Sanjeev Bhaskar reads Napoleon's letters to his wife Joséphine, played by Miriam Margolyes

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  • Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2024

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  • @psiclops521
    @psiclops521 Год назад +120

    Been to Paris, saw Napoleon's tomb, read the walls about his accomplishments, and read a biography of the great man. Nobody mentioned he was so high maintenance.

    • @allenrobinson8602
      @allenrobinson8602 7 месяцев назад +1

      Napoleon is a piece of trash.
      Napoleon loved slavery☹️

    • @letolethe3344
      @letolethe3344 5 дней назад

      Accomplishments? He was a out-and-out, exalted psychopath, bloody tyrant and dictator.

    • @cropathfinder
      @cropathfinder 23 часа назад

      no its more like Josephine was the original twitch thot

  • @DiscoCatsMeow
    @DiscoCatsMeow Год назад +83

    Realizing all these years later that the safest job in France was Napoleon's courier. Poor guy was busy.😁

  • @applemint7670
    @applemint7670 Год назад +131

    I died at “Not a word from you.” 🤣🤣

  • @somedipshtinthecomments2507
    @somedipshtinthecomments2507 3 года назад +596

    Napoleon blowing up Josephine's DMs

    • @jbrubin8274
      @jbrubin8274 2 года назад +20

      You know you’re a nerd when I read this one-liner and busted out laughing.
      Legendary reply. 😂🙌💯

    • @enthusedtosing9655
      @enthusedtosing9655 Год назад +5

      That's such a horrendous parallel.

    • @andreavrsa6297
      @andreavrsa6297 Год назад +4

      😂

    • @realme-pw2lc
      @realme-pw2lc 7 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂

  • @The_Farwall
    @The_Farwall Год назад +82

    Sanjeev does the pomposity brilliantly then undercuts it with a line delivered in a dropped accent. Lovely.

  • @bookie5667
    @bookie5667 3 года назад +366

    You have to wonder if Napoleon would have fought so many battles if she'd just answered his letters!

  • @mgg5418
    @mgg5418 3 года назад +349

    This one is my absolute favorite. Those two are a perfect pair and Miriam’s eyes make all the difference.
    Sanjeev Bhaskar is a master at underlining the hidden humour in Napoleon’s letters 😂

  • @michael24taggart
    @michael24taggart Год назад +172

    If I didn’t know that these were segments from Napoleon Bonaparte himself, I might have mistaken for someone who is one part genius, one part hopeless romantic, and one part six year old with a temper tantrum.

    • @frenchimp
      @frenchimp Год назад +11

      I wonder what Trump's love letters look like. Well on second thoughts I'm lucky I'll never know.

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад +23

      A classic narcissist. 'You are amazing! I love you, WHY haven't you written back? DO you realise how much I love you?! Do you even love me?! Here: take this present because I love you.' All in one minute.

    • @jsharp3165
      @jsharp3165 Год назад +19

      @@GullibleTarget It's not called a Napoleon complex for nothing.

    • @moonhunter9993
      @moonhunter9993 Год назад +2

      @@GullibleTarget yup

    • @thisasiankidistrashfordram374
      @thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Год назад +14

      He was great at studies but not very athletic as a soldier. Hopeless romantic but not great w/ ladies. Had a chip on his shoulder as a Corsican & very minor Noble.
      He was of average height, similar to other men of his place & era, so his complex Didn't come from a lack of physical stature but a lack of Social stature.
      He had been sent to the fanciest Military Academy of France but his French Aristocratic schoolmates & the French in general viewed Corsicans like Hicks.
      As a young man, he was kind of Emo & wierd. Again, he adored women but women didn't often adore him. For the first half of his life, he wanted freedom & Nationalism for his native Corsica from the tyranny of French colonial rule. He was a supporter of the French Revolution but later crowned himself Emperor of France & reinforced slavery (which had previously been abolished) in French colonies, amongst many other ironies.
      Some hint of how megalomaniacal he'd become even when he was a young nobody was that he was a huge fanboy of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Brutus, etc.
      Men who conquered, committed acts of genocide in certain regions, dethroned other Kings only to (unofficially) become Kings themselves.

  • @tigranmikayelyan3963
    @tigranmikayelyan3963 3 года назад +347

    How can an Actress keep silent and be so expressive?! That's talent! That is the talent called Miriam Margolyes! Hats off!!!

  • @BrooklynJackBlue
    @BrooklynJackBlue 3 года назад +863

    Miriam is absolutely marvelous. Exceptionally talented and skillful. Someone could spend their whole life studying and practicing how to evoke laughter with mere gestures of the head, changes to the eyes, and perhaps not achieve her natural mastery of it. She is utterly brilliant at it.

    • @MirlitronOne
      @MirlitronOne 3 года назад +11

      She does do an excellent impression of Mr Bean in a wig.

    • @goldenboyproductions2740
      @goldenboyproductions2740 3 года назад +8

      She's excellent at wishing people who dare be conservative dead.

    • @j0nnyism
      @j0nnyism 3 года назад +3

      I think it’s a natural talent

    • @ADRAPER1303
      @ADRAPER1303 3 года назад +2

      She's no Josephine

    • @Andrew-dp5kf
      @Andrew-dp5kf 3 года назад +6

      Tony Hancock was just as good with expressions, another favourite!

  • @jamesbradley3498
    @jamesbradley3498 Год назад +23

    I just discovered this channel today. I am doomed. I"ll never get another thing accomplished with these readings.

  • @bluegreenglue6565
    @bluegreenglue6565 3 года назад +173

    I'm in love with Miriam. She says so much with such a subtle shift, yet so much more with those dramatic eyes!

  • @sg-vp2qg
    @sg-vp2qg Год назад +68

    Not previously familiar with Sanjeev Bhaskar, I am an instant fan. This is by far the most I have been entertained by these letter-readings.

  • @marykelly7726
    @marykelly7726 3 года назад +698

    "Peace with Rome has just been signed. Not a word from you!!" Such a timeless statement that shows how feeble men can be.. this was hilarious 😂

    • @bdp8102
      @bdp8102 3 года назад +46

      his delivery killed me :'D

    • @Kanfachan
      @Kanfachan 3 года назад +27

      Josephine was cheating on him. That’s why she wasn’t replying.

    • @bitchoflivingblah
      @bitchoflivingblah 3 года назад +4

      helplessly in your thrall . . . . . .

    • @marykelly7726
      @marykelly7726 3 года назад +2

      stsohgessi soooo funny!

    • @marykelly7726
      @marykelly7726 3 года назад +6

      Simon Williams Who me? Nah I'm single and gloriously happy. I wised up about my poor choices years ago.. 😉

  • @ArtemisScribe
    @ArtemisScribe 3 года назад +498

    Not gonna lie, this really makes me want to see Sanjeev Bhaskar *play* Napoleon now

    • @Camille-accessories
      @Camille-accessories 3 года назад +22

      Now that Bridgerston has broken the mould let’s hope he is casted in some historical dramas, I love his voice and intonation

    • @ArtemisScribe
      @ArtemisScribe 3 года назад +20

      ​@@Camille-accessories lol, Bridgerton really isn't groundbreaking at all. I was sure he *had* been in a historical drama but turns out he hasn't, he's stuck mostly to comedy and children's stuff, but he would be a really good Napoleon. In British productions we always see a basically mute, grumpy little guy, it would be very interesting to have someone give him some personality in an English language production for once.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 3 года назад +3

      @@ArtemisScribe He’s in Unforgotten

    • @ArtemisScribe
      @ArtemisScribe 3 года назад +1

      @@kellydalstok8900 oh I know, and recently got promoted to the star of the show since Nicola Walker left! But despite it being one of my favourite shows it's an outlier to his general career trend and not a period drama so I didn't mention it.

    • @lorrainevanlelyveld8065
      @lorrainevanlelyveld8065 3 года назад +2

      Me too!! I loved this!!!

  • @abbygail6010
    @abbygail6010 3 года назад +111

    I love that Josephine hardly gave a f*** and still had him around her finger ... that woman was so good

    • @madelainepetrin1430
      @madelainepetrin1430 3 года назад +27

      She was incredible. She survived the French revolution, the Terror, the fall of Bonaparte, the new French king, always making friends, never enemies. She also started a brand new fashion and defines the French style!

    • @myriammachiche1030
      @myriammachiche1030 3 года назад +17

      she wasn't very faithful actually. She had an affair with a man named Hippolyte Charles to whom she was deeply in love with. Napoleon heard of this and asked for a divorce but she managed to dissued him by blackmailing him. Napoleon had no heir and the children of Josephine were like his own children. She was smart and proud of every victory her dear husband brought to France because victory means more money and more money for her. Think about it next time you imagine Josephine as an angel of a woman.

    • @madelainepetrin1430
      @madelainepetrin1430 3 года назад +20

      @@myriammachiche1030 nobody says she was an angel but she definitely was a survivor! She lived through extremely hard times, made many friends, kept old lovers, business friends and looked after her first husband's bastard children. All in all a fascinating woman.

    • @myriammachiche1030
      @myriammachiche1030 3 года назад +6

      @@madelainepetrin1430 yes she was definitly a survivor. And her main concern was also her children. I am not critizsizing Josephine, she was smart, pretty, and managed to create her own style. It would be unfair to judge her knowing how hard was life for a wonen. She did what she had to do ro survive and keep her children safe.
      I hope you will understand that I didnt mean to take part for Napoléon by saying what everybody knew anyway. I think they had a very passionate relation may be to passionate....
      Love can be so cruel but we cant live without it.
      Have a nice evening.

    • @myriammachiche1030
      @myriammachiche1030 3 года назад +13

      @@madelainepetrin1430 By the way I have to say that it was hilarious, knowing Napoléon from what I learned at shool and imagining him writing those lettres made me laugh to tears.

  • @user-yv5dx5ey7c
    @user-yv5dx5ey7c 3 года назад +50

    Not a word spoken and yet you know exactly her thoughts and feelings. That there is talent, pure from the soul talent. Miriam we are not worthy 🙌👏🙌👏👏

    • @exavyco8686
      @exavyco8686 3 года назад +1

      You took the thoughts out of my head! :) Miriam is just splendid!

  • @hughdancey9280
    @hughdancey9280 3 года назад +316

    It's a shame he didn't add the letter which he wrote to Josephine in 1807, during the negotiations at Tilsit. He wrote that he was so impressed and pleased with the Tsar, that "had he been a woman, I would make her my lover". I wonder how Josephine took that...?

    • @jungschiffer8423
      @jungschiffer8423 3 года назад +39

      The nerves to write that, I have to applaud him. I really really want to read his collection of love letters now.

    • @Saturnia2014
      @Saturnia2014 3 года назад +27

      @@jungschiffer8423 Napoleon was nothing but nerve! Lol just look at how he went head long into a Russian winter; that takes nothing but nerve.

    • @officiallymrp
      @officiallymrp 3 года назад +10

      Probably she was amused and wished to join both 😉

    • @fireyflower6643
      @fireyflower6643 3 года назад +1

      Napolean was bisexual

    • @jennifertennent8319
      @jennifertennent8319 3 года назад +6

      I think Napoleon actually said--he would marry the Tsar.
      Unless the version or variation I have heard is incorrect or the phrasing makes it difficult to render an exact translation.

  • @rhoda6573
    @rhoda6573 3 года назад +52

    Good thing smart phones and texting weren't around then. "You have not texted me for two whole minutes!"

  • @pamelabonaparte9383
    @pamelabonaparte9383 3 года назад +290

    These are fantastic.....this man is completely insane.....🤣😂❤️......Yes that’s my name 😁

  • @Northwind-druid
    @Northwind-druid Год назад +17

    Miriam Margolyes has me in stitches! Chapeau, madame!

  • @avaDesdemona
    @avaDesdemona 3 года назад +33

    Oh dear, can you imagine Napoleon with a cellphone....

  • @francisinfocus
    @francisinfocus 3 года назад +46

    His phrasing, pacing, inflection...

  • @catherinecummins2847
    @catherinecummins2847 Год назад +14

    Absolutely priceless!! The inflection in the reading and the expressions on Miriam's face!!

  • @ychaps
    @ychaps 3 года назад +27

    What a great pairing...the wonderful Sanjeev and the incomparable Miriam...love them both so much. ..

  • @mariawarner1896
    @mariawarner1896 3 года назад +63

    Wonderful work from 2 amazing actors! Miriam can convey a mood and emotion with her eyes! pure talent

  • @jop1642
    @jop1642 3 года назад +32

    How have I only just discovered these!

  • @Nimmo1492
    @Nimmo1492 3 года назад +80

    Strong "Nice Guy" vibes from Napoleon.

    • @rhysnichols8608
      @rhysnichols8608 2 года назад +1

      Funny how he won the most battles in history and lived in danger and death, but then was a massive simp with the ladies haha

  • @catherinerobilliard7662
    @catherinerobilliard7662 3 года назад +106

    I really enjoyed this. Weather is fine. I fought two battalion of horse disguised as grandchildren. Write me 10 pages on the brilliance of Miriam Margoyles and magnanimity of Sanjeet Bhaskar. I’ll wait for a minute then must conquer Europe.

    • @bluegreenglue6565
      @bluegreenglue6565 3 года назад +3

      : D

    • @lucyfur
      @lucyfur 2 года назад

      10 pages in 4 hours! Doable with one word per page lol

  • @annejackson6528
    @annejackson6528 3 года назад +42

    Sanjeev is brilliant.

  • @jollyfighter7319
    @jollyfighter7319 3 года назад +37

    They need to do more things like this. I love it

  • @user-be8ec8gl6t
    @user-be8ec8gl6t 2 года назад +21

    I am sunburnt.

  • @crockodile85ATX
    @crockodile85ATX 3 года назад +64

    That was so funny. Love those two actors.

  • @MrEnaric
    @MrEnaric 3 года назад +198

    'Write me ten pages!' With Facebook in 1815, Waterloo would never have happened.

    • @morgonerlenstar
      @morgonerlenstar 3 года назад +2

      😂😂😂😂

    • @starlinguk
      @starlinguk 3 года назад +9

      Ten pages in FOUR HOURS! Yikes.

    • @inkakoutna7155
      @inkakoutna7155 3 года назад +4

      I think even then she would have left him of read

  • @thereisnospoon12
    @thereisnospoon12 Год назад +5

    This is my absolute favorite Letters Live presentation, absolutely marvelous!! Sanjeev, i love you to bits, and Miriam, I pray to be as marvelous as you when I grow up!! love and hugs to you both. Namaste

  • @susie9893
    @susie9893 3 года назад +64

    I kept waiting for the letter where he says he'll be returning soon and "don't wash"

    • @anderspedersen7488
      @anderspedersen7488 3 года назад +3

      Yep, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title. I see his point!

    • @lmnll2742
      @lmnll2742 3 года назад +1

      this letter doesn't exist

  • @Siricerasi
    @Siricerasi 3 года назад +72

    Give these two a romantic comedy stat

  • @isaac_buckley
    @isaac_buckley Год назад +9

    Holy canoli, Napoleon was hilariously needy. Can you imagine having to live with that guy? "Write me ten pages!"

  • @sylviamcauley8454
    @sylviamcauley8454 3 года назад +21

    Only just found this, so funny, both show just how brilliant they are

  • @THEchiQ
    @THEchiQ 3 года назад +10

    Great performances. I’m enjoying her memoir at the moment.

  • @Serai3
    @Serai3 Год назад +3

    Love this. They're both perfect. I am surprised that Miriam didn't catch the pun in the word "dying". I'd have thought she'd play with that one. All in all, great interplay between them, and I love the sarcasm that crops up in Sanjeev's reading. :)

  • @74oshua
    @74oshua 11 месяцев назад +4

    If you think this is bad, imagine what it's going to be like in 200 years when celebrities are reading our texts on stage.

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie 3 года назад +51

    They should do the same with James Joyce's exceptionally ripe letters to Nora.

  • @Lorna8264
    @Lorna8264 10 месяцев назад +4

    Josephine expressions are priceless

  • @MedievalFolkDance
    @MedievalFolkDance 3 года назад +86

    Why isn't it "Dame Mirriam" yet?

    • @rosehill9537
      @rosehill9537 3 года назад +5

      She is magnificent
      She needs to be made a dame!!

    • @MelissaThompson432
      @MelissaThompson432 3 года назад +2

      That's funny. I would swear I knew she was one. She's OBE, at least....
      I adore her.

    • @MedievalFolkDance
      @MedievalFolkDance 3 года назад +11

      ​@@MelissaThompson432 Being awarded a medal and receiving an actual title are entirely different things. It's all arbitrary bollocks at the end of the day, however, I stand by the resolve that Miriam Margolyes is fully deserving of any titles they can offer. She's a firework!

    • @camogrrl
      @camogrrl 3 года назад +2

      They named a baby koala after her

    • @dawittywats1934
      @dawittywats1934 3 года назад

      I am American but say here, here!

  • @monicacall7532
    @monicacall7532 3 года назад +29

    Brilliant! Miriam didn’t have to speak a word, but her looks spoke volumes as Sanjeev hilariously read Napoleon’s letters. I had no idea that Napoleon was such a petulant baby. That’s something you don’t learn in your world history classes! Perhaps history ought to be taught through the letters of the so called movers and shakers as well as those who had to deal with them so that we could get a truer version of what these people were REALLY like.

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад

      I think its best to first make sure the basics are known before delving into the personalities. Imagine being a teacher grading a test and reading answers like:
      " I don't know where he met his Waterloo(😉) but he was a total baby man. If Josephine was my gurl, I would tell her to ignore his letters and live her best life, periodt"

  • @_MSD75_
    @_MSD75_ 3 года назад +44

    they didn't call him Needy Napoleon for nothing!

    • @Kanfachan
      @Kanfachan 3 года назад +7

      He wasn’t needy, like you (and even Josephine) believe. He was just passionately in love with his wife. Once Josephine broke his trust, he was never as ardent about her as he was at the beginning of their marriage.

    • @rhysnichols8608
      @rhysnichols8608 2 года назад

      Also a man likes to hear from his fucking wife when he’s risking death daily

  • @flannerymonaghan-morris4825
    @flannerymonaghan-morris4825 Год назад +3

    God I love Josephine’s sarcastic reactions! Miriam Margolyes has a great sense of comic timing!

  • @jeanhawken4482
    @jeanhawken4482 2 года назад +4

    Never tire of watching this brilliance

  • @archivist17
    @archivist17 2 года назад +7

    Two burning talents!

  • @emms8
    @emms8 3 года назад +8

    Love these two 💚

  • @Lisa59
    @Lisa59 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this! And your wife has such funny expressions

  • @josephinerimmer6888
    @josephinerimmer6888 Год назад +1

    Brilliantly done. MM doesn’t need to speak, ‘tis all writ large on her wonderful face.

  • @nigelcarren
    @nigelcarren 3 года назад +70

    Being still in love with a French girl, I feel for him and his wrung-out heart.
    For in all fairness, such pain is still better than the nothing that was before!
    🤔🇬🇧

  • @emaarredondo-librarian
    @emaarredondo-librarian 2 года назад +17

    (Please remember that at the time there were no cellphones or social networks. Without letters, you were utterly isolated. Imagine one day without knowing anything of your loved one. Also imagine being Napoleon, a guy not known for being patient 🤣)

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад +1

      Most people today were born before the cellphones and social networks were introduced. But maybe they forgot.

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian Год назад +3

      @@GullibleTarget I was born before cellphones and the Internet, and sometimes I wonder how I managed to live 🤣

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад +1

      @@emaarredondo-librarian it's almost like we 'forgot' but it's more that you can't do anything these days without a device Banking, taxes, doctor's appointments, socializing ...it wasn't 'better' back in the day but it sure was a lot simpler. I like the internet for instance but I miss the 'television' days.🤣 I'm an 80's baby. Am I old enough to be considered a boomer or is that specifically for the baby boomers?😄

    • @emaarredondo-librarian
      @emaarredondo-librarian Год назад +1

      @@GullibleTarget I am from the 60s, so I am a legitimate boomer 🤣 You are Generation X or even a Millennial.
      I remember black & white TV, so...

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад +1

      @@emaarredondo-librarian 🤣🤣🤣 fantastic! So you had longer to see all the changes unfolding! Your era had some the best music. I'm stuck in between the GenXers and the Millenials. My era gave the world tiny Motorola flip phones that you could snap shut with assertiveness. It's impossible to hang up on someone these days. 😅

  • @juliaconnell
    @juliaconnell 3 года назад +7

    I'm a simple woman. I see Miriam and I click.

  • @annathy
    @annathy 3 года назад +13

    Loved this.

  • @itsacarolbthing5221
    @itsacarolbthing5221 3 года назад +12

    In two hundred years, at Texts Live, it will be 'Booty Call?', 'C U l8r'..
    This was brilliant.

  • @mariannegeraud6318
    @mariannegeraud6318 3 года назад +36

    Now I discover that Napoleon was somewhat ruled by something apparently so irrelevant as his heart !( Somewhat unusual coming from someone who was a great Emperor.. military strategist..and very ambitious!!!)

    • @Kanfachan
      @Kanfachan 3 года назад +4

      At this point he truly loved Josephine, and actually wanted to be a devoted husband. All the things women say they want in a man. Yet she was out cheating on him and barely responding to his letters. That's why he sounds so frantic. He couldn't understand why her replies were so tardy, lackadaisical, short and dispassionate. At this point he was naïve and blind to see what she was.

  • @MaliKamicak
    @MaliKamicak 3 года назад +12

    Fabulous!

  • @Theturtleowl
    @Theturtleowl 3 года назад +8

    I wonder how many times Josephine thought he was bipolar.

  • @angeladavies993
    @angeladavies993 11 месяцев назад +2

    Miriam needed no words her face said it all 😅

  • @TheGalilee416
    @TheGalilee416 11 месяцев назад +3

    Dear Napoleon: After years of therapy, I understand how you wrote this. The crowd laughs because without dealing with grief trauma, it seems pretty erratic and funny. To us who are in it, we thank you for putting words to such deep, terrorizing emotions that words fail to describe….we get it. Your words centuries later give healing and hope to us. Thank you 🙏 Love from Philadelphia, PA USA

    • @LisaFenton-h7f
      @LisaFenton-h7f 11 месяцев назад +2

      Is this DAVE? sounds like you! Lydia

    • @TheGalilee416
      @TheGalilee416 11 месяцев назад

      @@LisaFenton-h7f Yup!

  • @TruthSayer2007
    @TruthSayer2007 Год назад +2

    Men can concur and are STILL weak to a woman’s love. THAT is pure poetry ❤

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 года назад +1

    I see Miriam Margolyes in a thumbnail, I click

  • @Carpedog2206
    @Carpedog2206 3 года назад +123

    Who knew Miriam Margoyles could be so funny without opening her mouth? I laughed so hard it spooked Pumpkin, who is now under the bed.

    • @googlyeyedcat
      @googlyeyedcat 3 года назад

      Lol

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 3 года назад +3

      I'm presuming pumpkin is your wife

    • @Carpedog2206
      @Carpedog2206 3 года назад

      @@Ana_crusis ha! No, I’m not gay so no wife. Pumpkin is my cat.

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis 3 года назад

      ​@@Carpedog2206 yes I know I was just joking 😃😃

    • @Carpedog2206
      @Carpedog2206 3 года назад

      @@Ana_crusis you must have just realized I’m a woman :)

  • @maureenackerley8024
    @maureenackerley8024 Год назад +3

    I loved the expressions on Mirriam's face. 😂

  • @markroberts171
    @markroberts171 3 года назад +12

    Miriam is spectacular

  • @lucylufrank3770
    @lucylufrank3770 3 года назад +3

    Simply wonderful

  • @sjinzaar
    @sjinzaar 3 года назад +4

    @2:44 - 2:55. Brilliance. Miriam = Oscar performance

  • @LittleGrandpaSimpson
    @LittleGrandpaSimpson 2 года назад +5

    Me: Oh cool! A RUclips channel you can listen to while doing chores and don't really have to watch to enjoy!
    Miriam Margolyes: *makes a micro expression that I can't even begin to describe but it means "Bollocks"*

  • @wendyhickey9699
    @wendyhickey9699 3 года назад +20

    love you, Miriam Margolyes! always make me laugh!

  • @HamzaBaqoushi
    @HamzaBaqoushi 3 года назад +5

    What a talent!

  • @rackpunch4026
    @rackpunch4026 2 года назад +3

    I recommend listening to Warhorses Of Letters BBC Radio 4. These are letters between Wellington's horse Copenhagen, and Napoleon's horse Marengo.
    Very droll.

    • @kneau
      @kneau Год назад

      Thank you for introducing this into my life.

  • @KathyKaulk
    @KathyKaulk 7 месяцев назад +1

    Josephine would have sent him a cease and desists letter if it was 2024.

  • @MSYNGWIE12
    @MSYNGWIE12 2 года назад +1

    I kept thinking of one "cliche" portrait of Napoleon as I waited for Miriam to speak...Pompous, bombastic, he rattles on and her facial expressions change, slowly, from confused to confounded to startled to contrite, annoyed, ALL WITHOUT SPEAKING, GENIUS...( do you think smug Napoleon deserved a "slap" for referring to the not long before, soundingboard, the passion of his egomaniacal life, as "fat"- !?) Ah mon dieu, le cad! Both artists were terrific!

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад +1

      Being as fat as a Normandy cow was a compliment. It was their version of 'guuuurl, I heard your curves are still SLAYING. Live your best life, boo; imma send you a lil' sumthing. Treat yo'self.

  • @kimsherlock8969
    @kimsherlock8969 3 года назад +2

    Wonderful Thankyou

  • @wolfpack444
    @wolfpack444 3 года назад +3

    I miss Sanjeev Bhaskar and Mumbai Calling...

  • @tasst2674
    @tasst2674 3 года назад +31

    Love Miriam! She steals the show before she even says a word.

    • @moremerry57
      @moremerry57 3 года назад

      @Lennie Minder, says you.

    • @elizdonovan5650
      @elizdonovan5650 3 года назад +2

      Without saying a word, she steals the show.
      ☘️🌝🌲

  • @nelsonclub7722
    @nelsonclub7722 3 года назад +18

    Fun fact. Wellington also had the very same Josephine as his mistress too - yep

  • @Greg_Rix
    @Greg_Rix 2 года назад +10

    2:40 Miriam's opus in skill and humour! She is delightful and I would be honoured were I were ever to be in her presence for even a fleeting moment.

  • @puzzlemobile1249
    @puzzlemobile1249 3 года назад +11

    who knew that Napoleon was a 5 yr old boy!

    • @moremerry57
      @moremerry57 3 года назад

      Ummm, all of Europe?!?!!

  • @MandyRRAh
    @MandyRRAh 3 года назад +6

    Miriam Margoles is a goddess.

  • @csmtcqueen
    @csmtcqueen 9 месяцев назад +1

    And he wonders why Josephine didn't bother to respond. He was so needy. Lol

  • @ThePinkBinks
    @ThePinkBinks 4 месяца назад +1

    I can see why he’s Rimmer’s hero…. 😂

  • @mercylimpokhuwe
    @mercylimpokhuwe 14 часов назад

    "I haven't received a letter from you for 2 whole days! That's the 30th time I have made that observation today." 😂😂

  • @pleappleappleap
    @pleappleappleap 8 месяцев назад +1

    Miriam Margolyes kicks ass.

  • @sjinzaar
    @sjinzaar 3 года назад +3

    The people sitting behind Miriam are like “whaaaaaaaaat? Why are you laughing???”

    • @GullibleTarget
      @GullibleTarget Год назад

      Big screen above them. They could see 😉

  • @rev.rachel
    @rev.rachel Год назад +1

    Hahahaha the silent reactions next to the letters really add something

  • @Vejur9000
    @Vejur9000 8 месяцев назад +1

    I give you three kisses…
    That killed me.

  • @rhysalexander182
    @rhysalexander182 Год назад +3

    Phoenix and Kirby ain’t got nothing on these two!

  • @judithblades5578
    @judithblades5578 3 года назад +3

    She looks beautiful

  • @elainepayne7047
    @elainepayne7047 3 года назад +1

    When is MM going to receive a gong ? She deserves it more than some I could name!

  • @stardresser1
    @stardresser1 Год назад

    Love her and him.

  • @DonJuanMarco1994
    @DonJuanMarco1994 2 года назад +6

    I never knew Napoleon is this needy as a husband? 😆

  • @poja82
    @poja82 Год назад +1

    A capricious man, but you cannot deny his love.

  • @shillanassi
    @shillanassi 3 года назад +2

    the inimitable miriam margolyes

  • @robintripp8164
    @robintripp8164 3 года назад +1

    The last time I saw Bhaskar was when he compared a large freemasonic event.

  • @Querencia7779
    @Querencia7779 Год назад +1

    His voice. OMG

  • @melaniemaec1
    @melaniemaec1 3 года назад +2

    Brilliant!