Hamlet Prince of YouTube

[STSWB5SG1FAN]

He's channeling both Shakespeare and Sam L. Jackson

[Xelanderthomas]

@STSWB5SG1FAN wow, best compliment ever...thanks.

[jolf1245]

That somewhat reminds me of the prologue to Kenneth Brannagh's Henry V. - Which is probably the most brilliant stuff I've ever seen -

Thou hast choosen thy words well, my my friend!

[Xelanderthomas]

@jolf1245 wow serious compliment, thanks

[martitta1]

oh man youre a genius , u really made my day:)

[packjim56]

I can truly relate. What makes this video so funny (besides your delivery) is the rampant truth found within it.

[animaliac]

Oh that this silicon substrate would thaw

and reolve itself into a dew

the boolean logic nomore and the memory lost in entropy with no drivers

to send its seqential bytes to hell

in that abyss what shall haunt mens souls, aye thats the rub that makes geeks of us all

[Xelanderthomas]

Was that by William Gatespeare?

[01hdav]

@Xelanderthomas xD you are such a freaking genius. That will probably go right over a lot of people's heads.

[AnfaengerGitarrist]

@01hdav thanks

[MissiveCauseIMissYou]

Right on!

Freedom of expression FTW! = )

[220Samsonite220]

This is freakin' awesome! So true...

[frankie07921]

wicked!

[ABSOLUTEAMI]

That was great! I loved it, you give me courage!

5 Stars.

[SagaciousSilence]

That's not how the play goes! It's to be or not to be! You're saying it wrong! D:

FIRST!

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks, after all these years I finally know how it really goes. ;-)

[SagaciousSilence]

No problem. ;)

(Brilliant, creative soliloquy though!)

[Jasperiswinning]

Subbed.

[sferemonk]

Oh verily, verily! Oft is their offence rank, smelling to heaven. I dis them unabashedly, and big you up most heartily, my comical classical brother. Spiele on.

[AECSRQ]

you pined so eloquently in thought

and in a green and yellow melancholy

sat like patience on a monument

smiling at geeks

(Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 4)

[crabstickz]

Faved!

[crabstickz]

So much better than patrick stewart!

[Xelanderthomas]

LOL

[qwertasdfgyxcvbzuhjz]

jea this is really good :). ja das ist echt gut. ja dat is echt goed. jo ds isch aecht guet.

[Keverprins]

jaaaaah.... ich finde das sehr gut :P

[onlydeo]

Freaking great work! xDD

[RandomCountryGirl]

This was brilliant. Well done!

[juliandeathgod]

LOL! this is hysterical! Love it!

***** stars!

[awesomebandgeek]

hilarious!!

[mdsoultrain]

amazing stuff here

[ManusFrigus]

Liked it :)

[Katalyzt]

Nicely done ★★★★★

Katalyzt

[Tangerine08]

Hehe very clever! I like how you kept the beat of the original lines.

[spinklevic]

"pedantic dedactycism" sure sounds like Hamlet. Well performed and adapted

[Tempusviator]

Can you recite Henry V also? Great job on Hamlet!

[wow3214]

to post

to blog

to video blog

XD

[ceeqanguel]

and his word was made deity ... of comedy

brilliant

[colormekoye]

yes, i spelled genius wrong.

alas and alack!

i cannot type.

[colormekoye]

This is genuis.

but i was kind of hoping for an "alas, poor YouTube! I knew him...."

Still, 5 stars!

[urblackshadow]

'speechless' simply great...

[PClaytonHuggins]

Very well done! You have a new subsriber.

[babathespider515]

Brilliantly witty! 5/5!

[justingoestohollywoo]

Fabulous! Very well thought out and coherent! Good work!

[THEHalfBrainedWonder]

preach it brotha!

[loirn]

Now that was highly awesome. ^_~ Nicely done!

[isobelmk]

you RULE! literally. xD

[Libitina72]

HAHA!!!! great video

[homemdesaia]

great update!!! all d best!

[Faldwin]

Here here! A fine spinoff, of a fine soliloquy. Well written, well performed, and well uploaded.

[ziggystarter]

For all the people that say this is an insult to Shakespeare really have no idea about Shakespeare as a person. Shakespeare had one of the wittiest humours you could imagine. Infact he probably would have found this video very humorous, so don't go thinking that by pretending you are offended by this video, others will think you are blessed with literacy. Haha.

[shakemysnakefool]

hahahahah tis indeed my lord a most excellent reflection.....

''to be origional is to be one man picked out of ten thousand''..

''that is very origional my lord''

[CloanLabs]

Wow, I thought that was totally awesome, and I adore Shakespeare. I think you'd be an awesome Hamlet. Very good speaking voice, great inflection, and you can dance to it. I give it a 5.

[msolkimbrough]

Wow! I love this... :-) and it is so so true!

[princeword]

nah, it's intermediated (remediated) brilliance!!

[casessof]

insult to Shakespeare

[PervertedMiku]

the worse insult I happened to see in my whole life.

[kesmit3]

haha! Thanks, clever.

[steelerfan504]

YES!

haha that was great

[lachattenoire27]

You tell those haters! :-)

[clossius]

wth haha!! 5-5

[Cluelessnana]

Excellent!!!

[cat0501]

You have theatrical experience? Your delivery is amazing.

I love Hamlet. I have read it several times. I definitely give this video 5+. Very creative in the way you were able to blend the new with the old. I am definitely subscribing to your channel.

[Xelanderthomas]

Come on board, thanks :)

[WARPIG3989]

to thums up

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks much.

[MajorIllustration]

You said, "exercising that barely surviving right we have...free speech."

When we were growing up, we *often* heard the line, 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Are today's young people familiar with this quote?

Now all I hear is "That might offend someone!" Therefore you cannot say it.

Let others voice their beliefs, without profanity and rudeness in reply.

[Xelanderthomas]

"Are today's young people familiar with this quote? "

I wish I could answer that.

[MajorIllustration]

That comment was not aimed at you, X. ; )

[JoshuaH688]

Terrific! Shakespere himself would be proud.

[AkanAkanAkan]

grahamdaly4limirl - The lowest degree of self-awareness, too ignorant in fact to know what he is doing as he does it.

Or were you trying to provide us with a prime example of what Xelander here was getting at? You know--comments from the very fool who by the weight of his mere and simple existence seems bound to pull the rest of us down to the level of a self-ignorant xenophobe.

[burtonh1]

Xelander, I give you credit on a very creative video.

[crackoncracker]

Shut the fuck up you. You got the nerve to try to put down a black man when you're a stupid mick!!!

[Cleverreason]

This is by far the stupidest, most ignorant comment I have ever read on this video. You are a complete fucking asshole. The guy is doing a letter perfect spoof of the Bard's piece. Obvioulsy he knows it better than you. You're too stupid to get it. And you're stupidity rings loud in comment. You're a fully developed idiot, aside from being a racist asshole (although that's the lest of your problems)Go crawl back into your cave.

[KosmicQi]

pedantic, thats me, word origin i read recently applies to me as just a slave walking the kids to school! i try though! Your video rings true and is Funny! Thanx Xelander!

[serenaleann]

Classic

love it

[karatezombie]

I love these. Why do only crazy cross dresser bloggers get on to tv? Answer: because we are being mind controlled with electricity. Seriously though...there is some serious mind control programs on tv.

[hassanradwan]

ROFL!!!! That was brilliant - absolutely loved it!!!!

[elf34]

Bro I Love This Video!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MacBraveheart]

This video ought to be the permanent featured video of YouTubia. :D Thanks for having it up.

[angelroompatti]

Genius!! love it! :)

[buckinghamalice]

That was really funny, and very true! I'll have to forward this to my Shakespeare teacher... I know he'd get a kick out of it!

[Xelanderthomas]

Cool, let me know what he thinks.

[paraparabara]

Fantastic, Shakespeare would definitely have approved :)

[jemroper]

bravo, really funny!

[johnnierah]

thanks. nice to see some brilliance.

[crzywriter]

Hah! That was amazing. And so, so true.

[slimnutz]

THIS was freaking hillarious. I'm going to have to write down the words to your soliloquy so I can act it myself.

[Xelanderthomas]

Now that's a cool compliment to get.

[gothikanger72]

A brilliant Shakespearean parody. I am sure that if he were to live in this day and age, he would find your work appealing.

Thanks again,

The Token White Guy

[ZachValkyrie]

You, sir, have inspired me to put the uncut Hamlet onto Youtube. Thank you for your inspiration!

[Xelanderthomas]

I can't wait to see it.

[ZachValkyrie]

Act I; Scene 1 is live! (can you say collaboration?)

[CatrionaCyanide]

This is awesome!

[ZachValkyrie]

Excellent! 5 stars!

[trumpetgurl1990]

I lOVE IT!

[EspritCL]

DUDE, THIS IS BRILLIANT.

[jufconnie]

Actually I do not dare to comment this. But I will anyway.

You are great!

[highheadjester]

OMG!! Not only well spoken but well writen!!! I LOVED IT!!!! ~HHJ~

[pixleyes]

WOOT!

This just became my all time FAVORITE vid.

"If youTube be the food of love, play on."

[sosoblessed1]

awesome!

[Y0UTUBECouncil]

you are the REAL prince of YouTube

[danluymedia]

This is so brilliant.

[melman]

Bravo good sir. Bravo.

[ShelbyShortz]

well done!

[fingercheese]

You are an inspiration sir....I see why atree3 was drawn to you....you are a youtube master sir....

[horst724]

great!

[kindu2006]

excellent

[magsie666]

this reminded me of samuel jackson in pulp fiction! 5 star rating!

[catherinetodd]

5 stars as ALWAYS! Keep up the good work... what would we do without you? Your script is GREAT WORK. I hope you make it big somehow, someday... you belong "in the Big Time!"

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks much

[frnnk]

SUBSCRIBED!

[Garrison628]

Well done good sir.

[m3ohmy]

excellent hahahah

[twominutepenalty]

"And by posting, end them. . ." friggin' brilliant my friend.

[frnnk]

"and by posting *in* them"

still brilliant

[binglebop]

Hahhah funny stuff dude

[kristinawong]

this is awesome how you can't tell you are reading from the screen.

[Xelanderthomas]

I stupidly had the shadow of the paper there and didn't realize it. At that time I didn't have a camera where I could see what I was recording while I did it. But I'm much more savvy and sophisticated now. :)

[BluesBrian]

Bravo!

[catherinetodd]

#1: It is possible to block comments, although I always thought that was sort of "the chicken's way out."

Freedom of expression is important, but how many great works of art would have been created if they had to go through the maze of human horrors- whoops, I mean "opinion" called YouTube first.

There has to be a way to refuse comments that do not adhere to existing "Community Rules: or at least split somehow into "groups" so everyone is not automatically subjected to comments "at whim."

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks. Yeah, I don't believe in blocking comments. Glad you liked it.

[frnnk]

Communist!

Restricting the freedom of the idiots, racists, transvestites, conspiracy theorists, ron paulites, fox news vegetables, cnn moroons, learning disabled, punctually incorrect....

is simply...

Unamerican. Enjoy my Ron Paul Spam!!

****************dot com

DAMNIT!

[catherinetodd]

#2: So many comments on YT only help create the "dumbing down" of the world, when we all are repeatedly subjected to the most idiotic or hateful remarks. It used to be one only had to worry about journalistic criticism, where people had some education and factual rules to follow. Now, everybody is a critic. Truly.

YouTube has become nothing more than a video game, blasted by "kamikaze pilots." How can anyone enjoy thing of value here?

Something has to change. Thanks for bringing this out.

[catherinetodd]

"To Tube or Not to Tube"

and suffer the slings and arrows...

Thank God for people like you on YouTube. Gives me hope for humanity, yet!

* Happy Holidays to you and your family *

[Drstrangelove17]

Hurray! Does that mean you're contemplating committing online suicide (by posting on youtube)? "To blog, to post no more..."

I love it.

[Zenithstrife]

"azngreenteas (2 weeks ago)

hamlet what white not black, plz get it right before posting. thx u" ...

Hahahahaha.. I can see why Xelander mocks you racists so much in his "embracing criticism" videos.

[Xelanderthomas]

Yeah, I don't know what's worse the sentiment that someone black shouldn't recite Hamlet (even in a spoof) or the seriously bad spelling/grammar "Hamlet what white"

[Zenithstrife]

Perhaps it was just sour grapes on his part , id say most people like that wish they could do what you can.

[jazzblowin]

I agree....envy can kill you.:-)

[carrey17]

Extrememly well done.

[chcknpie04]

Brilliant, just brilliant! Shakespeare is proud of you, my friend!

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks, what an amazing thing to say.

[Zenithstrife]

It was , its a pleasure to see people who appreciate others work. Im so sick of seeing people say blind negative comments. Hopefully youtube will have more people like "

chcknpie04" in the future.

[azngreenteas]

hamlet what white not black, plz get it right before posting. thx u

[foliatedchicken]

thx racist

[albertocristoff]

I must say, that was abominably genius. You have my utter appreciation. I mean, it's pretty risky to try to satirize The Sililoquy, but I must say you have done splendid work of it.

[oldernwiser0]

wow ! that is awesome ! but I wonder should one waste their poetic skills on such people !

[brickhouse32]

Bravo!!!

[omegasama]

Utter truth. Self censorship is one of the reasons I've yet to start video-blogging.

Beautifully done btw, Shakespear are love.

[Grace3d]

hahah yeah

[tally24th]

lol awesome

[dcfreak]

"stupendously stupid" lol..man u are hilarious

[ppparaone]

WHERES THE SKULLsry caps

[Swann1969]

You are very talented. Please let me know if you are ever going to be performing in Denver.

[hoomelemele]

WOW, very impressive. So which category am I in? I'm thinking the 'just plain clueless'

[israelx7]

ha! Shakespeare says "Go homey"

[Xelanderthomas]

now that made me laugh!

[darlonzo]

man u a crazy, i like you

[theloathlydaddy]

Whether 'tis nobler to post and thereby promote ye video, or not to post... indeed, there's the rub, and, verily,here be ye hilarity produced by ye master of mirth. Great job!

[visiblemode]

Excellent.

[gregsdaone]

Dude, we're so much cooler online!,,, Brad Paisley....

[tally24th]

funny lol!

[downhill240]

You got me man. I just subscribed!

[42ADENT]

your kinda funny !

[TheRavenOfPoe]

An incredible video! I'm very glad I stumbled across it! =) You have a new subscriber now ;) I've enjoyed watching the comedy videos I've seen of yours so far too. Great vids!

[iasonis]

that was nuts beyond belief,i thank thee most 'gratefuly'for from the raw feelings that so many have felt, a work both eloquent and entertaining,yea verily, and in the colloquialism of the locals "THAS WUS UP!!"

[Paperlilies]

That was awesome

[iasonis]

how did you find this,cuz i found it thru you but... it made me think of a certain threatened blackout which THANK GOD! didnt happen

[guynuir2]

thank god you know the actual monologue.

[Sublimey123]

When you start posting videos, this should be the disclaimer hahaha.

[kenzodoperox]

Nigga please.!!. Why you actin afool.!!

[JimiSanchez]

chapeau!

[Laochra]

Oh, man! *clap, clap clap* Wow, you are so brilliant! What made you think of doing this? You've gotten it in a nutshell! You've almost made me consider putting some of my own stuff up!...Almost! I fear the Paddy jokes! I am definately subscribing!

[lukensal]

5 stars!

[Rabindranath8]

No sir, he clearly meant you.

[Lamondra]

*cheers*

Very, very nice!

*applauds*

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks much

[wordwan]

*grin*

Bravo!

Heather

wordwan

[Xelanderthomas]

thank you

[bathsheba57]

Encore!

[bwhahrhr]

astounding, still after many views

[deanopain]

Nice work! Super in fact.

[Xelanderthomas]

Thanks much

[cyber9rounder]

the best----

[Dusmar]

even though i'm sitting down i'm giving you a standing ovation

[crackoncracker]

Hey Sherlock...Shakespere wasn't from Africa!!

[snapelicious]

Oh my... it's an example of the topic! 0.o ::marvels::

[soulkissed]

Cracker ass crackoncracker.

[hatchbx]

soulkissed, what the fuck is wrong with you? You need to see a psychologist badly.

[soulkissed]

You know how your message reads to me?

soulkissed, [insert stupid question here]? [insert unsolicited advice here].

[hatchbx]

If you can't or won't defend/explain your ignorant comment, then I'm forced to conclude that it's a matter of mental colonization. You need some serious political education.

[soulkissed]

And you need to chill out, Professor Bitchypants.

I wasn't even talking to you in the first place, so go stick that in your thesaurus. Damn.