I get the casting choices, I really do. But why, exactly, couldn't Rowan Atkinson reprise his role? Nothing against John Oliver, but really...

Edit: I can only surmise that based upon his public comments of "I didn't really want to do voice work" has overridden any enduring desire to revisit something that he ended up liking, even after the fact.

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That's not Mr Bean, it's Rowan Atkinson on a completely different show.

Thanks to @halfAcat for the memory jog.

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I don't know about this... Think about the best American comic right now, Louis CK. His on-stage (and on-screen) persona almost exactly fits what Fry describes as the British archetype. And he's not alone: think about Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, George Costanza in Seinfeld, Homer Simpson, even Lucille Ball.

On the flip side, British comedians like Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Rowan Atkinson in Blackadder (except for the first season) are more like Fry's description of American comedy. It seems to me that what Fry has done here is come up with a nice neat story about differing national character based on broad stereotypes rather than acute observation, turned that into a theory of comedy, and then cherry-picked examples that fit his theory without mentioning exceptions. It all sounds very impressive given his amazing facility with language and rhetoric, but it's not very good analysis.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Hear hear!


"No sir, I do not. Unless, of course, the definition of genius in his ridiculous dictionary is 'a fat dullard or wobble-bottom; a pompous ass with sweaty dewflaps"

>> ^vaire2ube:

double cheers!
now apply this to the drug war!


Aye!

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*promote

Thank you for the promote!

A step down from Rowan Atkinson's usual roles... well except for maybe Johnny English

Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith and Rowan Atkinson.

>> ^ponceleon:

>> ^cracanata:
Let me get this one. I was well known or speculated that EU wasn't as much about a union but rather a 4th Reich back then? Because this is the vibe I get these days.

Come again?

More on the subject. http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2011/11/24/germany-is-taking-over-europe-without-a-shot-being-fired/
Sure, this can easily pass as a conspiracy nut case but still.

>> ^cracanata:

Let me get this one. I was well known or speculated that EU wasn't as much about a union but rather a 4th Reich back then? Because this is the vibe I get these days.


Come again?

>> ^AnomalousDatum:

It's weird, I didn't recognize Antonio until I read the caption after, must not have seen him in a while.


I started to watch the video before reading the caption, and at first glance I thought it was Rowan Atkinson!