Ink and Incapability

Blackadder's Peerage-Who's Who
Scroll down and click on the photograph of actor Robbie Coltrane playing Samuel Johnson in the British television series Blackadder the Third. Read the brief text, then click on realvideo clip to view a hilarious bit from the "Ink and Incapability" episode. What do you think makes Johnson and his dictionary such good fodder for parody? Answer in the Web Links Activity Log.