https://bensonium.com Sight through thought Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:36:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://bensonium.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/NewEYEIcon-100x100.png https://bensonium.com 32 32 https://bensonium.com/sketch/week-39-blackadder-the-thirds-cunning-compilation-blackadder/ https://bensonium.com/sketch/week-39-blackadder-the-thirds-cunning-compilation-blackadder/#respond Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:43 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=comedy&p=6023 Time for some more Blackadder. The last time I cited Blackadder on this website was all the way back in June when the days were warm and long. That particular set of sketches was taken from the final series of Blackadder which was set in World War I. This Blackadder is set around the time of George the 3^rd and this historical context created lots of opportunities for the very clever comedy writers of Blackadder to create a series of master sketches. These wonderful sketches have brought many people much joy over many years and have raised the spirits of those who are feeling the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune”.

]]> https://bensonium.com/sketch/week-39-blackadder-the-thirds-cunning-compilation-blackadder/feed/ 0 https://bensonium.com/sketch/advanced-war-tactics-blackadder/ https://bensonium.com/sketch/advanced-war-tactics-blackadder/#respond Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:00:33 +0000 https://bensonium.com/?post_type=comedy&p=5100 This video is a brief compilation of the final Blackadder series which was set in World War I. Although at one level it is very amusing, I guess, as is so often with humour, it is funny because it is only a relatively thin parody of the utter stupid strategy that the British ruling army class employed in World War I.

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