The timing during this sketch by Rowan Atkinson is sublime. And he does it live.
@Treblaine12 жыл бұрын
You know the phrase "he's so good he could read from the phonebook and make it entertaining". Atkinson's such a legend he really can do that.
@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
Yes. This sketch IS the phone book. Mind you, it's the best bits of the phone book...
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@OliverAlexandre-d9w4 ай бұрын
@@electrictroy2010Rubbish!!!!
@GPC-tu7ti5 жыл бұрын
"You're a moron, Undermanager, what are you? A carbuncle on the backside of humanity." Almost 18 years as a public high school teacher, and since discovering this I've watched it at least once a year. Brilliant!
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@rafaelcarldavidyh8hvdhhuhj1182 жыл бұрын
Dhvmvkvjbnvnnkln
@ShotTower19 жыл бұрын
There are not many comedians who could make this funny. One of my favorite solo comedy performances.
@nimishagupta854810 жыл бұрын
god the way he pronounces every single word . Such a talent
@Jojoseahorse6 жыл бұрын
It's the way he never actually says anything dirty, but always sounds as if he is :)
@yoya47665 жыл бұрын
He has a speech impediment, he corrects with precise pronunciation.
@lisarubin28353 жыл бұрын
He has a stammer, difficulty with the letter B. That is why he over-articulates certain words.
@ennbee20513 жыл бұрын
Ya, 'Babcock' is genius. You'll only get this if you're from the north, like.
@cathyc97668 жыл бұрын
I have been aspiring to this level of contempt for 30 years!
@1Worluck10 жыл бұрын
Heckler: "HERE!" *Rowan stares him down* R.A.: "I have a detention book..." *Heckler handled like a boss!* :D
@Zerobob264 жыл бұрын
He handled it well, but that idiot heckler undermined and nearly ruined the whole sketch. I bet Rowan Atkinson was secretly extremely angry.
@ArchEnemyNemesis13 жыл бұрын
@@Zerobob26 You overvalue him. That heckler never posed a threat to a pro like Atkinson in the first place. If anything unbeknownst to him, he made it funnier. That line was perfection.
@boiledegggaming8424 Жыл бұрын
I thought that was part of it
@erickford80817 жыл бұрын
" Discuss the contention that Cleopatra had the body of a roll-top desk and the mind of a duck. Oxford and Cambridge board 'O Level' paper" .... priceless
@Micho554 жыл бұрын
is it a specific parody of academia or just meant to sound completely ridiculous?
@Eldoctordub17 жыл бұрын
Excellent! What makes this even funnier for me is that he looks and sounds like my 1st form master at grammar school; especially the way he looks down his nose at the class and talks in that sneering tone. Ah such fond memories...
@Shadyladybird14 жыл бұрын
"Nibble! NIBBLE!!! LEAVE ORIFICE ALONE!" Pure deadpan brilliance :D
@leow36963 жыл бұрын
The way he rolls the 'r' in orifice just makes it.
@joejs46133 жыл бұрын
@@leow3696 LEAVE ORRRRIFICE ALONE
@nezapamatovatelne15 жыл бұрын
How he can control his face in spite of everyone else is laughing... He is marvellous.
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@Reneebenson Жыл бұрын
I would have a hard time
@Reneebenson Жыл бұрын
I love this one and the dirty version
@goigus Жыл бұрын
He almost cracked at 4:10
@rafaelcarldavidyh8hvdhhuhj118 Жыл бұрын
Pfuyifuturigiyigigituuiouououoyoo
@RedSkyHorizon9 жыл бұрын
I think this was Rowan's first performance before he was famous but grabbed the attention of Richard Curtis who was in the audience. Stephen Fry was also in the audience and was laughing so hard he let out some wee.
@SquigglyBeasst9 жыл бұрын
+Tom Mulligan I'm pretty sure Curtis met Atkinson at a comedy sketch club at Cambridge University.
@robertdawsonscott90688 жыл бұрын
+LukaszVT Oxford, not Cambridge, late 1970s. Rowan was doing some kind of Masters in in engineering. Curtis was doing Eng Lit, I think.
@richardsparks98947 жыл бұрын
I wrote this sketch one morning in the summer of 1978 for Rowan's first London revue, "Rowan Atkinson and Friends", at the Hampstead Theatre (Director: Michael Rudman. Cast: Rowan, Peter Wilson, Elspeth Walker). I gave it to Rowan at rehearsal an hour or two later. Richard Curtis was another writer on the show. John Cleese saw it, and invited Rowan to do this sketch in "The Secret Policeman's Ball" later that year. I sadly misjudged the director of that film, Roger Graef, because no writers got named credit on the film. I later learned that all the Powers That Be wanted to cut Rowan from the film because he was a complete unknown, and the show was over-long and packed with big name stars. But Graef fought tooth and nail to keep him in it, for which I am eternally grateful. Rowan did, indeed, steal the show. This sketch launched Rowan's career, and became his party piece -- the encore number at the end of his stage shows. It was always a joy to see him perform it. Later, Richard Curtis and Rowan wrote the "rude" version, and very generously shared the royalties with me (copyright resides with the original writer, not the performer). They indeed met at Oxford -- Rowan was a graduate student, Richard an undergraduate. I had graduated from Oxford a year or two before they went there . We all met in Edinburgh in the summer of 1976, when they were in the Oxford Revue with (from memory, but I wouldn't swear to it) Angus Deayton and Helen Atkinson-Wood among others. Rowan was, obviously, a prodigious talent even as a student. He could, as can be seen here, make even the telephone directory funny.
@erickford80817 жыл бұрын
I used to have the LP 'Secret Policeman's Ball'... this was all before 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' I presume.
@pstrzel6 жыл бұрын
@Richard Sparks - Well then, my hat off to you sir. You've made the world a happier place. I come back to this every once in a while and it never fails to lift up the spirits. Cheers!
@martinwennstrom65533 жыл бұрын
The best performance ever when it comes to comedy in my opinion. Delivers like a genius and has since continued to do so. Hats off, Mr Atkinson!
@anthonylees90294 жыл бұрын
Absolutely hilarious ! Seems to have captured the spirit of independent schools of a bygone era ! Roman Atkinson , a comedy genius ! Deadpan delivery is unsurpassed!
@Broadercasting2 жыл бұрын
I had similar teachers at my very ordinary secondary modern, but this was the late 60's and early 70's. Fortunately this was mixed with an influx with young liberal types from 'Breeze Block' universities or polytechnics.
@atomickarma6 жыл бұрын
Isn't this just totally wonderful? Love every second of it. A literal master of comedy.
@mikelheron2011 жыл бұрын
The English school system (or at least that in "privileged" schools) produces a strange kind of sadistic/sarcastic schoolmaster who delights in public humiliation and ridicule of the pupils. Apart from being funny, Rowan's portrayal is very accurate. I personally experienced teachers like this. Very hard to convey to anyone who hasn't been through the system. The names are just for comic effect.
@patrickherley75084 жыл бұрын
"The names are just for comic effect." Ya think??
@youtubewasoncebetter4 жыл бұрын
Public ridicule?
@METALFREAK034 жыл бұрын
@@youtubewasoncebetter publicly belittling the pupil in front of the class.
@KabirChattopadhyay19914 жыл бұрын
The sadism of public humiliation as a means of school "discipline" is still very much alive in the old British colonies. I went to Catholic missionary school in my hometown, Calcutta. Pretty much the same. 😶
@monsieurouxx3 жыл бұрын
This is the direct reflection of the British "castes" system : if you're in upper society, you must be part of the gang. And to be part of the gang you must understand domination. It must be taught to you at a very young age. You must reproduce the system when you grow up. Empathy is considered weakness. All that matters is your class, your family, your "dynasty". Do not question. Keep the top of the social pyramid at the top, even if it costs you your personal happiness.
@smorgi9 жыл бұрын
Rowan Atkinson is a class act-- hardly anyone else could have made this as good
@Jojoseahorse8 жыл бұрын
I know, it's so genius that without actually saying anything dirty he makes it sound totally obscene!
@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
As the writer of this sketch I completely agree with you.
@TheFleidermaus5 жыл бұрын
The late Peter Cook the only one.
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@stewartchristie34082 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this with my sister in our grandparents house and we were pissing ourselves. My grandparents were looking at each other in disbelief. I guess it's a generation thing. Comedy genius from Rowan! Great memories 😂
@hugohackenbush1554 Жыл бұрын
I was there on the first night. Tickets in the stalls only £5- each! I bought 4. Took my brother, he was 14 back then (myself 19) and my girlfriend. I sold the spare at face value to a long haired biker who had found out Pete Townshend was appearing. Rowan Atkinson stole the whole show. He did the miming on the piano bit (before this classic routine) in the first half of the event. Amazing memories. Hard to imagine that was 44 years ago.
@robman808086 жыл бұрын
Atkinson at his absolute funniest. The delivery, timing, everything - perfection. I loved him in Blackadder 2 as he had a similar dark edge and dry wit. Not keen on the later "rude" version - it tries too hard and is too obvious (presumably a different writer?) and Rowan himself doesn't seem overly enthusiastic about it.
@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
Different writer(s) indeed. I was not involved in the sequel.
@AsadAli-jc5tg4 жыл бұрын
Blackadder II was the worst. Fourth the best followed by third and then First.
@rheinhartsilvento25764 жыл бұрын
@@AsadAli-jc5tg Disagree. For me, it's Blackadder II, then IV, then III. The first seems the most 'caricatural' of all...
@AsadAli-jc5tg4 жыл бұрын
@Reinhart....you guys are too unjust with Blackadder I. There is much good in it, very intellectual too. I must say give it another go.
@pauldelaney59906 ай бұрын
At some point Ben Elton was on the writing team.
@Euroviking8616 жыл бұрын
I had a history teacher like that in high school. He was not hesitant to use profanities when describing historical figures. Though he only hated the students who didn't come to every lesson. In fact, towards the end of the term, he told some late-arrivers "you might as well not bother showing up anymore, I'm flunking you." He was hysterical. History class was really fun there.
@ItsTbig3 жыл бұрын
13 year-old comment, damn. 👀
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@t_chak4 ай бұрын
@@electrictroy2010incorrect
@shaq56514 жыл бұрын
Best Bit: "NNNIIIIBBBBBLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!! Leave "O-R-I-F-I-C-E" Alone!!!"
@Euroviking8616 жыл бұрын
I love how the humour in this skit borders on being malicious, yet always so subtle about it, making it even more hilarious. Those lions about Cleopatra and Enobarbus (in fact a character in Anthony & Cleopatra) are gems!
@electrictroy20102 жыл бұрын
THE DIRTY VERSION IS FAR FUNNIER. This clean version is barely humorous .
@ndlouth2853 Жыл бұрын
Just the choice of odd names, delivered utterly deadpan makes this a moment of comic genius
@performer9215 жыл бұрын
i like how he added in the 'i have a detension book' when that audience member said 'HERE' or whatever he said. LEAVE ORIFICE ALONEEE and i like the 'nancy boy potter' one too
@dragonborn404510 жыл бұрын
"A carbuncle on the backside of humanity." Holy shit, what a burn.
@davidtokar40653 жыл бұрын
Hahhahahaha....
@reaganoc3 жыл бұрын
Carbon coal
@Kasey11314 жыл бұрын
The best part of this whole number really is the masterful delivery. Anyone can stand on a stage and list off names, and anyone can be funny with a great script. To be able to be this hilarious with just a list of names (such as they are), takes some genuine talent, but also and more importantly, it takes skill and lots of practice.
@mdreamtgames13 жыл бұрын
He is a genius.... how can he memorize those long scripts?...... not just he delivered it well and give it the right expressions.,,, he also really had a natural gift in making people laugh............
@cacab410 жыл бұрын
I love the smirk when he asks about Plectrum's boils
@Dori19513 жыл бұрын
Or he is actually suppressing a laugh...
@albertrogers85376 жыл бұрын
No kidding, when I was a Grammar School teacher of Advanced Mathematics, the Advanced level of the Northern Ireland Senior Certificate of Education contained a question that quoted Longfellow on the fleetness of Hiawatha's foot, and the strength of his arm, and required the candidate, with certain simplifying assumptions, to show how far and how fast Hiawatha could run to satisfy the claims made. It wasn't all that difficult, but quite hilarious.
@ZakRas9 жыл бұрын
4:07 He's trying SO hard to hold back the laughter.
@WhipRunner8 жыл бұрын
I rather believe thats a satisfying smirk that the class master would have after a put down like that, hence, I believe, its part of character.
@FinlayLavery3036 жыл бұрын
Rowan Atkinson doesn't laugh.
@deanpeng78545 жыл бұрын
WhipRunner me too
@timcarpenter24413 жыл бұрын
I find this version an order of magnitude superior to the later version with obviously rude names. "Has Matron seen those boils?..."
@AtlasBlizzard10 жыл бұрын
"Has the matron seen those boils?" Holy shit, that delivery.
@99bits467 жыл бұрын
Rowan smiles there
@deanpeng78545 жыл бұрын
SethBlizzard could you tell me what did he say right before that?
@AtlasBlizzard10 ай бұрын
@@deanpeng7854"Don't sulk, boy, for God's sake."
@misspresident9513 жыл бұрын
'I have a detention book..' best way to handle a heckle EVER!
@99bits467 жыл бұрын
How does that man keep a straight face?
@celestemassarenti4696 жыл бұрын
Salman Memehood It's what I was wondering too
@MeowChumpswinnsie5 жыл бұрын
maybe he played his role too much that he could handle it
@Marks_Vlogs5 жыл бұрын
he the one who made it.
@yoya47665 жыл бұрын
His writer says that RA doesn't find anything funny. So that's why. He sees himself as a comedy actor so just executes the lines in a very precise way.
@vincentstephan65585 жыл бұрын
Work, work, work
@dldbug14 жыл бұрын
"Isn't life tragic" - RA is right on target with that line. I seem to remember hearing it a lot from a fascist teacher long ago.
@Jettox16 жыл бұрын
For some reason "Sediment" gets me each and every time. Good stuff
@1319121514 жыл бұрын
I so love the dude who shouts "HERE!" after Elsworth Beast Major. xD
@jackchrisevans16 жыл бұрын
"haemoglobin?" LOL! i cracked up when he said that! rowan atkinson's my favorite comedian.
@jaspermelchior10 жыл бұрын
Holy crap just the way he makes his face look when he says some of the names and the he says it is just amazing, truly a comedic geniuses. xD
@boyturok13 жыл бұрын
This is where Alan Rickman molded his character "Severus Snape" from.. pretty freaking awesome..
@deglar113 жыл бұрын
Glad to see this sketch is getting a new audience. One of my all time favourites...
@MarxistKnight6 жыл бұрын
"The answer - yes." "Most of you didn't write nearly enough..."
@sammencia79452 жыл бұрын
He was just 23, just out of Engineering University, when he did this. Talk about out of the gate running.
@rockydavis949 ай бұрын
He doesn’t look that age, I’m 29!
@tabithadorcas77634 жыл бұрын
Oh, hilarious! I do so appreciate British humor and wit!
@madbint Жыл бұрын
God, the talent this man possesses- phenomenal. Just on six minutes of pure brilliance.
@KerryPaulazzo13 жыл бұрын
Rowan's the only comedian who can make you laugh by doing nothing at all
@simonpayn13 жыл бұрын
Some people don't understand that this man is famous here in the UK because of his expressions and the way he says particular words. The Blackadder series is an example
@mayalucas95299 жыл бұрын
Why wasn't he cast as Professor Snape?
@Actingskint8 жыл бұрын
Interesting idea , but i think he probably lacked the depth and slight edge of darkness that character needed .
@BenBanjo877 жыл бұрын
hippoheppo I remember hearing a rumour that he was approached to play Voldemort at some stage...!
@MessiForever-q9l6 жыл бұрын
Because Alan rickman was born to do Snape's role. . . . Always
@Cheeseaddicteddaleks5 жыл бұрын
"Nancy boy Potter."
@prnfl5 жыл бұрын
Because harry potter's for twats
@myuphrid12 жыл бұрын
It's all about the constrast between the scholarly seriousness of Atkinson's demeanour and the absurdity of the dialogue he's speaking, coupled with the exxagerated way he recites parts of it. Hopefully I've not ruined the joke by explaining it
@tasercs5 жыл бұрын
"Use ink only - via a nib if possible"
@likelocalmusic10 жыл бұрын
Can't help but think he is the most gifted comic ever to come out of England
@toussaintgervais828510 жыл бұрын
Him and Monty Python...have you seen the interview sketch he did with John Chapman? Priceless!
@PaulZink5 жыл бұрын
He's right up there with Cook and Moore.
@margueritejohnson64075 жыл бұрын
I prefer him in spoken humour. I never took to Mr Bean, I felt it was a waste of his enormous talent with words.
@MikeWilsonBarrettАй бұрын
Up there with Lee Evans
@Wayne7456615 жыл бұрын
But he is so much like a real Grammar School teacher of the 1970's. I was there!!
@sheilas12834 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@francisu.50053 жыл бұрын
True. I was sent to a Catholic boarding school, it was so strict and often humiliating that I hated every minute of it 😂
@ShotTower111 жыл бұрын
There are few comedians who could make this as funny as Rowan. The way he pronounces words is just glorious.
@MidnightDesperado12 жыл бұрын
He's a teacher calling attendence, and the students have weird ass names, I lost it at "Ellsworth-Beast Major". It takes a master to pull something like this off in comedy XD
@BossRoss99913 жыл бұрын
HAHAHAHAHA soo funny... i like they way that some of the audiance are saying here when he calls out some of the names
@StarUnreachable5 жыл бұрын
"YES isn't. life. _tragic."_
@Vanastar5 жыл бұрын
Don't sulk boy, for heaven's sake. Has matron seen those boils?
@Micho554 жыл бұрын
what does that even mean though?
@StarUnreachable4 жыл бұрын
@@Micho55 Do you... not know how sarcasm works?
@Micho553 жыл бұрын
@@StarUnreachable I do, just not familiar with the phrase.
@mattevans78845 жыл бұрын
Just like so many of the masters at my school......brilliant!
@staffsyeoman10 жыл бұрын
"Yes, isn't life tragic, Plectrum... Do you have a solicitor, Plectrum...? You're lying, Plectrum...see me afterwards to be tweaked anyway.." Oh my god, I LIVED this....
@sagemcelister16515 жыл бұрын
Whats a solicitor?
@margueritejohnson64075 жыл бұрын
Sage Mcelister A lawyer. One that works from an office but does not appear in court. The solicitor briefs a barrister who then presents the case in court. I believe the system has changed somewhat, but I’m a bit vague about the changes.
@davidtokar40653 жыл бұрын
I too have been been unjustly 'tweaked,' but I never got paddled in front of the class like one of my classmades did on a regular basis. True, he had a behavioral problem, but he was also mentally disabled. Today, he would have been placed and taught in a way based on the desire to help rather than punish.
he nearly loses it at 4:10, but the way he can do the routine so totally deadpan is amazing
@ghengiscant538 Жыл бұрын
" Kosygin you`re in charge " Was that topical at the time. still got a laugh either way . Timing and elocution to die for .
@Ultramaximiser8 жыл бұрын
It's all in the delivery. In the hands of a lesser mortal it would be meaningless. However, I was wondering what had happened to Masters Inkstain and Jailbait. Perhaps they had already been tweaked
@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
They aren't in my sketch. They appeared in a later sequel which I did not write. I think Rowan had grown tired of doing this as his party piece / encore to end his stage shows, and wanted to refresh the franchise. So the later, rude, version came into being.
@margueritejohnson64075 жыл бұрын
Richard Sparks This is so much funnier than the rude version. It’s left up to the audience’s imagination to fill in the blanks, as it were. I’ve only just seen the newer version and I had to find your original to remind me how much better it is. I can never forget Orifice.
@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
@@margueritejohnson6407 Well thank you Marguerite! We did a third version, in a charity show called Fundamental Frolics (for Mencap, in the year of the Disabled, 1981). Which I wrote. The Schoolmaster in that one was appalled to discover that the school was now co-ed, and some of his class were... (shock, horror) girls! Including Undermanager, who'd had the op during the summer vacation. And was now Francesca. It's on the record, probably only ever made in vinyl. And was broadcast on the BBC. And yes, in the words of Humphrey Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, "We'll always have Orifice."
@chriscarr32554 жыл бұрын
@@richardsparks9894 That version is at 1:04:03 of kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3nPe4Zve6-rr8U
@sirknight13997 ай бұрын
And Havvernut, Williams-Wycherley and Wycherley-Williams-Wockett!
@davidransom6432 жыл бұрын
Since I first saw this sketch I’ve thought of it every time I’ve heard the word ‘haemoglobin’ .. which admittedly isn’t that often
@BenBanjo8710 жыл бұрын
"Undermanager's answer...upside-down. D'you do it deliberately, Undermanager? You're a moron, Undermanager, WHAT ARE YOU? ...A carbuncle on the backside of humanity." Replace the names with Harry Potter surnames, and I reckon you'd get Severus Snape! xD
@jamesatkins18026 жыл бұрын
This sketch must have been ticking away in my subconscious until last week’s English Supply Cover lesson. I thought the boy’s name was Sproat - great amusement in class! Now if Rowan had had a ‘Scroat’ on his register...
@wenglishsal15 жыл бұрын
Pure genius... I laughed so much I spat my coffee all over my keyboard...What an expressive face Rowan has...Fantastic ... :0)x
@hugohugo28327 жыл бұрын
So brilliant. There was one of these at every rural prep School back then.
@stevew1904 Жыл бұрын
Rowan's portrayal of the old-fashioned English schoolteacher is uncanny. Unfortunately, I have many memories of teachers exactly like this, whose sole purpose in life seemed to be to destroy the pupils they were responsible for educating. And they succeeded with remarkable regularity. Conversely, in modern schools it seems that the sole purpose of pupils is to destroy the teachers responsible for educating them. Also achieved with remarkable regularity. I have no comment on which state of affairs is worse.
@genefaye67954 жыл бұрын
The ending is superb. "Kosygin you're in charge"
@annehawk11 жыл бұрын
Didn't catch most of the jokes here, to busy looking at rowans face.. not once did he crack a smile... impressed..
@Izzy269313 жыл бұрын
How can any1 dislike this? this guy is ledgend!!:P
@foxdmulder14 жыл бұрын
A master at work, one of the greatest!
@inu35813 жыл бұрын
I am from Germany. And Rowan Atkinson is my favourite Comedian.
@shri0399213 жыл бұрын
he shows reality in such a hilarious way!
@waivedwench15 жыл бұрын
I'm a teacher and some of this is so familiar!! As I like to say to whining students "My heart just bleeds..."
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@richardsparks98945 жыл бұрын
Thanks Rowan. Love you.
@flatsurfaces19135 жыл бұрын
Nice
@ChobThomas13 жыл бұрын
If I see it again this period, Plectrum, I shall have to tweak you.
@PhilGrimwade13 жыл бұрын
I went to grammar school, this is alarmingly close. I can still remember everyone on the register to this day, tragic...
@quizmaster854 жыл бұрын
Detention for _anyone_ who dares to dislike this roll call.
@norhamadiahmad26375 жыл бұрын
Do you have a solicitor Plectrum?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@erkjadrek28 Жыл бұрын
Such a talented actor Mr. Rowan is. Just great. 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
@willfaulkner738911 жыл бұрын
4:08, he almost lost composure! Good old Rowan kept it together though!
@RETINA8719 Жыл бұрын
Remember a version of this where had added a few more names- Wicket Williams Wicket Williams Whichely Whichely Wicket Whichely Williams and Whichely Williams … Wocket
@bastlake13 жыл бұрын
"Soda? What's wrong with Soda? It's a great name, it's bubbly!" - George Costanza
@11Kralle14 жыл бұрын
There is no better we to learn english, than listing to this man. Seen from my humble kraut-view.
@mentalguitarisist14 жыл бұрын
I love the way they all go silent when he looks at them at 1:48. LOL!!
@davidtokar40653 жыл бұрын
I have had many teachers with that withering gaze....right up there with that of Count Dracula.
@dtzjones76325 жыл бұрын
Rowan Atkinson's a comic Genius just his visual humour hilarious didn't even have to talk and the sketches brilliant 😂😂😂😂
@080062wicked13 жыл бұрын
there is no way is is possible for him to keep a straight face through this!!!
@DaveDexterMusic3 жыл бұрын
I love that at the exact moment someone decides to get in on the act by saying "here", Atkinson expands to a triple-surname that rolls right over the interruption.
@deanpeng78545 жыл бұрын
I don't think rowan was trying not to laugh at all. If you watched many of his interviews, you can tell that he is really serious when he is having a performance.
@ebthedoc49926 жыл бұрын
Such a glorious, hilarious “Straight Man”! Superb control!
@Lizbob9711 жыл бұрын
such a shame humour like this is wasted on many people, especially the younger generations. It's pure genius!
@izabellaSands10 ай бұрын
This man is a gift ❤😂
@nymokarr13 жыл бұрын
At 1:08 you can hear the camera guy laughing :D
@abhinavtripathi96785 жыл бұрын
Oh the man in coat and tie, May God bless you, You may never die...
@ivaahmed66999 жыл бұрын
If Shakespeare was ment to be funny he would've put a JOKE IN IT.....hahahah
@Jojoseahorse6 жыл бұрын
It's so spot on. Someone in my high school senior English class said Shakespeare wrote plays to be enjoyed on stage, not analysed and picked apart in classrooms :)
@u.v.s.55834 жыл бұрын
@@Jojoseahorse To pee or not to pee.
@tonypetts66634 жыл бұрын
AHH, when tweaking was still allowed at school, happy days.
@isaaclim402110 жыл бұрын
NIBBLE! LEAVE ORIFICE ALONE!!!
@virghammer112 жыл бұрын
I could not adore this man morel What a genius. Hi, Fellow Capricorn Rowan! Saw him live in West End in Chekhov's "The Bear" and "The Proposal" in 1988 - Right after graduating from 3-year Brit. drama school. (Honor and love to Central School.) - Bloody BRILLIANT. THANKS so much for the wonderfulness, Mr A.! VCH & Midlantic Theatre Co. Theatre in Renaissance Newark (NJ, USA) + Schools & Prisons A NJ 501(c)3 nonprofit corp.