Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Possibly one of our favourite letter exchanges ever, and at London's Freemasons' Hall back in 2016 Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi joined us to give an incredible, hilarious reading.
In 1675, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire instructed his army to attack a fortress belonging to the Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were quickly and heavily defeated. Rather than surrender, the Sultan then wrote to the Cossacks and demanded that they submit to him. This fiery exchange was the result.
Capaldi's accent is perfect for that stream of insults.
Malcolm Tucker would be useful in any time period.
Billy Connolly… the icing on the cake
@@Latitude6forward-yz4pp Billy Connolly (Lucifer) reacting to a letter from Stephen Fry (God) ;)
Capaldi is Scottish ❤❤
Who else wants to see Peter Capaldi make an appearance on "What We Do In The Shadows"? The world needs more scenes featuring Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi.
ME
Wait Matt Barry is on that show?
That might be enough to make me check it out.
@@RapsCalorie oh yeah, it's lit.
If Dracula ever appears in the show, Peter Capaldi could play him!
MEEEEEE!
I love how Capaldi is showing amused contempt before he even starts reading and Berry is just standing there like "I don't remember seeing half of that in the script".
Berry was 100% perfect with his shocked disbelief at what he was hearing. Neither undersold nor overplayed.
And of course Peter was absolutely brilliant in his conveyance of the contempt and sarcasm just oozing with every word.
TBF Capaldi looks absolutely high out of his mind at 0:19
Art that
This is high art, I just love this
Im so glad i found this lmfaooo im in tears @@shadowreaper2011
"You can't slay a hedgehog with your naked arse" is my new favourite insult.
😂😂😂😂
right? like I really want the occasion to arise when I might use it
What does that even mean?!
@@Garanon5 I have no idea but it's damned funny.
I would think that slaying any medium sized mammal with one's naked arse would present a significant challenge.
In case you ever thought the comversations in Monty Python and the Holy Grail were too silly to be realistic...
the original text has be altered repeatedly over time and this is using the best parts of all of the different publications. history is rarely that funny
@@jukeboxfandangothe situation itself is funny
@@jukeboxfandango history is just people. it's as funny as it is now, just in different situations with different language - it's as gruesome and as full of vitriol and sinew as it always has been. a lot of shakespeare isn't dissimilar to this, realistically, just less modern-translated
Well these letters are made up, so
Fun fact; my fiancée’s grandparents once had the Pythons filming something on their farm. His granny did not realise her husband had allowed this, and chased John Cleese and Michael Palin off their back step with a newspaper while they were eating sandwiches.
This just proves there needs to be a buddy comedy with Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi.
I'd be comfortable with them just reading letters like this to each other.
@@r.f.switch5847 Oh there's nothing quite like a Scotsman and and Englishman hurling insults to each other, is there!! x
Some sort of version of three men in a boat, with Michael Sheen as well, please.
Dear God, please make this happen.
And the very last line should be "you and I were... buddies, weren't we?"
Peter Capaldi is one of those actors who just seems to understand how everything should be delivered. It's insane he's routinely an unintentional scene stealer
its strange to say your greatest talent is to be the best swearer to have ever lived
@@tamsinmeek7578he just swears like a Scotsman. The praise comes from those who haven't headed that far north and heard what it's really like.
@@kredonystus7768 Well, I'm half Glaswegian, but seriously, he brings another dimension to it
The look Peter Capaldi gives Matt Berry before letting loose.... Priceless. Capaldi was BORN to read the more profane letter.
Channeling the Doctor...but the cooler Doctor
@@ThatGuySizzleMac watch devils hour......
"You can't slay a hedgehog with your naked arse" sounds straight out of the thick of it
🤣 All episodes on iPlayer now
Capaldi killed it in that role, no one does casual swearing like a pissed off Scotsman, take it from a pissed off Scotsman.
It's an insult I'm using from now on.
Reminds me of he's so dense light bends around him.
Matt Berry had a letter only he could read with such magnitude and seriousness. Matt Berry could converse with “gods.” Capaldi was also perfect for the more vulgar. They were perfect.
A Scots accent can be a magnificent thing - both for cursing and shouting, as well as for speaking eloquently and with gentility.
Funny considering I only know Matt as vulgar. As my only exposure to him is in The IT Crowd.
Truly brought back Malcolm Tucker for this reading!
The best thing is that Capaldi gets to let his natural Scots accent rip instead of having to tone it down to get acting jobs from the Sassenach entertainment industry
FAAAAATHERRRRR!!!!!!!!
The opening of this letter is unmistakable - you know exactly which exchange this is going to be from the first sentence, without reading the description. Kudos to the translator too - they perfectly translated not just the words, but the spirit of both letters. And, of course, Berry and Capaldi are brilliant.
Unfortunately, the rhymes of the original are lost, they make it so much better imho
What language is it originally in?
@@DSQueenie Ukrainian, Correspondence between the Ottoman sultan and the Cossacks
@@kucenyatko Evidence suggests it is more likely of Polish origin.
@@fylosofersince when cossacks became polish?!
This is why you don’t argue with Scot’s, we take insults very seriously
I’m Scottish, my husband is Turkish, we both found this entertaining and yes, he says never argue with a Scot especially a Scottish woman 🤣
I love it! It sounded like a letter from the Scots to the English.
@@gillian3168 the deadliest kind of woman
As an accent sponge (I literally pick up accents without noticing it) I love Scots. Whirruld. And insults in Scots are the best.
Then again, I'm largely Scots-Irish-Welsh living in the US soooooooo
Its actually a letter from ottoman sultan to slavic cossacks@@ophelias4172
Well, as being from Zaporizzhya, this letter is a part of the school curriculum with some swearing removed. But it is a special treat to hear it being read by The Doctor ))❤
SOME swearing removed?
@@orionterron99Well, you cannot remove all of it, can you? There would be nothing left of the letter!
@@orionterron99 well in fact there are 4 versions of this letter with different amount of swearing. And no reliable evidence which one is correct. But most of historians are tend to think some of swearing was ADDED later during copying in next ~100 years after original (1676)
Wait, so ... That was really real?
@@sandrahuibers8081 That was indeed Sultan Mehmed IV's letter of 1676 to the Zaporozhian Cossacks requesting that they kindly cease resisting his rule and that indeed was their reply.
The world needs Scottish Cossacks!!
😄
A terrifying yet hilarious concept!...😂🙈🧠💢
This wasnae a simple Scottish Cossack, this was a Glaswegian Cossack!
Yes! Scottish Spartans just wasn't enough.
Called Tucker ❤
This is a big favourite of mine, the letter never fails to make me laugh. By all accounts the writing was a team effort with the Zaprozhian Cossacks trying to outdo each other with suggestions for insults. I can imagine them all laughing their heads off each time someone came up with a new one.
well...thats humans! any age, any era...we will draw a dick on a wall and giggle about it...
There is a famous Ukranian painting about that
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Look it up, it's literaly what you imagend
@@andreynagorny2067Thank you! I searched it out and you're right it is exactly what I hoped for. They're having such a good time coming up with the grossest insults they can think up 😂
Right on, man. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦
It's actually 17thC war propaganda likely originating in Poland, but it makes such a good story it keeps getting retold.
Berry's opening was so strong, you could see Capaldi switch gears in real time. Loved it!
That correspondence has since been the model for most contract negotiations and divorce settlements.
I used to do weekend typing for a group of divorce lawyers. Yep. Remarkably similar to modern L.A. divorce negotiations @😅
The real genius of this is the reaction of whichever one isn't talking
hahaha - peters face before he started! XD dying
2:12 I love this little glance. It's as if to indicate that the Sultan is getting upset and looking for a ref to step in, because things are getting too heated for him to handle.
"He just insulted my *mom*, you guys!" XD
This is why I love both Peter Capaldi and Matt Berry. Magnificent.
Both fantastic doctors
@@000xyz I'll get a mop
There is a famous painting that alledges to document the meeting where the reply letter was drafted. It shows all the leaders of the Cossacks huddled around the one penning the letter, some bent over with laughter, some suggesting new insults with an evil grin, but all having the time of their life. It is simpy called _Zaporozhian Cossacks write to the Sultan of Turkey_ and is one of the funniest painting out there (if you know this backstory).
I know the painting. It's hilarious to imagine someone in that crowd shouting "Tell him he's a goat fucker!"
This one? :D
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
It was worth Googling, thanks!
I also had to give it a google... I want this painting on my wall, right next to Dogs playing poker. Shirtless bald guy definitely came up with "couldn't slay a hedgehog with your own naked arse."
Read an translated letter, and capaldi takes some ( brilliant) literary artistic licence, but it works!!!
If you only watched Calpaldi's response, the look on Matt Berry's face would make you believe that Peter Capaldi has just started to insult him and he's left bewildered. It's so funny! I would watch hours of these two reading letters, but I'd love a comedy series including them both. Great actors!
For some reason "AND WE DON'T OWN A CALENDAR!" is the scariest/funniest bit of this!
butthe moons in the sky
Someone needs to put these two in a odd couple buddy show together immediately
Man that would be awesome!
I vote Peter Capaldi to join What We Do In The Shadows immediately
Omg. Peter Capaldi as some sort of crazy old wizard. Heck yeah!
An older withnail & I would be amazing with those two
That would be fucking amazing.
"An idiot before God." 😂😂😂 "...and we don't own a calendar." 😂😂😂
Btw, I love Matt Berrys voice! He could read mathbooks to me and I would love it.
Strangely enough, I would love to know if he talks like that at home?
Everything I have seen him in he has that voice.
@@serinatang4184I read in an interview that he finds pompous accents funny, so that’s why all of his characters sound like that.
@@erakfishfishfish Interesting. With other people I think it would wear thin, but for some reason he makes it work in everything I have seen of him.
SPEAK PRRRRRREIST!!
I looove his way of talking. Especially on what we do in the shadows.
Peter Capaldi will forever be angry eyebrows to me. His Scottish rage is the MOST entertaining. ❤
Those are attack eyebrows!
Scottish rage is funny.
Except when you grow up with it.
Peter Capaldi having great fun with his letter, Matt Berry having the perfect voice for the 'Grandson of God'. A true delight!
Matt Berry is terrific and this combo is fantastic, but Peter Capaldi is peerless. I fell in love with him in "The Thick Of It" and after all these years, he's still my favorite Scotsman. The vein on the right side of his temple looks like he's about to have a stroke out of anger 😂
only Matt Berry could convincingly deliver the grandiosity of the Sultan's full title. brilliant
ROFL! Peter was PERFECT for this! Gotta love that Scottish rage!
I think Matt was perfect casting too for that opener. It was inspired on both sides!
Right?
I have a friend who knows it cracks me up and depending on his mood, I’ll receive a recording of him losing it.
There’s nothing more entertaining and satisfying than seeing/hearing that happen off the cuff. I tip my cap. 😂🤭🤣💯
Peter puts my Scottish fathers rage to shame…he’s nowhere near as wild or a passionate when he goes of the deep end.
The 'attack eyebrows' were on full display for this one.
I’m sad we never got that episode of Doctor Who in Capaldi’s era with Matt as the Monk, truly would’ve been a lot of fun 😭
Omg Matt as the monk now that's an opportunity
Peter Capaldi is such a fantastic actor, one of my favorites, right alongside Matt Berry. This was such a special treat to see.
peter capaldi is so funny, he puts 110% into every single word of this delivery, we are truly blessed to have him as the doctor
Just when I think I can't love Peter Capaldi more . . . . . he does this. Be still, my beating heart.
Oh yes! 😍
Peter Capaldi should be made an honorary Cossack!
Just what The Doctor ordered
Well, that may very well be the most honest political correspondence I’ve ever heard.
I just found this, and I knew from the thumbnail which letter this was. I could not ask for a better combination than Peter Capaldi and the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Nice to know Malcolm Tucker found work after the Enquiry.
I got this feeling like Peter Capaldi heard all that and then looked at his letter and was about to say, "I think I got shafted on this deal." and at one point Matt Berry looked like he wanted to stop Capaldi and ask if that was really in the letter or if he was making things up. XD
This is the best crossover ever. Always wanted to see 12 in his true Scottish form
Watch him in "The Thick of it" (possibly Peter even out -Scottishes himself in it!
The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks is such a delightful painting and legend, and this reading is so wonderfully deliver.
Didn't know how important to my mental well-being this exchange would be until after seeing it. Its glorious.
The history behind this is great. There is a famous painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacs writing the letter. It's also interesting to note that the ancestors of the people who wrote the letter are currently fighting against Russia and their attitude largely hasn't changed.
Actually, the truth is, their successors fight in this war against EACH OTHER. Bc since the 16th century cossacks gone a long way till the very Siberia and Far East.
I have no idea what's going on here. But this was fantastic. I love these two even more.
Capaldi would be an amazing Van Helsing as the genuine one on “what we do in the shadows”😂🤣
I didn't know that I needed this in my life. My heart is full.
"We fear no army"
Every word of Peter's reply spoken like a True Scot!
Proud of ya Pete xx
I want to see an exchange between Matt Berry and Brian Blessed. Or some sort of production where they play father and son. I don't care what it's about, somebody just make it happen.
Watch Toast of London S3E3
@@firedragonosis Awesome, thank you 🙂
I I mediately thought of Brian Blessed too. 😂
@@firedragonosis JOHN HAMM!!!!
Love this... 1:50 . Especially when Matt Berry turns to the crowd , Look on his face is priceless at 2:07 😂...brilliant acting by both .. Watched it 101th time !
he doesnt look at the crowd at all, what the fuck are you talking about
This is going in my "Things to make me laugh on bad days" playlist.
Thank you for uploading!
Your list is a great idea and inspired me to make mine, thank you!
the moral of the story is that, like us, our predecessor's are deeply adept at verbal nuclear warfare
Human decency demands we crowdfund a full cinematic adaptation of this asap
Peter Capaldi is an international treasure and needs to be protected.
My absolute two favourite actors. Malcolm Tucker / Twelve / The Angel Islington vs Laszlo Cravensworth / Todd Rivers / Douglas Reynholm. Two giants of the screen.
Capaldi was Doctor 13, not 12.
Definitely was in Tucker mode.
“YOU WILL SEEE ME AGAIN!”
@@ValiantWrestling War Doctor doesn't add to the number scheme
finally someone who also remembers capaldi for his performance as the angel islington! he was hauntingly perfect for the role
Those two guys are the greatest.
I love Peter Capaldi so much !🤣
Peter absolutely slays this letter!
@@LettersLiveHe really does. Inspired to start a The Thick of It rewatch tonight. 🤣
It’s the reaction shots that get me.
Nice to see another version of these great letters.
Pleased you enjoyed it! Always fun to see what different performers do with the same letters x
Fantastic orators, both of them; I thoroughly enjoyed these readings.
I don't know... Matt Berry's delivery was powerful and commanding, (would love to see him do Hamlet's 'to be or not to be') but Peter Capaldi's performance was just so much fun to watch! Also, Peter would make an awesome vampire!
Even the Sultan didn't know how to respond to that one
“Mehmed IV? This is the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Can you hear us?”
“I can hear you, Zaporozhian Cossacks.”
Wonderful. I am imagining the poor messenger did not have quite the same delivery? 😂 very funny today.
Forget Morgan Freeman, I want Matt Berry to read my eulogy. He would make my funeral so much fun.
It would even better if he read it as Jackie Daytona
@@robertriteman3227 There really should be more Jackie Daytona out there.
There needs to be a spin off after the series ends. @@Freeden
Whaddya know! A reading duel that consists of the most ludicrous material that can be located... This earned my attention Lol....These two are undeniably over the toppest of top😂
Thank you RUclips algorithm for suggesting this to me, two of my favorites, both elite at delivering fiery insults.
Someone must have really enjoyed writing that letter!!
Damn, Berry’s inimitable enunciation and Capaldi’s captivating accent may just be as good as rhubarb and custard!
Been a IT Crowd fan for a couple years yet never once knew who played the boss. Thank you for this!
I have always wanted to hear the dialog of the letters after having seen the portrait in St. Petersburg. That is hilarious.
That was the most epic string of swearing and insults I have ever heard.
Knew and loved this as soon as Matt started reading.
Apparently Capaldi's letter is a 19th century translation - there are far earlier ones, but the insults in this one are just legendary! 😂
These guys were perfect choices to read their respective letters 😂
The accent of the Scottish, for the rebuttal is fabulous.
2:58 I LEGIT THOUGHT HE WAS REELING BACK TO THROW THE SCRIPT AT HIM LMAOO 😭😂🤣
Capaldi could read the ingredient list off the back of a bottle of ketchup and it would be award worthy.
Sir, your 12th Doctor is showing 😂😂
I love that the closed captions just gave up trying to interpret the unbridled Scottish rage halfway through
Pig! Pig! Pig! with that thrown-back head each time was hilarious
This part was not in the original text. Peter must have forgotten the script.
@volo870 hilarious either way
@@AmyLou733 Yep, Peter Capaldi may make everything work!
the delivery on both sides was fantastic !!
Two fantastic readers. Both masters of expression!
Capaldi be struggling so hard to keep a straight face
I could listen to Matt Berry reading anything. He could just count for all I care.
This reply is even funnier when looking at the Repin painting ‘Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks’ and seeing them all pitching in and laughing at the response
Now imagine if they actually did that Doctor Who story with Matt as the Monk
One of the shows great missed opportunities.
Simple but great idea, two people reading letters live. love it
Why do I really want Capaldi to just call me and curse me out for no reason? Would make my entire life.
Two of the best to ever do it going back and forth is a real treat
Just my thoughts, the audience is laughing, because as of today, this is funny with the Scottish accent, but I bet back in the day this is truly a heated argument, and I bet a lot of people ended up fighting and dying over it. History always repeats itself, and through these letters like this one you can see it. Thank you for sharing💕💐
I doubt anybody ended up fighting and dying over this exchange since according to the scholarship, the letters are apocryphal.
Seems to have originated as a joke and in later decades and centuries, various translations and versions popped up here and there, gaining popularity as religious/political propaganda during times of heightened conflict with the Ottoman Empire.
As soon as he mentioned ’Cossacks’ I knew where this was going. This letter is LEGENDARY as one of the all time great putdowns of history
This actually made me laugh aloud, perfect casting of them both😂😂😂
This is the centre of the venn diagram between Capaldi's roles on Doctor Who and The THick of It
I remember howling the first time I read that exchange. No other exchange has ever topped this for me
Those were the days of imaginative, vivid and lyrical writing.
I helped do Peter Capaldi’s plumbing years ago when I was an apprentice, such a nice guy to meet really laid back 🤙🏻
You ‘helped do Peter Capaldi’s plumbing’ will stay with me, I think! 🤔😉😅✌️
Did he transition? If so: time, place and private parts - that's an epic trifecta
That was INFINITELY satisfying. Thank you for posting!
PMQs could learn a lot from these two
Not Mhairi Black, though! She will be much missed (at least by me) come the next election when she stands down - although to be fair, she was probably only ever thinking it!
That little snort before Peter Capaldi lets rip is everything.
I kinda feel sorry for Matt Berry: this is Peter Capaldi's wheelhouse.
At least we could understand what he said.
@@briankehew579 Love his voice and his terrifying rage.
I'm so glad this popped up in my feed.