RSC: The Comedies

[Beatles1717]

"...One of the Shrews gets elected as a senator from New York."

O_o ... XD

[Beatles1717]

I get the first two titles, but where does the transvestite come in?

[Soitisisit]

@Beatles1717 Umm... the whole time, maybe? I blacked out once or twice because I was laughing too hard to breathe, but I think the shrews were dressed as pages and something with the bimbos. *shrug* No clue.

[MidwesternDiva]

4 Weddings and a Transvestite. So true.

[HollyhockTalon]

"...Exept for aminor charecter in a second act who gets eaten by a bear..."

[Soitisisit]

@HollyhockTalon HAhahahaa! Oh wait.. I'm that minor character! DX<

[jondemusiq]

The comedy of two well measured gentlemen lost in the merry wives of Venice in the mid-summer's 12th night in winter

[Stroodledoodle311]

@bluefox99887 haha, we did in mine too! I'm surprised that teachers share these guys. I totally thought ours did just because he was cool, but maybe a lot of AP Lit and Comp classes do.

[Immalovinthesingin]

"The Duke recognizes his daughters!"

* Looks uncomfortable

[bluefox99887]

Bloody genius!

[bluefox99887]

We watched Reduced Shakespeare Co. in my AP Lit and Comp class! ;D

These guys are genius! :)

[demonater23]

"where she seduces a jackass and they all have an orgy" hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

[MusicIsMyLifeLike123]

THIS IS SO CORRECT.

SO VERY CORRECT.

[horse631]

@AvaNickol Its "Thespians" with a "P" not a "B" :)

[junglekiity]

My favorite line has to be "Aphroditic juice of a hermaphroditic flower" BRILIANCE

[hihi0]

SHAKESPEARE LOVED TROPES.

[MidwesternDiva]

I love being a Shakespeare nerd and figuring out which references go with which comedies.

[swiftyuki]

four weddings and a transvestite

[TdaTdiCrazed]

i'm in middle school and my tecaher wasnt here and the substitute said our teacher said to watch this and the Othello rap. we thought our teacher went crazy by letting 12 year old watch this!

[PenJLane]

"Exit, Pursued by a Bear." ^_^

[AvaNickol]

these guys are what all thesbians strive to be. amazing.

[2014guardgirl]

"Now the 6 brothers fall in love with 6 Italian sisters, 3 of whom are contentious, sharp-tongued little shrews, and 3 of whom are submissive, air-headed little bimbos." XD

[kitkatnov9]

i am a sophomore in high school and i am in honors language arts which is world literature instead of normal language arts, but we still have a month or so where we have to study shakespeare and my teacher showed us this because she was like "yeah you guys might get some of the jokes" .......we got all of them lol this is the funniest thing ive ever seen!!!

[kakashisonlyangel]

except for a minor character in the 2nd act who gets eaten by a bear and the duke's brother's sons are unable to pay back the old jew give themselves lobotomies and they all live happily ever after :D

[TheClockworkQuill]

Other then the wine part that all sounds like this teacher. Our teachers can get away with a lot, but giving alcohol to high school students is a little beyond the line, and most certainly illegal.

A lot of the teachers at this school are like this. Freshman year I spent the last week of my Biology class watching House.

I guess the moral (if you can call it that) of the situation is: If you want fun teachers, go to an arts school.

[TheClockworkQuill]

Love this. Saw it for the first time today. And who showed it to me? My English teacher. Win.

[juvenileJILLIAN]

@TheClockworkQuill my english teacher did too. as sort of a freebie after finishing Hamlet. i love it and want to own it now. thank you Mrs. Ernst. :))

[TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN We haven't done Shakespeare yet, that's later this year. He showed it to a group of us that always eats lunch in his room.

[juvenileJILLIAN]

@TheClockworkQuill very nice. well see, im a Freshman in college now. this was last year, my senior year. :P man i feel old saying that ahaha. but yea, anywhoos....it's a great movie. so friggin hilarious. :))

[TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN Its the 11/12th grade AP English teacher at my school who showed it so me. He is going to show it to us during class later this year.

He's absolutely awesome. We're going to have us listen to Sting sometime during this unit, and I'm so excited. Also, he for a moment at least considered actually showing us Monty Python and the Holy Grail for this unit also.

I love that I go to a school where a teacher would be able to show us that and not get in trouble.

[MechanicalSunlight]

@TheClockworkQuill

wow, this teacher may just give my most-awesome-english-prof-ever a run for his money, and he spent half the classes showing us random clips on youtube, and gave us a wine-and-cookies reading party instead of a final exam O.o

[juvenileJILLIAN]

@TheClockworkQuill oh ahaha i went to a Private School my Senior year. Mrs Ernst just figured we were all big boys and girls and that we have seen and heard worse and could handle a parody of a shakespeare play we were studying. but thats stellar you almost watched monty python and the holy grail. that would have been awesome if we had seen that. :P

[TheClockworkQuill]

@juvenileJILLIAN Well after doing voyage of the hero and Gilgamesh in the 9/10 nothing really is out of bounds.

We started this year off with viking era literature. How did our teacher sum up the Anglo-Saxon era? Blood, beer, raping and pillaging.

[Becatsup]

@TheClockworkQuill I read that and wondered if your teacher would arrive of summing up the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid as "Wine, beer, raping and pillaging".

[TheClockworkQuill]

@Becatsup He might. Illiad and Odyssey are next year.

[monny287]

@Becatsup

Having translated the Aeneid from the original Latin (ugh) and slogged through the Odyssey, I would also add "Whiny, promiscuous protagonists" to your list. :P

[GaleStream]

in the play (not the title cause that's too obvious :P), I listened and found references to Midsummer Night's Dream, Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, Tempest, Merry Wives, Taming of the Shrew, As you like it, and Much ado about nothing... Can't seem to find any other refs in the acts.

[Rueneko]

@GaleStream The Merchant of Venice is mentioned twice at the beginning and the end - paying a loan to a Jew with their brains, instead a pound of flesh.

[GaleStream]

@Rueneko yeah I saw that too, missed it while putting that down in the comments :P

[laggalanne]

Which comedies are in this?

[slanderoushalo]

all of them

[faithfultrout]

we watched this in lit class..... im in 8th grade

[DolphinC]

do they ever say anything about much ado about nothing?

[ackbarfan5556]

The Russin part was funny, it made no sence to the story what so ever

[xxPatheticEmoxx]

The Love boat goes to Verona.

[MidwesternDiva]

it's funny they mention Italiana dell'arte because the Shakespeare Co. is pretty much a dell'arte group - and a damn good one!

[DictionaryNinja]

I love these people.

Doing a project on the comedies and reading them all in one day made this doubly hilarious.

[osubeaver8]

hahahaha i love actually knowing what the fish-man creature is :)

[elamentalmaster]

Hahahahahah XP that was good you know i was actuly almost in the play a mide summers night dream i wuld have bin olderon king of the faires and befor any one seas any thing i made sherten that i looked nuthing like the stariotipic fary the costume wuld have bin all black and to get back to my point we wher unable to do the play becuse one of the pepole playing on of the lead roles i cant remember wich got suspended and we culdent replace him in time o well

[xLegendNasHx]

Symbelene taming Pericles the Merchant in the tempest of love as much as you like it for nothing! love it :)

[ITSemilyOMG]

"...OR 4 Weddings and a Transvestite."

LOL.

[DogoHalibar]

@ITSemilyOMG Or the Love Boat goes to Venice!!

As it's called at my old high school.

[LightningbugsInAJar]

Haha was just cast in this at my school under comedies, now i'm excited :D

[tahuong17]

this is Shakespeare... or Beckett??

[rogelyosep]

"...Where she is molested by a creature who's either a man, or fish... or both."

HAHA YES. Caliban reference! >:D

[missbabyice]

Great :D

[mongooseman556]

WHAT THE F**K!!!

that wasnt how its supposed to be!!!

ive watched this like 3 times in england and they use puppet heads for this bit which is HIILARIOUS

THIS VERSION IS SHOCKINGLY BAD IN COMPAIRISON

[Tranqualizer20]

They use puppets for that one scene in Hamlet. Not for this.

[RAwrrTiisAbii]

You Don't expect them to Do It the same every time do you?

[purplestofthepurples]

"...during which the pages' clothes get ripped off revealing female genitalia the duke recognizes as his daughters."

"... O_o"

XDDD

[kyukido1stdan]

@purplestofthepurples ^_-

[2014guardgirl]

As You Like It reference!! :D

[amieh8su]

LIL BIMBOS

[Ubiquitous101]

Would be interesting if someone actually made the described combined play into a full parody play.

[coramunroe]

Hahaha, WIN.

[bobbied3]

We have condensed all of Shakespeares 16 comedies into a single play which we call "The Comedy of Two Well Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummers-Twelfth Night in Winter; or Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as you like it for Nothing; or Four Weddings and a Transvestite" xD

[silvertamagachi]

This is a freaking depressing comedy . . . XD

[emmavanhasselt]

....And the other are three submissive, airheaded little bimbos! :D

[reaperchris13]

...and for no apparent reason, perform a two man underwater version of uncle vanya.

[xxPatheticEmoxx]

ACT 5!

[snowgrett14]

OR...four weddings and a transvestite!

[KATTALNUVA3]

Stop me if I'm wrong about this but... In Shakespeare's time if a play was a comedy didn't that just mean it was a play with a happy ending?

[NewTrafficPattern]

correct.

[IkuralHakiir]

Comedies usually end with a marriage.

[coramunroe]

Yes indeed =) That would explain plays like Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice (also called "problem comedies") which end happily but are quite serious along the way.

[puregenius711]

during the comedies part, weve got nine people acting it out. LOL!

[silvertamagachi]

How is one of the daughters "more virginal" than the others?

[jameskathedral]

does it matter?

its fuckin hilarious

[puregenius711]

its not supposed to make sense

[scrye493]

And this matters... Why? ;D

[TheTechieGirl]

B\c Miranda (from the Tempest) had never met a man in her life till Ferdinand cashing on the island

[puregenius711]

THE DUKE RECONGNIZES HIS DAUGHTERS

lol my highschool is doing this play

[cassandrapoo]

haha. look at adam

[monny287]

"One of the shrews is elected senator from New York!" I love that line. It was even more hilarious because the first time I heard it, it was last spring during campaign season XD. I love RSC.

[Opreaismylife10692]

It confuses me.

[communiqation]

The Comedy of two well measured Gentlemen lost in the merry wives of Venice on a midsummer's twelfth night in winter.

or

Cybeline taming Pericles the Merchant in the tempest of Love as much as you like it for nothing.

or

Four weddings and a transvestite.

[xtiermishuexx]

im the minor character in the second act, who was eaten by a bear...

[juliebogen]

I honestly don't think they missed even one trope... thoroughly done, dudes!

[kirbyfan95]

"Four Weddings and a Transvestite"

[xxangelinblackxx]

im going to die of luaghter...

[KATTALNUVA3]

Amen to that.

No matter how many times I see it, it still sounds fresh

[michelleanneliese]

isn't an oraje 5 ppl w/ their shoes off? look it up!!!

[michelleanneliese]

The Comedy of Two Well Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummer's Twelth Night in Winter while

Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as You Like it for Nothing.

[Lefty001]

pure genius

[FatherTime89]

I swear this is the biggest what the fuck moment of all time.

[FatherTime89]

The Comedy of Two Well Measured Gentlemen Lost in the Merry Wives of Venice on a Midsummer's Twelth Night in Winter.

or

Cymbeline Taming Pericles the Merchant in the Tempest of Love as Much as You Like it for Nothing.

or

Four Weddings and a Transvestite.

[kygirl101]

isn't it supposed to be "one of the bimbos grows up to be Vanna White"?

[sexiibisnitch]

1.56

Hahah.

[PickSomethingAlready]

Ahaha breaking the fourth wall.... and then the fifth..... and the sixth.....

These guys are great, and so fresh and original. ^^

[FriendsFanforLIFE]

I love these!

[inuyashaclipchick735]

I might get to watch this twice. one for drama, one for english. whoot ^^

[insanedemonspaz]

i saw these guys in my humor class, awesome

[Ninotori]

lol, i luv these guys. just becuase we read romeo and juliet, we got to watch this whole thing :-) three periods of nothing but this in english class ^.^

[seajayaway]

That's always nice. I think we're gunna get to do that in my class. I'm crossin' my fingers!!

:)

[blackanu]

same here this thing was kinda boring till later.

[Flowbee79]

The Turning of the Senator:

"Good Morrow, Hill, for I hear you are called Hill."

That would be funny, The Turning of the Shrew done up in the guise of the Clinton marriage, ending with Hillary milking it all the way to the NY Senatorial race. lol

[insanedemonspaz]

I like the idea. It sounds funny.

[FatherTime89]

Err that's the taming of the shrew not the turning of the shrew.

[koolaid9391]

We watched this in Drivers Ed today, and I cracked up like, the whole time.

[noodnic]

Why?

[koolaid9391]

It was near the end of school, so it was kind of a free day. There was nothing else to do. :)

[owowodance]

hah these guys are the best!

[ThisIsAnInsideJoke]

"...and the duke's brother's sons, who, unable to bay back the old Jew, give themselves lobotomies..."

That made me giggle. XD

[Kristanite]

What's important is that they All Live Happily Ever After

[indieflickjunkie]

nhahahaha. nice.

[mymariax3]

I did this in high school I did this sence and romeo and juliet oh man I loved it, I loved it all

[mymariax3]

I did this in high school and it was wicked funny =]

[kdpaul1989]

thank you for posting all of these, i love this performance so much

[nightstar0629]

omg me 2! this is the best thing ever created!

[DreamHarp85]

Saw this twice when I was in London...I want to see it again! This really helps me re-live the show, thanks!

[Amandalovestheused]

i love it!!!! it so hott!!

[MazAMaTaz]

What always ticks me off is that Austin didn't say, "And they all have a lovely, bisexual, animalistic orgy." Only because I find that hilarious and that's what's in the script.

[RyuBlue]

"Lobotomy" is such an odd word...

[samandal007]

Do you know where I can get the script for this play?

[HollyJFerguson]

It's on Amazon

[samandal007]

Thx.

[samandal007]

Thank You!