An American Blackadder? - JackW Reviews
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2016
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I’ve just released Fawlty Towers UK vs USA, check it out!
Can you do a UK v the awful American pilot of Dads Army please
Could it be, Edmund, that in my mortal hands I hold a nugget of purest green??
+Stuart Ward Well, it's not really a nugget, it's more of a splat!
Hahahaha.
you could make a ring out of it
You think theres a market for jewellery that looks like snot then?
Thanks for the copyright claim BBC Worldwide, I hope you enjoy the few extra pence.
Very sorry about the lack of uploads, things have been very busy recently. You can expect a new video before the month is over however!
I shall look at the American IT Crowd at some point. I must shamefully admit that I have never seen Red Dwarf.
I'll have to watch
JackWolf it's brilliant mate, sarcastic humour as always!
This seems like very obvious fair usage. Could you tell us what happened?
I'm a Brit and I used to live in the States. The Americans I met love our comedy shows and our sense of humour. They hate American rip-offs of our shows just as much as we do - it's just media companies who are always looking for the next big buck. That's why they quickly bomb with US audiences.
As an American, I can confirm this
@577AllWell - absolutely no fucking way. The only people who think that are from America. The American Office has the dubious distinction of being the least shit American adaptation of a British programme. I guess it comes down to 2 drastically different styles of comedy, but the original is near perfect. Not much comes close to it.
MrKunt I think it comes down to the fact that we got to spend more time with the American office. Yes, David Brent is hilariously inept and uncomfortable to watch, and we all rooted for Tim and Dawn to get together, and Gareth was always fun to watch, but we only got 14 episodes with them to enjoy. While the longer length of the American version means there were some duds in there and the British show has a higher batting average overall, we got to see the characters fleshed out more with the US version, including a steadier buildup and more rewarding payoff to the Jim-Pam dynamic, the background characters getting developed more, and Michael Scott becoming more endearing. I love both shows to death, don't get me wrong; I revel in how extraordinarily uncomfortable the British programme is, and the characters are well done, but I think this is the sole time the US managed to exceed the original in quality.
Everything else we've tried to adapt is shit though.
***** "Anyway, piss be upon you!" - haha you're too kind....allah snackbar ;)
Shane Arnold I wouldn't begrudge anyone for liking the US version more, but I love the original for how subtle the humour is whereas what I've seen from the US verison, the comedy is more obvious and not really to my taste. Also, the fact that it went on for so long is usually a detriment to US shows. We keep them short and sweet in the UK and comedies don't usually overstay their welcome.
Plenty of my mates like the US version, but my favourite US sitcom would have to be Frasier, and I've always been meaning to get into Curb Your Enthusiasm a lot more. .
MrKunt I love Frasier to death as well; I'm a huge fan of the witty humour it provides, which is something I like about many British comedies as well.
Lesser American sitcoms love that "too dumb to breathe" character stereotype. It always seems so lazy.
But Percy, Prince George and Baldrick are often insufferably stupid, but work brilliantly somehow. I guess that's just the brilliance of Blackadder. I love that Tony Robinson went on to make Maid Marian, which seemed to share a lot of the dna of Blackadder.
Ben Elton was really the genius that made Blackadder 2-4 work so well, the first series was good and all but he really added so much more.
I remember in year 8 the entire year of history lessons were spent watching blackadder because the teacher had given up on teaching us about the history of Wales. We had one assessment on shit that went down in Merthyr and that was about it. Best lesson ever.
Only thing that goes down in Myrthyr are trousers
Percy... It's _green_.
Gold is gold, that's why it's called 'gold'.
What you've discovered, if it has a name, is some 'green'.
I'm quite surprised my how good the quality of your videos. keep up the fantastic work
I messed up the audio for my latest video. Will have to rerecord tomorrow. Sorry about the delay.
The laugh track on 1775 is simply awful
Treehumping 101 Like most thing's about American sitcoms
I'd kindly ask you to review all these US remakes of British comedies but I'm afraid you won't make it.
Seriously though, these US remake reviews are entertaining.
Working on a video right now guys. Will possibly be up tomorrow!
Good job m8 keep it going
As a Scotsman myself I can say that there is a charm and whit that comes with British comedy. Show like black adder, Fawlty Towers and still game all have smart writing and interesting characters.
Your videos are brilliant, absolutely hang on your every word and they're brilliantly edited. They are very... HUMOUROUS
"Humorous" and "amusing" are the pale and sickly cousins of "funny".
An American Blackadder?
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahaha hahaha ahaahhahahaha aahaha... oh they’re serious?
SophAndStuff I,m imagining James Mays reaction to Jeremy’s car is series 15 episode 4 of top gear
6:02 It could be argued that Black Adder's entire first season was 'a pilot'.
You are definitely one of my favourite youtubers. Brilliant content
Yea same, one of the only people that focus´s on British comedy in the reviewing community
I want to watch black adder now xD
i swear when i subscribed 3 days ago you had like 1,000 subs! you're flying man keep it up !
I think more thought is put into uk comedies and the jokes don't only last two seconds , I love your videos man never stop
Holy shit mate you're channel's exploded. Congrats
And you've made me want to go back and rewatch blackadder 😃😃😃😃.
Don't know why but I get an allo allo feeling when seeing those clips of 1775. Maybe just because that inn from 1775 has a similar layout to the caffé from allo allo
This video is brilliant and it's so awesome to see how many subscribers you have gained!
I love these. You should do one about the American IT Crowd pilot!
I like your reviews as they appear to have a lot more effort put into them
dude you're stuff is awesome! keep it up! you're gonna blow up!
Americans do have their own unique funny shows though, like "it's always sunny in Philadelphia". One of my favourite shows of all time. It just seems they can't quite do the English style of humour.
Late reply, but yeah. Always Sunny is fantastic and a good example of proper American comedy.
Yes, British humor doesn't translate because a lot goes into it that requires an American to know things that generally aren't learned in school in the US about the rest of the world.
@@jwb52z9 Like the fact that England, Great Britain and The United Kingdom are not the same thing. Calling the UK/Britain England is like calling the US Maryland
I think you should definitely focus on these comedic evaluations, there're really great!
Having watched The Secret Diaries of Desmond Pfeiffer, I feel that that's more of an American Blackadder than 1775.
just found your channel and you're just great
well it would be a very short series as america has no history.
petrucci15 Yeah they are like City and Chelsea combined.
Actually they do have very interesting history. Not as long as ours but still very complex and deep.
Arrested developments was hilarious
2:54 hey, isn't that Larry from Friends season 5?
I really love your channels. You're like a British IHE. Great videos. keep it up.
Matthew Cross IHE is British
Molly Brown I know but he's also half kiwi
Jack if you will, you may not know they revisited the 1770 whatever theme and this time successfully in the Tim Allen show Last Man Standing or at the very least elements there of. If you view it you'll see what I mean. And is it possible for you to post a compilation of some of the best sarcastic British tv shows of the last 50 years ? If you can find them that is, the BBCs archive is dreadfully managed even losing episodes or scenes from early Dr Who. I truly dispare at the losses of such shows as Yes Minister, Bastard (about a Blackadder type cabinate official ) and one whose name escapes me that was the pinicle of British sarcasm, damn my memory. You'd be doing an old man a great favor, thank you.
Blackadder is one of my all time favourites!!
Blackadder needed a whole season to get good, we can't really hold a bad pilot against 1775.
Disagree. A remake has the advantage of a tried and tested, and fully fleshed out show to be inspired by. The first season of Blackadder was not great, but they built on a new concept of flipping the personalities around and learned from mistakes. The 1775 pilot was a total regression and was inexcusably dumbed down, for a show that had a blueprint to steal from.
Well sometimes black adder does win (spoiler alert) like in the Gorge one where he pretends to be gorge after a canon duel.
The premise could be done fairly well, just get Ben Elton to transfer his ideas for an American audience. One of the best things about Black Adder aside from the fantastic and witty dialogue, acting from Rowan Atkinson especially, was the constantly changing time periods. To see a Black Adder-esque character weasel himself through American history could work perhaps..
the things that Black Adder did really well that I think was lost in translation, was that it adapted commedia dell'arte to both the screen and a modern audience. The characters in Black Adder are all wonderful interpretations of commedia stock characters, like how Black Adder is Brighella, a crafty, quick, unscrupulous servant who was often paired with Arlecchino whom in turn is Baldrick. I haven't seen the show in a while but another obvious one I can think of is Stephen Fry's General as Ill Capitano- a seemingly manly and courageous captain who is actually a timid coward afraid of most everything. And I am sure if you go through the other main characters there is always a commedia stock character to match. Basically if you want to have a successful adaptation of Black Adder, you shouldn't focus on translating Black Adder to a modern American audience, but rather focus on translating commedia dell'arte to a modern American audience.
Great video I can't believe how many subs have had in a week!
Blackadder is still one of my favourite TV show's ever.
My suggestion would be for them to do an American version in which there was a Blackadder and a Baldrick emigrated to the colonies prior to 1776 for the first season. There are all kinds of sharp jokes they could make about the era(I.e.the womanizing of the Founders, or crazy Puritan practices regarding witchcraft.) After that, series 2 would be oriented around the civil war period and set in the Illinois wilderness. Series 3 should be in the gilded age and the extreme inequality of the time will be the primary joke. A Melchett/Wellington character could take the form of Teddy Roosevelt. Series 4 could be in WW2, with lots of jokes about the conditions of the naval vessels in the Pacific.
Baldrick and his cunning plans
Blackadder is very special. I like Faulty Towers just as much and I guess it comes down to expert timing and well developed characters. Good writing is in a lot of things but it doesn't always work so exceptionally well as a result
my family watches Blackadder every year 💕
Adam West was basically playing Mayor West, way before Family Guy.
And Batman too of course
When I saw the title of this video I exclaimed; “O shit.”
Nobody expects the Romanian subtitles
I always felt that the Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeifer seemed as if it was ripping of Blackadder the Third as well, even the sets in the show look just like to ones BA3
If Someone would please tell me what else other than Netflix this can be watched on
I continue to be the only one who loves season 1 as much as the others. (and way more than season 3)
Not enough people have talked about this show.
The only episode I've ever seen is the ww1 one so I guess I need to watch them all now.
Season 1 isn't so good cos Ben Elton wasn't involved. Season 2, the Tudor period, has always been my favourite. Check out the Christmas special too...
unless you continue in your quotation and mention the name of the scottish play
holy shite, im so familiar with blackadder since childhood. I'd never heard of 1775 until this vid, cheers my dude
Will there be a series five because rowan atkinson has say blackadder has say blackadder could return in the future?Also rowan could play evil original edmund illegitimate son ?
Dead Pan humour dished up with a dollop of Sarcasm and lashings of Irony is a British recipe. '"Baldrick, you don't even know what Irony is!" "Oh yes I do, it's like Coppery and Goldery."
15 seconds in I'm already loving it. (from the u.k obvs)
To be fair Blackadder was shit until after its first season, which was awful. This American thing doesn't look great, but it shows more promise than the first series of blackadder did.
The first season was a little misguided. Big on budget, small on laughs. But it was fair
The first series wasn't that bad. Not as good as the later ones, but having gone back and rewatched it, it's still an enjoyable show.
The first season is piss poor, they have decent plots but I found it has no focus, such as, despite the show being called Blackadder, Brian Blessed's character seemed to have the star role!
I've looked into this and Rowan Atkinson was largely responsible for the script for season 1 whilst 2, 3 and 4 were written solely by two other actual writers. This is so easy to see when you consider that most of Atkinson's characters are weedy, scrawny and pathetic creatures. Not to discredit him, I think he's a brilliant actor and his pronunciation, delivery and expressions are so original but he doesn't seem to make use of this in his own work. Although his physical comedy's pretty good for physical comedy, deciding to refuse Mr Bean the use of Atkinson's vocal cords is a worse plan than when Abraham Lincoln said, "Oh I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's take in a show."
^ To prefer 1 to 2 blows my mind! The one where he has the bag over his head impersonating the people who he killed to get a week off work (in S2) is the best episode of them all, surely!?
I actually quite like season 1, as much as the other seasons probably. But I enjoy it for different reasons I think.
I wish him to marry this rose bush
If you want to hear a good comedy program about the American Revolution, there's a Radio 4 series called "Revolting People". Andy Hamilton's in it. It's great.
Rowan Atkinson is my spirit animal.
Hello I really like this channel I have just subbed
In the past, there have been two U.K.-inspired American successful series: _All In the Family_ and _Sanford & Son._
The Office?
mate, if I had 1,000,000 subs I would give you a shout out, I love your videos!
Thank you :)
You should see a Serbian imitation. The British original was translated as "Crna Guja", and the imitation was named "Crni Gruja", who is also a lead character, and a nephew to "Crni Djordje"- Black George vest known as Karadjordje, his Turkish nickname. He is a famous historical figure and was a leader of a first Serbian uprising.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara%C4%91or%C4%91e
The first season with Sergej Trifunovic in leading role was the most successful and it most closely follows the style of Blackadder.
***** I know it would be awesome, making peoples day :D
I think you could make a series about reboots
An American remake can work going by how well Forrest Gump did
And remember all there is a movie black adder back and fourth
Ahhh, good old English humour :)
I miss the days when BBC America used to show Black Adder as well as many other good UK shows. Now they might as well drop the BBC bit as they only show US shows.
1:18 It's the nasty guy from The Rock!
So, where can we watch it?
Hey Jackwolf, maybe you should review some British sitcoms that just couldn't ever work in the USA. Like 15 Stories High for example....
And where I can watch it?
Rowan Atkinson also did the Thin blue line which is execellent. The 1775 show is like a typical american sitcom.
Americans don't have our witty comic timing, sarcasm and irony that we Brits are known for. They can't and shouldn't even attempt to do our shows.
Common Senser
Yes. That's not to say the US doesn't have comedy, it's just the UK has a certain brand of comedy.
Neither do they have our superb sense of modesty.
We're a very modest people, when we're not talking about historical achievements.
+Vicvic W exactly. Americans shouldn't EVER remake our shows because they ruin them, look at the crap USA remakes of Inbetweeners and Red Dwarf that got canceled quickly.
I'm not a fan of any remakes or reboots ever, let sleeping dogs lie. That doesn't mean Americans don't make good comedy, it's just that we have different tastes.
HOW. DID. YOU. GROW. SO. QUICKLY.
Quality content, this guy is class
wow, I forgot how much I liked this show :-)
blackadder is one of my favourites :)
This looks like it's inspired by I Hate Everything's style of videos, especially at 2:18
all my friends have horses
WHEN DID YOU GET FIVE THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS, JACK
mariopikaman1 the real question is when will he be at a million?
Based on what channels typically do to get a million subscribers I would be perfectly fine with this channel not reaching a million subscribers. More yes, but not a million.
This sounds reactionary to Married with Children
how was the first black adder series awkward?
I have a cunning plan
You just got a subscriber :) 👍
Comparing Black Adder to 1775 is like comparing a Boeuf Bourguignon to a pile of hamburger/mince with gristle in it that's been sitting on the counter too long so that even the family cat doesn't want it anymore.
I'm not sure America has enough history yet for a Blackadder show...
I think you've discovered the genesis of Mayor West of Quahog, Rhode Island. (by which, I don't mean, the mayor of the town west of Quahog, Rhode Island)
This comes across more like Fawlty Towers than Blackadder.
At least 1775 had Barry Lyndon in it
Anyone else watch Time Team before they ever saw Blackadder?
_Till Death Do Us Part_ vs. _All in the Family_
_Steptoe and Son_ vs. _Sanford and Son_
_The Man About the House_ and its spin-offs vs. _Three's Company_ and its spin-offs
…and to complete the three f*ck-ups that we as Americans did to John Cleese, considering that I'd rather watch an episode of his with Graham, Michael, Terry J. or Carol than its American equivalents…
_Fawlty Towers_ vs. _Payne_
It's like memeulous had a child with IHE and got a YT channel
Please review Fawlty Towers, Or compare it to another show.
Really? Please review this Jackwolf!
I have it planned
Thank you oh mighty one also HOW THE HELL DO YOU MAKE A FAWLTY TOWERS REMAKE WITHOUT BASIL?!?
hmmmm you sound familiar..... oh well love your vids
You just can't beat british sitcoms
You want an American Blackadder?
Try Scrubs.
Dr. Perry Cox is Edmund Blackadder and J.D. Dorian is Baldrick.
Oh dear. At least i enjoyed the blackadder bits
please do vicar of dibley and father ted! 😘