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onager

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11. A great Laurie bit, and seasonally on-topic too!
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 03:47 PM
Dec 2015

From "Blackadder Xmas Carol," with Laurie playing the Prince:

Edmund:...So, shall I begin the Christmas story?

Prince: Absolutely, as long as it's not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum-coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land.

Edmund: You mean Jesus, Sir...

Prince: Yes, that's the fellow. Keep him out of it -- he always spoils the X-mas atmos'.

Before that in the same show, a line actually got censored on the official DVD release:

Baldrick: Well, I was a bit rushed. I've been helping out with the workhouse nativity play.

Ebenezer: Oh, of course! How did it go?

Baldrick: Well, not very well -- at the last moment, the baby playing Jesus died!

Ebenezer: Oh, dear! This high infant-mortality rate is a real devil when it comes to staging quality children's theatre. What did you do?

Baldrick: Got another Jesus.

Ebenezer: Oh, thank goodness. ...and his name?

Baldrick: 'Spot'. There weren't any more children, so we had to settle for a dog instead.

Ebenezer: Oh, dear. I'm not convinced that Christianity would have established its firm grip over the hearts and minds of mankind if all Jesus had ever said was "Woof."

Baldrick: Well, it went all right until the shepherds came on. See, we hadn't been able to get any real sheep, so we had to stick some wool--

Ebenezer: ...on some other dogs.

Baldrick: Yeah... and the moment Jesus got a whiff of them, he's away! While the angel's singing "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Mankind," Jesus scampers across and tries to get one of the sheep to give him a piggyback ride!

Ebenezer: Scarcely appropriate behaviour for the son of God, Mr Baldrick. Weren't the children upset?

(THE FOLLOWING LINE WAS CENSORED)

Baldrick: Nah, they loved it. They want us to do another one at Easter -- they want to see us nail up the dog.

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Excellent! How's this for a carol? beam me up scottie Dec 2015 #1
I never understood that song until last year. deucemagnet Dec 2015 #10
Wodehouse Yorktown Dec 2015 #2
Hugh Laurie was born to play Bertie Wooster Ron Obvious Dec 2015 #3
And Fry pulls it off surprisingly well despite being a bit too young Yorktown Dec 2015 #4
I like Stephen Fry and he did a decent job... Ron Obvious Dec 2015 #5
Yes, Hopkins. Maybe with a twinkle in the eye. Yorktown Dec 2015 #6
I used to check out those DVDs from the library. progressoid Dec 2015 #7
Always been a Wodehouse addict. Then I learnt Hitchens was a Wodehouse expert. Yorktown Dec 2015 #8
They call it the "Woodhouse Effect" Lordquinton Dec 2015 #12
I know you just made up 'WoODhouse' Yorktown Dec 2015 #14
That wasn't me, that was autocorrect Lordquinton Dec 2015 #16
I fear you 'might' have just been very incorrect toward Mr. autocorrect Yorktown Dec 2015 #17
Mr. Autocorrect can go duck himself Lordquinton Dec 2015 #18
My good Sir, I dare hope there are no hidden spoonerisms in that sentence of yours. Yorktown Dec 2015 #19
Good tines. Good tines. n/t Gore1FL Jan 2016 #21
Thanks awoke_in_2003 Dec 2015 #20
Wode.... AlbertCat Jan 2016 #22
As was the character Gregory House. deucemagnet Dec 2015 #9
I am such a fan. I even belong to private fb groups! artislife Dec 2015 #15
A great Laurie bit, and seasonally on-topic too! onager Dec 2015 #11
... mountain grammy Jan 2016 #23
Hugh Laurie... gelatinous cube Dec 2015 #13
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