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  • Опубликовано: 7 июн 2009
  • It is up to Charles' loyal subjects Sir Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and Baldrick (Tony Robinson) to ride to the rescue in this special Blackadder sketch for Comic Relief.
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  • @Schabziger
    @Schabziger 13 лет назад +2412

    "...I'm a busy man, and I can't be bothered to punch you at the moment, but here is my fist. Kindly run towards it as fast as you can." Timelessly epic hilarity.

    • @iim4xii129
      @iim4xii129 Год назад +4

      Reminds me of Steve-O and Mike Tyson.

  • @Caradog93
    @Caradog93 13 лет назад +777

    "Blackadder, you're dressed as a priest! How dangerous and stupid and perverted! It's just like school!" Best line ever!!!!!!!!

  • @imanengineer2881
    @imanengineer2881 7 лет назад +2435

    "Shut up with the greatest respect your majesty"

  • @linkieloos
    @linkieloos 2 года назад +122

    "What does it say? Guillty or not guilty?"
    "I'll give you two guesses."
    "Not guilty."
    "...One more guess." 🤣

  • @PlantFaceMan
    @PlantFaceMan 14 лет назад +2049

    I absolutely love Stephen Fry's Prince Charles-esque Charles I in this. "Are you ready to meet your maker?" "Well, I'm always absolutely fascinated to meet people from all walks of life... yes, particularly manufacturing industries."

    • @maryfreebed9886
      @maryfreebed9886 2 года назад +50

      Am I supposed to genuinely like Charles I here? I do. He's oddly endearing in a pompous way.

    • @gabrieltsgardner9942
      @gabrieltsgardner9942 Год назад +56

      @@maryfreebed9886 Stephen Fry is doing a direct impersonation of Prince Charles at the time, now Charles III because they shared the same name - so I suppose it depends on if you find him especially pompously endearing or not :P
      Admittedly it is somewhat endearing to see a character so pompous they don't realise they're in any danger

    • @beenaplumber8379
      @beenaplumber8379 Год назад +26

      @@gabrieltsgardner9942 So we actually see a bit of Charles I, Charles II, and Charles III in this sketch?

    • @ruthsaralam4055
      @ruthsaralam4055 Год назад +5

      which "Prince Charles" has had his head cut off?????

    • @beenaplumber8379
      @beenaplumber8379 Год назад +11

      @@ruthsaralam4055 Is this like a pub quiz? The only one I know of was King Charles I. After all, a king is still a prince. (Unless Prince Charles was the name of that horse in The Godfather...)

  • @stoprainingonme
    @stoprainingonme 14 лет назад +868

    "Something will pop up"
    "Not under Puritanism, it won't"
    It took the audience a couple of seconds for that one to filter through

    • @benjaminoechsli1941
      @benjaminoechsli1941 Год назад +11

      That's how you know it's authentic!

    • @eliotreader8220
      @eliotreader8220 Год назад +3

      @@benjaminoechsli1941 I am pretty sure that Oliver Cromwell didn't call Himself Lord Protector of England until after Charles the First was beheaded

    • @FishpondsLady
      @FishpondsLady Год назад +1

      I got it!

    • @ninab.4540
      @ninab.4540 27 дней назад

      Puritans are the party poopers of religion

  • @jonnysupreme
    @jonnysupreme Год назад +49

    Fry playing Charles I as now King Charles III is just fuxking genius!

    • @ninab.4540
      @ninab.4540 27 дней назад

      C'mon now it was obvious Prince Charles would become Charles 3 from the get go

  • @lukethomas.125
    @lukethomas.125 Месяц назад +2

    The idea of having Charles I talk like Prince, now King Charles is purely genius

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan Год назад +51

    Well, now Charles is king. Good imitation by Fry 🙂

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Год назад +1

      That might be a great money-making oppo. A lottery - and the winner gets 75% of the takings plus the honour of swinging the Axe! 😜😁

  • @GinaSigillito
    @GinaSigillito 10 месяцев назад +61

    This was so much fun. The Charles impression was pure genius. I still class Blackadder as one of my top five favorite Britcoms ever.

    • @danb9460
      @danb9460 10 месяцев назад +4

      Blackadder, red dwarf, and the mighty boosh are me top 3

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer 6 месяцев назад +7

      Ah! You have a woman's britcom, milord!

  • @chap0syoutuification
    @chap0syoutuification 13 лет назад +2015

    Blackadder - The coming together of four of the best English actors of all time; Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Tony Robinson.

    • @roberth.5938
      @roberth.5938 2 года назад +14

      John Cleese is missing

    • @mattklein5498
      @mattklein5498 2 года назад +2

      @@roberth.5938 John Cleese is missing, is that all?

    • @DaRoachDoggJR.
      @DaRoachDoggJR. 2 года назад +25

      @@mattklein5498@Robert H. Rik Mayall should most definitely be on the list too

    • @RegulareoldNorseBoy
      @RegulareoldNorseBoy 2 года назад +13

      We all know that list would be quite long 😀
      England has created the best culture for centuries
      Music, Humor, Art, Poetry and much more

    • @ThatPianoNoob
      @ThatPianoNoob 2 года назад +6

      Also Baldric. I am not sure he was played by anyone no actor could be so convincing!

  • @Ben_Kirkham
    @Ben_Kirkham Год назад +63

    This is so brilliant, I class it as a 100% canon era of Blackadder. Stephen Fry is particularly fabulous in this.

  • @maryfreebed9886
    @maryfreebed9886 2 года назад +118

    Baldrick is adorable. Unsanitary and adorable.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 17 дней назад

      Baldrick is actually everything you say. Unfortunately..... Tony Robinson is none of those. (I'm guessing he showers occasionally.) (The Millennium Tony. I don't forget.)

  • @grmntrnsltr
    @grmntrnsltr 13 лет назад +1084

    Fry's take on Charles is sidesplitting

    • @theoztreecrasher2647
      @theoztreecrasher2647 Год назад +5

      Should be guaranteed to earn him a Knighthood! 🙄🤣🤣

    • @spudpud-T67
      @spudpud-T67 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@theoztreecrasher2647 Or a beheading.

    • @ninab.4540
      @ninab.4540 27 дней назад

      ​@@spudpud-T67A cutting title!

  • @Psypherion
    @Psypherion 13 лет назад +553

    "I'll give you two guesses" hahaha

  • @ikybaiiki
    @ikybaiiki Год назад +15

    “Shut up with the greatest respect your Majesty.” That was the funniest delivery ever, was not expecting that

  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 9 месяцев назад +15

    Excellent scriptwriting and superbly acted out by the best of British actors.. Rowans delivery is perfect and Stephen's portrayal of King Charles is second to none... Tony.. Well. He's just baldrick.. Lol

  • @vincentlcarter
    @vincentlcarter 13 лет назад +358

    love the way he says 'fascianating, infinitely fascinating'

  • @christophermccutcheon2143
    @christophermccutcheon2143 7 месяцев назад +7

    Cromwell wasn't born a peasant or a squire. Don't let them fool you with that. His family were rich and he was connected. Spent much of his earlier life being a politician. He couldn't have become Lord Protector without the connections

  • @satansrock69
    @satansrock69 13 лет назад +348

    "I cant be bothered to hit you. Here is my fist, kindly run towards it as fast as you can." HAHAHA!!!!

  • @johnharvey2850
    @johnharvey2850 Год назад +67

    In all the years since I've watched Blackadder, I've not seen this. Brilliant from all of them, as always. Thank you for posting this!

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper 8 месяцев назад +7

    This is a perfect idea of a actual season but if anything else a 45 minute special. With the time we can explore more on Edmund and Baldrick.

  • @camarocico
    @camarocico 15 лет назад +60

    "Here's my fist. Kindly run towards it as fast as you can"
    Hillarious!

  • @audreymartin2515
    @audreymartin2515 8 месяцев назад +5

    Charles 1 of course talking like current King Charles.

  • @Jk-wj5ud
    @Jk-wj5ud Год назад +8

    Hahaha the Prince Charles, now King Charles impression is so good.

  • @DoubleDragon91
    @DoubleDragon91 13 лет назад +184

    "You're head is as empty as a eunich's underpants." That's one of the best blackadder quotes to use.

    • @rebjorn79
      @rebjorn79 Год назад +3

      'Your'

    • @Moondog-wc4vm
      @Moondog-wc4vm Год назад +2

      @@rebjorn79 Obviously you enjoy grammar and proper punctuation. Did you not also study spelling?

    • @barbaraarnzen5181
      @barbaraarnzen5181 Год назад

      Agreed! 🤣

    • @nekomochi486
      @nekomochi486 11 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Moondog-wc4vm I see you haven't learnt what puns are.

    • @Lord_Skeptic
      @Lord_Skeptic 7 месяцев назад +1

      Eunuch

  • @busydad4858
    @busydad4858 6 месяцев назад +4

    “Your brain is like the four headed man eating haddock fish beast of Aberdeen” lmao

  • @BMRace
    @BMRace 14 лет назад +42

    "You very small total bastard!" Brilliant.

  • @sharontonks3192
    @sharontonks3192 2 года назад +80

    Timeless comedy, absolutely brilliant. Pure comedy genius.

    • @aldershot5100
      @aldershot5100 Год назад +1

      Tony's Hair would have gone down well in an 80s Rock band

  • @whisky0with0whiskers
    @whisky0with0whiskers 13 лет назад +404

    Stephen Fry was hilarious in that! :)

  • @leftyriverfunforlife3411
    @leftyriverfunforlife3411 8 месяцев назад +10

    Blackadder's insults are legendary but this moment 7:47 is pure masterpiece , without saying a word he became a GOD . I just can't get enough of Blackadder .

  • @NahualliUoxtitla
    @NahualliUoxtitla Год назад +6

    "He's got so many warts on his face, it's only when sneezes you find out which one his nose is." 🤣😂😅

  • @applejuice5272
    @applejuice5272 Год назад +8

    Now we have King Charles III!! lol
    Well done Stephen - makes it even funnier that he impersonates Charles!

  • @corlyssd
    @corlyssd 2 года назад +399

    Funny how Tony Robinson has turned himself from an object of affectionate ridicule into one of the smartest and most influential videographer/historians on the planet.

    • @Scott-se9qr
      @Scott-se9qr Год назад +20

      Smartest influential videographer on the planet is a stretch he's not even best in the field

    • @callithowiseeit5806
      @callithowiseeit5806 Год назад +13

      And through his detached lefty politics has come back round to an object of affectionate ridicule again

    • @Serotonious
      @Serotonious Год назад +21

      @@callithowiseeit5806 yes, because the other parties are doing great, right?

    • @joefuller6894
      @joefuller6894 11 месяцев назад +7

      Good ole Balders and the Time Team

    • @PH4RX
      @PH4RX 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@Serotonious And that makes it better in what way?

  • @Schmorgus
    @Schmorgus 2 года назад +14

    CBE Rowan Atkinson.
    Sir Anthony Robinson.
    2 extraordinary gentlemen, who will always be the biggest comedic faces of The Great Britain.
    _(and archaeology)_

  • @Schemilix
    @Schemilix 14 лет назад +96

    Blackadder uses such elaborate methods of insulting Baldrick.

  • @piggypooo
    @piggypooo Год назад +7

    5:01 Aberdeen??
    Isn't that where We-jock Poo-pong Mcplop cleans the public toilets?🤣🤣🤣

  • @lugia3
    @lugia3 14 лет назад +320

    "he spells your doom sir!". "Spells my doom, wonderful! Particularly exciting because so many people these days can't even spell at all! particularly in the inner cities - my areas of interest" LOL wtf

  • @johnkemp79
    @johnkemp79 13 лет назад +321

    One measley civil war in the entire history of England and i'm on the wrong bloody side

  • @fhmanna007
    @fhmanna007 2 года назад +31

    Greatest comedy of all time without a doubt. BRITISH humour is at its best.

  • @janetgough6585
    @janetgough6585 Год назад +4

    Stephen Fry sounds like Charles III - hilarious!

  • @DyrianLightbringer
    @DyrianLightbringer Год назад +11

    I can't believe I missed this! I love Blackadder and always wondered where the line "here is my fist, kindly run towards it as fast as you can," came from.

  • @bla7091
    @bla7091 14 лет назад +57

    Brilliant show, we watched it so often during english class (english as a 2nd language) and it was both fun and helpful

  • @julianmhall
    @julianmhall Год назад +4

    Sold on DVD as the Cavalier Years. Best line was regarding the purple cup *LOL*

  • @aldershot5100
    @aldershot5100 Год назад +9

    Great to see Warren Clark.He was the oik industrialist in 3

  • @susanmccormick6022
    @susanmccormick6022 Год назад +16

    Rowen looks so handsome in (17 costume.I am a reenactor & love the clothes,hair styles & even wigs.Make almost anyone attractive.

    • @txcatlady
      @txcatlady Год назад +2

      Have you seen Blackadder II set in the time of Queen Elizabeth l ? Rowan is gorgeous in his tall black leather boots!

    • @ninab.4540
      @ninab.4540 Год назад +1

      ​@@txcatlady My personal favourite Blackadder

  • @monah5532
    @monah5532 11 месяцев назад +5

    The long hair, moustache and beard really suit Rowan.

    • @txcatlady
      @txcatlady 4 месяца назад

      Have you seen him in Season 2 Blackadder, with his tall black leather boots ? Wow.....❤

    • @doraburany4118
      @doraburany4118 25 дней назад

      I was in love with him when I was a teen watching Blacladder😂

  • @podpod6000
    @podpod6000 9 лет назад +689

    This is one of my favourite black adder sketches so funny love it :)

  • @johnking5174
    @johnking5174 2 года назад +12

    The kitchen set seen here at 0:38 was a redressed version of the kitchen set used in Blackadder the Third, which had just ended the year before this special in 1987.

  • @hollylaws3110
    @hollylaws3110 Год назад +5

    I love British humor. I love #BlackAdder. In all his ages. #RowanAdkinson is a comic genuis!!!

  • @ianinkster2261
    @ianinkster2261 Год назад +6

    This Prince Charles impersonation is funnier now he's called King Charles.

  • @williamolson5728
    @williamolson5728 2 года назад +9

    Another Comic Relief bit had Rowan as The Doctor. He was the best one ever 😀

    • @Tumbleflop
      @Tumbleflop Год назад +1

      The curse of fatal death ruclips.net/video/Do-wDPoC6GM/видео.html

  • @superhamzah85
    @superhamzah85 14 лет назад +144

    I've seen this about 15 times throughout the years. Quite often the best 15 minutes of television one could ever hope for.
    Fry playing Charles I as Prince Charles.....genius.
    It's affected me permanently! If someone's boring me and it's appropriate to do so I sometimes say "fascinating! absolutely fascinating....please...carry on" provoking at best a baffled humourous response, at worst some mild psychosis.
    Overall - some very memorable quotes from these 15 minutes of bandwidth gold.

    • @DimIsHigh
      @DimIsHigh 2 года назад +3

      And mate, 12 years later it still is

    • @vinnyganzano1930
      @vinnyganzano1930 Год назад +5

      Makes me wish they'd done a Civil War series it would have been superb.

  • @miquel440
    @miquel440 12 дней назад

    " Tell me,have you come far?" Hahaha brilliant acting.

  • @olleronn616
    @olleronn616 2 года назад +5

    There's so many fantastic lines and deliveries in this. "......one more guess."

  • @megan8madonna
    @megan8madonna 13 лет назад +49

    I love Stephen Fry. This is comedy at it's best.

  • @LilithFilth
    @LilithFilth 13 лет назад +168

    Reading The Fry Chronicles makes this sketch so much more enjoyable.

  • @joshuastanko2886
    @joshuastanko2886 11 месяцев назад +9

    I laughed so hard I almost got a nose bleed when he came out balancing the pumpkin on his head.

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer 6 месяцев назад +3

      Oh! You have a woman's nose bleed, milord! I wager that nose bleed never dripped into the ocean, triggering an attack by a pack of killer spindly fish.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Месяц назад

      Well, neither has yours!​@@Robkinggozer

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer Месяц назад

      @@SamuelBlack84 That's where you're wrong!

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Месяц назад

      @@Robkinggozer Oh my god!

    • @Robkinggozer
      @Robkinggozer Месяц назад +1

      @@SamuelBlack84 Ohh! You have a woman's god, milord!

  • @YaBoiBaxter2024
    @YaBoiBaxter2024 7 месяцев назад +3

    Gee, i wish this setting for Blackadder was made into a full blown series from the start of the civil war right up to this episode, but hey, atleast we go this phenomenal comic relief instead! 😊

  • @wombat10002000
    @wombat10002000 14 лет назад +59

    I wish they'd release a dvd with the Christmas special, the Millienium special and this one collected together.

    • @daemonartursson7159
      @daemonartursson7159 Год назад +4

      Hello you from 12 years ago. The Black Adder dvd box set includes all three on one disc

    • @wombat10002000
      @wombat10002000 Год назад +1

      @@daemonartursson7159 Not the two I've seen.

    • @ROBOHOLIC1
      @ROBOHOLIC1 Год назад +1

      @@wombat10002000 fascinating how you still replied a decade on.

    • @wombat10002000
      @wombat10002000 Год назад

      @@ROBOHOLIC1 I get a notification every time someone replies to my comments, so I was notified as soon as Daemon Artursson replied to my original comment a month ago,

  • @michiel1551
    @michiel1551 14 лет назад +22

    I watched the whole DVD with all black adder series, best laugh I had in years

  • @LYJManchesterUnited
    @LYJManchesterUnited 13 лет назад +86

    Imagine having Baldwrick as your father making you listen to him.

  • @parallaxview2143
    @parallaxview2143 4 месяца назад +1

    Ritchie Blackmore is sooooo good in this.

  • @robharding1957
    @robharding1957 13 лет назад +8

    i would say with total,conviction that this role made atkinson the man he is today, a comic genius,

  • @dantd95
    @dantd95 13 лет назад +53

    fascinating, absolutely fascinating

  • @sandynathan
    @sandynathan Год назад +3

    6:45 "there's a tavern in the town, IN THE GROUND...."

  • @jilliancrosbie5677
    @jilliancrosbie5677 2 года назад +10

    Stephen fry steals the whole show 💓💓💓💓😂😂💓💓

  • @Blobby192
    @Blobby192 8 месяцев назад +1

    best blackadder series 2 and 4

  • @johnwatts8346
    @johnwatts8346 Год назад +4

    'mind sir, or i shall take off my belt and by thunder me trousers will fall down!'

    • @Chuckf66
      @Chuckf66 Год назад +2

      Ah, yes! The inventor of the Ravelling Nancy!

  • @kevng9
    @kevng9 14 лет назад +12

    "Shut up with greatest respect, Your Majesty" XD

  • @fraserkatie
    @fraserkatie 13 лет назад +34

    Lol "the earl he had a thousand sovereigns hey nonny no! He gave them to the man with an axe oh!" love it!!!

  • @Beshter
    @Beshter 13 лет назад +37

    I so adore Black Adder. And yes, I must agree Rowan Atkinson does better with the facial hair, otherwise not so much. But God is he and Black Adder funny.

  • @dsirff
    @dsirff 13 лет назад +83

    ROWAN ATKINSON IS THE BEST

  • @Totalpranny
    @Totalpranny 13 лет назад +17

    Oliver Cromwell is Dim from A Clockwork Orange !

  • @missmanxee
    @missmanxee Год назад +4

    Blackadder is one of my favorite 🤩 sitcoms and I can’t believe I missed this one of special thanks for sharing this masterpiece of a sketch with us 👍❤️😆

  • @BenGriffithsReviews
    @BenGriffithsReviews 13 лет назад +179

    "No it's not; it's a large pumpkin with a pathetic moustache drawn on!"

  • @armyofthempets9083
    @armyofthempets9083 Год назад +5

    I need the whole series done by Christmas and I mean right NOW! 😍

  • @Mirrigold
    @Mirrigold 13 лет назад +108

    @ChildOfTheWilderness first shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day telethon on February 5, 1988

  • @wigs666
    @wigs666 Год назад +4

    Watching this off the back of reading Act of Oblivion and watching series 5 of The Crown. Something of an antidote to all the seriousness 🤣

  • @Scott-se9qr
    @Scott-se9qr Год назад +2

    One legged hunting tortoises hahaha

  • @jamez00
    @jamez00 13 лет назад +170

    baldrick: ok so its not 100% convincing
    blackadder: its not 1% convincing
    hahahahaha love blackadder :D

  • @davidekstrand8544
    @davidekstrand8544 Месяц назад +1

    “Cromwell’s an ugly Devil. He’s got so many warts on his face that it’s only when he sneezes that you find out which one’s really his nose.”
    🤣

  • @zapkvr
    @zapkvr Год назад +4

    I'm delighted. I've never seen this. ❤️

  • @kaffraraffin3574
    @kaffraraffin3574 2 года назад +6

    Brilliant specials from Blackadder. 👍

  • @rheailiarome2287
    @rheailiarome2287 Год назад +2

    Fry sounds like King Charles III,👍

  • @PhilWithCoffee
    @PhilWithCoffee 14 лет назад +19

    Edmund is such a bastard haha Love this show!

  • @p34rl20
    @p34rl20 3 года назад +4

    Sir Tony Robbins and Sir Rowan Atkinson!

  • @davidekstrand8544
    @davidekstrand8544 Год назад +9

    Baldrick: “I just caught me a little windfall.”
    Blackadder: “Baldrick, I told you before. If you’re going to do that, go into the garden.”
    🤣

  • @noblestsavage1742
    @noblestsavage1742 Год назад +3

    Even funnier now we have King Charles! 😆

  • @txcatlady
    @txcatlady Год назад +1

    I love me some Blackadder ! ❤❤

  • @JonathanRodd
    @JonathanRodd 14 лет назад +6

    Bowel shatteringly good XD

  • @J0kerCards
    @J0kerCards 14 лет назад +9

    That was completely awesome. Nuff said.

  • @zapkvr
    @zapkvr Год назад +8

    King Charles sounds a lot like the current iteration, Charles III

  • @AdirondackRuby
    @AdirondackRuby 13 лет назад +51

    @mrsotter19 I found him incredibly attractive in the second season [the Elizabethan era] The hair and beard really suited him.

  • @Martez909
    @Martez909 Год назад +3

    Unfortunately I'm not a man of honour. Deliciously Evil lol

  • @abadstroller
    @abadstroller 8 месяцев назад

    Exquisite writing.

  • @kakaphenom
    @kakaphenom 13 лет назад +40

    'Shut up! with the greatest respect your majesty!!' LOLLL ROFL HAHAHAHAHA

  • @conor845
    @conor845 13 лет назад +11

    I love this show and i've never seen this before!

  • @zapkvr
    @zapkvr Год назад +6

    One legged hunting tortoises. Where does Curtis get this stuff?

  • @jacquelinedeigan776
    @jacquelinedeigan776 7 месяцев назад +2

    Brilliant 😂