Wednesday funny: Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean
posted at 1:41 pm on December 13, 2006 by Bryan
There’s really not much to say about this. Just watch and enjoy.
Update: We note the passing of Peter Boyle with this:
“What is your name?”
“HMMMMM!!!!”
“I didn’t get that.”
Blowback
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Classic. I love this bit.
Malpaso on December 13, 2006 at 1:44 PM
That was pretty funny. On a sad note: Holy Crap! Peter Boyle died.
vcferlita on December 13, 2006 at 1:48 PM
I was never much of a Bean fan. Oh well, I guess I just don’t get it.
wearyman on December 13, 2006 at 2:11 PM
I like Blackadder much more than Mr. Bean.
KelliD on December 13, 2006 at 2:12 PM
Blackadder, Bean…Love both, MUCH! And love this sketch!!
Wearyman, it must be an “english humor” thing.
And as to Peter Boyle.. Rest in Peace, Pete. We’ll miss our “Fraaannkensteeeen’s monster”.
tickleddragon on December 13, 2006 at 2:27 PM
I’d rather watch vintage Monty Python, Alexi Sayle, Benny Hill, Rowan Atkinson over SNL, Daily Show/Colbert Report any day.
The only domestic comedy I really like these days is My Name is Earl (for the make-fun-of-stupid-white-trash-redneck humor) and sometimes The Office (a really random good/awful show based on, ta-da, a British Show that was actually consistently funny.
Neo on December 13, 2006 at 2:29 PM
My favorite Peter Boyle line from Everybody Loves Raymond …..
Marie: “That’s right boys, when you were younger your father and I almost got divorced.”
Frank: “Now there’s a sad word …………….. almost.”
fogw on December 13, 2006 at 2:38 PM
I had never seen a Mr. Bean clip before. Pretty funny.
And it’s true – he does look like Zapatero.
Chris L. on December 13, 2006 at 2:58 PM
Where Atkinson been hiding. Still as funny as ever.
Peter Boyle – I am really dating myself but I believe that I first saw him in The French Connection. Drama or comedy – always great.
accdat on December 13, 2006 at 3:36 PM
Too funny! I am strangely attracted to BlackAdder and his long legs in those black tights.
And London is the most beautiful city in the World at Christmas! Everyone should go see it before they outlaw the Holiday completely.
labwrs on December 13, 2006 at 3:42 PM
HAAA!!!…..one of my fav-o-rite Mr. Bean episodes.
Thanks, Bryan : )
The Ugly American on December 13, 2006 at 3:57 PM
Rowan Atkinson is one of the best. The Mr. Bean Nativity scene is a classic. Right down to the renegade Dalek.
Godspeed Peter. God must have needed another of the good ones.
TwinkietheKid on December 13, 2006 at 3:58 PM
Hilarious! Aw man I miss Mr. Bean…
emmaline1138 on December 13, 2006 at 4:06 PM
Funny stuff. You can divide Mel Brooks movies into two catagories: Blazing Saddles & Young Frankenstein and then everything else. Peter Boyle was memorable in Taxi Driver also.
Mallard T. Drake on December 13, 2006 at 4:23 PM
He was in a movie years ago called “Joe”, and also played a minor role in “Taxi Driver” with DeNiro.
fogw on December 13, 2006 at 4:28 PM
Mel Brooks was never funny. Time after time I would pay to see his movies, and I always left the theater disappointed. Rowan Atkinson is a very good comedian. Blackadder and Johnny English are funny. He was the only good thing in Love, Actually.
archon2001 on December 13, 2006 at 4:43 PM
Bryan introduced me to Atkinson earlier today. Now, I can’t get that Black Adder theme song out of my head.
Michelle on December 13, 2006 at 4:46 PM
I laughed out loud watching the Mr. Bean clip! I, too, am a HUGE fan of his Blackadder series. Every time I watch Hugh Laurie on House, I think about how flamboyant he was playing the character, “Percy”.
kiakjones on December 13, 2006 at 4:59 PM
I’d put the original “Producers” right in there.
Malpaso on December 13, 2006 at 5:19 PM
Hugh Laurie didn’t play Percy. He played the Prince of Wales “thick as a whale omelet.”
Mike Antonucci on December 13, 2006 at 6:07 PM
*Cue for someone to get offended by him using the Nativity scene as a source of comedy*
Blackadder Goes Forth tended to be my favourite.
“If we should happen to tread on a mine, what do we do?”
“Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.”
Reaps on December 13, 2006 at 8:37 PM
Thank you Bryan. Own them all. I’m a huge Mr. Bean fan. He was born rich and could have lived in British aristocracy. Instead he studied engineering and eventually became the actor/producer of the Mr. Bean events.
I saw him in an interview in Europe years ago and he said that his biggest fear was to some day have his kids find out what he created…
A few years ago, while carpooling to work, I told the guys “go see ‘Bean’”. Half got it and the others “we didn’t find it at all funny”. To which I replied “I can’t explain it to you”.
Entelechy on December 13, 2006 at 10:33 PM
Since it wasn’t mentioned.
The Entire Blackadder Series is available on DVD.
Cheaper if you buy the megaset. Some nice extras in it.
Howling funny.
What I’d like to see is Blackadder WWII, and maybe a Modern day Blackadder? Where y’at Rowan?
TheSev on December 14, 2006 at 5:48 AM
Rumourmill had 3 possible season 5 options
WWII, the 60s (with ‘Bald Rick’ being the drummer), and some sort of space future option
…So there you go
Reaps on December 14, 2006 at 6:41 AM
Am I the only one who will cop to seeing “Joe” and “Where the Buffalo Roam”? Peter Boyle at his finest.
Started watching Blackadder in the early 90′s.
Watch the “Beer” episode and listen to the goblin song.
tormod on December 14, 2006 at 10:09 AM
Rowan Atkinson also did a one-man show which was shown on HBO a few years back. A particularly good piece in the middle of it was Atkinson playing the Maitre D’/Greeter to Hell (His apologies to those who “chose wrong” is classic). While Bean tended toward gentler comedy, the one-man show and Blackadder both tended towards the kind of sharper stuff I enjoy in British humor.
52Ranger on December 14, 2006 at 1:15 PM