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 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. This incarnation of the character was forced to flee his home country for England, in order to escape the French Revolution. The latter character is shown opposite Edmund Blackadder, played by Rowan Atkinson, who played the previous incarnation of the character. He was later revealed to be a disguise adopted by Prince George's friend Lord Topper, alias the Scarlet Pimpernel