It can't, be, can it?
It doesn't sound like him, hmm maybe it does, just a bit.
There is something about the voice, the inflection? No, not quite.
This conversation is too measured, it's quite intelligent really,
Nope, it definitely can't be him.
He's too much of an idiot, too daft for words.
There's no way he could think, let alone think several insightful thoughts in sequence and make interesting comments, is there?

Isn't it amazing just how a character becomes attached to its creator and sticks. It is the cleverness and skill of the actor that pulls it off, yet it is those very abilities that can make the credibility of the actor, as a person in his own right, difficult to believe in; it is that ability over many years of impressing a character's image into the public mind, that makes him, the actor, so incredibile.

Tonight I heard Rowan Atkinson in sensible discussion and I found it really difficult to accept that he and Mr Bean could be so separate and so different from one another. It struck me that being typecast with your most famous characterisation, may not be the cleverest career outcome. It keeps an income stream flowing into the bank account, of course, but I do wonder if, Rowan Atkinson would like to be remembered for other roles and other abilities, other than being the chief court jester and idiot in the English-speaking world of comedy.