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Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy show which was broadcast on BBC2 from 16 October 1979 to 8 March 1982. Originally shown as a comedy alternative to the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1, it features satirical sketches on then-current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, and spoof television formats.
“Blackadder without Rowan Atkinson is like a broken pencil. Pointless,” someone else quipped. Pointless,” someone else quipped. This year, Red Nose Day will be held on Friday 17 March.
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He played the title roles in the sitcoms Blackadder (1983–1989) and Mr. Bean (1990–1995), and in the film series Johnny English (2003–present).
British actor Rowan Atkinson, dressed as Mr. Bean, sits on top of a Mini Cooper to promote the 25th anniversary of "Mr. Bean" in London in 2015.
Rowan Atkinson, the British actor known the world over for his "Mr. Bean" character, has delivered a broadside against the so-called online "cancel culture." During an extensive interview with U.K ...
Rowan Atkinson has won this award twice, for Not the Nine O'Clock News (1981) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1990). Tracey Ullman won for Three of a Kind in 1984. Judi Dench won for A Fine Romance in 1985. Victoria Wood was won twice, for Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1986) and An Audience with Victoria Wood (1989).
Rowan Atkinson's bungling super-spy is back, but as this hilarious new clip from 'Johnny English Strikes Back' shows, he's a dinosaur in the world of espionage.
Bean (1997) was directed by Mel Smith, Atkinson's colleague in Not the Nine O'Clock News. A second film, Mr. Bean's Holiday, was released in 2007. In 1995 and 1996, Atkinson portrayed Inspector Raymond Fowler in The Thin Blue Line television sitcom written by Ben Elton, which takes place in a police station located in fictitious Gasforth.