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1/1 ROWAN Atkinson has said he does not much enjoy playing Mr Bean and finds it “stressful and exhausting”. The South Oxfordshire actor first debuted the childish character, accompanied by his brown teddy bear and yellow Mini, in his self-titled sitcom in January 1990 and it has been a global phenomenon, spawning films, books and an animated series. In 2012, Rowan reprised his character for a live performance as part of the London 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Mr Bean continues to be popular 30 years later, amassing more followers on Facebook than Justin Bieber but Rowan now says: “Mr Bean’s success has never surprised me. Watching an adult behaving in a childish way without being remotely aware of his inappropriateness is fundamentally funny.
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If the answer is 42, what was the question?
Well done you at the back shouting: “What’s the meaning of life, the universe and everything?”
That, though, is not the answer – although 2021 does mark 42 years since Douglas Adam’s genius novelisation of the radio show, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, was published.
Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, had the answer to life, the universe and everything.
The comedy performers, writers and actors who died this year
January
Terry Jones, Python. 77. Here are some favourite anecdotes about him.
Johnny Carroll, the Birmingham-born star of 1970s show The Comedians who later fell on hard times, 78.
Nicholas Parsons, the former straightman to Arthur Haynes and Benny Hill, who hosted Radio 4 s Just A Minute since its inception in 1967, 96. Here are just some of his screen appearances.
Jack Burns – the former comedy partner of George Carlin who went on to co-create the Muppet Show, 86
February
Kellye Nakahara, who played Lieutenant Nurse Kellye Yamato on M A S H, 72.
Sweet Steve, one of the quirkier characters on London’s open mic comedy scene
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