I really like the idea that he's just sitting on stage saying rude words - it's quit a silly concept, but elevated by the execution.
The next up for me was this - his interview with Elton John.
So good.
Not too shabby.
Tom Lehrer used to teach mathematics at MIT. I think he went back to that, after his musical career.
There are quite a few famous comedians with an Oxbridge connection, leading to the following throwaway gag in the Burkiss Way:
"In today’s profile on comedy we visit the new one night show at Her Majesty’s Theatre by Siberian salt mine workers in aid of people all over the world who are, for one reason or another, Oxbridge comedy geniuses. Also, later on in the show, Wither Rowan Atkinson. A blast furnace manufacturer shows how it’s possible."
And in today's lesson, we learn that I still have a ways to go in project estimation...
He does both physical and verbal. If you ever watch Mr. Bean, it's entirely physical, and, in Blackadder, he almost never shuts up (but there's still plenty of physical humor).