Editing Blackadder (section)

====Guest cast====
[[Ben Elton]]'s arrival from ''Blackadder II'' onwards heralded the more frequent recruitment of comic actors from the [[alternative comedy]] era for guest appearances, including [[Robbie Coltrane]], [[Rik Mayall]] (who had appeared in the final episode of ''The Black Adder'' as "Mad Gerald"),<ref>{{cite web|title=The Black Adder, The Black Seal (TV Episode 1983) - Cast credits - IMDb|url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0526540/fullcredits/cast?ref_=m_ttfc_3|publisher=IMDb|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref> [[Adrian Edmondson]], [[Nigel Planer]], [[Mark Arden]], [[Stephen Frost]], [[Chris Barrie]] and [[Jeremy Hardy]].<ref name="Bacast" /> Elton himself played an anarchist in ''Blackadder the Third''.<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC One - Blackadder, Blackadder the Third, Sense and Senility|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078wqx|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref>

[[Gabrielle Glaister]] played [[Bob (Blackadder character)|Bob]], an attractive girl who poses as a man, in both ''Blackadder II'' and ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', where in the latter her official title is Driver Parkhurst.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gabrielle Glaister - British Comedy Guide|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/gabrielle_glaister/|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref> One episode each of  ''Blackadder II'' and ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' feature [[Rik Mayall]] as [[Lord Flashheart]], a vulgar friend in his first appearance and then a successful rival of Blackadder in his second. He also played a decidedly Flashheart-like [[Robin Hood]] in ''Back & Forth''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rik Mayall - British Comedy Guide|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/rik_mayall/?medium=tv&role=#creditsTab|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref> [[Lee Cornes]] appeared in one episode each of the Curtis/Elton-written series; as a guard in the ''Blackadder II'' episode "Chains"; as the poet [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]] in the ''Blackadder the Third'' episode "Ink and Incapability"; and as firing squad soldier [[Private (rank)|Private]] Fraser in the ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' episode "Corporal Punishment".<ref>{{cite web|title=Lee Cornes - British Comedy Guide|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lee_cornes/?medium=tv&role=1#creditsTab|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref>

More established actors, some at the veteran stage of their careers, were also recruited for roles. These included [[Peter Cook]], [[John Grillo]], [[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]], [[Tom Baker]], [[Jim Broadbent]], [[Hugh Paddick]], [[Frank Finlay]], [[Kenneth Connor]], [[Bill Wallis]], [[Ronald Lacey]], Roger Blake, [[Denis Lill]], [[Warren Clarke]] and [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]], who played [[Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig|Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig]] in "[[Goodbyeee]]", the final episode of ''Blackadder Goes Forth''. [[Miriam Margolyes]] played three different guest roles: The Spanish Infanta in  "[[The Queen of Spain's Beard (Blackadder)|The Queen of Spain's Beard]]" (''The Black Adder''), Lady Whiteadder in "[[Beer (Blackadder)|Beer]]" (''Blackadder II''), and [[Queen Victoria]] in ''Blackadder's Christmas Carol''.<ref name="Bacast">{{cite web|title=Full Blackadder cast and crew credits - British Comedy Guide|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/blackadder/cast_crew/full/|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref>

Unusually for a sitcom based loosely on factual events and in the historical past, a man was recruited for one episode essentially to play himself. Political commentator [[Vincent Hanna]] played a character billed as "his own great-great-great grandfather" in the ''Blackadder the Third'' episode "[[Dish and Dishonesty (Blackadder)|Dish and Dishonesty]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC One - Blackadder, Blackadder the Third, Dish and Dishonesty|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078w78|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref> Hanna was asked to take part because the scene was of a by-election in which Baldrick was a candidate and, in the style of modern television, Hanna gave a long-running "live" commentary of events at the count (and interviewed candidates and election agents) to a crowd through the [[town hall]] window.<ref>{{cite news|last=Butler|first=Mark|title=When Blackadder turned election farce into inspired comedy|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/blackadder-election-episode-dish-and-dishonesty-69440?srsltid=AfmBOoq0gpjVkW7HTNrdntJt0_Zjt_L4LlqL-LSTCnmUpACHTbQgGLmW|date=5 June 2017|newspaper=The i Paper|accessdate=10 February 2025}}</ref>