He's a damn good mime, I'll give him that, also a clown in the truest sense of the word. It just sets my teeth on edge whenever something else he's done, say Not The Nine O'Clock News or Black Adder, comes on and someone goes "Ooh look, it's Mr Bean!" I get the same thing with Hugh Laurie and House, which is why I mentioned it in the same breath. I bet that's how Leonard Nimoy felt in the seventies, trying to point out to people he could do other things besides wear pointy ears and say "fascinating".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'