I just want to mention how proud I am of the little ball of sunshine, Quinta. From BuzzFeed skits to an HBO comedy series. She has made it so far! We have to stan
It's a work of art, masterful, genius. If I had written it, I'd be so proud of myself, I'd be running through the streets yelling the URL to the world!
I feel like it absolutely captures the spirit of the original while still being fun, unique, and updated - also I choked laughing, so that's a good sign
I don't think people realize how BRILLIANT this is. To parody classic Shakespeare along with pop culture references and hip hop, in a way that is both hilarious but also sweet is simply GENIUS.
Bardi Gang: "Okrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" Barbz: "Confound me not with that foul sound; I'll fight ni**as, don't end up in the ground. Me, slowly: 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 This skit was brilliant!
The magazine, The Atlantic breaks down the theory. The article mentions Amelia Bassano may have been Shakespeare. It states she was part Jewish / Italian with dark complexion.
Tyler and Quinta have amazing chemistry!!! Great sketch! I absolutely love them on Abbott Elementary too, I get this huge smile whenever they're in a scene together 💖💖🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Seeing as they're planning to make Janine and Gregory the slowest of slow burns on Abbott Elementary. I keep coming back to this and have to treat this as an alternate reality where they got together much younger.
I think that actually, in his time, Shakespeare was considered slang and crude by those in aristocracy until the queen approved it and helped market it.
@@TheArtofBeingReacts lol I'm not sure the gentile colonizers would agree with that, but I do believe reading something about hiw the grand old English we know today that sounds majestic to us was crude and low class in rigid 16th century England
Fati Z to catch an L is to lose, do something that makes you look like a loser, embarrass yourself etc. So he “caught an L” by not stanning Nicki and losing his followers and their respect. He did that for her. So now he wants her to do the same for him.
This is def among my top 5 BLSS skits. The draft blending of Shakespearean English with AAVE and the brilliant conversations of important plot points to relevant modern equivalents (ie: the couple's suicide from an actual one to a social one via sns) make this imo one of, if not the most clever modern retelling of the classic tale I've ever seen and they did it in under 5mins.
Honestly the best and creative and modern interpretation of romeo and juliet i've ever seen!!! AND it's hilarious. Black women can literally do anything and make it great
what's it to ya!? Shakespeare lived like a rap star, too: had a wife with with whom he had a bunch of kids, had mad flow, banged chicks and dudes on the side.
@@missdaliesh do it! Since most curriculums include this type of poetry, using this as a modern take on it will help Black children (especially) have a better grasp on it. I wish I had a teacher who would've done this.
@@thandie67 Yes they did great. But I have to thank my freshman high school English Lit teacher Ms. Avery for teaching me Elizabethan and making Shakespeare fun and Mrs Scarato for the Greek mythology.
Man lmao! I can only imagine the laughs and cackling in the writers room and on set everyday. I used to talk like this with some of my teammates! I love this. Thank you for this show!!! And it's all women with they creative asses !!!
The writing is so good on this show. I love when a sketch can let both the acting and the script shine harmoniously. This show keeps getting better and better
Props to the brilliant ladies who wrote these sketches. I hope this show does very well. “Lest you denounce your fandom, our family won’t work.... for whom dear Rome will our children twerk?” is just pure genius.
“Lest you denounce your fandom, our family won’t work.. for whom dear Rome will our children twerk” 💀🤣🤣🤣
Hella Funny 😂😂🤣💀
🤣🤣🤣 I fainted on that part!!!!!
Laugh so hard..thus laughed did I till it did hurt!
Best line
Hahahahaha 😂
I just want to mention how proud I am of the little ball of sunshine, Quinta. From BuzzFeed skits to an HBO comedy series. She has made it so far! We have to stan
riley66tennyson
She was one of the best Buzzfeed people - glad she is finding success.
And let's not forget how she originally started out with the "he got money" memes. I'm so proud of her come up!
Omg thank you!! It was driving me crazy trying to figure where I’ve seen her from.
@@GeeAyeEm1 wait, iZombie still comes on? Didn't know that
riley66tennyson Stan hard!!!
I don’t think people understand how good the writing is right here. The show is dope
If they don't understand something is truly wrong....who the fuk writes these
Let's be honest, this is not the first time an all or mainly black cast hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. Think "The Wire".
Truly amazing, witty, and creative!
It's a work of art, masterful, genius. If I had written it, I'd be so proud of myself, I'd be running through the streets yelling the URL to the world!
Way too dope man lol
To date one of the best Romeo and Juliet parodies I’ve ever seen
I concur
Don't know how I missed these episodes thanks RUclips
I feel like it absolutely captures the spirit of the original while still being fun, unique, and updated - also I choked laughing, so that's a good sign
facts
I think the best
I don't think people realize how BRILLIANT this is. To parody classic Shakespeare along with pop culture references and hip hop, in a way that is both hilarious but also sweet is simply GENIUS.
"For whom dear Rome would our children twerk?" lmaoooo... Did i hear correctly?
Daniel React TV That’s the exact part I lost it at 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Line of the episode 😂
Had to put the subtitles on to make sure 😂
Daniel React TV it killed me lol
Right 😂😂😂
This is my favorite sketch so far! It's modern. Its black American culture. It's Shakespearean and poetic. It's hilarious.
Whitney Tolliver this is genius
+ It’s a play on the Leonardo Dicaprio and Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juliet 🥰🥰🥰 this is epic!
You said it perfectly!
So genius 💪🏾
Exactly!! Well said!
"Without you, I wouldn't even wish to draw breath. So, if we can't be together alive then, let's get it poppin in death."
Hella romantic.
Michael G poppin in death tho lol
Michael G Omg 😂😂😂
Handsome
@@annettewilliams0219 this bird box I may let you hit
Mr Tony Williams done 😂😂
"This bird box I may let you hit." I loved how wide his eyes got when he said "bet."
Aiight bet
Lindsey Webster hilarious 😂😂😂
Word
Emmy worthy! SNL wishes they could write a sketch this well.
That ParT!! 👈🏾 😆
Truth!!
@dsassiest1981 Salute HBO always introduces young black talent
Apples and Oranges. SNL is a live performance on a broadcast network.
They could, if they would hire more black writers
“My love is true, if yours is too then catch these Ls I caught for you” 😂😂😂😂
Miya Payne 😂😂😂😂yes!
🤣🤣🤣
This is beyond genius!!!!
Ayy this line though. 😂😂
Miya Payne my favorite line
This whole story was only 4.5 minutes. I thought I was watching a good ass movie
Neutricity Right?!
that is hilarious.
They could make a hip hop Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
So true
It's so sweet😍
I love this concept! It's genius! Mad funny too!
"Fuck! I love thee okurrr"
yes, yes, yes!!!
Yup, reminds me of Martin's Homeo and Juliet. Classic
I love this because now they're on Abbott Elementary together aaaa
like star crossed lovers
When I rewatched this kiss...I was like oh we already have chemistry! love them On Abbot's Elementary..I'm so proud of Quinta♥️♥️♥️
Bardi Gang: "Okrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr"
Barbz: "Confound me not with that foul sound; I'll fight ni**as, don't end up in the ground.
Me, slowly: 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
This skit was brilliant!
I thought she said cosign me not lol...
@@RakelDaNell She did
"I just play time's greatest rapper Iggy Azalea"
lmaoooo I hate y'all sometimes
Nothing unites the houses like a common enemy.
Lol that was so much SHADE 😄
Was she really? I gotta Google that one.
T C she was...she was.
@@kimbatamashek913 da fuck?
Shakespeare would be proud ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾deadass the degree of creativity, lingo, metaphoric expression 😍
Not shakespeare, but the woman who wrote his plays.
ZipperSkull 😂😂😂 LMAO 😆 yoooooo real talk, totally forgot about that 🤷🏽♀️🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 remind us sis!!!!
ZipperSkull wasnt it some dude????
Don't forget there is a theory floating around the Internet that the true Shakespeare is a Black Italian woman.
The magazine, The Atlantic breaks down the theory. The article mentions Amelia
Bassano may have been Shakespeare. It states she was part Jewish / Italian with dark complexion.
Rome, dear cuz, has thou lost thy natural mind? She reps for she who writes not her own rhymes!
🙌🦄🤣
😂😂😂😂 favorite line
I HOLLERED 😭😭😭💀💯
, 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dude I have officially lost my mind. That was bars for days
That was a good one 😂😂😂😂
I actually had my students watch this when they read Romeo and Juliet. B R I L L I A N T writing.
It’s the iambic pentameter of it all. ❤️
Did they like it?
@@PunofHarts yes, they even tried to do their own
@@alaricblair3264 This warms my heart
@@alaricblair3264 great teacher
Tyler and Quinta have amazing chemistry!!! Great sketch! I absolutely love them on Abbott Elementary too, I get this huge smile whenever they're in a scene together 💖💖🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
You spoke no lies. They have really hot kisses. 😊
And Tyler looks and feels so different here, crazy range!
"To whom, dear Rome, will our children twerk?" 😭 beautiful
leesway Lmao! “Beautiful” 😂
SugarPoP beautiful took me out too 🤣
😭😭the writers have no sense
Can we just discuss how genius this is? Black Women really are GREAT at this! Give them more shows AMERICA!!!
Elijah Williams right like this is phenomenal I live to see black women in quirky fun roles !! I love it
ALL SHOWS MATTER!
@@emmanuelgathara696 😂🤣😂🤣😂
Right? This is some of the smartest comedy I've seen in a long time.
Damn i came for a "ALL WOMEN ARE GREAT" response😂 guess I'm too early ill come back later on tonight😆😆
"Like Cardi and Offset on and off again, Nicki and any of her questionable men..." 🤣😂
I cackled 😂😂😂😂😂
Ahhh yes, the shade on this line. 😂
...just all kinds of shade...poor Nicki!! 🤦🏽♀️😀
I did not appreciate that line, but it was funny and factual.😆
😂😂😂
Seeing as they're planning to make Janine and Gregory the slowest of slow burns on Abbott Elementary. I keep coming back to this and have to treat this as an alternate reality where they got together much younger.
Yess this
😂🎉😂😂😂😂
Finally we don’t have to worry wait no more 😊
This is stupidly hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂 and I can see why Quinta chose Tyler to be Gregory. They have bomb chemistry
That was actually cute. Shakespeare with slang. Instead of Montagues & Capulets, it's Cardi Stans & Nicki Stans.
Very creative.
I think that actually, in his time, Shakespeare was considered slang and crude by those in aristocracy until the queen approved it and helped market it.
@@caldehh Clever
Martin did this back in '97 on his show. Genius.
@@caldehh I'd love to hear more...people are saying Shakespeare may have been a black woman??!
@@TheArtofBeingReacts lol I'm not sure the gentile colonizers would agree with that, but I do believe reading something about hiw the grand old English we know today that sounds majestic to us was crude and low class in rigid 16th century England
“Has thou lost thy natural mind?” 😂😂😂🤣
Omg is that Everybody Hates Chris ? No wayzzzz... soooo grown！
Holly is that really him
Wow,he looks great !
And so sexy 😫
Yep, when I saw the kiss I felt like a parent seeing his kid parting away XD
Ikr
I cried at "catch these Ls I’ve caught for you " How romantic
Ginikachi Udonsi My favorite line 😂
What does it mean ?
Fati Z to catch an L is to lose, do something that makes you look like a loser, embarrass yourself etc. So he “caught an L” by not stanning Nicki and losing his followers and their respect. He did that for her. So now he wants her to do the same for him.
That was my line, too❣
@@brioche8123 I needed that! I interpreted it as Ls as love. As in catch these Loves I caught for you!
This is flipping brilliant
Great to see others enjoying the multi-level creativity and cleverness. Not to mention how funny it was !!
Less you denounce your fandom
Our family won’t work.
For whom, dear Rome, would our children twerk???
🤣🤣
😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾♀️
The best line
That's my favorite line! 🙋🏿♀️😆😆😆😆🤦🏿♀️
*Lest
Nicki and any of her questionable men 😂😂😂 FAVOURITE SKETCH EVER!
Died 🤣🤣
"Cosign me not with that foul sound"....I'm stealing it....lol!!!!
Miss me with that bullshit never sounded so poetic
Edward James fowl
@@mekadoz6586 Foul is correct
🤣😭😭
...”she raps but she writes not her own rhymes” I’m dead and currently at my funeral
🤣🤣😂
She reps for she who writes not! Her own rhymes
"Catch these L's I've caught for you" > To part is such sweet sorrow
"So begins my quick and painful end
My love tis true
If yours is too, catch these Ls i've caught for you"
Gabriel lmaooo fav line
Gabriel it’s beautiful 😭
I love it because people look really foolish beefing on social media about people they have never met and don’t know👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Right😂
☝👏👏👏so true
Fr 😂
Lol
Exactly
At first I was like “huh?” 🤔
Then I was “wait, what?” 🧐
Then I was like “ooooooh” 🤯
Same, girl. Same!
In that order lol
Same girl 🤯.. straight genius!
Yes
This is def among my top 5 BLSS skits. The draft blending of Shakespearean English with AAVE and the brilliant conversations of important plot points to relevant modern equivalents (ie: the couple's suicide from an actual one to a social one via sns) make this imo one of, if not the most clever modern retelling of the classic tale I've ever seen and they did it in under 5mins.
Imo this retelling feels a lot wittier and more natural than, say, the Baz Luhrmann version from the 90s.
I would pay cash money to see their version of Macbeth!
As an English teacher, I approve this message.
“For whom dear Rome will our children twerk?”
That question has plagued man for many centuries
Honestly the best and creative and modern interpretation of romeo and juliet i've ever seen!!! AND it's hilarious. Black women can literally do anything and make it great
💯💯
Facts
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
"In truth, my love, we can never kick it."
Shakespeare would stan.
"And thus, with a kiss, I die my n*gga" 🤣😭
"Rome, dear cous, has thou last thy natural mind? She reps for she who reps not her own rhymes!"
what's it to ya!? Shakespeare lived like a rap star, too: had a wife with with whom he had a bunch of kids, had mad flow, banged chicks and dudes on the side.
what's it to ya!? About pretty men? William wrote TO pretty men, as well.
Dang. This is poetry. Iambic Pentameter and everything.
this sketch is the reason i'm watching abbott elementary. these two are so funny together!!!
That show is gold! I love the principal
This legit has me wanting a hip hop inspired Black Romeo and Juliet
DarkMatter11k proud family did that kind of..
+1000
Don't give Lin Manuel Miranda any ideas!
I enjoyed. Thankfully it had subtitles for us old white ladies.
Y’all know what to do!
“Catch these L’s I’ve caught for you” This👏Is👏Poetry👏
SugarPoP best line ever
Fauckin crazy, but it is!!!
SugarPoP I don’t get it
OKRRRR! Co-sign me not with that foul sound!😂😂
Tirelo Mputle 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
Tirelo Mputle tis death to mine ears and most bitter on mine tongue!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Their chemistry I cannot y’all. Abbott elementary slow burn killing me so I gotta come here
I’m so happy that they’re doing Abbott Elementary together now!!
This is legitimately some of the best Shakespear adaptation I've ever seen, the rhyming schemes were so well written
"....she reps for she who writes not her own rhymes... "😂😂😂😂
I love that
Yoooo this is some multidimensional HIGH ART
FACTZZZ
Oh he's finnnnneee! Chris really grew up.
🗣SAY IT AGAIN
YES PLEASE!! My childhood crush on this boy was REVIVED!
Wait...is this Chris, like EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS?
Fedora McClaren yep and cyrus from let it shine
Too bad he’s dating a white chick 🙄 a waste
Whoever wrote this is a GENIUS
This has been my absolute favorite smart funny super creative meets literary
Definitely!
Remember when Martin did this? Homeo and Juliet?😂
“Wayment, a suicide pact?” Shakepheare left right out of her vocabulary. 😂 2:39
This is the second best skit periodt! Black Lady Courtroom is undefeated.
No, airplane skit still at number 1!
I too love Black Lady Courtroom
Agreed. Those two alone are Emmy-worthy.
Always.
Bad bitch support group is THE best!!
Losing followers for something you believe in - the accuracy. Fantastic sketch on so many levels!
I'm buying this entire show when it becomes available. I need to own this piece of history to show the little ones that come up after me🥰💯
Yeah, the hubby and I said the SAME thing.
I feel like this could be actually used in English classes...😆
Nah. Too much profanity.
Sad but true.
I'm an English professor, so I can say, it will be. Modern literature at its best.
@@missdaliesh do it! Since most curriculums include this type of poetry, using this as a modern take on it will help Black children (especially) have a better grasp on it. I wish I had a teacher who would've done this.
This was just genius!!! Mixing today's colloquialisms with Shakespearean iambic pentameter. I was dying after the social suicide 😂😂😂
With the slow burn we getting on Abbott this is going to help me press on till the end 😃
Thank you girl that’s why I tuned in ❤️❤️❤️❤️ hope this holds me till then
This is like a full circle moment from this to Abbott Elementary
Who thinks of these things. They are amazing and hilarious 😂😂😂
Exactly!
A bunch of genius and clever black women.
Days in the writing room
The DJ does lol....she is the creator, executive producer, main writer and star of the show!
Writers
This is how one now learns English Literature. Lol Deep!
This is how I helped my daughter and her friends pass their William Shakespeare tests and Greek mythology project
@@ninapop821 congratulations to your daughter and well done to you for making it fun.
@@thandie67 Yes they did great. But I have to thank my freshman high school English Lit teacher Ms. Avery for teaching me Elizabethan and making Shakespeare fun and Mrs Scarato for the Greek mythology.
No joke: using common language alongside verse is actual Shakespeare. Baz Lurman wishes he could. Actual art 1000/10
The Romeo and Juliet remake we’ve all been waiting for.
The writing, the rhymes, the shade towards shallowness ✊🏾
I know this is suppose to be funny but I saw it as art tbh. Love love love, translated poetry
Absolutely! This was art.
Don't let the humor make you miss the message! This was so dope🙌🏽
@
I agree this was dope
Right!
What was it
Mitchell Stevens celebrities fans having beef on social media
This was so extraordinarily original! This is way more than a skit show. It makes you 💭
Who ever wrote this deserves an award
“She reps for she who writes not her own rhymes” 😂😂😂
co-sign me not with that foul sound!🤣🤣. I'll have to find some way to use that.
I love these Queens. The show is just getting better and better 😂
Man lmao! I can only imagine the laughs and cackling in the writers room and on set everyday. I used to talk like this with some of my teammates! I love this. Thank you for this show!!! And it's all women with they creative asses !!!
The song playing during the moment Rome Zolanski and Julissa B Venom first lock eyes is called "Just Like Giants" by James Everingham
Soyin B. Luxe thank you!!
Thank you!!
Thank you
And to know, they now are on Abbott Elementary. Definite chemistry!
I love this, this skit is not only funny but genius, relevant ... this show just keeps getting better and better
When you've taken the ordinary and have made it extraordinary! Pure genuis. Shakespeare, would have loved the play on his words!
“Catch these L’s that I caught for you” BOIIIII lmaoooooo I am HERE FOR THIS
That awkward moment when your name is Julissa but you don’t have a Rome 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
As a student of Shakespeare, this was on point. The rhyme and meter were pure iambic pentameter. Very impressed.
That sketch was so well done most people won't get the first time.
agree this is good and not for the people that don't pay attention and that has a low attention span.
Seems like most do get it and love it
The writing is so good on this show. I love when a sketch can let both the acting and the script shine harmoniously. This show keeps getting better and better
LMFAO Nicki and her questionable men 😂😂😂 y'all play too much
😂😂😂
😅😅😅 Girl, they ain't playin'!!
And Cardi and Offset on again off again 😭💀
💕Ms. Teagues & Mr. Eddie 💕 ‘Abbott Elementary’
this is like alternate universe abbott elementary fanfic
THIS WAS THE BEST. I aint even gon lie. This entire episode was the best one yet. I LOVE THIS.
This woman bout 2 go dwn a comedy GOD she filling dat slot Dave Chapelle left wt skit work and she genius period
Period!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
@@Allthingsworktogether1125 flat out
@@Chris-rg6nm Robin Thede.
GENIUS
I can’t 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I rapped Romeo and Juliet in English as a project in full Romeo hip hop gear 🤗... I was before my time ❤️ It!
awesome!
Another year has passed and I'm back again! This sketch was just perfection......if they reference it in Abbott Elem I will LOSE IT!!!!!!
My jaw dropped on how they were full Shakespeare with hood vibe flawlessly. Skit was perfection.
Can we talk about how handsome every buddy hates Chris is ! Glow up is real ! LOL
Is that 'Chris' from Everybody hates Chris? 👀
Zari yup
I had to do a double take.
Thank u for noticing
Yes and he's kinda hot now. Lol
This show has to win an award, literally every sketch they've made is hilarious 😭
Wayment is that Chris from Everybody hates Chris? He looking finer than a bag of chips!!!
I love the Guinea pig in your profile picture 😂😂😂
You must be hungry all the time cos that's the only time a bag of chips is fine
Okayy!
Props to the brilliant ladies who wrote these sketches. I hope this show does very well. “Lest you denounce your fandom, our family won’t work.... for whom dear Rome will our children twerk?” is just pure genius.
This was actually the best black lady sketch I've seen. So smart!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Y’all win. Thank you for being so creative and diverse that they CAN’T put y’all in a box.