Really, now.
This may not be the greatest comedy series, but it certainly is the most well made. It is first the perfect example of british comedy, in this case a plum mix of schoolboy humor and very accurate history. I watched it when I was 10 and laughed at the naughty, baser aspects, and now that I've grown up I can smirk at the more intelligent japes. It takes place in 1917, which, as I'm sure you know, is during the first world war.
Satirical, ironic, sarcastic, at times quite insanely silly, and, finally, tragic. But you don't know it's tragic.
The Blackadder series really got better as each series progressed. Blackadder the First was but mediocre, Blackadder the Second was very good, though some episodes were appallingly mundane, Blackadder the Third was a souffle of perfectly orchestrated silliness, and now Blackadder the Fourth outdoes them all because, like Monty Python's the Life of Brian in comparison with the Holy Grail, it is both an astoundingly good comedy and bears a moral message, as opposed to just very silly comedy.
It is, very surprisingly, quite touching. But the bottom line is, it's very, very funny.
This may not be the greatest comedy series, but it certainly is the most well made. It is first the perfect example of british comedy, in this case a plum mix of schoolboy humor and very accurate history. I watched it when I was 10 and laughed at the naughty, baser aspects, and now that I've grown up I can smirk at the more intelligent japes. It takes place in 1917, which, as I'm sure you know, is during the first world war.
Satirical, ironic, sarcastic, at times quite insanely silly, and, finally, tragic. But you don't know it's tragic.
The Blackadder series really got better as each series progressed. Blackadder the First was but mediocre, Blackadder the Second was very good, though some episodes were appallingly mundane, Blackadder the Third was a souffle of perfectly orchestrated silliness, and now Blackadder the Fourth outdoes them all because, like Monty Python's the Life of Brian in comparison with the Holy Grail, it is both an astoundingly good comedy and bears a moral message, as opposed to just very silly comedy.
It is, very surprisingly, quite touching. But the bottom line is, it's very, very funny.