hugh Laurie where together Oxford or Cambridge University and how they knew each other

    • @McCuipandKitty-qw1wj
      @McCuipandKitty-qw1wj 9 місяців тому

      Not to mention how awesome they were in Jeeves and Wooster

  • @nez9751
    @nez9751 9 місяців тому +2

    Have you seen the last episode yet ? Funny, heartbreaking at the same time, the final scene will break you up😢
    When George says “ I’m scared sir” before actually going over the top. My grandfather and great grandfather went through that and it means a lot to me. It’s enveloped in clever humour but it’s very real at the same time. The ending of that last episode as very emotional and respectful, especially the whole black adder programmes took the piss out of the stupid acts of our monarchy , politics etc. and covered it in anarchic humour

    • @KevPage-Witkicker
      @KevPage-Witkicker 9 місяців тому +1

      be kinda nice not to spoil it for them by saying what happens though yeah???

    • @nez9751
      @nez9751 9 місяців тому

      @@KevPage-Witkicker nah it was 30 yrs ago. I don’t buy into this spoiler nonsense. Here another spoiler, it’s great. 👍

    • @KevPage-Witkicker
      @KevPage-Witkicker 9 місяців тому

      30 yrs ago yet they are currently watching the series and OH I GET IT you're just a **** @@nez9751

    • @NorthDownReader
      @NorthDownReader 9 місяців тому

      @@nez9751 Defeats the point of watching a reaction channel though.

    • @nez9751
      @nez9751 9 місяців тому

      @@NorthDownReader does it, ? Doesn’t really matter does it? Bigger stuff to worry about than that. Fair enough though.

  • @stevencook355
    @stevencook355 9 місяців тому +3

    Love the Newcastle Brown Ale t-shirt. Going back to your premier league video, you should have newcastle as your team as default now

    • @scottandrewbrass1931
      @scottandrewbrass1931 9 місяців тому

      It's brewed in Tadcaster. Hasn't been a real Geordie drink for decades.

  • @franceshurt3517
    @franceshurt3517 9 місяців тому +2

    Hi guys I don't think you see the satire, the writers are sending up the aristocracy, they ruled by birthright not by intelligence or strength, in fact interbreeding to keep the aristocracy in power resulted in diminished ability physically and intellectually., it was the poorer classes that were far more capable but the peasants who had no education were too busy trying to survive, so it was the middle class, merchants, lawyers, etc were the ones, like Blackadder, who were at the helm without either class being aware of it. cheers!!!

  • @Bazroshan
    @Bazroshan 9 місяців тому +1

    I went to a Pantomime once where 'Home and Away' was sung by a cross-dressed couple.

  • @Jimmer93
    @Jimmer93 9 місяців тому +1

    Not gonna lie, the scenes as Gorgeous Georgina were some of my favourite to do when I did Goes Forth!

  • @jessiechen279
    @jessiechen279 9 місяців тому +4

    You guy's should try "Jeeves & Wooster" some of steven fry and hugh lauries best

    • @paulguise698
      @paulguise698 9 місяців тому

      my favourite is Roderick Spode, he's a Nazi leader of Great Britain

  • @simonfrederiksen104
    @simonfrederiksen104 3 місяці тому

    If you haven't already watched it - The New Statesman - UK series with the actor who played Flasheart

  • @davidsavage6910
    @davidsavage6910 9 місяців тому +1

    You should recognise Bob from Blackadder II doing much the same thing.

  • @MattJMcDade
    @MattJMcDade 9 місяців тому +2

    Hey guys. I love your videos and find your humour and insights to be great. Blessings from across the pond from this Brit!

  • @paulwallis8435
    @paulwallis8435 9 місяців тому

    i see the ronnie 147 video did really well

  • @chumorgan443
    @chumorgan443 9 місяців тому +1

    "I like the little black one , but who's the burk he's sitting on?"

  • @chrisw7429
    @chrisw7429 9 місяців тому

    Nice Newcastle brown ale T-shirt 💪💪

  • @KevPage-Witkicker
    @KevPage-Witkicker 9 місяців тому +14

    Yeah the big difference with season ONE is that in 2, 3 and 4 Blackadder's a schemer... a cunning, sarcastic guy who generally wins the day. In one, he's a plain fool, and never wins.

    • @stevemccullagh36
      @stevemccullagh36 9 місяців тому +4

      The other difference is series one is awful.

    • @KevPage-Witkicker
      @KevPage-Witkicker 9 місяців тому

      there is that yes @@stevemccullagh36

    • @phueal
      @phueal 9 місяців тому

      It's really a continuous trend rather than 1 being one thing and 2/3/4 being another. In each series he is in a lower and lower station in life, but increasingly clever, acerbic, and successful in his schemes. Don't forget that he had several extremely close calls in series 2 as well, which he often escaped by luck rather than cunning.

    • @jamespicksley5781
      @jamespicksley5781 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@phuealyep, Blackadder gets more intelligent in each series, while Baldrick gets less intelligent in each series.

    • @donmongoose
      @donmongoose 9 місяців тому

      The main reason for that is who the writers were, Season 1 was RowanAtkinson and Richard Curtis, after that it was Curtis and Ben Elton, hence the huge shift in tone.

  • @lizcollinson2692
    @lizcollinson2692 9 місяців тому +1

    I don't know if the drag thing was specifically pointed.
    Brits have Panto (the part of music hall that stuck around) which has always had a pantomime dame as the comic relief, and the principal boys (hero) was played by a girl.
    Men dressing in drag was just plain entertainment for decades.

  • @IAVAIN
    @IAVAIN 9 місяців тому +3

    Woah woah, when did you swap sides????????

    • @slytheringingerwitch
      @slytheringingerwitch 9 місяців тому

      I find it so weird when they reverse the screen too.

    • @IAVAIN
      @IAVAIN 9 місяців тому

      @@slytheringingerwitch probs for copyright reasons, judt feels wrong

  • @dazymac7619
    @dazymac7619 9 місяців тому +1

    the actual origin of the "drag" act goes back to the Elizabethan/Jacobean era when theatre became mainstream entertainment primarily thx to Shakespeare when it was illegal for women to perform on stage.

  • @AlexM-WI
    @AlexM-WI 9 місяців тому

    9:10 mulan is about 2000 years older a story…
    The Disney movie though is more recent than blackadder season 4

  • @JonnyVision88
    @JonnyVision88 9 місяців тому +2

    Before blackadder Stephen fry and Hugh Laurie had a Successful TV series

  • @irbaboon1979
    @irbaboon1979 9 місяців тому +2

    You guys should watch “allo allo” or “dad’s army”….

    • @polythenewrappedme6102
      @polythenewrappedme6102 9 місяців тому

      Or Bottom, or best of all The Goodies.

    • @Mezamesasu
      @Mezamesasu 9 місяців тому

      Allo allo or Dad’s Army…
      Both great shouts.

  • @JohnOConnell
    @JohnOConnell 9 місяців тому

    The idea about having a male as a drag act in a military variety show is fairly standard. British Army had “concert parties“ in warzones, and with the absence of females, there was always a male drag act. Also very common in Music Halls, which they referred to, which would be the British equivalent of Vaudeville in USA.

  • @michaellangan6385
    @michaellangan6385 9 місяців тому

    Hi there. Did you guys post a reaction to the Blackadder season 3 finale? I can't find it, it should be episode 6 called 'Dual and Duality'. The Very last one I can find it episode 5 'Amy and Amiability'

  • @andriswood5434
    @andriswood5434 9 місяців тому

    See, now that you've seen Blackadder, you'll never be able to take House seriously again.

  • @colindebourg626
    @colindebourg626 8 місяців тому

    As actors will tell you, until they get a script they gave nothing to say and the writers for this series got it spot on.

  • @boqndimitrov8693
    @boqndimitrov8693 9 місяців тому

    with the horns inward! Christians and lions! believe me, you will remember this even in 20 years! 😂

  • @garethjones6051
    @garethjones6051 9 місяців тому +1

    After this you guys need to try Friday night dinner

    • @davidblurton7158
      @davidblurton7158 9 місяців тому

      too jewish??? nah thats a great show too,,, takes you to green wing which was also brilliant

  • @brucewilliams4152
    @brucewilliams4152 9 місяців тому +2

    Drag act, uk, British pantomime. Leading lady is the lead make and the panto.dame.
    You also.need to find 'upstart crow'.

  • @v35tan27
    @v35tan27 9 місяців тому

    League of Gentlemen next. & how about some British film like Sexy Beast or Withnail & !?

  • @trevorroll4839
    @trevorroll4839 9 місяців тому

    hey guys, you guys going to react to REN- Hi Ren?

  • @JonnyVision88
    @JonnyVision88 9 місяців тому

    It was a joke about his sexuality It was Stephen fry's idea

  • @neilgayleard3842
    @neilgayleard3842 9 місяців тому

    Ain't half hot mum next.

  • @ericj166
    @ericj166 9 місяців тому +4

    General Ludendorff's description of his British opponents as " Lions led by donkeys " - would seem particularly apt and poignant.

  • @BoldRam
    @BoldRam 9 місяців тому +1

    Don't read or think too much over the man / woman thing or if they're trying to make a statement about something. I'ts just funny.

  • @bartconnolly6104
    @bartconnolly6104 9 місяців тому

    Have they not done Father Ted?

  • @StuJee1
    @StuJee1 9 місяців тому +1

    I think everyone is over thinking it, it’s just absurd comedy - man pretends to be woman and other man fancies him. Woman pretends to be man and everyone believes it even when she’s dressed like a woman. It was the 80s and gender politics wasn’t really a thing then. Comedians cross-dressed for decades just for a laugh… a simpler age

  • @chriscjad
    @chriscjad 9 місяців тому

    You’re on the other side 😱

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 9 місяців тому +1

    No, it wasn't about his sexuality.

  • @Brookewyeth-gh7lo
    @Brookewyeth-gh7lo 8 місяців тому

    First date huh? Yeah ok mate😂😂😂😂

  • @stephenhumphrey7935
    @stephenhumphrey7935 9 місяців тому +2

    I love how these guys read WAY too much into the series. Why do Americans have to over analyse everything? 🙄🙄

  • @sjlittler70
    @sjlittler70 9 місяців тому +1

    This episode has..
    ‘Sticky the stick insect’
    ‘Olaf the hairy’
    And
    ‘Tarzan going through Jane’s handbag and ate her lipstick’
    Does it get any better than that?!! 😂

  • @paulwillard9687
    @paulwillard9687 9 місяців тому

    But Disney stole the story of mulan in the first place, just like they do most of their movie ideas.

  • @jerryhayes9497
    @jerryhayes9497 9 місяців тому

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @waragainstsleepx2517
    @waragainstsleepx2517 9 місяців тому +3

    Blackadder is older than Mulan. By almost a decade as far as the 4th series goes.

    • @MyratheDunmer
      @MyratheDunmer 6 місяців тому

      You think Disney made up Mulan? The story comes from a far older legend

    • @waragainstsleepx2517
      @waragainstsleepx2517 6 місяців тому

      @@MyratheDunmer I was talking about the film, like the video was. Disney makes up very few of the characters and stories in their best loved films.

  • @Moz1011
    @Moz1011 9 місяців тому

    Spencer doesn't get it.

  • @jamespicksley5781
    @jamespicksley5781 9 місяців тому

    Chaplin was immensely overrated and got a lot of credit for stuff that Laurel and Hardy came up with first.

  • @aarontaylor4967
    @aarontaylor4967 9 місяців тому +1

    I was well disappointed here. Got 2 minutes in, but the copyright renders it pointless so I'm leaving.

  • @andrewwest8334
    @andrewwest8334 9 місяців тому

    What’s going on with the choppy editing guys? Very odd and doesn’t seem intentional. Like an auto-edit that needs gentler parameters?

  • @Smithjones12
    @Smithjones12 9 місяців тому

    The editing on the Black adder they cut out lots of jokes video is awful

    • @paulguise698
      @paulguise698 9 місяців тому

      There laughing like 2 seconds after its been said

  • @promiscuous675
    @promiscuous675 9 місяців тому

    Thank you.