RSC - Opening

[beastlycharizard13]

he said proud to prevent lol

[99070208]

at 2:00 i was like it's will ferrel!

[am221]

The guy at 7:29 to the left does not look amused lmfao

[wazzadoin]

Except the Euro -- how prescient

[PinkCowgirl925]

i like how it went from British to German to Venezuelan

[orangeredfire]

our school is doing this for our school play

[niangne]

@orangeredfire mine too

[sonicherosfan]

@orangeredfire Our school did it last year, too. It's so much fun! :D

[marumaru2015]

"Oh, may the bard be with you."

[rainethesage]

Can I get an "Amen"?

"AMEN!"

Ahh, yeah!

[jnk1296]

Oh my god. I never knew that Shakespeare was Hitler! You think you'd know a guy...

[ProtestantIRA]

@india14100 ?

[marumaru2015]

@ProtestantIRA india14100 is just saying how long each part is.

[ProtestantIRA]

@marumaru2015 ah ok.

[MJlover3307]

please wealcome me in joining...

[kylgrv]

My teacher introduced this to my English class as what not to do during a play presentation. After watching this, I concluded that it's what not to do during a regular play presentation, but certainly what to do during a COMEDY SHOW!

It's hilarious.

[BeauteousMcKahl]

It's ironic. I'm learning about both Hilter and Shakespeare right now in school.

[danielmonroe10]

And Shakespeare invaded Poland, thus precipitating World War II

[goofchicken95]

we're doing this at my school :D

[tigerjemm]

we did this as one of our plays in theatre

[ThreatofDoom]

"Proud to Prevent" they dont want it getting out lol 8:16

[ThespianBabe]

@CassieLopez you are almost correct. switch othello and titus andronicus

[numutabin]

The Merry-Go-Round Play Theatre played this at my Middle/High School-and all of us we're dying 15 minutes in. Later they offered some time to answer questions and one of us asked who wrote the play-and the actor said three Cornell literary students were so bored that in three hours they put this whole thing together! Then I found the movie in the library and got my whole family laughing.

[Timamalao]

Gosh, we watched this in Junior English Honors, and it was AWESOME! :)

I just realized this is what a Thespian troupe did at Festival! Awesome, too! <3

[lordvimless]

i love the mans brief history. he poland and wrote \mien kopht

[leoviper9]

They performed this play at my high school and it was amazing. When i watched this movie in class i was worried that they play would b only a lot of yelling, but the actors proved us wrong. IT WAS AWESOME>

[Kruegdaddy]

me and a couple friends are going to do this. i get to play all the characters that adam plays... a.k.a. all the women of shakespeare. im 6 foot 2 and weigh 275 pounds.. gonna be a great time.

[mysticwolf2314]

@india14100

If the modern audience understands Shakespeare. > >

[gwonbusH]

Did anybody else catch that the Reduced Shakespeare Company is proud to prevent the Complete Works of William Shakespeare?

[ralphychen]

@gwonbusH (abridged)

[sleekpiano]

@gwonbusH yeah and "please welcome me in joining mr tishner" lol

[semajekalb]

its opening biography romeo & juliet titus andronicus othello comedies macbeans tragedies histories stalling hamlet

[LullabyOfLies]

My school did this as a school play... omg hilarious

[DM4717]

we saw the intro yesterday in english. i was laughing so hard at the hitler part because april 30th is the day he shot himself. He lies buried in the church at Stratford. thank you

[MidwesternDiva]

"where this book will be found in every hotel room in the world!"

[TheDumbSongChannel]

I performed this my senior year of high school. I was the part played by Austin Tichenor in this performance and it was an absolute BLAST!

[ClassicsWEREandARE]

i think its great that they are trying to make Shakespeare enjoyable and interesting to an audience of today...I know and studied some Shakespeare in highschool and stuff.....but I actually went and studied more about Shakespeare after watching this....love this stuff

[chitoryu12]

One of our groups in my Acting class did a one-act version of this. Poor Savannah in the audience got traumatized when the actor trying to avoid doing Hamlet jumped in her lap and had to be dragged off. Then he ran off, jumping over the chairs, and out the door.

[chitoryu12]

Oh, and the kid at 1:07 on the far right looks a tiny bit like the actor I mentioned.

[coolcooja]

7:29 Look at the serious asian guy xDD

[Celtore1324]

"Shakespeare invaded Poland on september 21st 1939" XD

[shakesqueere]

@Celtore1324 *September 1st, 1939.

[tiger55331]

@Celtore1324

1st...

[NekoNinjaHezza]

My school is doing this play and im in it. So far weve done this opening part anr Romeo and Juliet.

[DogoHalibar]

@NekoNinjaHezza Who are you in this?

[disneyfangirl101]

haha my school's shakespeare company is doing this too :3

[averyj]

Not funny at all. Other than Adam's routine.

[junaids23]

adam's the best !! =D

[ReebokHockey7]

RuneScape Classic - Opening

[scorpgirl16]

No, it's "Reduced Shakespeare Company - Opening." I am performing this tomorrow as a man with two boys, so we have all three guys like the original RSC.

[itsfrenchtoast]

Just saw my high school's production of this. Absolutely HILARIOUS. We had such awesome actors and they were interacting with the audience and stuff--some people even choreographed an extra dance scene. LOVE THIS!

[TheArrowStorm]

I saw this in high school. I thought it was gonna be boring as hell and the music put me off even more, but its actually hilarious!

Greatest version of Romeo & Juliet EVER!

[Razgriz0111]

when i first saw this it was in summer school, and i thought it was going the be boring. but i was really surprised when i saw this. its now my favorite show about shakespear

[bamdunnhimself]

saw this in HS and fell in love with it, so i bought it! well worth the money!

[zuttodaisukidayo]

where'd you get it? i want a copy too, lol

it's good stuff

[SqOcelot]

Haha he called the light guy Bob. I like a show where you can catch new jokes the second time around.

[JillLovesJer]

I'm old enough to lie about my age, but . . . I don't get it. Someone please explain the Bob joke to a dolt like me!

[SqOcelot]

Watch the rest of it...

The name Bob comes up again.

[moyl3r]

They call everyone Bob so that they don't have to remember everyone's name.

[FrankiiDoodle]

Why did no-one laugh when he said Warwickshire? It's like if he'd said Greenwich as Green-witch.

[bfish89ryuhayabusa]

Many people in America have no idea how to pronounce English place names. I caught it, but very few here would. I'm certain THEY know it, as Adam seemed to emphasize that pronunciation.

[xcuerdenx]

I know, but how hard can it be to say birmingham haha :)

[JillLovesJer]

& yet you Americans have no trouble saying states like 'New Hampshire' correctly. Yankees never fail to amuse me.

[averyj]

If you reserve the right to pronounce "schedule" the way you do, I reserve the right to call the American state of New Hampshire in the way I do. I also hope you realize that few Americans recognize what "yankee" means.

[LeftyCenter]

Cuz they're American.

[snowgrett14]

Adam Long is my hero :)

[DeceivingProductions]

Thank you So Much for Posting this!

[stageling]

This is great! I remember watching this in high school and I LOVED it! Thanks so much for putting these up.

[Aleu]

ha. agreed. me and my classmates just performed the Romeo and Juliet skit for my acting class. We got tons of Laffs. I was Adam lol.

[Aleu]

Does anyone have footage of the original troupe with Daniel, Adam and Jess?

[DeceivingProductions]

Get the DVD off Ebay or Amazon.

Lol.

Much Better.

=}

[tracyfbeye]

These are absolutely hilarious - I learn alot in between laughs :)

[atsportsnut]

advanced*

[atsportsnut]

my avanced drama class did this show and i was in hamlet it was really funy

[Flowbee79]

When I was in High School, we read/studied three Shakespearean plays. Not all together, for each of my English Lit classes, there was one Shakespearean play to study. Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and MacBeth. I think MacBeth may have been my favorite, but they are all great tragedies. Anyone else study Shakespeare in High School or College? Which plays?

[every1likespancakes]

I've read Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Much ado about nothing, Julius Ceaser, The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth. I take gifted english, I'm a nerd, today we celebrated Shakespeare's Birthday! :)

[lfHailo]

Hamlet!!!! lol we spent way to much time in Hamlet and it got me addicted!

[x3xcuttlefishx3x]

Haha im a gt nerd too!! my teacher has a shakespeare bobblehead as a hall pass!!!

[NODAMEmelody]

The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Othello :)

[OnAFantasy]

Haha, we read Romeo and Juliet in class, and I enjoyed it so much I took it upon myself to read Hamlet and Othello, and I'm about to start Macbeth...Shakespeare is very addicting! :]

[FrankiiDoodle]

Hmm, let me think. Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (in drama) and Othello (twice), Macbeth and Julius Caesar (a little bit) in lit. I also went to see the R(oyal)SC production of As You Like It. Wow, I am a nerd.

[MrIcePho3nix]

Let he or she among you who is free from sin... live in a glass house!

[lylaznboi01]

LOL, my avid teacher showed me this today xD

[gamertilldeath09]

I LOVE the Hitler references. Those were hilarious.

I'm reading King Lear now in AP. We did Othello last year. My AP teacher has this on VHS and we watch it all the time. It's nice to get more of the references as I read his works more.

Shakespeare is amazing. Bar none.

[mikiru240]

Am I the only one that heard him say "prevent 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare'"?

just...wow. I am amazed and dazed (hitler, shakespeare same difference)

[tapdancinglemur]

ANNNIIIHALLLTED by andrew lloyd webber!!!!!

[xceis]

"Shakespeare invaded Poland" LOL

[Opreaismylife10692]

lol hitler

[kahiohisu]

lol austins rant about why tech and video games ruin it and then he says Andrew lloyd weber I fell out of my chair

[minesayrejoice]

As a Theatre major.............i love the ALW reference.

[kahiohisu]

Had webber made shakespear plays into something(I only listen to his compostions and aprreciate his Brodway phantom of the opera , ;not his latest Phantom of manhattan)

[minesayrejoice]

Nope, he hasn't.

And I'm quite disappointented in him at the moment.

[kahiohisu]

Ah, then Im missing why shakespear has been anihaleted by andrew lloyd webber.

[minesayrejoice]

I......they're just making a joke. He hasn't anihilated Shakespeare, his work is just easier for people to understand. And that's just because they don't put in the effort.

No offense meant to anyone who finds Shakespeare indecipherable.

[kahiohisu]

Oh okay that makes much more sense. I liked romeo and juilet were goign to read julius ceaser this year Im so excited to read it.

[mulounion]

Win.

<3

[saintswhiz]

"Let he among you who is without sin... live in a glass house." totally undervalued line, but it's hilarious!

[TheChosenOne613]

The wheat from the chaff! Merchant of Venice!

[hearthealer]

did he say prevent or present?

[Klonoa2929]

lol he said prevent

[galvestongal1194]

I love that line

[hananlovesthestrokes]

woo Berkeley =)

[grlfromyesterda9]

What order does the play go in. I know it starts with the opening, but what order do they act out the different plays?

[CassieLopez]

I think this is accurate: Opening Biography Romeo and Juliet Othello Titus Andronicus Comedies Macbeth Tragedies, Apocrypha Troillus and Cressida The Histories Stalling for Time (incl. the Sonnets) Hamlet

[purplegirl110294]

Thank you!! Ah god, these guys are HILARIOUS!!!!

[ImaginaryNightshade]

oh tx :D

[skitsokity]

@CassieLopez i think it goes the comedies after Othello because the Comedies video starts with them saying "africa"...? and they are wearing the same clothes

[Shelaka]

Shakespeare is the new Hitler? Hahahah!!! XDDD

[lovelymanforu2004]

"the book will be found in every hotel room in the world" >>> Best line lol cant stop laughing

[Metaknight180]

Lol, Shakespeare invaded Poland...

[jadorelefrancais]

i love them!!

[HopeShouldBeHappy]

my drama club at school did this with 5 people, boys and girls, and it was fantastic.

[IzzyPepper]

that's inspiring, because I saw it performed by over 20 students, and it was terrible.

[LadyRii]

thanks you =]

[LadyRii]

i love these guys! do you know if they have the whole thing on dvd??

[aabbay02]

yeah the dvd is called-

"the reduced shakespeare company: abridged"

[hlapurocciel]

Actually, it's called, "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)"

[Flowbee79]

Actually, it's called, "The Completely Abridged Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)"

[hlapurocciel]

No, it's not. Just look at the title at the beginning of the clip.

[Flowbee79]

Um, I was joking, wasn't I? The title I put is obviously too ridiculous too be the real title. It's okay, I've made that mistake myself.

[hlapurocciel]

Sorry. Well you never know with the RSC dudes, they're pretty ridiculous sometimes. Actually a lot of the time :)

[FatherTime89]

I like "The Completely Abridged Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)" even better.

[AluraMelenko]

"Dude lets run" that's inspiring. the true thoughts of every sane actor. myself totally included =D

[Wuzupshamu]

Who's ever heard of a "sane" actor?

Dude, we're all nuts.

[mochalatteco]

@Wuzupshamu its sad yet true i actually thought it was funny Shakespeare was actually Hitler lol were all psychotic yay!! 

[DiaryOfAWannbeActor]

@Wuzupshamu True!

[TotalTheatreGeek]

@Wuzupshamu hahaha soooooo true! everytime someone gives me a "what's wrong with you" look, all i say is "sorry, i'm a thespian. i do things like that."

[TheTechieGirl]

"Give me your cash if we friends"

[sophyz]

and may the Bard with YOU! =)

[AquilaCat]

I love this. I've rented the recording of it so many times, I might as well buy it. ^-^

[Theatershorty]

this show rocks

we preformed it at my high school, and it was such a hit, we're preforming it again!

[asianbutterfly20]

They dohn't know Shakespeare from Shatner.

[barnadine]

And of course, YOU are a leading expert on the bard?! Learn to spell, idiot.

[asianbutterfly20]

I was joking around. I'm no expert on the Bard and I never said I was!

[redleg18]

If you'd watched the video, you'd know that that's a quote from it.

[AquilaCat]

Watch the video before you make judgments.

[Flowbee79]

How funny, Shatner was a respected Shakespearean actor before turning to television. Some think he would have been better off had he stayed that way, although I often wonder about it either way.

[samandal007]

"We better get out if here."