Rowan Atkinson has revealed he watched Blackadder again for the first time in 30 years.
The 67-year-old comedian starred in four series and various TV specials of the famous historical British period sitcoms, but after it aired on television it’s thought the actor never watched it again… until now.
He was recently on a plane and it turns out the series was one of the choices available to watch on the in-flight entertainment.
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The modest actor said he realised the classic comedy was “quite funny”.
Rowan explained: “I was on an aeroplane and they had available to watch some of the Blackadder series.
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“And I thought, ‘That’s curious. I haven’t watched the Blackadder for 30 years, I haven’t watched anything.’
“So I thought, ‘I might just watch an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth.
“I watched it and of course it’s so long since experiencing the pain of actually making the thing and the worry and all that.”
The first episode of Blackadder originally aired on BBC One in 1983.
It was such a hit there were four series made of the period sitcom up until 1989 with Blackadder Goes Forth.
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The first series was set in the British Middle Ages whilst the second series of the BBC Show found a more astute Blackadder as a palace courtier in the Elizabethan era titled Blackadder II.
The third series saw Hugh Laurie join the series titled Blackadder the Third set in the Georgian Era which saw Atkinson’s character serve as the butler to The Prince Regent.
The fourth and final series was set in the trenches in Flanders during World War 1.
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All of the episodes starred Rowan as Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as his dogsbody, Baldrick.
In a 2001 poll by Channel 4 to find Britain’s Best Sitcom, Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.
Rowan told BBC Radio 4 that he was pleased his work stood up three decades later.
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He said: “I watched it and I thought, ‘Actually, that’s quite funny!’
“You know, there’s something genuinely good there, which shouldn’t have surprised me but it did.
“So yeah, many, many years later I can bear to watch things but not immediately after I make them.”
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