Re: Waking up at the Crack of Dawn
Did you mean Whitesnake? I never had you down as a tight tights and back blown hairdo type of guy.vipère noire afficionado
As a gesture of cross channel entente, my brother had a thing about Jaques Tati when I was a teenager. About as funny as having your nuts scrapped across a cheesegrater.
Which blackadder do you prefer? The first series was dire, absolute rubbish. The second series is my favourite, closely followed by the fourth. Queenie was an inspiration to my wife, also a redhead.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Waking up at the Crack of Dawn
On another note may I present some of the worst comedy and I use that word lightly, ever presented to UK TV screens.
Bless this house.
Father dear father.
Robins nest.
Love thy neighbour.
Mind your language.
Benny Hill. (sorry Greg)
On the other hand some gems, largely unknown...
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Thin blue line.
Game on.
Brass eye.
The day today.
Alan Partridge.
Mrs. Merton.
The first series of Men behaving badly.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re : Re: Waking up at the Crack of Dawn
'La vipère noire' is Blackadder, what the series was called on French television. Needles to say, the series tanked. The humour relies on a non-stop verbal barrage, it just doesn't translate well. My father still thinks I'm mad for liking it. He doesn't get it, he thinks it's about Englishmen donning on weird costumes and pulling funny faces in historical settings with cheap decors.Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Which blackadder do you prefer? The first series was dire, absolute rubbish. The second series is my favourite, closely followed by the fourth. Queenie was an inspiration to my wife, also a redhead.
I myself never did get into it until I finally got a version with English subtitles. The first time I watch, everything sounds like 'Get out, you'll a bit ness wine!'
With subtitles, the aural fog is lifted and the phrase is now revealed to be 'Get out! You libidinous swine!'
Then I watch it for the third time with a dictionary on my lap. And the fourth time, at last, I get to laugh. It is a lot of hard work.
The first series has its moments, but as a whole it simply doesn't work. Rowan Atkinson co-wrote it, and he turned his character into a sort of Mr. Bean. Rubbish. For the second series, they brought in Ben Elton as writer. He polished up the concept and the characters. Now it worked! Just a few characters, set in a small, nearly claustrophobic setting. Edmund Blackadder is stuck in some situation that he can't get out of, and is aided by friends that are even more useless than the people that oppose him.
I can't choose between series two, three or four. I always like the one that I last watched the best. Each of the three is brilliant, each in its own right. If I had to choose, the fourth (WWI) is my favourite. The pigeon and courtroom episode is a complete riot. The Lord Flasheart episode is my favourite of all episodes.
('Ask me why I'm not wearing underpants!'
'Why not, Lord Flasheart?'
'Because the pants that will take the job on haven't been invented yet!')
And they managed a great ending to the entire series. It is so easy to get it wrong if you mix comedy with seriousness, but they got it right perfectly.
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