One man and a baby

Rowan Atkinson is on babysitting duties in comedy series Man Vs Baby

- WORDS: JO BERRY

In the four-part sitcom Man Vs Baby, comedy legend Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of Trevor Bingley, who we first met in 2022's Man Vs Bee, because “he is one of the nicest characters I have ever played”.

While all of Rowan’s characters are loved by the public, they're arguably not the nicest bunch.

“Blackadder is a pretty relentlessly cynical, negative man. Mr Bean is a very selfish, self-centred, childish man. They're not very nice people,” he says. “Nice people tend not to be funny. It's easier to make a slightly unpleasant person funny. People with fault lines a mile wide are more fun. Trevor is relentlessly well-meaning. Trevor perhaps represents the nicer side of me, while the other characters are perhaps the darker side of me.”