Le Comte de Frou Frou

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Le Comte de Frou Frou is a fictional character, that has featured twice in British comedy.

He first appeared in an early eighties Not The Nine O'clock News sketch, where, as the Belgian Chargé d'Affaires, played by one Rowan Atkinson, he attempted to explain to Mel Smith the finer points of Belgian table manners.

The name resurfaced later that decade, when Frou Frou appeared in Blackadder the Third, this time as a disgruntled, homesick French aristocrat, played by Tim McInnerny, forced to flee France for England, to escape the horrors of the French Revolution. It is apt that this character is revealed to be a disguise assumed by the Scarlet Pimpernel, as McInnerny's previous Blackadder character shares the same first name with the literary Pimpernel: Percy Blakeney. The latter character is shown opposite Edmund Blackadder, played Rowan Atkinson, the actor of the former.