Alasdair Beckett-King's Lear

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  • Опубликовано: 14 дек 2024

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  • @download333
    @download333 3 года назад +3500

    Without a doubt, the best performance of Alasdair Beckett-King's Lear I've ever seen

    • @liamjay6844
      @liamjay6844 3 года назад +26

      I don't know, there was that time John Gielgud performed it.

    • @bennylofgren3208
      @bennylofgren3208 3 года назад +13

      Liam Jay Yes, John Giel is really gud.

    • @D-A-K
      @D-A-K 3 года назад +24

      Of all the Alasdair Beckett-King’s Lears I’ve seen, this is the best.

    • @ezet
      @ezet 3 года назад +6

      Best I've seen this week

    • @pamelah6431
      @pamelah6431 3 года назад +1

      Same.

  • @neruneri
    @neruneri 3 года назад +3500

    Not gonna lie, even though I am now bilingual, English was my second language, and your performance almost instantly put me in a trance that took me back to being a 3 year old encountering the English language for the first time, as I listened blank-faced and blank-minded, and understood *nothing* .

    • @CommissarMitch
      @CommissarMitch 3 года назад +54

      You had me in the first half not gonna lie.

    • @pmsavenger
      @pmsavenger 3 года назад +189

      Honestly, even as a native speaker, I felt like a 3 year old encountering English for the first time :P It was very much a case of "did I just have a stroke?".

    • @Reicha
      @Reicha 3 года назад +73

      Also bilingual, even if I did start early and my mother tells me I watched a four hour TV play of Hamlet at age 3 (How that didn't alert anyone to possible autism baffles me.), and four words into this my brain heaved the same heavy sigh it does when faced with long maths equations or explanations.
      It just nodded along with the same fake understanding as it does to Shakespeare normally.
      (That may sound contradictory, but 3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. _3x10 me_ is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences. Unless we're discussing pretentious coffee, naturally.)

    • @RM-wh1ex
      @RM-wh1ex 3 года назад +13

      Same here, love the prose in your comment! 😊

    • @hafrepo
      @hafrepo 3 года назад +34

      @@Reicha "3-year-old-me was a precocious little shit. 3x10 me is another post-prodigy disillusioned-depressed late Milennial who needs everyone to communicate in short. Simple. Sentences." Why are there so many of us?

  • @jordank1489
    @jordank1489 3 года назад +1102

    "Eyes away. Night, nature... To nothing." My god it's bloody beautiful

    • @terrancenightingale1749
      @terrancenightingale1749 3 года назад +34

      "Ahh...poetry."
      - Sokka

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 года назад +38

      *two nothing. "To" is a much more common and is actually fourth in the play: "The and I, to of you my..."

    • @philipstevenson5166
      @philipstevenson5166 3 года назад +2

      sounds like football

    • @lcmiracle
      @lcmiracle 2 года назад +1

      My heart weeps as my eyes bleed, for such performance is truly... marvelous

    • @Kagrynac
      @Kagrynac 2 года назад +3

      Genuinely beautiful way to describe someone passing away

  • @LoveLee_Dreamer
    @LoveLee_Dreamer 3 года назад +1299

    Can't lie, this is basically what Shakespeare sounds like to me already.

  • @sangralknight3031
    @sangralknight3031 3 года назад +569

    "Its full of words"
    As a teacher, I hear this phrase alot from my students.

    • @mistyrosemcconnell9586
      @mistyrosemcconnell9586 3 года назад +9

      My dyslexic son says that all the time! It's full of words.Can't you just tell me really fast what it says?

    • @sangralknight3031
      @sangralknight3031 3 года назад +10

      @@mistyrosemcconnell9586 Actually, going with Audio solutions is a good Idea for dyslexic children. You likely already know this, but having him do reading response by recording it with a voice recorder rather than writing it down, or typing it up is a great way to see if he is comprehending what he reads and listens too without the complexities that come with writing getting in the way.

    • @mistyrosemcconnell9586
      @mistyrosemcconnell9586 3 года назад +8

      @@sangralknight3031 yes, you are absolutely right. I had to argue for those accommodations with his therapists. It was amazing how his grades jumped when I switched over. Thank you. Not many people understand this.

    • @sangralknight3031
      @sangralknight3031 3 года назад +10

      @@mistyrosemcconnell9586 You are welcome, I had to fight the system for many an accommodation I knew my students needed. Never let him think that he can't learn because of tests or grades, in the end, that stuff really does not matter. If he finds a way to gain the knowledge and can demonstrate he knows it, it is well. Don't lose faith, and don't let him lose faith in himself.

    • @mistyrosemcconnell9586
      @mistyrosemcconnell9586 3 года назад +4

      @@sangralknight3031 thank you for the kind words and encouragement 😊 you literally made me cry happy tears.

  • @LipziG3R
    @LipziG3R 3 года назад +1445

    It’s some kind of elvish. I can't read it

    • @Jaco_Schutte
      @Jaco_Schutte 3 года назад +37

      Best description of Shakespeare I've ever seen.

    • @terrancenightingale1749
      @terrancenightingale1749 3 года назад +28

      There are few who can.

    • @martinm6368
      @martinm6368 3 года назад +10

      stop min-maxing and put some points into lore!

    • @viperion_nz
      @viperion_nz 3 года назад +8

      @@terrancenightingale1749 This is the Old Tongue

    • @skullsaintdead
      @skullsaintdead 3 года назад +9

      "The language is the that of Mordor, which I will not utter here."
      "Mordor?"
      "In the common tongue it reads "One Ring to Rule Them All. One Ring to Find Them. One Ring to Bring Them All and In The Darkness Bind Them.""
      And holy smokes if that doesn't still give me chills, both Ians reading of it and Elijahs reaction... Tolkien is an equal, in my mind, to the brilliance of Shakespeare.

  • @Julio_Gomes
    @Julio_Gomes 3 года назад +1051

    The fact he managed to show emotion in random words and acctually kinda captivate shows how good of an actor he is
    A really good actor

    • @ethericboy
      @ethericboy 3 года назад +7

      Yes but minus the word `of`

    • @Donteatacowman
      @Donteatacowman 3 года назад +14

      The dramatic accentuation and sudden weird looks felt exactly like any fancy Shakespeare production.

    • @ElvenRaptor
      @ElvenRaptor 2 года назад

      @@Donteatacowman There is no lie.

    • @discordlexia2429
      @discordlexia2429 Год назад +3

      It also shows how little of acting is the lines said and how much is the delivery.

    • @cannot-handle-handles
      @cannot-handle-handles 8 месяцев назад +1

      Well, it's probably only pseudo-random. The word "or" appears more than once, so I don't think it's a true frequency list, just made to sound like one. Pretty convincing, though.

  • @MrCSL1980
    @MrCSL1980 3 года назад +1503

    I love this ginger British Weird Al Yankovich.

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 3 года назад +103

      Ginger, British *and* weird? Clearly a case for the Department of Redundancy Department.

    • @Albert_Herring
      @Albert_Herring 3 года назад +68

      if Monty Python was one guy

    • @jackfitzpatrick2992
      @jackfitzpatrick2992 3 года назад +16

      @@Albert_Herring Thoroughly underrated comment

    • @joesneed5030
      @joesneed5030 3 года назад +16

      I was just thinking, "A Ginger Yankovich."

    • @GedMaybury23
      @GedMaybury23 3 года назад +4

      @@oldvlognewtricks Bwah-hah-hah!

  • @nenoman3855
    @nenoman3855 3 года назад +245

    Night, Nature, to Nothing! That's some profound randomness right there.

    • @beeble2003
      @beeble2003 3 года назад +21

      No, no, it's football score. "Night, Nature, two-nothing." "To" is a very common word and it's the fourth word in the play: "The and I, to of you my..."

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks Год назад +1

      “Who then king there take… or here would father?” is so close to meaning… something 😂

  • @snowpoint720
    @snowpoint720 3 года назад +289

    As a Theatre person. This is High-Quality Shakespearean acting. There is an art to editing these plays down for a modern audience. You Sir, have perfected the art.

    • @imaweerascal
      @imaweerascal 2 года назад +14

      The nerd in me wants to actually sort King Lear by word frequency, and check Alastair's work...

  • @picklejho69
    @picklejho69 3 года назад +566

    All jokes aside, this is actually mesmerizing in a most auspicious sense.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 года назад +5

      Yeah, I saw the transcript. This is intense. Lol. Hard to even READ it.

    • @judeirwin2222
      @judeirwin2222 Год назад

      Auspicious means fortunate or lucky. It’s not the word you are struggling for.

  • @edwardlewis1119
    @edwardlewis1119 2 года назад +28

    "eyes away ... night, nature, to nothing!" actually genuinely feels like something Shakespeare could have written

  • @mirajara9149
    @mirajara9149 3 года назад +293

    1:15 “eyes away” a stunning interpretation of one of the play’s most memorable scenes. exquisitely done

    • @anonymous-m7k
      @anonymous-m7k 3 года назад

      Which one?

    • @mirajara9149
      @mirajara9149 3 года назад +19

      @@anonymous-m7k Act 3, Scene 7-- the duke of Cornwall tortures the earl of Gloucester, gouging out one of his eyes

    • @beepboprobotsnot3748
      @beepboprobotsnot3748 3 года назад +4

      @@mirajara9149 OUT, VILE JELLY!

    • @astaraoneill9166
      @astaraoneill9166 3 года назад +6

      Eeeeewwww! Better had they just said this, than done the deed.

    • @becky3983
      @becky3983 3 года назад +2

      This comment made me cackle

  • @TheBanditKingKir
    @TheBanditKingKir 3 года назад +276

    This sounds exactly like how I remember it from high school

    • @yvonneyvonne2513
      @yvonneyvonne2513 3 года назад +3

      THANK YOU! I thought it was just me having those flashbacks. Took a bit of time (and some Cliff Notes) before I finally figured out that Shakespeare was pretty much the Shonda Rimes of his time.

  • @indiciaobscure
    @indiciaobscure 3 года назад +83

    1:08 "Like then gentleman" So persuasive I had to pause and like right there

  • @fatherdad5582
    @fatherdad5582 3 года назад +1082

    What english sounds to foreign speakers.

    • @martinXY
      @martinXY 3 года назад +106

      What Shakespeare sounds like to English speakers.

    • @bryanthardin8481
      @bryanthardin8481 3 года назад +5

      I'm american and reading british spelling makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
      WHY ARE THERE SO MANY U'S?!? Also, why is this->"z" called "zed" instead of "zee"

    • @RFC-3514
      @RFC-3514 3 года назад +10

      @@bryanthardin8481 - Why is this -> "r" called "ar" instead of "ree"? Why is this-> "w" called a "double-u" when it's clearly made up of two Vs? Why does the name of this -> "u" start with the sound of this -> "i"? If "i" and "e" are called what they are, why isn't "winner" pronounced "wai-neer"?

    • @longbeardbobson4710
      @longbeardbobson4710 3 года назад

      @@RFC-3514 haha, do you think it's phonetic or something?

    • @yapet3182
      @yapet3182 3 года назад

      Why do you have to boil everything down to questions of nativeness and foreignness? This must be Europe's deeply fascist background, but still... English stopped being a national-only language long ago. It's an international, multiethnic language, and the British idiom is just one of the many idioms around the world.

  • @thetree2044
    @thetree2044 5 лет назад +252

    Where art thou Charlie bit thy finger.

  • @THEHAR0LD
    @THEHAR0LD Год назад +3

    I love the dramatic pause and lean in with a new angle before "fool!"

  • @martinm6368
    @martinm6368 3 года назад +6

    Your performance really grants that gibberish the appearance of coherence.

  • @calfinbro
    @calfinbro 3 года назад +44

    Bravo, Alasdair, bravo. I'm going to re-watch this so many times.

  • @FlorisGerber
    @FlorisGerber 3 года назад +27

    I shall show this to students in acting seminars. Your breaks and your arches on nonsense are simply marvelous.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 3 года назад +30

    *TRANSCRIPT:*
    Thee and I, to of you my; are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our.
    Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know.
    Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make!
    Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen; should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say.
    Eyes away -- Night -- Nature -- To nothing!
    _[exeunt omnes]_

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 года назад +4

      Wow. That was almost impossible to say to MYSELF and English is my ONLY language.

    • @susie9893
      @susie9893 3 года назад +3

      GREAT use of punctuation there - you make it look like the real thing

    • @GedMaybury23
      @GedMaybury23 3 года назад +5

      Thy of most help be thank, forsooth, that this made me seen, yet was of meaning spoke.

    • @temporary0insanity
      @temporary0insanity 3 года назад +1

      Hmmm, technically, some words do repeat - but great nevertheless! :)

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera 3 года назад +1

      @@temporary0insanity: There are probably some homophones that I couldn't distinguish.

  • @HiAndHello-w9l
    @HiAndHello-w9l 3 года назад +48

    King Lear is my favourite crazy mess, this is a close second

  • @JourneywithBrandon
    @JourneywithBrandon 3 года назад +20

    That was the best performance of nothing that I've ever seen. Bravo, bravo.

  • @joaogomes9405
    @joaogomes9405 3 года назад +7

    By far the most beautiful and lyrical stroke I have every witnessed.

  • @kevinhayes3672
    @kevinhayes3672 3 года назад +179

    I am a little surprised to learn how frequent the word fool is used in Lear

    • @Ajehy
      @Ajehy 3 года назад +41

      Well, the Fool *is* a major character, as well as an insult.

    • @kevinhayes3672
      @kevinhayes3672 3 года назад +14

      @@Ajehy Ahh that explains it, thanks.

    • @Kickiusz
      @Kickiusz 3 года назад +27

      "A fool's fool fools fools who foolishly accept the foolishness of a fool's fool." - Shakepeare, probably

    • @GedMaybury23
      @GedMaybury23 3 года назад +2

      @@Kickiusz I love how - in English, we can go at something "fool tilt".

    • @helenl3193
      @helenl3193 3 года назад +8

      @@GedMaybury23 did you mean full tilt? I've never heard it used as fool tilt... is the usage the same?

  • @annharold5822
    @annharold5822 Год назад +2

    ‘Can some say’ is my favourite part, it simply melts on the tongue... ❤

  • @fredrikstubberud7856
    @fredrikstubberud7856 3 года назад +114

    Your mannerisms make me feel like Im watching a far too well rendered Zelda CD cutscene

    • @cy-one
      @cy-one 3 года назад +1

      Oh... Damn recommendations again. This isn't Zelda?
      Shoot. But thanks for the heads-up :/

  • @MoonshineSazerac
    @MoonshineSazerac 3 года назад +1

    "Tis was us, love's sea must heart upon speak poor".
    Classic Shakespeare.
    *chefs kiss*

  • @pinopalotta
    @pinopalotta 3 года назад +100

    no idea where the fck ive ended up, but you entertained me well, good Sir

    • @Not_a_number_
      @Not_a_number_ 3 года назад +7

      Is that, 'well, good sir.' or 'well good, sir.'?
      Edit:
      Thanks for the answer! 😆

    • @pinopalotta
      @pinopalotta 3 года назад +6

      @@Not_a_number_ Fixed it

    • @fnordpojk
      @fnordpojk 3 года назад +2

      @@Not_a_number_ Or, potentially, ", well good Sir", for some modern English..

    • @oldvlognewtricks
      @oldvlognewtricks 3 года назад +2

      ​@@fnordpojk or ", me well good Sir" for an additional Caribbean inflection

  • @joshuakarr-BibleMan
    @joshuakarr-BibleMan Год назад +1

    That is the best-dressed word salad I think I have ever seen without speaking.

  • @mattrichardson5209
    @mattrichardson5209 3 года назад +18

    A captivating performance, so much emotion emanating from the screen.. overwhelming my senses and almost tricking my feeble mind into believing that the dialogue made sense. Bravo, bravo good sir.

  • @Tangelos09
    @Tangelos09 3 года назад +11

    The timing in all your videos is fantastic I laugh every time I watch one

  • @Whammytap
    @Whammytap Месяц назад +1

    "It's full of words, it's very inefficient."

  • @kaugusta1
    @kaugusta1 3 года назад +6

    'Tis was us! My new, favorite exclamation.

    • @susie9893
      @susie9893 3 года назад +1

      And will ever more be thus

  • @veritasreigns
    @veritasreigns 3 года назад +2

    This makes all those years (four, four years) studying Macbeth somehow worth it in the end. God bless you, sir.

  • @AnjaliyaIronwolf
    @AnjaliyaIronwolf 3 года назад +5

    "Foooool" gave me chills. Exceptional delivery

  • @nathangale7702
    @nathangale7702 3 года назад +8

    A sign of a great performer is that he can take gibberish and make it sound interesting. Well done.

  • @iggyp4390
    @iggyp4390 3 года назад +46

    No wonder it didn’t get a sequel like Shakespeare’s “Henry” franchise

    • @Nosregni
      @Nosregni 3 года назад +12

      The “Henry” franchise even got spinoffs called “Richard” and “John”. The most ambitious dramatic universe until the MCU.

    • @Somnogenesis
      @Somnogenesis 3 года назад +9

      It's funny, looking back, how underappreciated the original _Henry_ was at the time - and nobody remembers _Henry II: Henrier_ with much fondness. The less said about _Henry 3-D_ the better, of course. But even though I always felt splitting up _Henry IV_ into Parts I and II reeked of exploiting the fans for box-office gain, it has to be said that he pulled it all together pretty well in the end, yeah.

    • @GedMaybury23
      @GedMaybury23 3 года назад +2

      @@Somnogenesis Brilliant! I'm in awe.
      Well played.

  • @ellajument
    @ellajument 3 года назад +113

    How on earth did you memorize that, let alone perform it dramatically?? Brilliant work!!

    • @steamsuhonen9529
      @steamsuhonen9529 3 года назад +32

      Alasdair must be good at remembering new passwords.

    • @KaylaJoyGunn
      @KaylaJoyGunn 3 года назад +7

      Underrated response to a comment

  • @PrateekKhandelwal13
    @PrateekKhandelwal13 3 года назад +15

    I hope coldplay doesn’t find this video, they’ll turn this into a song 😜
    Fantastic work !

  • @Ajehy
    @Ajehy 3 года назад +21

    I’m hypnotized

  • @lancethrustworthy
    @lancethrustworthy 3 года назад +1

    I hope for great things for thee. You have brought joy to many. You win.

  • @eriathdien
    @eriathdien Год назад +1

    I see people with English as a 2nd language (as myself) commenting that this is what English sounded like to them before learning it. Man, I'm fully bilingual and this is still what Shakespeare sounds to me if I don't turn on the subtitles.

  • @2hard2find
    @2hard2find 3 года назад

    You know youre a good actor when you can speak gibberish for two minutes straight without anyone clicking off the video

  • @timopper5488
    @timopper5488 3 года назад +22

    Tonight’s featured menu item is King Lear Deconstructed.

  • @lindybeige
    @lindybeige Год назад +2

    The it is that would be good! For my are here and all well go!

  • @harbourdogNL
    @harbourdogNL 3 года назад +3

    This man is a genius. Looking forward to the Spanish-dubbed version.

  • @disposothacloun5884
    @disposothacloun5884 3 года назад

    Happy to see you went over well in...1960s Birmingham....Alabama.

  • @raven_of_zoso455
    @raven_of_zoso455 3 года назад +13

    Can thy please bring forth this masterpiece, in word for word as thy so carefully has placed them down to paper, written, like a painter applying delicate details with a split horses hair upon is canvas to turn lifeless pigments into the finest art and infinite wonder for ye intellect. Yes, such a fine piece, ever so dear. So, I hereby ask of thee to summon before me thy words that makes up Alasdair Beckett- King's Lear.
    To sum it up, can you please post your version?

    • @UnknownVir
      @UnknownVir 3 года назад +9

      TRANSCRIPT:
      Thee and I to of you my, are that in not this me, your thou is his. And then with it, he be thy for no so; thee? What her will, but are as do, Sir our. Fool! If all on shall Lord from come by am good; or more when now which we let man know.
      Out! I'll how well. Who then King there take? Or here would father. They at go, old hath, there why she most may yet them make!
      Tis was us! Love see must heart upon speak poor. Like then gentlemen, should such well and give art one, nor had these can some say.
      Eyes away - Night - Nature - To nothing! [exeunt omnes]

    • @UnknownVir
      @UnknownVir 3 года назад +4

      (pulled from someone else's comment, I had no part in transcribing it)

    • @raven_of_zoso455
      @raven_of_zoso455 3 года назад +3

      @@UnknownVir thank you very much for bringing me this verse, kind unknown! I grant you some good mojo for your coming days!

    • @yvonneyvonne2513
      @yvonneyvonne2513 3 года назад +2

      EXCELLENT request. Beautifully written.

  • @dogriffiths
    @dogriffiths Год назад +1

    This alone is high fantastical.

  • @anoddperspective
    @anoddperspective 5 лет назад +38

    But it sounded amazing 👍🏻

  • @SM-zr9sy
    @SM-zr9sy 3 года назад +3

    Of all the ""Alasdair Beckett-King's Lear" performances this has to be one of them. When can we expect a Sydney showing?

  • @laurenbastin8849
    @laurenbastin8849 3 года назад +11

    this feels too much like a real monologue yet every time you try to understand it you just become awash in the flow of it all

  • @niencats
    @niencats Месяц назад +1

    This is how youtube videos sound when I start to fall asleep

  • @fieldcroft
    @fieldcroft 3 года назад +1

    Bravo! Simply brilliant!!!🎭👏

  • @Pengalen
    @Pengalen 3 года назад +1

    It is a testament to your craft that you make it sound like you are saying meaningful phrases.

  • @Malle472
    @Malle472 Год назад +1

    Thank you for providing the script for my next D&D village idiot.

  • @noeloconnell1645
    @noeloconnell1645 3 года назад +99

    This is precisely how Shakespeare is if you see a play without having read and studied first

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 года назад +5

      So, I'm not the only one confused then?
      I'm baffled at people who would pay to see this, as I respect it, but WOW, it's a long haul. I wouldn't call it "free time fun."

    • @HO-bndk
      @HO-bndk 3 года назад

      Yet Elizabethan commoners went to and enjoyed these. Are you more feeble minded than they?

    • @thedestroyasystem
      @thedestroyasystem 3 года назад +4

      @@HO-bndk gonna bet that they didn’t understand it, either. Most of them were illiterate, so I highly doubt they could understand it much better than an educated person nowadays. The difference is, they had literally nothing better to do.

    • @hamishwhitehenderson5197
      @hamishwhitehenderson5197 3 года назад +3

      @@thedestroyasystem So being illiterate and unable to read and write means you can’t understand spoken words as well? The reason why Shakespere is difficult to understand, is, horror of horrors, because it was written several hundred years ago when english sounded very different. You seem to think that he wrote it deliberately to be pretentious and snobby, and that you can only understand it if you went to a private school. In reality his plays where shown in the seedy parts of london and people would litter the floor with oyster shells and get a bj from a local prostitute during the interval. The elizabethan equivalents of Mary Whitehouse would campaign against them for promoting sex, violence and buggery.
      I have no problem with someone not understanding Shakespeare- just don’t say it’s his fault

    • @thedestroyasystem
      @thedestroyasystem 3 года назад +1

      @@hamishwhitehenderson5197 I wasn’t trying to blame Shakespeare at all. Looking back I agree my comment comes off as quite ignorant, this subject most certainly isn’t my forté and I probably should’ve just visit my mouth shut lmao. Thank you for educating me :)

  • @gavingleemonex3898
    @gavingleemonex3898 2 года назад

    And so thy will shall be thy, and thee are the we of he. For unto this of me.....Unto this of me.

  • @lpeterman
    @lpeterman Год назад +1

    I shall endeavour, forthwith, to wield this interpretation, anon.

  • @unclenogbad1509
    @unclenogbad1509 3 года назад

    Man, that's a great performance. Also funny. Thanks.

  • @capetian12
    @capetian12 3 года назад +2

    I remember seeing this performance at the Globe. It was truly rapturous performance.

  • @cmay7429
    @cmay7429 3 года назад

    This is so brilliant. Just found his channel today. Wish there was more.

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch 3 года назад +3

    I love how it still kind sorta work

  • @josephscott1292
    @josephscott1292 2 года назад

    Your performance here was truly hypnotic!

  • @sorgialfalan6512
    @sorgialfalan6512 2 года назад +1

    Amazing. This is must be why they say presentation is everything.

  • @rollespil1000
    @rollespil1000 5 дней назад

    Absolutely brilliant 😁👍 (and a perfect example of something that politicians know well: what you say matters less than HOW you say it)

  • @ekagaurangadas
    @ekagaurangadas 3 года назад +2

    I didn't understand a word but I was entertained all the time.

  • @VelvetJazz
    @VelvetJazz 3 года назад

    Another brilliant performance!!

  • @jfoster1
    @jfoster1 3 года назад +82

    Now I know what English sounds like to non-English speakers

    • @RFC-3514
      @RFC-3514 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/-VsmF9m_Nt8/видео.html

  • @kirkjones9639
    @kirkjones9639 3 года назад

    Damn! That made perfect sense, and really brought life to the play. Outstanding sir!

  • @JimmyOlsson
    @JimmyOlsson 3 года назад

    Hilarious videos by a hilariously talented creator, hilarious comments by the fanbase! You gotta love this channel! 😂😍

  • @whoateallthecheese8312
    @whoateallthecheese8312 3 года назад +1

    What a captivating performance! Much better than the original. Fantastic acting, keep up the great work good sir

  • @johndewitt2091
    @johndewitt2091 3 года назад +5

    That was awesome

  • @clddouglas
    @clddouglas 3 года назад

    Absolutely brilliant! Thank you.

  • @margaretalbrecht4650
    @margaretalbrecht4650 3 года назад

    That was brilliant. You encapsulated the words of Shakespeare and every Shakespeare performance I've seen.

  • @allisonhoff5805
    @allisonhoff5805 3 года назад

    Wow! That must have been hard to memorize! And it was somehow still beautiful! Well done, sir.

  • @randallminchew6780
    @randallminchew6780 Год назад

    Breathtaking. Amazing!

  • @kevlarkittens
    @kevlarkittens 3 года назад +2

    Effing. Brilliant.
    🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @postnubilaphoebus96
    @postnubilaphoebus96 3 года назад +27

    Why do you have so few subscribers? You're a comedic genius!

    • @mrmdemeter1
      @mrmdemeter1 3 года назад +5

      You actually just reminded me that I hadn't subscribed... Thx

  • @thebenforever
    @thebenforever 2 года назад

    Some chap already made a similar observation, but watching this had me thinking "this must be how toddlers hear grown ups talking on tv."
    It felt familiar. Like returning to a house you grew up in 20 years ago.

  • @familyfriendlyporn6771
    @familyfriendlyporn6771 3 года назад +6

    When you actually have read it, but you literally don't remember anything and the teacher asks you to talk about it:

  • @jasperkt
    @jasperkt 3 года назад +6

    This is genius!

  • @TheMrCougarful
    @TheMrCougarful 3 года назад

    Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

  • @paulaschroen3954
    @paulaschroen3954 3 года назад

    And I understand it all! Excellent acting!

  • @tgian
    @tgian 3 года назад +1

    you're awesome, keep it up man!

  • @strangebird5974
    @strangebird5974 3 года назад

    Your reading sounds just like a recording I have of a reading of his Sonnets. Very mesmerizing.

  • @urikorsikov843
    @urikorsikov843 3 года назад

    This was far more entertaining than anything Shakespeare ever did. Bravo, good sir.

  • @synchrony_watchmaking
    @synchrony_watchmaking 3 года назад +14

    Holy fucking WOW
    That was the bestEST of the best performances I’ve ever seen
    You should REALLY voice some old wise wizard (like you already are) or a voice-over telling a story about medieval ages!

  • @lordofgraphite
    @lordofgraphite 3 года назад +19

    How did this weirdly make sense XD

    • @fiesehexe8133
      @fiesehexe8133 3 года назад +1

      That's what I thought, too

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 3 года назад +4

      The rhythms are the same as the real thing, so it sounds like it might make sense. That's why it's funny.

    • @fiesehexe8133
      @fiesehexe8133 3 года назад +3

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Wow, you really got a point there. That totally makes sense and will be the explanation.

    • @Dogen70
      @Dogen70 3 года назад

      Indeed

  • @vonderfaak6357
    @vonderfaak6357 3 года назад +4

    Genius.

  • @poiuyt975
    @poiuyt975 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's somewhat surprising how frequently the word "fool" appears in the drama, isn't it? ;-)

  • @gromit8023
    @gromit8023 3 года назад +4

    How normal mouth words sound before my first coffee

  • @diegoborges1348
    @diegoborges1348 3 года назад +1

    I understood this literally as much as I understood Shakespeare when reading it for the first time.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera 3 года назад +2

    This has instantly become my favorite Shakespearean play.

  • @lizzykay9912
    @lizzykay9912 3 года назад

    Excellent delivery, it's like James Joyce throwing hands XD

  • @champagne.future5248
    @champagne.future5248 3 года назад +6

    Oh my God, he actually memorized it

  • @DezMarivette
    @DezMarivette 3 года назад +11

    Jesus, watching ABK at night is like a fever dream.

    • @aravenlunatic9028
      @aravenlunatic9028 3 года назад

      But the good kind. Not the fever dreams where you're surfing a Nutella wave while arguing with a dolphin if tuna packed in water tastes better with crunchy peanut butter or if tuna packed in oil tastes fish-ier with crunchy peanut butter cuz the oil in the packet heightens the tuna's "natural juices" and it devolves into a weird conversation about tuna sex lives and how many lady tunas have gotten knocked up by Charlie. 😳🤷

    • @silvasilvasilva
      @silvasilvasilva 3 года назад

      @@aravenlunatic9028 This sounds suspiciously specific...

  • @perferre1
    @perferre1 3 года назад +3

    I love it