Don't Mention Macbeth | Blackadder The Third | BBC Comedy Greats

Bart: this is so cool, Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
Marge: Bart stop saying Macbeth
Lisa: Mom you said Macbeth.

Kenneth Conner was such a treasure. A massive part of my childhood, through Carry On, Rent a Ghost, and Allo Allo. A wonderful chap.

Love this scene. With Blackadder torments the actors by saying " Macbeth" . It's hilarious!!!.

🤣🤣 this seen scene never gets tiresome🤣🤣

can anyone tell me what they actually say there

You should've knocked

" Well, not very often". 😂

Petty evil is the best evil. He's doing it just for kicks. No get rich scheme. Not trying to get out of work. He just does it because it gives him a tiny bit of power over others.

(Baldrick is polishing silver as Blackadder enters the kitchen; there is a knock at the door)
Baldrick: Is that the door?
Blackadder: Oh, don't worry, it's just the actors. (Pours himself a cup of tea and sits down; more knocking)
Baldrick: My Uncle Baldrick was in a play once.
Blackadder: Really?
Baldrick: Yeah, it was called Macbeth. (More knocking, louder this time)
Blackadder: And what did he play?
Baldrick: Second codpiece. Macbeth wore him in the fight scenes. (The knocking gets even louder)
Blackadder: So he was a stunt codpiece? (Baldrick nods; Blackadder sips his tea) Did he have a large part?
(Long pause, including a cut back to Blackadder to show just how deadpan he is, then finally back to Baldrick)
Baldrick: Depends who was playing Macbeth.
Blackadder: Oh, incidentally, Baldrick – actors are very superstitious. On no
account mention the word Macbeth this evening, alright?
Baldrick: Why not?
Blackadder: It brings them bad luck and it makes them very unhappy.
Baldrick: Oh, so you won’t be mentioning it either?
Blackadder: No… well, not very often.
(Blackadder enters with the actors after having spent the previous scene ignoring their knocking at the door)
Blackadder: You should have knocked.
Keanrick: Our knocks, you impertinent butler, were loud enough to wake the hounds of Hell! (He and Mossop hand Blackadder their hats; Keanrick turns to Mossop) Lead on, Macduff.
Mossop: I shall. (As the actors move to the next room, Blackadder drops their hats on the floor and kicks them through the door before closing it) Lest you continue in your quotation, and mention the name of the Scottish Play.
Keanrick: (Chuckles) Never fear, I shan't do that!
Blackadder: By "the Scottish Play", I assume you mean Macbeth.
Keanrick, Mossop: AHH! (They begin making pat-a-cake motions) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (They finish by tweaking each other's noses) Ahh!
Blackadder: What was that?
Keanrick: We were exorcising evil spirits. Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition that one does never speak the name of the Scottish play.
Blackadder: What, Macbeth?
Keanrick, Mossop: AHH! (Pat-a-cake motions) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (Tweak) Ahh!
Blackadder: Oh, you mean you have to do that every time I say "Macbeth"?
Keanrick, Mossop: AHH! (Pat-a-cake motions) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (Tweak) Ahh!
Mossop: Will you please stop saying that!... (Rubs his sore nose) Always call it "the Scottish Play"!
Blackadder: So you want me to say "the Scottish Play".
Keanrick, Mossop: YES!
Blackadder: Rather than "Macbeth".
Keanrick, Mossop: AHH! (Pat-a-cake motions) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (Tweak) Ahh!
Prince: (Entering) I say, what is all this hullabaloo, all this shouting, and screaming, and yelling blue murder? (The actors bow deeply before him) Why, it was like that play we saw the other day, what was it called, er...
Blackadder: Macbeth, sir?
Keanrick, Mossop: (Still bent over bowing) AHH! (Pat-a-cake motions, but now side by side rather than facing each other) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (This time, they tweak their own noses) Oooh!
Prince: (Motions the actors to stand up again) No no no, it was, it was called Julius Caesar.
Blackadder: Oh yes, of course. Julius Caesar. (Beat) Not Macbeth.
Keanrick, Mossop: AHH! (Pat-a-cake motions) Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! (Tweak) Ahh!

Blackadder can be absolute sadist!!!!!

The correct quote is "Lay on", not "Lead on".

Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends.

Why did Blackadder keep saying “Macbeth”?

Blackadder trolling long before anyone used the term.

"You should've knocked" 😂😂😂

Macbeth

Superb

My favourite episode of Blackadder

nice

Blackadder III is with some scenes seriously on par with Blackadder IV. I just love Rowan in this part as the butler. His snark against Baldrick in series III is by far the funniest.

This scene is comedic gold.

ruined by the laughtrack of course

With such pompous twits, who wouldn't resist riling them up and torturing them where it's most sensitive?

To this day my whole immediate family references this whenever somebody says Macbeth

"What was that?"

I grew up doing theater, specifically Shakespeare, until I was about 15. I've even done MacFizzle (my favorite censor). But the curse is very much real. When I did the Witch in Into The Woods, we had one actor who didn't believe it and kept saying it backstage. Then, as I exited from Stay With Me, Rapunzel's tower toppled towards the audience. Ive also broken my foot during a curtain call where people were saying it backstage. I didn't believe in the curse at first, but now I do.

"Don't worry, it's just the actors."

You mean you have to do that every time I say Macbeth? Genius

Black Adder III the best.

Atkinson is definitely at his cunning and crude best as Blackadder the third

My dad always used to say that hot potato thing to me when I was a kid. 😄

Well not very often....

Get's me rolling over the floor every time.

"I have a cunning plan" 😂😂😂😂😂

Blackadder: Are you sure you want to see these people?
Me: Very much so! rewatches the video

Hot Potato, Orchestra Stalls, Puck will make Amends

Never menchion macbeth

"Julius Caesar... not Macbeth..."

Bean is a much better stage actor than a comedian

The scotish play

Macbeth is Azkaban!






"AAAaaaahhhhh! Hot potato, office drawers, puck to make amends!"

Bart: Oh this is so cool Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!

Marge: Bart stop saying Macbeth!

Lisa: mom you said Macbeth!

I can imagine when someone says the word 'wrong' people hear the word and go crazy and go 'we're always in the right we're never in the wrong!'

ΡΕ ΒΛΑΚΕΣ ΤΟΝ ΘΕΟ ΠΑΤΕ ΝΑ ΚΟΡΟΙΔΕΨΕΤΑΙ

You just know that these foppish actors are based on some up-their-arse acting veterans who treated someone in this Blackadder production with contempt.

Theater teacher showed me this in Middle School- never forgotten it. LOL