Oh I've watched Blackadder into the ground. I actually really like the first season (er... series) myself because Rowan really does the simpering, yet wannabe diabolical, fool very comically.
 
Over here all we got of old Rowan was Mr. Bean... and not even the good stuff. The crummy movies/poppo spots and skits. Watching the REAL Mr. Bean of course is much more brilliant and Blackadder (who knew Mr. Bean could actually speak? lol) is just awesome.
 
Of course Hughe Laurie is only known for Gregory House by the masses and the SHOCK of realizing he's putting on the American accent (excellently BTW) and was a comic... whelll boy I tellz ya... that's some crazy durned stuffs.
 
Love Laurie. Bit of Fry and Laurie drug a bit but you could tell that's where he cut his American accent chops (the boardroom business doods and the song "Amurrica!") to get the role of one of the best characters ever portrayed on modern TV.
 
When he's taking a p*ss (and taking THE p*ss) in the mental asylum singing that tune from HMS Pinafore... well that's some multi layered comedy roight thar.
 
HA!

Hugh Laurie is most known for Jeeves And Wooster over here - the TV show could never be as funny as Wodehouse's books of course but it was still a cracking hoot and Laurie played Bertie Wooster so well that I can't read the books without hearing it in his voice. And of course that of Stephen Fry as Jeeves.

sharke
Hugh Laurie is most known for Jeeves And Wooster over here - the TV show could never be as funny as Wodehouse's books of course but it was still a cracking hoot and Laurie played Bertie Wooster so well that I can't read the books without hearing it in his voice. And of course that of Stephen Fry as Jeeves.

Da fuh (+ a Q)?
 
How did I miss that one? Yeah, Rab may have to share screen time with Mr Fry and Mr Laurie for a while.
 
Thanks.

Hi,
 
I'm hoping that the BBC gets smarter and starts streaming these things even more ... I would sigh up for it, and love to watch these things, and how often they are so unique ... only to have American TV kill them! Yet another CSI copy!

Oh man... just Steven Fry appearing on screen... not even doing anything... busted me up.
 
Such a smarmy ridiculous prat.

"The Young Ones" from the early 80's on MTV should get a little mention here. 
 
Doc Martin fans, I recommend the Google Earth walkthrough of that town - feels like you are there!
 
thanks for this thread, I've got some new ones to look up . . .
 
-Tom

Hi,
 
In the "Secret Policeman's Ball" DVD's, Rowan is all over it ... more than once ... and in the early days he used to read the dictionary ... he was very funny!

The League Of Gentlemen :-D
 
Hello Daaaave...

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The League Of Gentlemen :-D
 
Hello Daaaave...

What's going on, what's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble, here......

I was just looking to buy a can of Coke...

A "canna coolt?"

emeraldsoul
"The Young Ones" from the early 80's on MTV should get a little mention here. 
 
Doc Martin fans, I recommend the Google Earth walkthrough of that town - feels like you are there!
 
thanks for this thread, I've got some new ones to look up . . .
 
-Tom

I watched a bunch of eps of Young Ones a few years ago. I was having a bit of a hard time with it I think because some of the accents/language/context was a bit out of range of my understanding. It just came across as really surreal/bizarre. The music interludes were cool though. I think I'd have an easier time with it now.
 
And I LOVE taking virtual walks using Street View. I mostly have done those to check out places I might be moving to but have always been meaning to do some more global virtual sight seeing.
 
Right now I've been bouncing back and forth between Jeeves and Wooster and Rab C Nesbitt. Very interesting juxtoposition between upper class British silliness (during the time period where Victorian values were just starting to fade) and lower class Glasgow probably right around the time the push was beginning to clean up the city.
 
Rab C seems like it would be almost offensive in it's portrayal of the Glasweigian poor if it weren't for the biting, nearly poetic social commentary it seems to make about WHY a dude like Rab ends up becoming... well... a dude like Rab.
 
He reminds me of some of the people I met in my more gutter punk days. Classic street philosopher.