British Comedy Guide

Rowan Atkins

  • Musical creative and singer

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Rowan Atkinson's Comic Relief sketch attracts complaints

More than 2,000 complaints have been made to the BBC about Rowan Atkinson's Archbishop of Canterbury sketch shown on Red Nose Day.

British Comedy Guide, 19th March 2013

Comedy gold - Rowan Atkinson Live

These early sketches may feel outdated but their irresistible skill and silliness will have you sniggering like a schoolchild.

Leo Benedictus, The Guardian, 28th February 2013

Rowan Atkinson's McLaren car costs insurers £1m

Rowan Atkinson landed his insurance company with a £910,000 repair bill after crashing his beloved McLaren F1 supercar, it has emerged.

Victoria Ward, The Telegraph, 7th February 2013

Rowan Atkinson to perform sketch for Red Nose Day

Rowan Atkinson will appear as the Archbishop of Canterbury in a sketch for Comic Relief. Other Red Nose Day stars will include Michael McIntyre and Miranda Hart.

British Comedy Guide, 31st January 2013

Rowan Atkinson back on stage in 'serious' role

Rowan Atkinson, star of Blackadder, has returned to the West End stage in what he calls "the most... overtly serious role" he has ever undertaken.

BBC News, 29th January 2013

theartsdesk Q&A: comedian Rowan Atkinson

The face of Blackadder and Mr Bean on a life spent entertaining and taking on a tragicomedy.

Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 19th January 2013

Rowan Atkinson preserves our right to be insulting

Ministers agreed to scrap a law outlawing 'insulting words or behaviour' last night after a campaign led by comedian Rowan Atkinson.

Daily Mail, 15th January 2013

Rowan Atkinson stars in new Blackadder bankers sketch

The first new Blackadder material in a decade was performed last night at the Royal Albert Hall in front of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, with Sir Edmund Blackadder now chief executive of a bailed-out bank.

Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 29th November 2012

Rowan Atkinson suggests end is in sight for Mr Bean

Rowan Atkinson, the actor, has admitted that he plans to abandon the comic character of Mr Bean in favour of more cerebral roles on the stage.

Victoria Ward, The Telegraph, 17th November 2012

Rowan Atkinson: We must be free to insult each other

Rowan Atkinson is demanding a change in the law to halt the 'creeping culture of censoriousness' which has seen the arrest of a Christian preacher, a critic of Scientology and even a student making a joke.

Daniel Martin, Daily Mail, 18th October 2012

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