The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Richardson is known for her role as a comedic Queen Elizabeth I, aka Queenie, in the British television comedy Blackadder II.

In the television comedy series Blackadder, Richard III is portrayed by Peter Cook in an alternative version of history as a doting, kindly man who treats his nephews with affection.

Caroline is mentioned in the third series of the BBC comedy Blackadder, in which Mr. E. Blackadder dismisses Caroline as a potential wife for George because she " has the worst personality in Germany " ( allegedly " up against some pretty stiff competition ").

Edmund Blackadder is the single name given to a collection of fictional characters who appear in the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder, each played by Rowan Atkinson.

He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999.

Australian tastes can be eclectic when it comes to imported comedy from other English speaking countries, with American series like M * A * S * H, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons acquiring devoted followings in Australia-but so too such quintessentially British comedies as Fawlty Towers, The Goodies, Blackadder and The Office.

* In the Blackadder III episode ' Amy and Amiability ', Blackadder, dressed in a black mask and cape, is asked if he intends to become a highwayman and replies sarcastically " No, I'm auditioning for the part of Arnold the Bat in Sheridan's new comedy.

The first episode of the BBC television comedy Blackadder in part parodies the Olivier film, visually ( as in the crown motif ), Peter Cook's performance as a benevolent Richard, and by mangling Shakespearean text (" Now is the summer of our sweet content made o ' ercast winter by these Tudor clouds ...")

The series launched the careers of several high-profile actors and writers, and also led to other comedy series including Blackadder, Mr. Bean, and Alas Smith and Jones.

In 1999, Moss played a non-musical role in the British screen comedy Blackadder: Back & Forth, appearing both as Maid Marian and as a fictional Queen of England " who looks good naked ".

He made his television debut in the late 1980s in various comedy shows including Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of Top of the Pops in 1996.

* Rowan Atkinson, ( born 6 January 1955 in Consett, County Durham ), star of the Blackadder and Mr. Bean comedy series.

* Blackadder, comedy TV series

* In the 1999 comedy Blackadder: Back & Forth, Lord Blackadder ( Rowan Atkinson ) subjects Baldrick ( Tony Robinson ) to dunking in a toilet so that he can experience a near-death life review to recover details neither of them can remember.

* Bob ( Blackadder character ), two characters in the television comedy Blackadder

* Lord Percy Percy, fictional character in the British comedy series, Blackadder.

A number of notable comedy movers and shakers have produced the programme, including John Lloyd ( Blackadder producer and deviser of QI ), TV executive Geoffrey Perkins, Have I Got News for You producer Harry Thompson and writer and director Armando Iannucci.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

The Blackadder pilot was shot but never aired on terrestrial TV in the UK ( although some scenes were shown in the 25th anniversary special Blackadder Rides Again ).

It is mentioned in the BBC TV Comedy Series Blackadder the Third in the episode where the Prince Regent believes that the Duke of Wellington is after him.

* " Money " ( Blackadder ), a TV episode

* Edmund Blackadder, butler to Prince George the Prince Regent, in the TV Series Blackadder the Third.

One of her first major TV appearances was in Blackadder II, which Elton co-wrote.

A more recent radio appearance was in The Ape That Got Lucky and has appeared in TV shows such as Press Gang, Chef !, Big Train, Blackadder the Third: Dish and Dishonesty, Chelmsford 123, Jonathan Creek, 15 Storeys High, Armstrong and Miller.

HM King Edmund III, formerly Lord Blackadder is the modern day descendant of fictional character Edmund Blackadder in the Blackadder TV series.

The modern day Blackadder is linked with the descendants of the supporting characters in series 2-4 of the TV series.

In " Goodbyeee ", an episode of the TV series Blackadder, the main character pretends to be insane by answering every question with a word variously believed to be wibble or wubble.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the " 100 Greatest British Television Programmes ", a list created by the British Film Institute.

Although each series is set in a different era, all follow the " misfortunes " of Edmund Blackadder ( played by Atkinson ), who in each is a member of a British family dynasty present at many significant periods and places in British history.

It is implied in each series that the Blackadder character is a descendant of the previous one, although it is never mentioned how any of the Blackadders manage to father children.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd.

The second series was the first to establish the familiar Blackadder character: cunning, shrewd and witty, in sharp contrast to the bumbling Prince Edmund of the first series.

In the series, E. Blackadder Esquire is the butler to the Prince Regent, the Prince of Wales ( the prince is played by Hugh Laurie as a complete fop and idiot ).

Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the snivelling, weak buffoon of the original.

He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.

Later series ( Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third, Blackadder Goes Forth ) moved the duo through history and switched the relationship: the Edmund Blackadder of Blackadder II was a brilliant schemer, whereas Baldrick had devolved into a buffoon whose catchphrase was " I have a cunning plan " ( which he rarely had ).

* Arrested Development ( TV series ), a Fox Network comedy

* Cyril " Blakey " Blake, the bus depot inspector from the 1970s British comedy TV series On the Buses

Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

* Clone ( TV series ), a 2008 BBC comedy series

* Enlightened ( TV series ), a 2011 HBO comedy series starring Laura Dern

By the 1960s, TV series, such as The Addams Family and The Munsters, used these stereotypes for camp comedy.

The surviving kinescope of the live Benny telecast features Bogart in his only TV sketch comedy outing.

* K-9 ( TV series ) a British / Australian comedy / adventure series starring the same character as featured in Doctor Who as listed above.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

* The Underground ( TV series ), a sketch comedy show

This was followed briefly by Smith and Goody ( with Bob Goody ) and then the comedy sketch series Alas Smith and Jones, co-starring Griff Rhys Jones, its title being a pun on the name of the American TV series Alias Smith and Jones.

* 1980 – Holly Walsh, British comedian, comedy writer and TV and radio presenter

In 2012 Kinnock made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the UK TV comedy drama Stella.

This was also played upon when Wilson made a guest appearance on the comedy TV quiz show Shooting Stars, in which Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer purposefully misquoted his catchphrase by referring to him as " Richard ' I don't believe you ' Wilson ".

In 1978, he appeared on the comedy TV show The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, where Frank Sinatra was the evening's victim.

On Sigma TV their first weekday show was the comedy Sto Para Pente which was shown from September 1998 until June 2004 and is the longest weekday show in Cyprus history.

In 1991 she appeared as " Lady Penelope " on episode No. 20 of the first season of the TV comedy series Fresh Prince of Bel Air starring Will Smith.

David P. Pierson treats Seinfeld as a comedy of manners: " he popular TV sitcom can best be associated with the modern comedy of manners dramatic genre.

He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

Milligan's next major TV venture was the sketch comedy series The World of Beachcomber ( 1968 ), made in colour for BBC 2 ; however, it is believed all 19 episodes are now lost.

Buzzcocks ' name was combined with the title of the Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks to create the title of the long-running UK comedy TV panel game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

* January 4 – The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world Last of the Summer Wine is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

* Grand Slam ( 1978 film ), a 1978 Welsh TV comedy movie

It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.