Rowan Atkinson's videos
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This article in part supports the A human as multiple persons article, which points out to Rowan Atkinson's remarkable ability to play very different personalities. One can learn more about the variety of this ability by watching the videos listed. The educational tactic employed is to use hedonism (search for pleasure and enjoyment) and pack in educational objectives; this tactic was used in Comenius' Orbis Pictus picture dictionary with great success.
Some questions the reader can ask as a small analytical exercise:
- Which three different personalities from the videos can be named such that they present the greatest marked difference in played personalities?
- Which personalities have marked pronunciation peculiarities? What are those peculiarities?
- What speech mannerisms or patterns of speech characteristic of certain kinds of speakers or professions can one identify in various scenes?
Some Rowan Atkinson's original videos:
- Rowan Atkinson Live channel, youtube.com
- Official Rowan Atkinson Live - Full length standup, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - The Devil 'Toby' welcomes you to Hell, youtube.com, an older video
- Rowan Atkinson: Toby the Devil - We Are Most Amused and Amazed, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - Drunks in an Indian Restaurant, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - Tom, Dick and Harry, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - Headmaster kills student, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - Amazing Jesus, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - Award Ceremony Bad Loser, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson Live - With friends like these AKA the wedding from hell, youtube.com
- Dr. Bean's SPEECH | Bean Movie | Funny Clips | Mr Bean Official, youtube.com
- John Cleese & Rowan Atkinson, youtube.com
- John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - Beekeeping, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson - Interview with Elton John, youtube.com
- Not the Nine O'Clock News - Monty Pythons worshipers, youtube.com
- Rowan Atkinson in-depth interview 1993, youtube.com -- in some sense, the "real" Rowan Atkinson