I know that Mr Bean is very popular. But... Edmund Blackadder in all his incarnations is hands down a superior series. Thank you for posting.

I once paid a kid five pounds to go up to Hugh Laurie on a flight and say "anti distinctly minty monetarism." Hugh just said "what?"

Hugh Laurie as the dimwitted Prince Regent in season III cannot be improved on .

1:02:33 Baldric: “Funny thing is my father was a nun” Blackadder: “No he wasn’t” Baldric: “He was! Every time he was in court the judge would ask him his occupation and he’d say none” 😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Simple play on words but bloody hilarious 🤣 🤣🤣

The ending of Blackadder Goes Forth gets me everytime. "Good luck everyone". 😢😢😢😢

Ending which always silences everyone... What a masterpiece...

THat final scene with Captain Darling is superb acting, he portrays deep fear superbly.

52:57 Blackadder: “Prince Of Wales wants your daughter Amy for his wife” The Father: “Tell him his wife can’t have her!” 😂😂😂😂😂

One the most heart-wrenching endings to a series.

As a native Spanish speaker, the way the countess spoke was very funny to me 🤣🤣

For all the poignant depictions of war and death, Blackadder 4's ending had a deeper impact on me than anything, despite it being a comedy. It's like watching your friends all charge into certain death for absolutely no reason - it's harrowing.

Blackadder is probably the best show I’ve ever seen.

Going over the top always brings me to tears.

One of my absolute favourite series of all time, comedy so cleverly written and never gets old!

The ending truly is poetic. We would have loved to see them all make it through, yet part of me can't really see it happening either.

There has been no comedy show this good ever since

Blackadder remains my favorite non-dutch comedy show ever. Even now it does not feel outdated at all sure in visuals but not the writing. Certain quotes made it into my everyday life. This show also made me a hugh fan of Stephen Fry.

One of the funniest series ever written. It could only be better if it was full episodes.

That final scene just kills me every time

Rowan Atkinson is a comedic genius

Mr Bean is popular overseas because it's mostly visual slapstick. UK audiences appreciate the Blackadder humour because we get it.

The hand shaped ornaments on Blessed's armor? Subtle and informative.

Rowan Atkinson is funnier now than ever. Also, Brian Blessed is great in this!

Would have been nice if we had some of Blackadder II in the best of

Back when the BBC made stuff you wanted to watch

Thanks to whoever put this video together. I'm glad they've included the less popular first series of Blackadder. Shame the second series isn't amognst this. Nevermind though, this compilation is brilliant!!!

It's interesting that Baldrick wasn't nearly as stupid in series one as later series...he actually has more brains than Blackadder in this! But who couldn't love Baldrick in any incarnation 😊💞

My heartiest contrifibularties to this channel on presenting us this moment of sheer comedic gold with this timeless masterpiece of hilarity.

Brian Blessed , best actor ever ❤

Series 3-4 is considered the best one as Blackadder is just slick,cunning and witty. But just for the goody comedy and Atkinson’s manic over the top comic acting and Brian Blessed. I still love Series 1.

I forgot how good the design was in the first series.

Kids these days don't appreciate how much work went into these shows. No green screens to do all the work. Real acting and performing, cant beat it

Imagine first-time viewers who watch this video expecting hilarious comedy, and they get it, but then, at the end, they get that heartbreaking gut punch of a finale. What more can be said but......... "Good luck, everyone." 😢😢

Best tv show ever

I think no one would refuse a hat like Atkinson's.

Thanks for uploading this gold 54:06

A toast to a time when* good comedy was still allowed 🍺

Brian Blessed at his best...

To think that BBC News is producing better comedy and better humorists than BBC Drama nowadays.

the Strongest sentence ever Spoken.. IIIIIIII iiiii Feeelllll Fant Astic. MY lovely Gertrude and Astrid in memorial.......

'I have coveted my father's adultery...and not honoured my neighbour's...ass. '🤣

And to think that there's a whole generation of people who think that Hugh Laurie is an American, because they only know him as Dr. House.

Mr. Bean is more universal, but I prefer blackadder's sense of humor.

So wish brian blessed was in the whole series and people dont realise how good tony Robinson was as an actor because of time team

What was the cunning plan behind omitting BA II ???

I’ve gotta say, the Spanish lady has a gorgeous voice.

These compilations can soon be titled, "The Best of Television". We aren't allowed to make great TV anymore.

this must be a treasure for baldurs gate 3 meme constructors

LIVE: Blackadder 40th Anniversary LIVESTREAM! | BBC Comedy Greats. MEMBERS...on the left. No doubt fully paid up members of ver kwown? Bravo. Amusing. Anyone see the pilot episode last night?

Why no Blackadrer II? Why did you cut off the last moment of the finale?

There is a major plot paradox when the B Adder counters the prince's proposal to strip Johnson's britches. If these are not the days of Alfred the Great isn't it illegal what Johnson and his literary friends threaten to do with B Adder?

Have you somehow lost the rights for Blackadder II? Otherwise why would you exclude it from the compilation? I could understand missing some of the specials, but an entire season?

They missed out Balckadder 2 entirely though lol (also the 1999 movie should count as well)

That ending is gut-wrenchingly painful to watch

Always gets me the last 2 scenes of blackadder! Pretty brilliant how they turned one of the best comedies into a serious sad ending. Think they just had to make it serious tbh. Also iv always wondered what was baldricks last ever cunning plan? Maybe this time it was truly cunning 🫡

The 4th series was the best followed by the 2nd funny enough that’s the 2 series that Rik Mayall played Lord Flasheart in (Lord Flasheart in 4th series talking about flying planes “always treat your kite like your woman…get inside her 5 times a day and take her to heaven and back”). It’s funny how in the first series that Baldric was the clever one and Blackadder was the idiot (Percy was always an idiot). I have to say Corporal Punishment (2nd episode of 4th series) is my favourite episode where Blackadder kills the General’s pigeon and gets sentenced to death. So many parts of that episode are absolutely classic from the trial to the firing squad coming to see Blackadder and a 22/23yr old Stephen Fry playing a general in his 60’s was done so well. Who would’ve thought that a series set in the trenches of WW1 could be so funny. I grew up in the 80’s and Blackadder was the first grownup comedy show I loved and it’s still my favourite comedy show and has a special place in my heart, maybe because I love history and Blackadder is set in different periods of history it makes it so interesting to me or just the sentimental part of me that remembers being allowed to stay up to half 9 one night and I laughed my head off when King Richard 3rd says “A horse, a horse my kingdom for a horse” then goes to take Blackadder’s horse while he’s having a piss then shouts “that’s my horse” before decapitating King Richard and from then on I was hooked and from then on I was allowed to stay up late to watch Blackadder every week

If you like British humour and want to see some of the best ever footage...of Peter Cook who plays the ghost at the start of this video then search for Peter Cook 12 days of Christmas. It's some of the funniest comedy ever and is not so well known. Enjoy!

Where can I stream it in full?

Poignant, when the comedy ends on a sad note in no-mans land

Ade Edmondson is from the same area in Bradford, England.

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I really rate season 1 idk why it’s so unpopular

Les angliches profitez de l'IA, et faites nous un remaster 4k en bluray et si vous pouviez y mettre les sous-titres français ça serait pas mal pour la distribution de la franchise... c'est pas comme si la traduction n'avait pas déjà été faites...

Lol

😂😂😂😂😂

Such an ending...

if the bbc could remove the fake laughter listeners could react for them selves

I just like everything Rowan Atkinson did, except his Hollywood movies..

Where's Lord Flash?

1:04:02

Brian Blessed gets a like

Peep!

this is brilliant but sady we dont have new comedy coming along like this we are too afraid to offend someone, Blackadder and the Thin blue line both from Ben Elton wonderful.

No mention of the Scottish play ?

It was him….. Edna

Not much of a compilation without the best series 😂 shameful 😂

First series? Not that great. The rest? Classic! Presumably Ben Elton made the difference.

comedy was exellent what a great bunch not the 9oclock news was equally funny good times rip rik mayall 2024 20th april the sun is finally out after long winter uk.

MACBETH !!!

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I used to think these were funny when I was a boy. The later series with a more cunning Blackadder are still funny. I wish Baldric had stayed intelligent through those as well.

Blackadder II didn't make it.

So.... Mr Bean can really speak...what a weird situation we have here...

I'm only watching this out of respect for my dad

I only watch people who ignor rules of speech to an audience.

Brilliant. 💘 You will never guess what just happened everybody. 💘 I think i just got a new boyfriend who is the cleverest boy in the Universe. 👄

Honestly the first season is so bad by comparison to all the others that i do wonder how they ever got a second season. It's entertaining enough but I think a lot if the humour needs you to be historically informed and then at the same time can be so silly that it's just a bit childish

poor quality,just like BBC,not the classic,playback

The guy in the first clip..with the beard...was he in the 80s flash movie????....I googled lol..he was...small world...