It is in your face humor - not silly stuff or slap stick.

If you enjoy a quick wit - Black Adder is your man!

Hillarious (Rating: 5.00)
Review : I tell ya, old Baldrick is so "cute" you just want to take him home, let him live in the basement and throw him down a turnip every once in a while!

This was MUCH better than the first series. I took the advice of those who've posted here and was NOT disappointed!

By far the best Black Adder Series! (Rating: 5.00)
Review : Black Adder third is without a doubt, the best Black Adder series there is. Not only is Edmund great in this one, I think what makes this great is Prince "Mini-Brain". And of course, there is little Baldrick. This has one of my favorite Black Adder episodes ever, "Nob and Nobility". All of these episodes are gaurenteed to make you laugh!

Simple fun with history (Rating: 4.00)
Review : The usual cast of character go through another round of historical hysterics. Some fine comedy moments for the regular crowd of Black Adder adhearents.

For people who have never seen the series, it isn't the best choice to start with. I'd go right back to the begining with Black Adder #1 and work my way forward.

Two notes concerning the episode Nob & Nobility. Tim McKinnery of Lord Percy fame in series #1 & 2 and of Capt Darling fame in #4 plays the French nobleman. If im not mistaken we also see Chris Barie of Reddwarf as the French rep.

This episode was not shown in the rotation in NE due to its poking fun at the french and the proximity of Quebec.

THE "STUPID PRINCE" EPISODES ARE THE BEST (Rating: 5.00)
Review : The four funniest things I can think of are: Tom Lehrer's CD, AN EVENING WASTED WITH TOM LEHRER; Woody Allen's book GETTING EVEN; Jackie Mason's album THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ME (and its cognate video); and the blonde-haired "stupid prince" episodes -- both tapes, six episodes, three hours -- of BLACK ADDER.

That would be a Sunday afternoon's worth of laugh therapy good enough for anyone, short of, say, ten or twenty Wodehouse/Jeeves Bertie Wooster novels.

Get and OWN these Black Adder tapes. Get the whole set. One way and another, they are all good. But I haven't seen three hours of filmed comedy in my ENTIRE 46-YEAR LIFE as good as BLACK ADDER III, parts 1 & 2.