I love British comedy!

To paraphrase Blackadder : “I feel like a pelican, no matter which way I turn I’ve got an enormous bill in front of me” and to take care of that “I’ve got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel” on it only my life wasn’t “strewn with cow pats from the devil’s own satanic herd”

First series is OK but really gets going when Ben Elton takes over writing from Rowan Atkinson in series 2. The 3rd series is the funniest by far. The last series set in WW1 is a bit po faced for me and I hated the ending.

I loved it..would come home from the clubs or pubs just watch it..damn I miss shows like that..and the BBC Hitchhikers Guide was pissah too..

I grew up on Black Adder. Who else was good enough to model my life upon?

I watched the entirety of Blackadder Goes Forth today.

The Thin Blue Line was good as well.

Voted "Yes, I love it." I need to qualify that a little.

Blackadder II was my favourite. The humour and character dynamics were just right. Blackadder III was a very close second, but focused a little too much on the central trio, I felt. Both damned funny though.

Blackadder IV was good in parts. Some great humour in there, as ever. But it was starting to commit the cardinal sin of falling back on 'in jokes' and recurring characters. The whole 'Darling' thing done to death, and the clever, snappy similes had turned into long, drawn out torturous things ("More cunning than a cunning thing that's done a degree in being cunning and just come back from a fortnight in Cunningland with a suitcase full of cunning." )

The first series, I don't really consider the same show. It was almost entirely situational humour, with very few funny lines. I think (I'm not going to check) this was Richard Curtis writing alone. Ben Elton co-authoring in the later series and adding more wit to the dialogue. The latter was a better balance.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a cringeworthy pile of horse manure. It is to Blackadder what 'Back to Earth' was to Red Dwarf.

That was a great show. Thanks for the reminder.

I liked the one set in WWI the best. The Victorian version was good (Hugh Laurie was a hoot in that one.) The one in Elizabethian times was very good.

Brilliant comedy

I fully accept that, since absolutely everyone else agrees it's one of the best things ever created, I must be wrong; however, I never liked it.

(Same goes for Only Fools And Horses, Some Mothers Do 'Ave Them, Spike Milligan, Billy Connolly and The Goodies.)

Jeepers, this should overshadow Mr. Bean by a longshot but alas. Of course anything with Brian Blessed has my attention.