Blackadder the Third, 1987

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At BBC The One Show

Blackadder the Third, 1987

Rik and Ben at the 1986 “Countdown Music & Video Awards” in Australia. 🎶

Roger and Ben Elton at Indian restaurant “Spice Merchant”, February 2022 (x)

Hello. She returns from the abyss to recommend you watch this.

Ben Elton could talk for England; the sky is blue. He's so passionate and creative, truly inspiring to be honest. They only actually get to talk about We Will Rock You and The Young Ones in this, but still! There is some interesting TYO adjacent insight, such as Ben being responsible for Rick's political side whilst Rik brought the crap anarchist poet who loved Cliff Richard; Rik and Ben having a game called Double to come up with double entendres; Ben regretting Vyvyan's Good Life rant a bit in retrospect; and Ade being perceived as intimidating and standoffish when in actuality he's just quiet. I remember an interview where Jennifer Saunders mentions people having a similar intimidating perception of her, even though it's just that she's shy, so perhaps that's part of what drew them to one another?

Rob Brydon is a very good interviewer; I'd definitely recommend checking out his podcast in general. He's interviewed lots of his fellow comics. He hints at the end of this that he'd like to interview Ben again, so they can talk about more of his stuff (Blackadder mayhaps? 🙏). I'll have to keep my eyes peeled for that!

And lastly (for now) this one is probably my favourite, I don’t think I’d ever seen this photo before and they all look beautiful but rik looks so gorgeous lmfao

Fuckin spelt his name wrong on the back tho of course ashfkshd

Im thinking of getting them framed because they’re so special to me!