Stephen Fry said in an interview that he and the others used to improvise and intentionally try to make each other laugh and that they often left those takes in the final episode. I guess that was one of them XD
@@TheRhinehart86 Bahhh (I think that mannerism was improvised by Fry specifically to induce Atkinson to lose it). It must have been fantastic to go to work for them and have such a fat time with their mates.
i remember in his interview or something, how he managed not to laugh with performing the joke over and over again on practice untill its not necessarily funny for them anymore
Personally when me and my friends act out Blackadder and when there's a serious moment it helps if, say if Blackadder is looking at Regent or Baldrick, just think 'murder' or imagine murdering the person you're looking at (obviously don't actually carry it out) but that usually helps me keep a straight face
@listerone I absolutely love Fawlty Towers but I think Blackadder the third and Blackadder goes forth just nudge it as they are such good satire as well as great comedy.
@listerone Blackadder is way better than Fawlty Towers. The Americans are familiar with and laugh at Fawlty Towers which shows it's dependence on slapstick comedy rather than satirical genius and character driven comedy. Don't get me wrong FT is a good show and John Cleese is a genius but Blackadder reigns supreme.
Old fashioned British humor is the second most unfunny humor after American slapstick. That includes blackadder, fawlty towers, monty Python, etc Death threats incoming
What makes this scene all the more hilarious is the fact the actors treat Blackadder as stupid, yet they're too stupid to realise what he is doing to them.
@@arckocsog253 it's from 'ad libitum', which litterally means with freedom of rhythm and expression (when talking about music), basically acting with freedom from the script. But the implication is more like "going off-script" rather than true "improv(ised)", as it's describing either changing or adding to the script in small ways, rather than starting with a blank sheet and making it all up from scratch. It's often employed to make a scene feel more natural instead of rigourously following a script.
@@JamesJordanson Macbeth had a lot of injuries from all the sword fights, so people thought it was cursed. Actors, like sailors and sports players, are a very superstitious lot.
***** It isn't - that doesn't make sense. Yes, I've seen an argument that it's "orchestra stalls etc..." but they are *not* saying that. Listen first, can you not hear it?. I know not where you got a copy of 'the script' However, this is English Public School humor; all but Tony Robinson are former Oxbridge students.
I’m not so sure why but I love scenes like the one at the beginning where Blackadder and Baldrick just have normal conversations with each other, Blackadder taking a break from the insults and Baldrick actually being a bit witty. Nice change of pace.
@@Historyandlegends789 He still knocks him about a bit, though. (And actually tries to roast him on a spit in the first episode.) Considering this series is Blackadder's most villainous incarnation, though, Baldrick gets off pretty lightly: it's the Prince Regent who gets the worst of it.
@@joshuakohlmann9731 Probably because they're both servants together for a change, although Blackadder is still much higher on the pecking order than Baldrick, it does allow them to occasionally drop the act for a few moments and talk as equals in the servants quarters.
Your play connected with Scotland You mean Macbeth Aaaaah hot potato orchestra stalls puck to make amends. Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor lost genius..
Possibly one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes of this series. Oh who am I kidding, I love the entire franchise but this one scene never fails to make me giggle.
That and Blackadder adding words to Dr Johnson's dictionary, much to his annoyance. Blackadder the third is my favourite of all the series. It is because of the brilliant acting by Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson, who has morons as the Prince regent and Baldrick. It is his sheer sarcasm that gets me. How Hugh, a Cambridge graduate, could look so vacant is extraordinary. Stephen Fry as the Duke of Wellington is so utterly convincing and shows how the aristocracy treated the lower classes. The scripts are, of course, brilliant.
The Scottish play be damned! What interests me is to see how the actors wore their hats (that Blackadder took from them so helpfully on entrance) on those whigs. Should’ve been quite a spectacle :)
First play i was in mentioned something about mcbeth in the theater and everyone lost their shit at me and kept saying it cauae i had seen this and thought it was joke
I remember when in the local production of the play "The Bald Soprano", I'd sometimes just before we got on stage, look straight at one of my fellow actors and just say "Macbeth". It was not appriciated. But gave me a good chuckle every time.
Of course, people who are acting in Macbeth have to say Macbeth all the time, what with the main character in Macbeth being called Macbeth, and Macbeth's wife being Lady Macbeth.
This is perhaps one of my favorite scenes of one of my favorite episodes of Blackadder. I do wish they'd make another season of it sometime. Unlikely, but one can always hope.
And the equally great Hugh Paddick who used to play Julian of "Jules and Sand" on Round the Horne on the BBC. The first great gay comedy characters back in the mid 1960s. They were never the butt of the joke (pun intended) they always got the laughs. How they got away with gags like "He's a dab hand at the cottage upright" in those days I will never know. I can only assume the BBC producers didn't get gay slang / palare in those days.
@@LostandFoundTravel I just had another listen. It appears to be a combination of the two. It sounds to me, they say "Ahh, hot potato off his drawers, puck will make amends". 😅
This reminds me of a few years ago, in the local amateur-theatre of which I'm a member. During a staging of one of H.C. Andersen's tales me and a few others joked around, about not saying Macbeth but in the end we probably said it dozens of times. ^_^ (Nothing ill came of it, in case anyone's wondering).
"So you won't be mentioning it either?" "No. Well, not very often" I counted 6 times he mentioned it. (I saw this video so many times and I was bored:D)
In the end that hullabaloo was utterly useless. Speaking down to Edmund caused them far more bad luck than speaking or hearing that name could ever have. But that's of course several scenes later.
Whoever came up with the whole refer as "Scottish Play" instead of Macbeth to avoid bad luck must be laughing their heavenly/Hellish guts in the after life.
What I love most about old british movies is the costumes. I have no clue what is going on or what they are talking about 90% of the time. But the clothes... I think we should all start dressing like this again... if reality ever really looked that fancy. I bet most people couldn't afford that stuff.
"Did he have a large part?"
Just looking at Atkinson and Robinson, you can see all the concentration needed for them not to laugh.
Stephen Fry said in an interview that he and the others used to improvise and intentionally try to make each other laugh and that they often left those takes in the final episode. I guess that was one of them XD
"Depends who's playing Macbeth."
The way Tony took a few seconds to respond to the "Did he have a large part?" line. It was like he was trying to keep his composure.
@@TheRhinehart86 Bahhh (I think that mannerism was improvised by Fry specifically to induce Atkinson to lose it). It must have been fantastic to go to work for them and have such a fat time with their mates.
whats the joke
Rowan Atkinson has the best stone face I've ever seen. How he doesn't crack up, I'll never know.
He has full control over his facial movements, why do you think he plays Mr. Bean?
i remember in his interview or something, how he managed not to laugh with performing the joke over and over again on practice untill its not necessarily funny for them anymore
Personally when me and my friends act out Blackadder and when there's a serious moment it helps if, say if Blackadder is looking at Regent or Baldrick, just think 'murder' or imagine murdering the person you're looking at (obviously don't actually carry it out) but that usually helps me keep a straight face
Because he is a comedic genius.
"Was it a large part?" "Depends on who was playing Macbeth." :D
Micheal Fassbender ? 😉😉😋😋
well actors are very superstitious and on no account must you say the word 'macbeth'
AAAAAAH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PLUCK TO MAKE AMENDS!!!
“So you won’t be mentioning it either?”
“No.
Well not very often”
Atkinson made his tone of voice so perfect here. Funniest actor ever
The utterly casual "You should've knocked" is sublime.
"So he was a stunt codpiece? [Pause to sip tea] Did he have a large part?"
The timing and delivery of this line is just exquisite.
Just love it how he succeeds to say McBeth in a natural, spontaneous manner.
Macbeth*
Ahhh! hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends Ah!
This is ... by all accounts ... the best television comedy in human history. Brilliant in every respect.
@listerone I absolutely love Fawlty Towers but I think Blackadder the third and Blackadder goes forth just nudge it as they are such good satire as well as great comedy.
Totally agree
Close call with "Yes (prime)Minister" and "Red Dwarf"
@listerone Blackadder is way better than Fawlty Towers. The Americans are familiar with and laugh at Fawlty Towers which shows it's dependence on slapstick comedy rather than satirical genius and character driven comedy. Don't get me wrong FT is a good show and John Cleese is a genius but Blackadder reigns supreme.
Old fashioned British humor is the second most unfunny humor after American slapstick. That includes blackadder, fawlty towers, monty Python, etc
Death threats incoming
You'd think I'd get tired of watching this scene over and over..."BUT YOU'D BE WRONG!!!"
+agenttheater5 Then I shall have to say, "Macbeth!"
+Isaac Kim hot potato orchestra stalls puck will make amends AAARGHH!!
William Stevens Do you have to write that every time I write "MacBeth?"
GAAHH!! Hot potato! Orchestra Stalls! Pluck to make amends! AGH!
+Michael Ybarra Would it be better if I just write the Scottish play?
I worked with a bloke called Barry Macbeth...he was of course known as Barry Scottish Play.
Not Macbeth?
@@lewismcdonald985 _"Aaagh!"_
This entire scene is basically a glorious version of "stop hitting yourself!"
What makes this scene all the more hilarious is the fact the actors treat Blackadder as stupid, yet they're too stupid to realise what he is doing to them.
And that, my friend, is known as megalomania.
That doesn't make it all the more hilarious, that's literally what the joke is.
You got the joke.
And yet treating Blackadder like a fool lead to their own death
@@willgisby4248 I have just one more thing to say to you... MACBETH!
Blackadder be like: "I'm gonna say the M-word."
MUCK
BETH
Mr Shakespeare, get down!
@@LTAD-xi6sw MACBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETH!
"Being a mere butler ..." - such wonderful acting.
The Blackadder series 2, 3 and 4 were works of absolute genius.
yes, and I think 3 was best of all
mizofan
Blackadder Goes Forth just wins for me.
2 would be my favourite, liked 4 but was never fond of George, was never as funny as Percy
It goes 1, 3, 2, 4 for me. They're all great though.
2, 1, 4, 3 for me - though the ending of 4 is the best bit in them all...
That hat kick was so funny, gets me every time
The thoughtful look on Tony Robinson's face before the appropriate comeback ("...depends on who's playing Macbeth...") is pure ad lib gold!
Muhammad Arif Reza Yusof I do not get that joke I’m afraid
Was it ad lib?
@@arckocsog253 add lib is when u act something out that wasnt originally in the script u come up with something on ur own
@@arckocsog253 it's from 'ad libitum', which litterally means with freedom of rhythm and expression (when talking about music), basically acting with freedom from the script.
But the implication is more like "going off-script" rather than true "improv(ised)", as it's describing either changing or adding to the script in small ways, rather than starting with a blank sheet and making it all up from scratch.
It's often employed to make a scene feel more natural instead of rigourously following a script.
@@sergarlantyrell7847 neeeerd
....... not Macbeth. :-)
"Ahhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends, ahh!"
Lmao!! (:o))
@@GroundhogDayisAWESOME So who's Macbeth again?
Always wondered why Macbeth and not Othello, the plays are so similar...
@@JamesJordanson Macbeth had a lot of injuries from all the sword fights, so people thought it was cursed. Actors, like sailors and sports players, are a very superstitious lot.
"Ahhh! Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends, ahh!"
Lmao!! (:o))
apparently it's "Hot potato, orchestra falls, pluck will make amends", according to the script any way.
***** It isn't - that doesn't make sense. Yes, I've seen an argument that it's "orchestra stalls etc..." but they are *not* saying that. Listen first, can you not hear it?.
I know not where you got a copy of 'the script' However, this is English Public School humor; all but Tony Robinson are former Oxbridge students.
*****
"Pluck (his nose) to make amends"
Not Shakespear's Puck; what's that have to do with 'Macbeth'?
+incarnedine puck.
I would suggest the same - Puck does 'make amends' and is the communication medium with 'spirits'.
I’m not so sure why but I love scenes like the one at the beginning where Blackadder and Baldrick just have normal conversations with each other, Blackadder taking a break from the insults and Baldrick actually being a bit witty. Nice change of pace.
Ironically this series is probably the only season where Blackadder and baldrick are actually friends and not just master and servant
@@Historyandlegends789 He still knocks him about a bit, though. (And actually tries to roast him on a spit in the first episode.) Considering this series is Blackadder's most villainous incarnation, though, Baldrick gets off pretty lightly: it's the Prince Regent who gets the worst of it.
@@joshuakohlmann9731 Probably because they're both servants together for a change, although Blackadder is still much higher on the pecking order than Baldrick, it does allow them to occasionally drop the act for a few moments and talk as equals in the servants quarters.
God i love how he trolls them
when back then, you could troll without internet hahahahaha
strawberry smith AHH! Hot potato, orchestra halls, Puck will make amends! *nose tweak* Oww!
@@johnkennethwiseman682 Ok boomer
"No no no it was called Julius Caesar"
"Oh yes of course, Julius Caesar...
not Macbeth"
AAHHHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
@Marik Ishtar yes, that's what they actually said. Every time someone says 'Macbeth' due to superstition!
@Marik Ishtar You mean to...........Macbeth?
@@snakestaffmagic4499 AAHHHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALLS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!
@@dragonmaster613 XD for a second there I was like "what is this" now I remember rofl, when I said MACBETH
"So you want me to say "the scottish play..."
"Yes!!"
"...rather than Macbeth."
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!"
LMAO
AHHH! HOT POTATO, ORCHESTRA STALL, PHUCK WILL MAKE AMMENDS! YAAA!
@@billylauwda9178 Hot potato, off his drawers, plot to make amends.
Your play connected with Scotland
You mean Macbeth
Aaaaah hot potato orchestra stalls puck to make amends.
Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Connor lost genius..
I always wondered what they were saying!!🤣🤣
”Is that a new mac, Beth?”
”AAARrrgghh!!”
According to TV Tropes this would be an example of "The Scottish Trope."
"Our knocks you impertinent butler were loud enough to wake the hounds of hell."
😁🤣😜
Divine casting of the two actors. Perfection.
"You should have knocked." Hahahaha 😂
This is the level of pettiness I aspire to
What a fantastic distraction from writing my essay on the theme of deception in Macbeth 😂
All i can think to say to you as a failed student, Macbeth seriously good luck kid
Possibly one of my favorite scenes from one of my favorite episodes of this series. Oh who am I kidding, I love the entire franchise but this one scene never fails to make me giggle.
This scene is quite probably one of the best ever made in the history of television.
McBeth
@@Smithjones12 aaaahhh! Always call it the Scottish play!
@@tomasribeiro8020 so not McBeth ?
That and Blackadder adding words to Dr Johnson's dictionary, much to his annoyance. Blackadder the third is my favourite of all the series. It is because of the brilliant acting by Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson, who has morons as the Prince regent and Baldrick. It is his sheer sarcasm that gets me. How Hugh, a Cambridge graduate, could look so vacant is extraordinary. Stephen Fry as the Duke of Wellington is so utterly convincing and shows how the aristocracy treated the lower classes. The scripts are, of course, brilliant.
Come off it. Ludwig the Indestructible is nowhere to be seen, therefore it can't be the best ever made.
Rowan Atkinson can seriously pass as Severus Snape in my opinion 😏😆
Nope, he would be James Potter, the evil nemesis of Snape.
This is my second favourite episode of Blackadder III! My favourite is the dictionary episode! I love Blackadder!
LOL I love Ink and Incapability! (Dictionary episode)
***** From series 1?
Have to agree with you there. 3rd Series was definitely the best. Plus he manages to survive at the end.
alexkrycek21 Yeah! Escaped by making the Prince Regent look like a really smart person and probably ended up being King a few years later!
Jack Smith George IV.
Blackadder drinking game: take a shot and a nosebleed at every "Macbeth".
AAAAAAH! *_HOT POTATO, OFFICE DRAWERS, PUCK WILL MAKE AMENDS!!!_*
The Scottish play be damned! What interests me is to see how the actors wore their hats (that Blackadder took from them so helpfully on entrance) on those whigs. Should’ve been quite a spectacle :)
First play i was in mentioned something about mcbeth in the theater and everyone lost their shit at me and kept saying it cauae i had seen this and thought it was joke
I know what you mean. The same thing happened to me. Twice. Both times I thought the people were going to shallow their tongues!🙈
I remember when in the local production of the play "The Bald Soprano", I'd sometimes just before we got on stage, look straight at one of my fellow actors and just say "Macbeth".
It was not appriciated.
But gave me a good chuckle every time.
It is impossible not to love this man ❤️❤️
The third dislike is from MacBeth
The Scottish guy
Everything in this scene is just hilarious. That look on his face at 0:32 😂😂😂.
The only comedian to make me laugh using the same joke
Of course, people who are acting in Macbeth have to say Macbeth all the time, what with the main character in Macbeth being called Macbeth, and Macbeth's wife being Lady Macbeth.
hot potato off his drawers pluck to make amends
AAAAHH
ignoranceandcrisps -- it is when referencing the play in conversation, not in performance of the play's lines, that the jinx is conjured.
Add that macbeth to another macbeth
@@donna30044 When you say the play in conversation, do you mean Macbeth?
How, just how can anyone better this? Gosh
This is perhaps one of my favorite scenes of one of my favorite episodes of Blackadder. I do wish they'd make another season of it sometime. Unlikely, but one can always hope.
great episode - with the late, great Kenneth Connor
And the equally great Hugh Paddick who used to play Julian of "Jules and Sand" on Round the Horne on the BBC. The first great gay comedy characters back in the mid 1960s. They were never the butt of the joke (pun intended) they always got the laughs. How they got away with gags like "He's a dab hand at the cottage upright" in those days I will never know. I can only assume the BBC producers didn't get gay slang / palare in those days.
One of my favorite scenes from the Black Adder...
Omg...Stunt codpiece lol :L And not a smirk from Rowan!
Wound up a young actor with this. And had him doing this routine to get rid of the "bad luck".
no one can perform a vicious sarcastic man better then Rowin Atkinson as Blackadder.
You'd think the actors would make the connection that he's mentioning the dreaded Scottish Play every time they insult him.
Ah, yes, of course. Julius Caesar. Not Macbeth.
I watched blackadder as a kid and a lot of it was lost on me...but i always loved this
This scene never gets old
Macbeth Sir!
Hugh paddick and Kenneth Connor hamming it up
What lovable...silliness 🤭
"Are you sure you want these people to stay?"
AH! Hot potato, orchastra stalls, Puck will make ammends!
"What was that?"
@@8523wsxc Puck is a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Oh you mean you have to do that every time I say, Macbeth?
Genius!
I like that in season 1 Blackadder was a sniveling coward but in season 2 3 and 4 he's like, a complete madlad.
This was my favorite season!
Would you please stop saying that, always call it the Scottish play!😂😂
Vladimir Vcelar AHH Hot potato, orchestra halls, Puck will make amends! *tweak* Ooh!
So you want me to call it "the Scottish play?"
This is a perfect example of Blackadder’s personality throughout S2-S4...
Good lord you mean have to do that every time I say Macbeth?!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
one of the funniest most underrated moments ever
In the video game by the title StarFox there lies a planet by the name of the Scottish play.
1:57 you can tell he’s thinking “I think I’m going to have a looot of fun”
Thanks, gents; I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends.
I could never work out what they were saying! Thank you! 😀
I just googled it, and found a tweet from Tony Robinson, saying it is:
HOT POTATO, OFF HIS DRAWERS, PLUCK TO MAKE AMENDS.
Now I'm confused! 😁
@@Chrissywalters I must have gotten it from a CC overlay.
@@LostandFoundTravel oh yeh that makes sense. Ps. This would have to be the most spread out conversation! (11 years!) 😂
@@LostandFoundTravel I just had another listen. It appears to be a combination of the two. It sounds to me, they say "Ahh, hot potato off his drawers, puck will make amends". 😅
The Scottish Play!
Lost & Found Travel oh you meant "Macbeth"
🅰️! *Hot potato, Off with his drawers, Puck will make amends!!*
Edmunds eyebrow lift at 1:56 was 24k pure snark.
0:32 his look after he said "did he have a large part?"
Hot Potato! Off His Drawers! Puck will make amends!
pluck to make amends.
Blackadder and bugs bunny are my two favorite smartasses.
Edmund Blackadder the Third was the king of trolls.
One of best scenes in the series :)
This reminds me of a few years ago, in the local amateur-theatre of which I'm a member. During a staging of one of H.C. Andersen's tales me and a few others joked around, about not saying Macbeth but in the end we probably said it dozens of times. ^_^
(Nothing ill came of it, in case anyone's wondering).
"So you won't be mentioning it either?" "No. Well, not very often" I counted 6 times he mentioned it. (I saw this video so many times and I was bored:D)
6 times in 1 minute 44, that makes one Macbeth every 17.3 seconds. Impressive.
November 2018 still laughing 😀😀😀😀😀😀
And again a lot at the end of the episode lol
Makes you wonder what he would consider often.
+1 another clip, will be 7 times he said *Macbeth* 😂
best comedian
Royal British comedy.
brilliant show. love it
I want this shows back
You gonna do that everytime i say Macbeth?
2:38
When the subscribe button was yellow.
The good old days
I came down to comment that and I'm so glad I didn't have to.
Well, I have a GCSE based around Macbeth tomorrow, and I'm here.
HummusLord1337 good luck 😉
In the end that hullabaloo was utterly useless. Speaking down to Edmund caused them far more bad luck than speaking or hearing that name could ever have. But that's of course several scenes later.
Bad luck isn't deliberate.
@@robinlillian9471 Of course it can hardly be said that anyone is ever deliberate about receiving bad luck.
Whoever came up with the whole refer as "Scottish Play" instead of Macbeth to avoid bad luck must be laughing their heavenly/Hellish guts in the after life.
and never a better sitcom was made
guharup It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.
Pure classic comedy.
"WILL YOU STOP SAYING MACBETH?!"
I was literally yelling that.
Are this the goat episode
Blackadder is THE ultimate troll! Lol
Classical comedy🤣👍
AH! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make ammends!
Must I get that every time I say ‘Macbeth?’
What I love most about old british movies is the costumes. I have no clue what is going on or what they are talking about 90% of the time. But the clothes... I think we should all start dressing like this again... if reality ever really looked that fancy. I bet most people couldn't afford that stuff.
This clip is from a TV sitcom and not a movie though
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼, thank you.
And it continued: "Shall I throw these two out Sir?"
'Are you sure you want them to stay?'
Everyone else: Rule of 3.
Blackadder: Hold my beer.
A wild Hugh Laurie appears!
OMG. I died laughing...RIP me🤣🤣🤣