4-Minute Hamlet

[BobsErik]

Very clever!

[MissDYay]

Nobody ever mentions Horatio..

[sonicfreak901]

i thought it was good it helped me with my school work!

[TranquilizedKitten]

LOVED IT!

[thomasjb28]

This is awesome you should put up chords to your song! I play uke too!

[bostown]

Well thats my English Exam Passed

[blasphemymaster]

Amazing!

[XxJulietMontaguexX]

Hahahaha, thats brilliant :) 

[benlucyful]

sums it all up

[benlucyful]

sums it all up

[iDontDropShit]

Excellent! Should add lyrics :)

[SagaciousSilence]

Tarantino should do a modern day Hamlet...

[magniasini]

wat movie is the clip w/ the grls from?

[JohnRockwell]

Clueless!

[RonLinkLover]

It's a good way to learn Hamlet

[neroparadox]

Our teacher used it too - very helpful and amusing. :)

[iubob98]

love it, i'm truly deeply moved

I LOVE　HAMLET!

[eskimotim123]

english exam review. complete. :D

[anthonyct]

I have no words for how awesome this is. I don't think I'll have any problems with Hamlet on the exam now, with this song running in my head.

[3and1half]

Very cool.

I like how it uses scenes from the mel gibson movie.

[ThomasBAustin]

I love it. Shakespeare was seriously a Tarantino equivalent.

[Nikatepah]

You're a genius. Seriously.

[ghostxxxrebirth]

my school did this my freshman year during a summer shakespeare program. best show ever!

[cameronpass]

heyyy

yeh same my teacher used it

pretty helpful eh

very well done eh

dan

[HApophis]

lol, i love how at the beginning a guy was staring at the camera while playing a guitar-- i just wanted to scream "yay barney!". i love hamlet

[JohnRockwell]

The guy is me, and the "guitar" is a Martin ukulele.

[tuetaufa]

amazing!

[ihateskirts]

that was AWSOME-O!!!

[u2no1fansy]

u guys just made a trajic tale funny as hell lol

brill

[paulantschell]

Bill would've been proud. ahahah

[mgbeliieve]

hey you know what? our teacher used this at school to explain hamlet better to us.. thank you!

[superwowie]

dude i got a test on this tomorow and know nothing. this was the best 4 minutes i ever spent lol. thanks alot

[gamergirl87]

that was really cute! we're reading the play now in my english 1020 class and now i know what the play is about.

[eronpowell1]

that was actually pretty good. if you wrote that song yourself i give you serious credit.

[JohnRockwell]

i seriously did!

[Hardballgirl93]

hilarious haha lol funny

[Animaloverz]

Hey, that was cool alright! Haha! :D

The song`s great but i didn`t know Hamlet was so old...

[erinbrokovich12]

Inspired. Bill would've been proud.

[permissiontorock1]

Haha, fair doos :-)

I love that 'To thine ownself be true' quote. Want it tattooed to my foot...

[permissiontorock1]

Cool. It's 4 minutes 16 seconds though... :-p

[JohnRockwell]

I didn't count the Clueless clip at the beginning!

[jnkbarton]

Great video!!

[goodbyewindows]

Classic!!

[louiesmom007]

that was awesome! very funny-

Quentin Tarentino movie scene- LOL!!

[JohnRockwell]

Yes, I have to admit that is one of my fav lines in the song.

[zoza29]

Super Sluth!!!

[Dragonastra]

I watched this last year in drama class... yeah, my drama teacher kept replaying the Kissing scence between hamlet and his mother when we were looking for our spot again... very strange... But this was kinda funny!

[02sayep]

Aha that was brilliant. You can't post the tabs up somewhere could you? Unless you want to keep them as a trade secret ;)

[NittleGrasper01]

xD I love this! Too bad everyone dies, but at least Fortinbras gets Denmark.

[reinvent1]

the song is very nice, so is the video :) 'cept for the dialogue at the beginning, didn't quite fancy it to be honest :D

[paroxysm91]

Aw, I love Clueless!

[SilverGirl0767]

Ha..Trumpetgurl. I'm with you..my life:) Oh, ironically my father's family is from Elsinore:) At least he doesn't talk to me from the grave and tell me to kill people.

JohnRockwell..I LOVE you! You're hillarious and brilliant. I do think you have a fan:)

..ever see "Guildenstern and Rosencratz Are Dead?" forgive my spelling. I don't have my tome nearby.

[danielghofrani]

Hamlet is a good play but it ends in a funny way.

the ending is just unrealistic, it doesnt make sense, maybe it did 400 years ago.

[JohnRockwell]

Thank goodness the writer's strike is over--maybe someone in Hollywood can do better!

[trumpetgurl1990]

Well that just summed up my whole life! lol ... thanks that actually helped me!

[Adelan06]

Just awesome. Thank you, thank you for posting/creating that vid.

[tropicalmist999]

That was Fantastic !!! 5 stars Well done !!!!

[theorangeeggplant]

my friend finally understands hamlet

[timboytx]

Amazing on SO many levels. 5-star work, John. And, oh, can I have Mel Gibson's hair?

[SilverGirl0767]

timboytx..my former stylist did his hair! Ha..I hated her for it:) Just kidding..

[jorinde85]

Thought you'd like to know our professor played this in my masters English literature class. Definitely made Hamlet less stuffy.

[FilmForger]

No 'poor Yorik'?? - cool - nice job

[JohnRockwell]

Yorick deserves an entire song unto himself. To be recognized by your skull alone is pretty impressive!

[FilmForger]

I told my girlfriend I'd reconize her skull if it ever rolled to my feet.

[eriatarka132]

yes!!! awesome! great work man

[rschli1]

I LOVE IT!  Great Job!

[rschli1]

I LOVE IT!

[EdgeTheRock]

wonderfull

[moonlight293]

Nice job!

[indieabby88]

Very cool. And accurate, too!

[willowench]

Oh that was so great.

I want to send it to my high school English teacher but they blocked YouTube at my old school! Ahh...

[princess0086]

I love this!

[BeatlesFan51620]

This got stuck in my head - I've been singing it all day! Another one for my favorites.

[skippymagrue]

That pretty much sums it all up.

[rosencrantz3133]

That was hilarious and very well written.

[nickelsun]

awesome

[viktoreee]

HAHAHA VTG:are!!

[TeresaAngeles1979]

Thank you John. This helped me get the idea before I read the book, for an English paper!

[HelmetTesterTJ]

thank you sir.

[hahn89]

Thank you so much!

never read Hamlet before, but I get the rough idea.

do you mind doing one on Macbeth!!!

PLEASE!!

hehe..

[JohnRockwell]

I do what inspires me, and MacBeth has never really done that. Maybe Orson Welles ruined it for me.

[starguard]

No sarcasim at all. You are truly a gifted player and after watching all of your videos, I can only dream of one day becoming as good as you. Keep up the Fantastic work. You are truly an inspiration to us all :-)

[JohnRockwell]

Well thanks!

[starguard]

You are truly a master. How long did it take to learn how to play like that?

[JohnRockwell]

I hope you are being sarcastic--I'm hardly a master! I just play a bunch of chords fast... been playing the uke since July 2004. Kind of an awakening for me.

[ststolsson]

Dear John,

You are a great contribution to our entertainment. We love you for it and are very grateful.

S&J

ps dont fast too radically during Lent

[JohnRockwell]

I am going on a fast fast during Lent.

[drunkensnowgirl]

lmao love it

[cienanosdesoledad]

Thank you . You saved me from reading the damm book

[markocchionero]

Hamlet - and Ukulele.... this is the first time I ever like Shakespeare. I think.??