dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Blackadder-How-WWI-started

*discard

Those unfamiliar with the best British comedy series of all time that Blackadder is might not notice/know this, but the one playing "George" is Hugh Laurie aka Dr.House.

Blackadder Goes Forth is one of the best portraits of war ever painted.

haha.. "pre-house" and "not always cool"..... cracks me up. My mental image is also from Blackadder. Almost feels like "hey check it, there's some british show copying The Office! But the guy is much uglier! FAIL. LOL"

Hah, all my Laurie mental images are from Blackadder, so it took me about 8 episodes of House to get into his character.

Rowan Atkinson is one of the most talented performers alive, IMHO. Think about it:

In "Mr. Bean" he plays a guy who's an awkward oaf who usually has a stupid smile on his face. He rarely, if ever, says a single word, but you like him because he's a nice guy. Contrast that to "Blackadder", in which plays a shrewd, conniving villain who is constantly zipping out one-liners. He's a coward and a scumbag, but you like him anyway because he makes you laugh.

How many performers could pull off both roles so effectively? I can't think of many.

"Skirt? Hah! When I joined up we were still fighting colonial wars. If you saw someone in a skirt, you shot him and nicked his country."
-Blackadder Goes Forth

I have SUCH a crush on this man. (Laurie) I just Netflixed Blackadder III... again

Tags for this video have been changed from 'vile hun, villainous empire, bollocks' to 'vile hun, villainous empire, bollocks, hugh laurie, rowan atkinson, blackadder' - edited by twiddles

I'm OT so sue me:

Mr. Laurie, a household name in Britain since 1980, was not as well known here, except to fans of his British series Blackadder. The confusion over his nationality was played up during last year's Emmy Award telecast. When Mr. Laurie began speaking in his real voice, co-presenter Zach Braff said, "I didn't realize we were doing British accents."

"Well, we're not. I'm British; it's the way I talk," Mr. Laurie protested.

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Mr. Laurie doesn't use a dialect coach, and he has described his struggle to sustain Dr. Gregory House's American accent as "the hardest single thing in my day."

LOS ANGELES - For Hugh Laurie, speaking American is an issue."ISH-oo or ISS-you?" he recently asked on the set of Fox's hospital mystery series, "House," his costar Robert Sean Leonard said. In the diagnostic suspense series, which has its second-season premiere tonight, Mr. Leonard plays a Watson-like comrade to Mr. Laurie's Sherlock Holmes-esque sleuth physician,and the rehearsals often are interrupted when the British actor utters a wrong diphthong or some such mispronunciation.

"Expletives come pouring out of his mouth, and he's hittinghimself with the cane," Mr. Leonard said. "It drives him nuts."

That kind of exactitude is what Mr. Laurie demands of himself and his character demands of his underlings. Struggling with aforeign accent is not as bad as hobbling around with a perpetual limp, as the Vicodin-popping Dr. Gregory House must. But it's a mild form of handicap that connects Mr. Laurie to Dr. House's
sense of agitation.

"It is the single hardest part of my job; oh, by far!" he said in an interview in Los Angeles. Off the set, he's relaxed, so his Britishisms are in full flower, as when "herbs" get the hard h. But his stubbly face creases just discussing that dialect problem.

"I can't think of any other human activity that doesn't get easier with repetition," he continued, calming himself with a Marlboro Light. "Making omelets, playing violin, sex, anything -
the more you do it, the better you get at it, supposedly - but for this, it doesn't apply. I find that every day is as painful as the last day, which is painful as the first day I did it."

As you may know Ive created a playlist of many of the dead videos on the sift. As its been there for awhile, and there have been quite a few views of it, very few vids have been fixed or discarded. I thought a list just of yours might be of some help. The list below are all your videos on my playlist. There may be a few errors, but I gave it my best shot.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Blackadder-in-the-Trenches-Baldricks-War-poems
http://www.videosift.com/video/mr-Bean-goes-to-the-Dentist
http://www.videosift.com/video/Father-Ted-stuck-in-the-Laungerie-Section
http://www.videosift.com/video/School-of-Rock-Song
http://www.videosift.com/video/Father-ted-over-70s-football-match-second-half

Watch him in Blackadder, you will never see House the same.

hmm looks like it's probably the same as this one, but it's dead...

this is great, its a total Blackadder zone on the sift at the moment

laurie upvote <hums Blackadder theme>