“Mr. Bean”: “The joke always has the potential to offend”

“Mr.  Bean”: “The joke always has the potential to offend”

“There is no joke that does not have its B side: the side of the victim,” Graham Greene once said. His compatriot Rowan Atkinson, better known as Mr. Bean for the role that made him famous, thinks exactly the same, but he does not do it as a condemning expression of the joke, but, on the contrary, as his reason for being . Atkinson did indeed take a stand against “cancel culture” in a recent interview with the Irish Times (a culture the author of “The Power and the Glory” and “The Third Man” never heard of). in life). Atkinson said the point of the joke, of comedy in general, “is to offend or at least have the potential to offend.” The English comedian, who in addition to Mr. Bean is also famous for playing the protagonists of “Blackadder” and “Johnny English”. will premiere on Netflix the comedy series “Man vs. Bee” (“Man versus bee”).

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