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LAUGHTER

MR BEAN: Aha.

Hooray!

Whee!

Oh!

MUSIC: 'Watch Me'
by The Phantoms

Mr Bean was just who I was.

I still find him funny
and I think I can still perform him.

You know, dye my hair and I'm off.

I do think Rowan is a genius.

They're the university boys
and I was the secondary school kid.

You know, rough it up a bit.

I had the seventh most recognisable
face in the world.

Mr Bean!

He's also, in my opinion,
the greatest clown of our lifetime.

At 8pm on New Year's Day

ITV broadcast a pilot
for a new comedy sketch show

starring Rowan Atkinson,
simply entitled Mr Bean.

ITV were looking
for one half-hour show

to fill this one gap in the schedule

and ours was the only one
that seemed to be about.

And it was
just a complete fluke, really,

that the first time
it was shown was at eight o'clock

immediately after Coronation Street.

It was put in this prime spot.

When it was presented to the
British public it was so mainstream

that it never occurred to people
that what they were watching

was a sort of unique bit of genius
by an irreplaceable comedian.

They just thought,
"Oh, here's a big, popular show".

SINGING HYMN

This first episode
was made up of three sketches.

'Church sketch
was the first Mr Bean sketch

'with Richard Briars playing the guy

'that, unfortunately for him,
I'm next to.'

MOUTHS

Just watching a guy trying
to stay awake and he's failing.

Ah!

And it's fun
just to watch it in real time.

The longer it takes for him to
slowly fall asleep in his own lap,

it becomes funnier.

The great joy of these
was the rehearsal of them,

and they didn't take very long.

We had an idea, it seemed rich, and
we would just sit in a room and say,

"Well, what's the next thing
that could happen

"with the resources that we've got?"

So we've got a hymn book.

He could have something
in the pockets of his jacket.

There'll be a hymn.

# Hallelujah, Hallelujah... #

And we just
worked it out communally.

Probably Church took,
you know, an hour.

# Hallelujah. #

Ro has this tremendous ability once
he's got something that's funny,

never to forget it.

You know,
really lucky to have met Richard

all those years ago
when we were students. Really lucky.

Well, Rowan and I turned up
at a sketch writing club in Oxford

and I thought
that Rowan was a stuffed toy,

cos he didn't say anything at all
for the first three meetings.

And then we were asked to submit
some material and he stood up

and did two sketches, and I thought,
"Oh, no, he's a genius.

"That's awkward".

I actually met Rowan
in my first hour of university.

I thought, I'd heard there might be,
like, a comedy review group.

So I went to the desk and said,
"Look, I do music

"and I'd love to maybe help out,"
and the guy at the desk was Rowan.

He said, "Well, OK,
someone will come and see you."

Richard came round and said,
"We're doing a show in three weeks.

"Do you wanna do the music?"
So I said, "Yes!"

It really was a group of friends

laughing at Rowan, you know,
pulling faces.

We called it a one-man show.

That'll be Richard, myself,
and Rowan, which is three people.

It started to be
more and more about Rowan, really,

because everything he did,

an audience would just
hang on what he was doing.

I mean,
Mr Bean was created for theatre,

for the comedy show
that Richard and I used to do.

We started to create
these purely visual sketches.

If I had to tell a story
entirely visually,

I just naturally
became this character.

So Mr Bean was just who I was...

..when denied verbal expression.

I think it's a funny idea, you know.
He's absurd, but he makes me laugh.

The sketches
they created for the theatre

would become the three sketches
in the first episode of Mr Bean.

It hadn't occurred to us that
there was a universal character.

One was a kind of bloke
who goes to church a lot,

one was some awkward guy
with some swimming trunks,

the other one was a younger guy
who was cheating in an exam.

When we thought, let's do this
TV show with whatever it was,

three of them, we thought, oh,
we'd better wear the same costume.

What was usually funny
was just the process

of how he gets out of
a difficult situation,

or how he gets into
a difficult situation.

Done your revision?

Oh, yes.

I've concentrated on trigonometry.

I've done calculus, mainly.
Oh.

I believe they concentrated
on calculus last year.

Oh, dear.

SNIGGERS

Quiet, ladies and gentlemen, please.

The exam starts now.

'Bodily expression,
particularly with Mr Bean,

'is so very, very important.
It's sort of screaming at you.

'You know, there may be no words,
but you're being shouted at,

'I think, very loudly
by the bodily expression.'

The word "compelling"
is quite good, because I think

that's what draws you
into a lot of Mr Bean's sketches.

You only had to have
the starting point of the idea.

He gets locked out of his room,

or he's going to a swimming pool
or something like that.

And then you can be pretty confident

that we would be able
to make it work.

Would those who answered
the green calculus papers

please put them in the green box?

And those who answered
the white trigonometry papers

please put them in the white box?

What I've always done
on the Mr Beans, as it were,

I've done the charcoal outline

and then Rowan adds all the colour
and the texture

and I laugh at him
while he's doing it.

'I said stop writing.'

'Will you stop writing!'

ALARM CLOCK RINGS

It is 30 years
since the first Mr Bean

was shown on British television,
and it became an instant hit.

Between 1990 and 1995, the team went
on to produce 14 episodes in total.

I didn't know until this moment
that there were only 14.

I thought there were probably 114

and that Rowan had been
coining it in for years and years

making this never-ending flow
of Mr Beans.

We did the other 14 episodes
in dribs and drabs.

We didn't make 14 at once.
We made two,

and then we made three more,
and then we made one more,

and then we made four more

and eventually, we got
to this rather paltry sum of 14.

They were always given
a sort of prime spot

and earned their keep there.

And suddenly, you know,
people realised

that visual comedy could
actually hold a large audience.

Oh!

After the overnight success
of episode one,

the team was in need of new material

and comedy writer, Robin Driscoll,
was hired.

In your own time, sir. No rush.

He would also feature in various
sketches as a straight man to Rowan.

I would say in the story
of Mr Bean,

it's Rowan, Robin,
and then possibly me.

I always think in a way
Rowan and I did the obvious ones.

We got the low-hanging fruit.

And what was brilliant about Robin
is that he's just kept, as it were,

squeezing the lemon, finding new
things, finding different ways,

taking a little thread,

be it to do with the car or with
the teddy or anything like that.

My agent rang and said
that they were gonna commission

a bunch of writers just to send in
some scripts to see if any of us

could write for the show
and I just wrote a stack like that.

Richard and Rowan called me in and
said, "We'd love you to join us."

MR BEAN: Oh.

They're the university boys,
the Oxford boys,

and I was the secondary school kid.

Yeah, I was the last in the team.
You know, rough it up a bit.

One of the sketches was one
that I'd actually submitted

in trying to get the job.

And it was being sat in an armchair
on top of the Mini.

And I just thought, no, that'll cost
too much. They'll never do that.

And I watched it the other day

and I thought, "Oh, it's quite good,
isn't it, really?"

A little lap belt, I think,
is holding me in, I think.

That is the huge difference

between filming 30 years ago
and filming now.

Basically, we did everything
for real, and I so preferred that.

I'm sorry to have to tell you that
there is a man hidden in the car

with a small video screen
doing the donkey work.

But still, they're stunts.

CRASH

Even in that sketch,
the sound of a Mini disappearing

into the back of a removal van
into a pile of mattresses,

you know, what is that sound?
And it was mainly...

EXHALES

Oh!

GROANS

Ho-ho.

I like the little moment
when he comes back into his room

and he blows some of the feathers
out of his mouth.

You had other members of crew often,
you know, whispering to me ideas.

One of the set hands
just came up to me

and he just went...

COUGHS

And puffed out a load of feathers.

COUGHS

I like that.
I'd forgotten that joke.

That's rather sweet.

The scripts of purely visual comedy,

non-verbal comedy,
are sort of dull as ditch water.

You know, they're dull to read
and they're dull to deal with.

So it's actually much more fun
just to have a one-line idea.

And then to be
sort of semi-improvising.

And then Richard would be there very
diligently or Robin just, you know,

writing down what I was doing.
And then at least I could remember.

TV WHITE NOISE

WHITE NOISE STOPS,
MUSIC ON TV STARTS PLAYING

MUSIC STOPS,
TV WHITE NOISE

MUSIC ON TV STARTS AGAIN

The simpler it is,
the more extraordinary Rowan is.

MUSIC ON TV STOPS,
WHITE NOISE ON TV

MUSIC ON TV STARTS

WHITE NOISE ON TV

We set such small boundaries,
because we were thinking

almost in terms of theatre
rather than terms

of what you can set up
with a camera.

MUSIC ON TV

WHITE NOISE ON TV

I'm a great believer
that you've got to sit back,

you've got to shoot things wide,

so you can see as much of the body
as you can at any one time.

WHITE NOISE

And you get this feeling
that you are trapped

in that room with Mr Bean.

You're being forced to watch him

in this very voyeuristic,
rather embarrassing way.

But it sort of
generates a laughter, I think.

I think it does.

WHITE NOISE STOPS,
MUSIC STARTS

APPLAUSE

Just frame it and look at it

and stay there
and let the action play out.

CLICKING

If you want a masterclass
in physical comedy,

I would recommend that you
look at the Queen Mother gag.

'You join us as the royal car

'winds its way to the front entrance
of the Odeon cinema.'

It's the perfect set-up
for Mr Bean.

A long line of people
about to do something

or expectant about something,

and then you just kind of stick him
in the middle.

Yes, the funny thing about this

is that it was originally conceived
and supposed to be the Queen Mother.

And of course, what happened is,
you know,

the Queen Mother got older
and the Queen got older

and the Queen started
to look like the Queen Mother.

And so everyone now assumes it's
the Queen that Mr Bean is meeting.

But that was never the intention. It
was supposed to be the Queen Mother.

The man on the left there is a very,
very handsome younger version of me.

I was put into that scene
as a last-minute thing.

Someone else was gonna do it
and I don't know what happened.

But it was a last-minute
insertion of Matilda.

Clearly, Mr Bean knows
that this is a very formal occasion

and you're supposed
to behave like an adult

and you're supposed to stand in line
and wear the right clothing.

And he's got all dressed up. He
feels as though he's done everything

he could possibly do to fit in with
the conventions of polite society.

The expectation and the pay-offs

that build throughout that scene,
I thought was just amazingly clever.

I had this idea
for the one with the Queen.

And I stood in my living room,
I put on a suit,

and I basically
stood still for an hour

thinking, "What might I have?"

Then I'd take my seven ideas,

this could happen, this could
happen, this could happen...

into the rehearsal with Rowan and
they would turn into, you know, 15.

The costume department
put dental floss inside the lace

so that Rowan could actually see it,
this thing at the back,

and just pull it.

And then when I leant forward
to look for the Queen Mother

it just flopped down.

I'm on dirty look
number seven right now.

That's very silly. His finger's
sticking out the trousers.

Very, very silly.

Oh, yeah. Nothing too low.

I like that with comedy,

when you build up to something
really very shocking and surprising.

HEADBUTT THUDS

Oh, yeah.
It wasn't just thrown together.

Yeah, we tried to make it work.

Matilda Ziegler
was subsequently cast as Irma Gobb,

Mr Bean's girlfriend, and was
the show's only returning character.

Irma's character,
I'm so pleased to say,

was actively encouraged
to be a bit sort of stroppy.

DANCE MUSIC

They're equally self-centred,

which is why I thought
they came together really well.

He met his match.

No!

Matilda Ziegler
has got a fantastic deadpan.

All the life drains from her body,

deliberately becoming
part of the background.

TENSE HORROR MOVIE SOUNDTRACK

Except when he goes blank,
and then it's your turn.

SHE SCREAMS

The last episode Irma appeared in
was Merry Christmas Mr Bean.

It was watched
by 19 million viewers.

SHATTERS

Christmas shopping is going on

and Mr Bean
accidentally gets given a baton

to conduct the Salvation Army band
that's playing carols.

Now, you could do that one way,
which is just chaos.

But what we wanted to do
was something much more precise.

BAND PLAY SINGLE NOTE

TWO MORE NOTES

BAND PLAY

BAND STOP AND START

BAND PLAY

And the delight, I think,
is seeing that work itself out

and the fantastic precision
and beauty of his physical comedy.

BAND PLAY

BAND STOP

ONE NOTE ON TUBA

So there were two turkeys,

one of them was absolutely
brilliant, but not quite right.

It was smaller.

And then on the day...

..this thing arrived.

I thought of the idea for the turkey
on a Christmas Day.

CHOIR VOCALISES

Cos I was shoving stuff
into a turkey

and then I just thought, "Oh!"

And just that moment
when he rises up into shock,

"Oh! I wasn't expecting that!"

'Mr Bean walking around
with a turkey on his head

'looks like an alien creature
from another place.

'There's something...
He came from somewhere else.'

Are you all right in there?

Yes, fine, thank you.

Christ alive!
If someone came down from Mars

and saw this, they would destroy
the planet, wouldn't they?

CHURCH ORGAN MUSIC

SHE SCREAMS

The catchphrase
of all the rehearsals was,

"Will they get it in Egypt?".

The idea was that it had to be

something that every person
in the world would get.

Ungh!

POP!

CRASH BELOW

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Within three years
of the first television show...

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Bean.

..Mr Bean
had become a global sensation.

I've never been to Canada before
and it's absolutely splendid.

Some strange survey

declared that I had the seventh
most recognisable face in the world,

and you sort of think...
Well, it's odd.

Our friend, Mr Bean.

LAUGHTER

Sorry, Eric.

Globally, I mean, I think we sold,

I don't know how many television
markets there are, 180 or something,

we've sold in 180.

So he became very, very,
very globally famous.

You know, the internationalist thing

means that people
certainly can enjoy Mr Bean

without speaking
any particular language.

I remember a video signing and
there were policemen on horseback

dispelling the crowds and there
was an extraordinary turn-out.

I remember having
this arch of policemen allowing us

to get out the back of the building
into a car and zoom off,

and I thought, "This is fun", and
Rowan getting in the back saying,

"I'm hating every minute of this".

Cos he doesn't hanker after
that sort of adulation,

whereas I thought
it was an absolute riot.

Well, it almost WAS a riot.

One of the things I love
about Mr Bean and its success

is the strange fact
that it's so English

and at the same time
be so completely international.

Yeah.

LAUGHING

It's odd how such
an inherently selfish

and self-centred person
can generate affection in people.

Oh, come in.

Oh.

Rupert.
Bean.

Hubert.
Bean. Come in.

The likeability of Mr Bean
I think is one of his charms.

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

I suppose it's the sympathy or the
empathy that you have for children,

finding it very difficult
to contain his excitement.

He just gets it slightly wrong.

CLOCK CHIMES

BOTH: Oh, Happy New Year!

Goodness me!

Doesn't time fly
when you're enjoying yourself?

Not easy company.

Good night, thank you for coming.
Thank you.

Oh.

An awful lot of people say to me,

"Oh, wouldn't it be fun
to have dinner with Mr Bean?"

And you think, "No, no, no, no, no,
you don't want to be doing that."

He would ruin your evening.

He's just got that sort of tension
between conformity...

Is everything all right, sir?

Oh, yes.

Are you sure?

Oh, yes.

..and non-conformity, which
I think actually is inside me a bit.

MUSIC GETS LOUDER

LAUGHTER

That fight that Bean has between
doing what you're supposed to do

and doing what he wants to do, the
desire to challenge and to undermine

and to be silly, and to not do
what people expect you to do...

and that's definitely
a big part of me.

LAUGHTER

It's a very interesting
juxtaposition,

but the more you know him, the more
Mr Bean sort of makes sense

because, in a way,
there's an element of Rowan,

the quite lonely school boy
who people didn't talk to

existing in a silent world,
you know, in that character.

It was myself and a friend of mine
who used to run a thing

called the Sixth Form Film Society
when we were at school,

and this was just an excuse
to get a whole lot of, you know,

weird and arty films and enjoy them
really for ourselves

and if anyone else, you know,
wanted to watch them, then fine.

And I remember getting Jacques
Tati's Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

and being so inspired by it.

Yeah, Rowan used to bang on
about Jacques Tati a bit.

The comedy that I'd seen had been
mostly verbal rather than visual,

and it was just
a moment of revelation for me.

It just opened up a world
that I'd never seen before, really,

of a sort of a very particular
kind of comedy which took its time.

That, I think, is a feature actually
of the Mr Bean live action TV,

is that the comedy
actually is never in a rush.

Morning. Do sit down.

Yep.

We have the extremely good
Richard Wilson playing the dentist.

GENTLE HISSING

HISSING STOPS AND STARTS

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

When I met Rowan for the first time,
quiet farmer's son, you know,

studying chemical engineering,

that couldn't have been further
from this extraordinary outpouring

when he just uses
all his physical skills

to be a great silent comedian.

LAUGHTER

I mean, he is very,
very physically skilled.

He makes it look easy.

Well, he doesn't -

he makes it look difficult
for the character, but not for him.

CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS

LAUGHTER

LAUGHTER

And you see how
well-executed that is.

To get the timing of that right
is not easy.

Ah!
Ah!

GROANS

It's all, in a sense,
so very predictable

and yet so gloriously funny.

Mr Bean is in a dentist's chair and
he somehow has managed to contrive

to render unconscious the dentist
that he turned up to see,

then he's got to do it himself.

You know,
he's got to get to the same place,

but via a different route,

and it involves his own ingenuity.

BUZZING

And working out, mechanically,
how the problem could be solved.

That's my brain at work, I'm afraid.

Ah!

LAUGHTER

I think the truth of the matter is,
Mr Bean was huge fun to rehearse,

quite a lot of fun to perform
in the theatre,

and quite hard to film.

Excuse us a minute.
RINGING

Susie?

HE SIGHS
Yeah?

No, no, no, not busy at all.

Yeah?

Yeah, Saturday?

Yeah, yeah.

Sorry, look, can I just leave Jamie
here with you for a moment?

I've left my purse in the shop
back there.

But just give him a good haircut,
will you? Be good, Jamie.

The thing you would find surprising
about watching Rowan rehearse

some of these sketches is how the
atmosphere is really about detail.

Time to stop, but I have a feeling
that if this happened,

that Bean would...

You know, normal people would say,
"Hang on a minute.

"He'll be back in a second and
I'm first," you know what I mean?

He will want to do something again
and again and again

until he's absolutely sure
that he's got it right.

Just popped out for luncheon.

Me, too.

Oh.

Nothing like a quick sandwich.

No, absolutely.

LAUGHTER

When you're actually on the studio
floor trying to make the joke work

and do what I'm supposed to be
good at, which is to perform

and make things work, that's when
it just gets very, very stressful.

LAUGHTER

Rowan is a perfectionist.

He's constantly taking in,
"Is that lighting right?"

"Is that chair the right chair?"

"Is there a draft?
No, I don't think there's a draft,"

and da-da-blah-blah-di-da,

all that is going on inside him.

It's part of that perfectionism that
means that you never lose a laugh.

So wherever there is
a potential funny moment,

the audience will see it.

LAUGHTER

People say,

"Oh, oh, it's so marvellous,
cos he's a perfectionist, you know?"

And I don't regard perfectionism
as a particularly admirable quality.

I think it's more a disease
than a quality,

cos it's very debilitating.

It's very draining.

My flexible friend.

LAUGHTER

I didn't feel the burden
to be funny on The Blackadder,

whereas something like Bean

it does tend to come down to me
and my performance.

You'd definitely get letters now
if you did that.

You can't kill fish like that,
even if they ARE rubber.

Now, that probably
would've taken about 30 takes.

I mean, I can't... He certainly
didn't do it first time.

LAUGHTER

Sometimes I've just got to
get to the point when, literally,

I can't be bothered
to do any more takes.

And maybe, you know,
take 18 is better than take five,

but usually it isn't.

There's definitely a number of looks
that, as a straight man,

you have to make sure
you don't double up on.

So there's the sort of look askance
and the look surprised,

and the look disapproving.

And you have to kind of,
"Which one shall I use here?"

Seven A,
"Oh, we'll use condescending."

After five years
of continuing success...

Good night.

..Good Night Mr Bean was the last
episode to be made for television.

THUD

I felt towards the end
of the 14 episodes that we made

that I felt as though
we'd sort of done it.

You know, not done the character,
necessarily, but done the TV world.

And of course, it was
after that we made the first movie.

Are you feeling lucky, punk?

Seven years after Mr Bean
was first shown on TV,

Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie
was released,

followed by Mr Bean's Holiday.

You speak very good French.

Gracias.

Between them, they took half
a billion dollars at the box office.

# She call me Mr Boombastic

# Telly-fantastic

# Touch me on me back

# She says I'm Mr Ro... #

When we made The Bean Movie in 1996,
we decided to plagiarise ourselves

and use the turkey-on-the-head
joke again.

Hello?

And also shooting in the '90s
was Friends,

the famous American sitcom,
and they stole the joke.

Oh!

Oh, my God!

And of course, when it
came out in the movie everyone said,

"Oh, well, of course
they stole that from Friends".

I'm absolutely dazzled
by the Friends thing.

I only saw it the other day.

I literally can't believe
what happened there.

Bizarre! Bizarre!

But in the end, you know,
you can't steal jokes.

Jokes are there to be stolen
or to inspire... to inspire others.

RINGING

Hello?

We made him talk a lot
in the first Mr Bean movie.

You know,

we decided that he had to talk a lot
in order to tell our story,

sort of like finding another aspect
to him, and I like the way he talks.

Ah, Mr Grierson, yes.

He's just here
in the shower with me.

After the success
of the TV shows and films,

Mr Bean made a surprising move
to a new audience...

Ah! Phew!

Now, to find my card.

How hard can it be?

..when in 2002
Rowan became the voice of Mr Bean

for a children's animation series.

When it came to contriving
an animated series for Mr Bean,

it wasn't conceptually
that big a shift.

Oh, the bargain bucket.

My relationship with the animation
is the single business deal

of which I am most proud,

cos Ro rang me up and said,
you know, "We've got this idea.

"We should do
an animation of Mr Bean,"

and it was a quick phone call
and I remember saying,

"I wouldn't if I were you,"

and I've been receiving cheques
for it ever since.

I find that I can't do the voice,
you know, without, you know,

doing the face.

It has to, you know,
the two have to go together.

MUMBLES

You know, that I tend to,
I very quickly go into it.

That sort of switch
has to be switched

before he becomes
that strange entity.

Go on! Move, you stupid...

Just!

So you've never seen him
in the booth?

I've never seen him in the booth.

Oh! Oh, no!

Teddy!

Oh! Come on!

Ah!

Oh, Teddy!

That is hilarious.
That's even worse than I thought.

Poor Ro. Honestly,
I'm glad he's getting paid.

You know, I think if ever

they made a cartoon
about the adventures of Baldrick

and it was as good as
the cartoon of Mr Bean,

I would be quite happy with that.

I think most of us forget
quite how gloomy the nation was

in the run-up
to the London Olympics.

So when the opening ceremony
happened I think

we were all sitting there,
"Go on, then.

"Prove something to me."

The London Symphony Orchestra
going to play Chariots Of Fire.

Now, that's just poetry, isn't it,
for any Olympian?

So, you know,
the violin started, it was amazing.

And so you're kind of just waiting
for that synthesised bit to come in,

dun, dun, dun, dun,
dun, dun, dun, dun.

We saw the finger, an arm,
and then...

..you saw Mr Bean.

Just genius!

I mean, I just remember
the whole stadium erupting,

and that was
an international stadium.

My heart almost burst when
they cut to Rowan and in some way,

it's symbolising something about the
glorious daftness of our nation.

Bosh!

Beckham, Bean and Bond
in one opening ceremony.

Brilliant!

PIANO MUSIC PLAYS

Quite early on
in the first couple of years,

we began developing
specifically musical sketches.

We later did a sketch, for example,

where the whole stage
was full of an invisible drum kit.

DRUMMING

And I suppose
the legacy of those sketches

ended up in its perhaps
finest moment

at the opening of the
Olympic Games in 2012.

He was never intended to be
Mr Bean, particularly.

He was just a guy in an orchestra

that Richard and I
used to do on stage.

I mean, obviously, because it was me
and cos I was, you know,

trying to be funny without words,
unsurprisingly,

I looked remarkably similar
in terms of his body language

and his general demeanour
to Mr Bean.

It was never meant to be.
It's just me being silly.

And yet, when you go on YouTube
and an astonishing amount of people

have watched it, it says on the
bottom, "Mr Bean at the Olympics".

Even though, you know,

you're in front of endless billions
out there all watching on TV,

bring it all down to the job
that you're doing,

which is basically that.

It wasn't quite perfect when
he took a picture of the audience.

60,000 people laughing at him,

1.2 billion people enjoying it,
and fundamentally,

Ro's just a bit annoyed about the
fact that the flash didn't go off.

MUSIC: 'Heroes'
by David Bowie

It was an enlightened invention.

You know, well done,
Rowan and Richard.

A-ha!

I suppose I always had faith
in its longevity as an idea,

because I thought the idea
was broad and simple.

You know, this idea of a childlike
figure just doing silly things.

The fact that it's lasted is not,
to me,

much more surprising
than the fact that, you know,

Buster Keaton has lasted,
or Charlie Chaplain has lasted.

So if anything was gonna last of our
work, it would probably be Mr Bean.

Get off! What are you doing?

There's a scene in Four Weddings,

which was originally
a Mr Bean sketch in my mind.

It's the one where Hugh Grant's
in a room

and then a couple come in
and you know,

do what couples do,
and he has to hide in a cupboard.

Found it.

You know, Hugh's performance isn't
as funny as Rowan's would've been.

'Now future Mr Bean...'

And I mean, he'd be older,
there's no doubt about that.

Old Bean is what we're
now thinking of doing.

He's always had a kind of grumpy
selfishness, which might adapt well.

I still like him.

I suppose what I mean is
I still find him funny

and I think I can still perform him.

Ugh!

We've had some meetings
and some discussions and some,

sort of, mini rehearsals where we do
exactly what we used to do before.

I hope it happens and then
it'll be another opportunity to see

the original Mr Bean
in his original setting.

You know, dye my hair
and I'm off, I think.

You know, you must never say never.

Here.

Oh.

I mean, it's just been an honour
in my life to have, you know,

worked with someone who's that,
you know,

who's got that basic brilliance.

Yes!

I think of Rowan
as a brother, really.

AS BEAN: Oh.

Oh! What?

GUFFAWS

AS ROWAN: Yeah, something like that.

Right.

Erm, if you're ready, erm,
we can, er...

Hello?

Hello?

Oh!

LOUD POP

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