Remember When James Acaster's Girlfriend Dumped Him for Mr. Bean?

James Acaster is a British comedian and one of the top-five all-time favorite Taskmaster guests. He’s fantastic. We’ve talked about him before, in the way that he thumbed his nose at Ricky Gervais types; about his terrible experience on the Great British Bake-Off, and even that episode of his food podcast where Paul Rudd confessed that he doesn’t like condiments. Weird.

One of my other favorite James Acaster stories — relayed in his stand-up special Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 — was about how his girlfriend broke up with him, and a year later, he was reading the papers and learned that she had left him for … Rowan Atkinson. “I got left for Mr. Bean. No one else in the history of time has ever been left for Mr. Bean,” he joked, also adding that he was a saint for not using the story earlier, keeping it in his back pocket out of respect.

I love that Acaster has made it part of his persona. It really has very little otherwise to do with the trailer I’m about to show you, except that it’s a Netflix movie starring Rowan Atkinson, and honestly, the story about James Acaster is much more interesting. The movie is called Man vs. Baby, and no thanks. I hate it.

Man vs. Baby arrives on Netflix on December 11th.