No one, repeat no-one could be Queenie like Miranda Richardson. Absolutely brilliant and lovely with it. Blimey, she even scared me, the way she moved from sanity to insanity. Loved her to bits!
Baldrick has a fair bit of cunning in the first series, a little left in series two, and then starts to decline in wits (and ascend in comedy) in the last two series.
@@pheebs4280 yeah, that previous episode when she kept calling for him to pull practical jokes on him and swindled him from all his money was reaaal touching. A genuine tear-jerker, that one. He even ended up selling his house and doing favors to sailors
@@floricel_112 Edmund has to take some share of the responsibility - to impress Queenie, he'd led her to believe that he was so rich that £1185 0s 6d was chump change to him.
In an interview Stephen Fry said that he'd seen many actresses play the role of The Queen but that none were better than Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth.
(This is a late reply) He discusses this elsewhere on RUclips and (British TV producers generally do not like multi takes) and said they would do max 1 retake, and generally use the first. It took 2 hours to put less than edited 30 minutes in the can, which is moving fast as you have to include technical setups (blocking and light checks, etc.) in that remaining 90 minutes, and the union crew is not exactly overly obliging if things are running long.
Of all the actresses who played Elizabeth I, Miranda Richardson is my favourite. Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench and Bette Davis eat your hearts out.
I can only imagine how long it took to record one half hour show with writing this superb and the actors constantly bursting into laughter trying to get the lines out. Particularly when dealing with a slip of a girl with absolute power. Blabbing on way to the block. Priceless
I love the childishness, craziness, silliness and emotion of her. She's so funny. There was a woman at my college who acted like this, one minuet she's all happy, the next she's in a psychotic bizarre rage. She's such a good character and one of my all time favourites in a comedy like this. Just the way she speaks and acts with such emotion and flamboyance. Definitely the best character in the programme. Marinda Richardson is such a good performer.
Trivia; Sir Walter Raleigh was played by Simon “Arthur Dent” Jones , and Captain Rum (not seen in this clip) was played by the immortal and infamous Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor)
The second incarnation of Baldrick was easily my favourite. The moments where he and Bladders were on the same page, and Baldrick actually managed to keep up with Bladders’ wit (‘Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick’) are among my favourites in the series.
As an Aussie I always thought it was hilarious that the paradise they went to where their captain was eaten by cannibals and they brought back a “stick” was clearly Australia
This episode contains one of the greatest lines in comedy history. Raleigh: Why around the hope the rain beats down so hard it makes your head bleed. Blackadder: So some sort of hat is probably in order.
Loved Raleigh's face when she said that "He blubbed on his way to the block". It might have happened that way too. He eventually went to the block in 1618 during the reign of Elizabeth's heir, James I, 15 years after her death.
+Marteen Lake I like 2, 3, 4. 3 was with Hugh Laurie as prince, and I did like it. 4 with Hugh as Georgina and Rik Mayall as Flashhart were hilarious, also Stephen Fry! Rowan Atkins always a pleasure as Blackadder. Didn't really relate to Mr. Bean compared with Blackadder, but younger crowd unfamiliar with Blackadder like Mr. Bean.
@MumblingMickey sorry, but Elizabeth was NOT bald. Many history books I've read on her - 14 at last count - talked of her having long greyish red hair under her wigs. It's Hollywood that protrayed her as being bald.
I remember when I saw the first episode of this season for the first time when it was repeated on BBC2 in 1998, and loving Miranda Richardson's Queenie, and being really disappointed at the end of the episode, because I thought she was a one off character, and we wouldn't see her again. Imagine my delight when the next episode was shown the following week.
@rwos14 dunno about that... if you consider that painters usually give a monarch a 'flattering' look then you still have to say Elizabeth was a bit of a car chaser! Plus she was bald (like most Elizabethan nobility). My guess is the reason she never married was all the men she could marry were too dangerous, and all the ones she wanted to marry weren't noble. She also might have been infertile OR this could have been a rumor that stopped suitors. Either way she was a brilliant leader.
No one, repeat no-one could be Queenie like Miranda Richardson. Absolutely brilliant and lovely with it. Blimey, she even scared me, the way she moved from sanity to insanity. Loved her to bits!
The best ever Queen Elizabeth l
A historian on the Rest is History podcast said its probably the most accurate representation of Elizabeth I.
I've just realised how much Liz Truss sounds like her... 😱
Perhaps Una Stubbs in Aunt Sally mode?
Completely BONKERS!!
Your fiancee was only a 3rd rate sailor, but a 1st rate 2nd course. Brilliant!!!
For anyone in the naval or merchant industry that's about as harsh as an insult as you can dish out.
top 5 blackadder quotes
Yes and I wager the badger hiding in his beard certainly made a fine desert
@@ljevans3156 Ahh! You have a Woman’s Beard, M’lud!
@@MacTechG4 thanks
Did Baldrick just come up with an executable cunning plan?
avinotion LMAO!! He did!!
He probably genuinely thought it was a good present.
Baldrick has a fair bit of cunning in the first series, a little left in series two, and then starts to decline in wits (and ascend in comedy) in the last two series.
@@Myndir meanwhile Blackadder declines in social rank and ascends in humor
more executable than Blackadder was, anyway
I always loved Queenie and Edmund's relationship.
"Life without you is like... A broken pencil".
"Explain?"
"Pointless"
:)
Exactly
And her expression was so sweet after he said that ❤️
I always found them so cute together those moments they had were just amazing 💓🥺
@@pheebs4280 yeah, that previous episode when she kept calling for him to pull practical jokes on him and swindled him from all his money was reaaal touching. A genuine tear-jerker, that one. He even ended up selling his house and doing favors to sailors
@@floricel_112 Edmund has to take some share of the responsibility - to impress Queenie, he'd led her to believe that he was so rich that £1185 0s 6d was chump change to him.
Miranda Richardson as Queenie was a tour de force. Magnificent.
I love the previous queen more though, she had that motherly presence
She plays her very, very well.
@@glowiever
What episode or series?
@@pebblepod30 blackadder season 1. at the end of season one everyone dies though. except for edmund
@@glowiever Thanks 🙏
Nobody combined insanity and hotness like Miranda Richardson.
Yeah, she'd therefore have been superb as Commander Makara, if there'd been a live-action Star Fleet.
Kate Williams is very similar... even has that slight speech impediment (cant say "W" words)
Well said...
I always found her ... just insane ...
Helena Bonham Carter can't hold a candle to her.
I will accept no other version of Queen Elizabeth I :)
I agree 100% my friend. Makes the Bette Davis & Cate
Blanched efforts look positively ill
Yep, Miranda was amazing, no one could have done it better :)
In an interview Stephen Fry said that he'd seen many actresses play the role of The Queen but that none were better than Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth.
Im getting some queen of hearts vibes with her.
That would've been a very different Elizabeth movie!
I'm no actor but how on earth they did this with a straight face is beyond me, I can only imagine the number retakes they had to do.
:)
Must have you can tell by the audience, no way are they reacting so little at watching for the first time theyv mustv seen it go on for awhile.
(This is a late reply) He discusses this elsewhere on RUclips and (British TV producers generally do not like multi takes) and said they would do max 1 retake, and generally use the first. It took 2 hours to put less than edited 30 minutes in the can, which is moving fast as you have to include technical setups (blocking and light checks, etc.) in that remaining 90 minutes, and the union crew is not exactly overly obliging if things are running long.
Nobody talking about how Percy gently places the boomerang aside and yet it comes propelling back lol
That's the joke...
@@Spacetwerp Your point?
@@Spacetwerp yeah.. he knew that was the joke…
Your point?
lol thats the joke... noob
Of all the actresses who played Elizabeth I, Miranda Richardson is my favourite.
Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench and Bette Davis eat your hearts out.
Quentin Crisp was rather excellent in Orlando. :)
Lol😂
She was probably the most historically accurate as well. Very close to Elizabeth’s true character.
Glenda Jackson was the best ever Elizabeth 1.
Emma Thompson was brilliant in Upstart Crow, a sort of Blackadder relative show.
I love Blackadder and Baldrick smiling over their scheme at the end! XD
All the while Baldrick probably is completely confused as to why he is smiling...
Sour Eggz Probably XD
+MegaFafnir Ha ha ha. I love this season.
He's smiling because he knows what's in the bottle.
I know XD
"Because when I throw things away, I don't want them to come back!"
Percy getting flattened by the boomerang cracks me up every time!
Excellent writing from Ben Elton and Richard Curtis! Great casting! Atkinson so sharp and witty!
It's rare after the first series, but it's nice to see Baldrick have a stroke of genius at the last minute.
Might be his first and only actual cunning plan.
that was how Blackadder 4 ended. Baldrick had a cunning plan but didn't get the chance to try it. Or tell it.
That seasons Baldrick was a gap filler between the first outing's brainy Baldrick & the later dunderhead ones. The Baldrick here was a mix of both.
@@speakfreeley4473alot of people dislike season 1 because black adder wasn't as cunning/cool but I enjoyed baldrick/percy being the brains
First seasons terrible, I think 2&3 were the best but most people seem to think 4 was. @@nightnight440
She was out of this world in that show. 10 out of 10.
Nursies with her Rum now.. R.I.P Nursie.
2:20 That's a bit of Baldrick season 1 shining through in that moment.
Didn't really like series one. Much better in series two, series three and series four.
“Melchett what did I sign that spare...DEATH WARRANT” 😂
I can only imagine how long it took to record one half hour show with writing this superb and the actors constantly bursting into laughter trying to get the lines out. Particularly when dealing with a slip of a girl with absolute power. Blabbing on way to the block. Priceless
Blubbing I think. Crying, not blabbing (gabbling)
Exactly I wish they showed outtakes of the scenes with Miranda Richardson on RUclips 😕
I love the childishness, craziness, silliness and emotion of her. She's so funny. There was a woman at my college who acted like this, one minuet she's all happy, the next she's in a psychotic bizarre rage. She's such a good character and one of my all time favourites in a comedy like this. Just the way she speaks and acts with such emotion and flamboyance. Definitely the best character in the programme. Marinda Richardson is such a good performer.
Baldrick's smile at the end is priceless!
Glad to announce I’ve spent a good portion of my summer vacation binging on all Black Adder episodes . So proud:)
"when you throw it away it comes back" one of the best lines in comedy 😁😁
Not really, that joke was invented a week after the British met the first native Australians.
Have you seen much comedy?
Trivia; Sir Walter Raleigh was played by Simon “Arthur Dent” Jones , and Captain Rum (not seen in this clip) was played by the immortal and infamous Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor)
RIP Nursie!!! Sleep well! :(
Baldrick's fine 'wine' a endless supply.
The second incarnation of Baldrick was easily my favourite. The moments where he and Bladders were on the same page, and Baldrick actually managed to keep up with Bladders’ wit (‘Well I chopped his head off, that usually does the trick’) are among my favourites in the series.
I love baldrick, "Yes, mi lord".
What is amazing is that Stephen Fry must have been about 28 during the production of this.
Stephen Fry was once young? Remarkable!
Look up "a bit of Fry and Laurie". There are oodles of sketches up on YT.
I just caught sight of him hahaha, did not know he was in this!
This man must have been born old…
mediocre man he used to smoke a pipe in university
Miranda Richardson was delectable as Queen Liz, brilliant. I think she really enjoyed it.
She looked like she had a lot of fun playing her the way she did, if I was her I’d never want it to end!
I've played Queenie on stage and it was so much fun to play.
As an Aussie I always thought it was hilarious that the paradise they went to where their captain was eaten by cannibals and they brought back a “stick” was clearly Australia
No sh*t Sherlock!
@@AA-hg5fk I figured it out im sooo smart
And almost two centuries earlier than the Brits got there officially (yes, I know the Dutch have beaten them to it)
Finally Baldrick saves the day!!
Baldrick seemed to get dumber with every series. In the original he was actually smarter than Blackadder.
@@McSuperfly101 yes that special wine just like that Beer Bottles in Dumb and Dumber
The way Nursie just sits there.... with a beard on!
I so just love Miranda she’s the best and very gorgeous 🥺
I saw her on Hampstead Heath and asked is it you? She said YES ! I said Oh God I'm sorry ! She said don't panic !!! LOL
That's great. But of course there's only one answer to the question "Is it you?"
@@EeezyNoow Fair point !
I adore Miranda Richardson
Bet the feeling is not mutual
She plays for the other team.
This episode contains one of the greatest lines in comedy history. Raleigh: Why around the hope the rain beats down so hard it makes your head bleed. Blackadder: So some sort of hat is probably in order.
Miranda Richardson has to be the best queenie impersonator of them all. Blackadder brought joy to millions around the world. 😂😂😂😂
Rip patsy Byrne nurise very sad loss
Miranda Richardson was amazing too!
oh dear sean, but then , maybe it's your 2nd language.
The script is brilliant 👏
I think Nursie suits that beard quite well!
Just realised the guy at the back was THE Arthur Dent.
Two brick jokes in one scene! Loving this.
Loved Raleigh's face when she said that "He blubbed on his way to the block".
It might have happened that way too. He eventually went to the block in 1618 during the reign of Elizabeth's heir, James I, 15 years after her death.
James I was not the heir of Elizabeth I, who was famously known as the virgin queen for obvious reasons.
Queenie ❤️❤️❤️
Never grows old x
Miranda is so fit 😍
Queenie needs a mint😁😂😜👍
That "fine wine", has plenty of nose! It does smell familiar!
@@henkprijs3902 Actually, it's Simon Jones - Arthur Dent from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (1981 series)
Plenty of notes, isn't that what he said?
It comes BACK! - favourite line of series 2
I only let Raleigh off 'cause he blubbed on his way to the block.
One of my favourite lines she says 😂
Is there any more to the word blubbed than that he cried pitifully?
@@NoirFan01 Not much. Other than it is used in a disapproving manner - and without any sympathy whatsoever.
2 and 4 were the best Blackadder series
Agree 100 per cent
+Marteen Lake Series 3 was my fav
+Marteen Lake I like 2, 3, 4. 3 was with Hugh Laurie as prince, and I did like it. 4 with Hugh as Georgina and Rik Mayall as Flashhart were hilarious, also Stephen Fry! Rowan Atkins always a pleasure as Blackadder. Didn't really relate to Mr. Bean compared with Blackadder, but younger crowd unfamiliar with Blackadder like Mr. Bean.
Nah i think 3rd was
What about 3? You don't care if he ever found his socks? Or do you dislike sacks of French porn?
RIP Patsy
What a cute queen....*smile*
Yeah, you said it, Lizzie really did have childish temper tantrums.
No matter what I read involving Elizabeth the first it’s always this queen I see in my imagination 😂
The queen is so adorable and funny
"Raleigh" was arthur dent in the hitchhikers guide...
absolutley brilliant
Inexhaustible supply, i.e. Baldrick's piss.
Fabulous sketch 🥂
Miranda Richardson at her best.
"Is it a stick, Lord Blackadder?"
I love Miranda in this !
Thank you xxxxx Quite exquisite as usual.
blackadder is the BEST!
Miranda Richardson is hands down the best Queen Elizabeth I ever.
WHO'S THE Queen NOW?
in Elizabethan voice the sweetest of all
It's fine, Nursie. Your fiancee will just regenerate into Peter Davidson.
LOL.
Or the Little Britain narrator 😂
It looked like Baldrick had a cunning plan after all...
This is very familiar HAHAHA gotta love Fry.
Sir Walter Raleigh played by.... Arthur Dent!
Queenie!
A fine wine.
I liked Blackadder the Third and Goes Forth was quite good as well, but Blackadder II was the funniest season by far.
An inexhaustible supply.
that wine is piss isn't it?
Yes it is indeed
Yes.
Yes
Yes
Nah, just some recycled water that Baldrik happened to have on him at the time...
😄
@MumblingMickey sorry, but Elizabeth was NOT bald. Many history books I've read on her - 14 at last count - talked of her having long greyish red hair under her wigs. It's Hollywood that protrayed her as being bald.
Oh yes, this is very familiar
my fave joke
This is hilarious =))))))))
I remember when I saw the first episode of this season for the first time when it was repeated on BBC2 in 1998, and loving Miranda Richardson's Queenie, and being really disappointed at the end of the episode, because I thought she was a one off character, and we wouldn't see her again. Imagine my delight when the next episode was shown the following week.
a....stick!
Is it a stick Lord Blackadder? *shifty eyes*
+Daisy Chambers yes, but it's a special kind of stick! Because when you throw it away, it comes back!
*puts on Queenie voice* Ooh weeeell! That's no good is it, because when I throw things away, I don't want them to come back!
Then 5 minutes later it hits Percy in the head.
“When I throw things away I dOn’T wAnT tHeM tO cOmE bAcK!” (Fair point.) *later comes and hits Percy in the head* “I think it’s wonderful!”
Impeccable!
Had Percy thrown the boomerang hard, it would have ruined the punch-line. Love the subtlety.
“Hurry up”
I don't know why.. this the best defence quarantine.
Great to see liz truss back in power
Nice one 😂
It doesn't mention it in this clip that wine he gave Percy and Raleigh is actually sailor piss 😂😂😂😂
Baldrick's, no less.
And yes, they implied it pretty heavily.
Hah! I knew it! Brilliant!
A fine wine...
Baldrick had a cunning plan
@rwos14 dunno about that... if you consider that painters usually give a monarch a 'flattering' look then you still have to say Elizabeth was a bit of a car chaser!
Plus she was bald (like most Elizabethan nobility).
My guess is the reason she never married was all the men she could marry were too dangerous, and all the ones she wanted to marry weren't noble. She also might have been infertile OR this could have been a rumor that stopped suitors.
Either way she was a brilliant leader.
Presents PLEASE lol
Arthur Dent!!!
Oh sir Walter, really!
They must have mixed some other ingredients into the "wine" to make it taste better if the two boys didn't recognize urine right away.
Rowan Atkinson is possibly the funniest British actor ever
It's Baldricks piss.
She was fantastic sneaking into the boy's night drinking party episode.