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Posted June 24, 2020 - No Comment

Class, pay attention! It’s Mr. Bean’s Essential COVID-19 Checklist!

Even in today’s unsettling times, one can never get enough of Mr. Bean. Our latest ‘Bean’ sighting is courtesy of the World Health Organization as they have come up with a new public service announcement to remind people to wash their hands, show kindness and maintain physical distance featuring global comedy icon, Mr Bean. In […]

Posted June 18, 2020 - No Comment

At 37 years of age, ‘Blackadder’ has still got it!

With a huge tip of the hat to The Telegraph for getting the conversation going several years ago, we celebrate the brilliance that started out almost four decades ago as simply…The Black Adder. Premiering on 15 June 1983 on BBC1, the Richard Curtis/Rowan Atkinson creation turned 37 earlier this week on Monday at 9:25pm GMT. […]

Posted January 5, 2020 - No Comment

Happy 65th, Rowan Atkinson!

Rowan Atkinson, English actor, comedian, and screenwriter turns 65 today. While best known to audiences worldwide for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean and, more recently, for his stellar performance in Maigret, I first stumbled upon Atkinson’s brilliant talent in the BBC2 sketch comedy series, Not the Nine O’Clock News.

Posted March 17, 2019 - No Comment

In ‘Yesterday,’ Richard Curtis imagines a reality where no one has heard of the Beatles

Recognizing in 2019 that there are actual real-life individuals who have no idea that Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings, the mere thought of a world without the Beatles is enough to make this a horror movie.

Posted February 10, 2019 - No Comment

Red Nose Day 2019 to reunite ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ cast — for a fifth wedding

BBC One will be the place to be on Friday, March 15, as Red Nose Day will once again revive a Richard Curtis rom-com for charity.

Posted January 17, 2019 - No Comment

Red Nose Day 2019 set for March 15 on BBC One

It’s time, once again, to don the bright red nose and get ready to settle in at 7p on Friday, 15 March on BBC1 and BBC2 when Red Nose Day 2019 brings some of the comedy’s best and brightest to telly. Who can forget some of the comedic brilliance from years past such as Dawn French’s 1999 […]

Posted November 22, 2018 - No Comment

Rowan Atkinson on his ‘vicious turkey prop injury’ from ‘Mr. Bean’

Unfortunately, the actual filming of a very large turkey on your head isn’t as funny as watching the finished product.

Posted October 30, 2018 - No Comment

Rowan Atkinson dusts off an old classic sketch from his days at Oxford

Watch the Atkinson bit that fellow undergrad and then-aspiring comedian Richard Curtis saw before deciding to pursue screenwriting instead.

Posted October 12, 2018 - No Comment

From the Vault: Red Nose Day 2015 — Will Geraldine finally become the Bishop of Dibley?

Revisiting the institutional, cultural phenomenon of Comic Relief is a perfect way to kick off our new weekly feature on Fridays, From the Vault.

Posted August 29, 2018 - 1 Comment

Happy 60th, Sir Lenny Henry!

Here’s wishing a coveted third Michelin star to Le Chateau Anglais and Chef Gareth Blackstock for his alter ego, Sir Lenny Henry’s 60th birthday today. Given that Chef Blackstock’s restaurant was one of the few in the United Kingdom to receive a two-star rating from Michelin we felt it would be the only fitting gift […]