This scene is from “Blackadder The Third”. It stars Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) and features Hugh Laurie (Dr House) and Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in Harry Potter). Atkinson play Blackadder, the butler to the Prince George, and Coltrane plays a scholar …
This is a UK sitcom set entirely in the smoking room of an office in London. The thing to know about this scene is that Robin is secretly gay, and the guy he really likes, Ben who works in the …
My favourite novelist, Douglas Adams, who sadly died in 2001 at the age that I am at the moment, made a BBC radio series with zoologist Mark Carwardine called “Last Chance To See”. In this series the two men, a …
Peep Show is a sitcom about two men, Mark (David Mitchell) and Jez (Robert Webb) who live together but have very different lifestyles. Mark is trying to make friends with Jeff so that he has an excuse to visit him, because …
Comedian Lee Mack meets The Queen. Graham Norton: Your obsession with The Queen… that you’ve seemed to have lived most of your life wanting to meet The Queen. Lee Mack: Well it was… yeah, when I was quite young I …
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This is a scene from the British TV special “An Audience With Elton John”. The audience is made up of celebrities who personally know him – musicians, TV personalities, sports players, actors etc. Maybe you can spot a few you know. …
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Have you heard of a “grammar nazi”? When someone is overly pedantic about other people’s incorrect usage of grammar and vocabulary, he/she is often called a grammar nazi. Ian: …which means a better outcome for everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, that …