My Shakespeare final was a paper, so we had 90 minutes to kill and we watched The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. The best final I have ever had!
we are reading Othello in my english class, and I showed this to a classmate who doesn't understand Shakespeare, his face lit up "I FINALY UNDERSTAND!!"
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx Um, well, hate to burst your bubble, but in Shakespeare's time, he intended his plays to be enjoyed by EVERYONE. So he put in slapstick and dirty jokes and whatnot. This is almost closer to how people enjoyed Shakespeare back in his own time. And this was all in reverence- you can see how much work and love went into this. I appreciate Shakespeare too, but I like this. And this is very popular in England, too.
@kikiann11 well said man, im in a theatre school, and some assholes are like, "you are disgracing our art form" when i showed them RSC. but seriously, comedy is theatre and it was for the masses, and as much i i love tragedies, this is quite brilliant. and really really great acting.
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx seriously? So you hate that they are sparking people's interest in Shakespeare? What do you want? To keep Shakespeare tucked safely away and left untouched so that only serious academic types can "enjoy" him? I do not and I don't think William dear would either. He wrote his plays to be enjoyed by all types of people (even Americans, though he didn't know it at the time). The Reduced Shakespeare Company is simply pushing this idea a little farther, and I love them for it.
A moor is a North African Muslim. They're not just "black" people.
They conquered most of the land Spain and Portugal before they were Spain and Portugal and brought with them a more advanced culture than what had previously existed on the Iberian Peninsula.
The RSC's reductionism promotes rampant ignorance.
@riethc That's kind of the point of the RSC...why the hell else do you think they perform the complete works of Shakespeare in one night? It's reduced, leaves out a lot of details, and makes it entertaining for a modern audience (that doesn't care about Shakespeare's actual work). Sure, it's not accurate, but it's not supposed to be. Don't hate it for doing exactly what it was supposed to.
@riethc Wow, you seriously compared a quirky, appealing joke to a terminal disease that leaves people afflicted with unspeakable pain, slowly destroys their bodies, and devastates their families. Stay classy.
The only reason we think these plays are "great works" now is because the wordplay and narrative devices are so different from what we use today. These plays weren't "great works" when they were written. Shakespeare wrote them to appeal to the masses. And since the masses were mostly illiterate, uneducated peasants, that's who they were written for. In other words, illiterate workers in the 16th/17th centuries could easily understand what most high schoolers today can't. Hmm....
@monny287 RSC takes it one step further and gives you a reduced "summary" of the play, radically missing the point of this play, which isn't about the PC notion of racism.
@riethc Just for the record, I'm pretty sure they didn't decide to do this to make people understand Shakespeare. It's a comedy show. And you have to admit, it's pretty damn funny. It gives you the plot with three guys acting it out (or in this case rapping it). But it's not like they're trying to summarize the play and make it easy to understand. It's meant to give people a laugh.
@riethc Not really? Its a reduction of Shakespeare's play. Moors were stereotypically black. That's just historical fact. What does you last comment have to do with anything?
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx Considering the show ran for 10 years in the West End at the Criterion Theatre, it would appear there are other Brits who do not share your disdain.
This never gets old XD My best friend and I both agree that if schools taught Shakespeare like this, so many more kids would be interested. It makes it fun and exciting. I appreciate the original Shakespeare of course, but the Reduced Shakespeare Company is amazing. Both my best friend and I are going to teach our children (once they get old enough, that is) about Shakespeare this way!
Here's the story of a brotha by the name of Othello.. He liked white women and he liked green jello! Ohhhh yeah yeah and a punk named Iago who made himself a menace cuz he didn't lilke Othello the moore of Venace!
Yes The Royal Shakespeare Company has stolen Shakespeare for its own ends. All patrons are encouraged to donate to other more diverse organisations rather than looking at the RSC as the last vestige for the promotion of Shakespearean art. The RSC is inward looking self promoting and exercises exclusion at the highest level and offers no resolution or dialogue which encourages original creativity and understanding to those who once believed that the RSC was the almighty propeller for Shakespeare
My 7th grade Humanities teacher played the whole movie for us, and it was the best school day I've ever had. Also, I had to admire his guts to do it in front of students.
when my school did this we had a black girl in the cast. so they tried to get her to play othello but she was like "why, cuz i'm BLACK?" and refused and when the rest of the cast (who were white) she was like no stop white people can't rap. it was really funny
these are diffeent people than i saw yesterday? can someone explain? its the same play but with different actors, i thought there were only 3 actors? :S
@tessikat The three that performed in this version are the three original performers, but other theaters adapt the script with their own performers. Just because the play is being performed doesn't mean it's the original cast.
@ProtectiveBrother The line after that (cut out because this was on television) is "Iago had a plan. He was clever. He was sly. He was sort of a ... penis." Then they say "shaft the Moore" So funny!
Just a little note to the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, and Adam Long you three are AMAZING!!! Best. Nerd Rap. Ever! No offense to the others but Adam is my favorite! He's freakin' adorable!
Just to clear things up, Othello (remember the H is silent in Britain) rhymes with Otello, the ruler who created the Ottoman Empire. So Othello was basically from Turkey, just like the diplomats who visited England the year before this play was written. And moor was somehow short for "Mohamedan," or Islamist, even though Othello is protrayed as a Christian in parts of the play (2.3 152-154).
@fungiportal I just meant that back in the day it was sometimes misused to refer to a Muslim, even though yes, it does originate from Morocco. It was applied variously to Turks, who had much lighter skin but were Muslim.
Um...Othello is from Morocco. From Africa of the 16th century. He was probably somewhere between dark-skinned and tanned (Arabic), given where he came from and his exploits as a warrior. For the record, racism worked a helluva lot differently than it does nowadays. ANYONE from anywhere was a different race, not just based skin tones etc. So really his skin doesn't matter as much as his birthplace, history, and culture.
@niteowl9491 SKIN TONE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT!! its called DNA!! or like cave monkeys like to call it a LINEAGE! white people should know more then anyone about migrating to other countries and clamining it as yours. The moors today are invaders. =) thank you.
@AmishParadise27 no its dezzy loved othello. Iago is the one who loved dezzy not the other way around. sorry for being the douche but i thought you should know ;)
@PharaohII I don't get completely what you mean, but in the context of the time period of the play originally it was possible that Othello wasn't truly 'Black' as he was by today's standards. Many of the insults of him being black were just that - insults, and not to be taken the same way. By being from "north Africa" he could have been middle eastern, so long as his skin was significantly darker colored than a Venetians.
@PaintedMaypole26 ummmm so i guess having THICK LIPS AND DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS BLACK IS A NORTH AFRICAN TRAIT... please do yourself a favor and get with the fucking program. White bigotry will only get you so far then you will just be in a pit of black confusion.
@PharaohII Umm, ok. Seriously? Reading your last two comments I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think now you are truly ignorant. Get with the program? Try and get with the times, buddy. In the 16th century Venice anyone significantly darker skinned meant they were 'black' - that doesn't mean they were completely African. Nearly all scholars agree that he was an Arab. If you know the play at all, I'm sure you would note that Roderigo didn't like Othello - hence "thicklips"
@PaintedMaypole26 was more likely than not used as an insult. I don't know what to say to get through to you, because you seem really dence. I think your only reading of this play is a 10th grade English class you hated in the first place. Shakespeare was writing to HIS times, not OURS, and HIS time was about 500 years ago. Do you think that just MAYBE ideas and views have changed? The matter is not that he was black by TODAY'S standards, but that he was significantly darker and and of a
@PaintedMaypole26 different race. There is no white 'bigotry' of any fashion in me simply stating what scholars have agreed on for years is not in any way racist. You really have no argument if you need to resort to calling me a bigot and racist for KNOWING a play and the society in and for it was written. Even more so for insulting me and immaturely responding to an innocent and unmalicious comment I left. Please do YOURSELF a favour and know what you're talking about before spewing idiocracy.
@PaintedMaypole26 wow your making no sense at all. SHOW ME ONE ARAB WITH THICK LIPS AND BLACK SKIN =) THEN THE DEBATE CAN BE OVER. UNTIL THEN YOUR A BIGOT, OTHELLO AND THE MOORS STAY BLACK!!!
@PharaohII I'm sorry, you seem to be the only person freaking out about this. I have continually told you, that THE TIMES WERE DIFFERENT 400 YEARS AGO. Back then anyone with significantly darker skin could've been considered 'Black'. I've also told you that 'Thicklips" is an INSULT. Roderigo does not LIKE Othello in any way, so it is entirely possible that he is creating an exaggerated image of Othello, based out of spite and racism of his time.
@PaintedMaypole26 You are basing all of your opinions off of reading lines, and are not reading into the context of the play and time.
I'll admit, it is completely possible that he was 'black' by todays standards, but considering a Moor is from North Africa, and a Moor description is a person of North Africa of Arab and Berber descent, and your only arguments are quotes from people who don't like Othello (look at it this way, if you insult someone are you on-the-nose, or do you exaggerate?),
@PaintedMaypole26 while I've provided again and again quotes from the text, about society, and historical arguments as well as literary, I have more evidence that he was possibly a Moor rather than the traditional "black" of the 21st century, which is where all of your views on society seem to come from.
Also, please do not call me a bigot unless you understand that by shouting and refusing to listen to some reasonable arguments from the other side, you're making yourself a bigger bigot than I
@PaintedMaypole26 Last statement, and then I'm done trying to reason with you, because you are stubbornly refusing to be mature:
I concede that maybe he was the 'Black' that you seem to be thinking of. I did not live then, Othello is merely a literary figure and can be interpreted as one pleases. Just remember that you did not live then either and are not the final word on the race of Othello. All we and scholars can do is guess, and you will not ruin this play for me with dense arguments.
lol OMG!! I SAW THESE GUYS LIVE!! It's been so long I don't recognize the actors, but I recognize the act, remember the "carried a big... sword" line and the reason I clicked in the first place was I recognized the name of the production and thought it must be the same three guys doing the same thing. They came by my hometown in SC when I was a senior in high school-- extra credit I can thank my HS English teacher for for other reasons, definitely.
@DJrandomiza that is an interpretation from the text by some people, because at one point Iago says "Now, I do love her too. Not out of absolute lust; though peradventure I stand account'd for as great a sin". He also says of Othello and Desi "I will not stop till I am even'd with him, wife for wife."
I personally do not think so, but that was on theory why he hated Othello so much. Another was that Iago was trying to hide his lust for OTHELLO, and his actions were out of pure jealousy xD
Watched this whole thing in English 1...CHHS
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"I have an idea that's totally boatless!"
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justinwilliamson12 2 days ago
i love how they're all wearing tights & converses :D
pendragonluvrX2 3 days ago
My Shakespeare final was a paper, so we had 90 minutes to kill and we watched The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. The best final I have ever had!
HannahMayJune 3 days ago
this is what we watch in english...
sophbeckyhev 5 days ago
we are reading Othello in my english class, and I showed this to a classmate who doesn't understand Shakespeare, his face lit up "I FINALY UNDERSTAND!!"
dino13dani 1 week ago 3
heres a story of a brother by the name of othello
he liked white women and he liked green jello
beabea51423 2 weeks ago 3
i can't love this enough! <3 :D <3
MLiVigni1 3 weeks ago
"s-s-s-sa-sala-salami" XD
iheartjeffdavis00 1 month ago
"I've got n idea that's totally boatless"- anyone else gonna be using that phrase in future?
hexalia 1 month ago 11
he didnt piuk all over the crowd for like once
fairwea 1 month ago 2
Cause he had a big SWORD! ;P
1useonly1 1 month ago 3
HAH!!!! :DDDDD
1useonly1 1 month ago
It's totally boatless!
OkapiVideo 1 month ago
@txgleek neither did Iago love venus.. well it's up to anyone to decide on his own
DiabloGuard1993 1 month ago
And Iago loved Desi like Adonis loved Venus!
And Desi loved Othello cuz he had a big -- Sword!
xwhimsicality 1 month ago 3
I feel like such a dork. Yeah, just go with the feeling. xD Hahahahaha!
softball29j 1 month ago 3
I find it funny that in Shakespeare's version of Venus and Adonis, Adonis doesn't actually love Venus!
txgleek 1 month ago
s-s-s-s-sala-salami =D
theYOGI2myBOBO 2 months ago
We watched the entire thing in English class today!! I cried I was laughing so hard!
VampiresExist0013 2 months ago
Try watching this with the youtube subtitles.
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Cuz he had a big sword!
SilverDollarCityGirl 3 months ago
"He comes back and stuffs a pillow in her face, he kills her and soliloquies about his disgrace" HAHAHA hilarious !
NicholasCrensen 3 months ago
Youre the friggin 12medbe of RSC.
Crumbleberry 3 months ago 4
my favorite is when he spins and does the disco:D haha, lovvee this
softball29j 3 months ago
I saw this live once. It was great!
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marjansiklic1 4 months ago
Welp thats my Othello research done, time to mess about...and i'm already on youtube! convieninent.
MrUnsteddy 5 months ago 8
guys.... I work in schools and would love your permission to do a short version of this to explain how to revise shakey? any chance?
davidhyner 5 months ago
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx Um, well, hate to burst your bubble, but in Shakespeare's time, he intended his plays to be enjoyed by EVERYONE. So he put in slapstick and dirty jokes and whatnot. This is almost closer to how people enjoyed Shakespeare back in his own time. And this was all in reverence- you can see how much work and love went into this. I appreciate Shakespeare too, but I like this. And this is very popular in England, too.
kikiann11 5 months ago 25
@kikiann11 well said man, im in a theatre school, and some assholes are like, "you are disgracing our art form" when i showed them RSC. but seriously, comedy is theatre and it was for the masses, and as much i i love tragedies, this is quite brilliant. and really really great acting.
Thegtarguy 5 months ago 2
@kikiann11 AMEN!!!
dancergirl250 1 month ago
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx seriously? So you hate that they are sparking people's interest in Shakespeare? What do you want? To keep Shakespeare tucked safely away and left untouched so that only serious academic types can "enjoy" him? I do not and I don't think William dear would either. He wrote his plays to be enjoyed by all types of people (even Americans, though he didn't know it at the time). The Reduced Shakespeare Company is simply pushing this idea a little farther, and I love them for it.
Teri0is0Resa 5 months ago 2
A moor is a North African Muslim. They're not just "black" people.
They conquered most of the land Spain and Portugal before they were Spain and Portugal and brought with them a more advanced culture than what had previously existed on the Iberian Peninsula.
The RSC's reductionism promotes rampant ignorance.
riethc 5 months ago
@riethc oh go away, sorry mate but there are FAR more racists things on youtube for you to picket. I'm eurasian, but maybe i am racist.
Thegtarguy 5 months ago
@Thegtarguy I'm not talking about racism. This is Shakespeare for Dummies, simplifying and reducing a great work like Othello.
riethc 5 months ago
@riethc That's kind of the point of the RSC...why the hell else do you think they perform the complete works of Shakespeare in one night? It's reduced, leaves out a lot of details, and makes it entertaining for a modern audience (that doesn't care about Shakespeare's actual work). Sure, it's not accurate, but it's not supposed to be. Don't hate it for doing exactly what it was supposed to.
bananaberrycupcake 4 months ago
@bananaberrycupcake "Don't hate it for doing exactly what it was supposed to do."
Cancer does exactly what it is supposed to do, too.
riethc 4 months ago
@riethc Wow, you seriously compared a quirky, appealing joke to a terminal disease that leaves people afflicted with unspeakable pain, slowly destroys their bodies, and devastates their families. Stay classy.
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@riethc
The only reason we think these plays are "great works" now is because the wordplay and narrative devices are so different from what we use today. These plays weren't "great works" when they were written. Shakespeare wrote them to appeal to the masses. And since the masses were mostly illiterate, uneducated peasants, that's who they were written for. In other words, illiterate workers in the 16th/17th centuries could easily understand what most high schoolers today can't. Hmm....
monny287 4 months ago
@monny287 RSC takes it one step further and gives you a reduced "summary" of the play, radically missing the point of this play, which isn't about the PC notion of racism.
riethc 4 months ago
@riethc Just for the record, I'm pretty sure they didn't decide to do this to make people understand Shakespeare. It's a comedy show. And you have to admit, it's pretty damn funny. It gives you the plot with three guys acting it out (or in this case rapping it). But it's not like they're trying to summarize the play and make it easy to understand. It's meant to give people a laugh.
MrSomethingShiny 4 months ago 4
@riethc Not really? Its a reduction of Shakespeare's play. Moors were stereotypically black. That's just historical fact. What does you last comment have to do with anything?
LetOurLittleLadyTalk 3 months ago
...and he liked...green jell-o
ThirdTwin3 5 months ago
im doing this for a play :) im doing the rap lol ;)
musixvids4life1 5 months ago
1:18 I love how when Adam starts 'beatboxing' Austin flinches in fear XDDDD
HiImLyssa 6 months ago 2
38 people only have small swords
XOXheartAmy 6 months ago
@XOXheartAmy Thank you!
minesayrejoice 5 months ago
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx Considering the show ran for 10 years in the West End at the Criterion Theatre, it would appear there are other Brits who do not share your disdain.
RukoHanaji 6 months ago 3
This never gets old XD My best friend and I both agree that if schools taught Shakespeare like this, so many more kids would be interested. It makes it fun and exciting. I appreciate the original Shakespeare of course, but the Reduced Shakespeare Company is amazing. Both my best friend and I are going to teach our children (once they get old enough, that is) about Shakespeare this way!
TheHotWaffle 6 months ago 4
Here's the story of a brotha by the name of Othello.. He liked white women and he liked green jello! Ohhhh yeah yeah and a punk named Iago who made himself a menace cuz he didn't lilke Othello the moore of Venace!
:)
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Yes The Royal Shakespeare Company has stolen Shakespeare for its own ends. All patrons are encouraged to donate to other more diverse organisations rather than looking at the RSC as the last vestige for the promotion of Shakespearean art. The RSC is inward looking self promoting and exercises exclusion at the highest level and offers no resolution or dialogue which encourages original creativity and understanding to those who once believed that the RSC was the almighty propeller for Shakespeare
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Whaaat this is an insult to shakespeare
Would be americans
Being english I respect shakespeare not like this wtf.
xxxpinkcandyflossxxx 7 months ago
@xxxpinkcandyflossxxx actually all of them studied shakespeare for a long time befor doing this
i'm american and i respect shakespeare
so gtfo
Umikosuzuhara 6 months ago
Are Dezzy and Cass playin' HIDE THE SALAMI????!!!!!!!!!!
bamarine247 7 months ago
Now Othello loved Desi like Adonis loved Venus.
And Desi loved Othello --
Cause he had a big...... SWORD
toddthecool 7 months ago 4
there once was a man by the name of othello he liked white women and he liked green jello....
kanchanarmstrong 8 months ago 3
Put this on. Cry laughing. Replay and learn by heart.
Exams start next week. I regret nothing.
coolirishrocker 8 months ago 43
@coolirishrocker this is so creepy the fact my exams for me are next week and i happen to see this, basically how my week will span out XD
TheOnlyMeSydney 7 months ago
38 people are racially challenged
cheeseberger7 8 months ago 4
My 7th grade Humanities teacher played the whole movie for us, and it was the best school day I've ever had. Also, I had to admire his guts to do it in front of students.
X7Blaze7X 8 months ago 2
@X7Blaze7X Our teacher did the same thing, so i agree completly
inheavenof 7 months ago
My 7th grade Humanities teacher played the whole movie for us, and it was the best school day I've ever had. =)
X7Blaze7X 8 months ago
comically and innocently racist lol love it, it had to be a rap cuz othello'd black :D
steeflo7 8 months ago
Best version of this ever!!!!!!
2010girlsrock 8 months ago
My best friend did this for an audition in Beauty and the Beast, to play Lumiere. Needless to say, he got the part. :)
emopinata12345 8 months ago 4
I can never stop watching this!
yomanwassup12 8 months ago
please sirs, may we have some more?
alybaby11 8 months ago
*cough cough cough*DESSY!
swiftyuki 8 months ago 2
38 people have really small swords
Gremster9 8 months ago 7
Shakespear was really dirty minded when you actually think about it...LOL
poppylov 9 months ago
@poppylov Yeah he was!! lol
Ramoth11 8 months ago
this reminds me of the boats and hoes music vid
AustinStrait 9 months ago
I performed this for my monologue during Plebe Week at my school. XD
KisaKub 9 months ago
I just performed this today at school :))
bjjspencer 9 months ago
Thus , Shakespeare raps were born !
MandyJ34 9 months ago
racially challenged xD
jrlibrarian67 9 months ago
"This is a story about a brother named Othello, he liked white women and he liked green jell-o":D
MikefreakinSheridan 9 months ago 3
I've got an idea that's totally boatless..
elizateele 9 months ago 3
I've got an idea that's totally boatless..
elizateele 9 months ago
We just read this in my Brit Lit class... =) So I actually understand what they mean!!! Which makes this all the more funny!
loverlyrachy 10 months ago 3
@loverlyrachy we just finished reading this in my culture through lit tooo. I loved it but such a sad ending.
Purplelady0790 9 months ago
And Dessi loved Othello cause he had a big...... SWORD! XD
TheLissa77 10 months ago
he was a moaner-a groaner-he left her alona! he didn't write her letters, and he didn't telephone-her :D
PixieDustTwinkleToes 10 months ago
lol the boats
"uh uh uh Oh Dessi..*dead*"
bluelenne22 10 months ago 25
It's totally boatless!
emily492 10 months ago 143
i did this play in high school
mrsmjforlife 10 months ago 4
thirty seven people did not like the big sword...
Xazyv 10 months ago 3
Bahaha. XD
JoyHeartsYou 10 months ago
when my school did this we had a black girl in the cast. so they tried to get her to play othello but she was like "why, cuz i'm BLACK?" and refused and when the rest of the cast (who were white) she was like no stop white people can't rap. it was really funny
tigerjemm 10 months ago
Were doing this play for school & im in this scene (:
thismustbekiaraa 10 months ago
these are diffeent people than i saw yesterday? can someone explain? its the same play but with different actors, i thought there were only 3 actors? :S
tessikat 10 months ago
@tessikat The three that performed in this version are the three original performers, but other theaters adapt the script with their own performers. Just because the play is being performed doesn't mean it's the original cast.
feedtheflameforfacts 10 months ago
I watched this at school on Thursday
hokagegoku225 10 months ago
Iago loved Desdemina? Wasn't he hating Otheloo for appointing Cassio as Lt. ? And Roderigo had loved Dessie.
batain 10 months ago
@batain He meant to say Othello. It happens.
Coronadogrl 10 months ago
36 people are racially challenged...
DestBassoonist 10 months ago
My friends are going to NFL Nationals in duo with Complete works, and I have to say that it's pretty freakin' awesome
HappyHarey 11 months ago
Because he had a big. SWORD!!!!
Hahaha I almost died right there.
ProtectiveBrother 11 months ago 7
@ProtectiveBrother The line after that (cut out because this was on television) is "Iago had a plan. He was clever. He was sly. He was sort of a ... penis." Then they say "shaft the Moore" So funny!
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CaptainMorganThe3rd 11 months ago
Just a little note to the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, and Adam Long you three are AMAZING!!! Best. Nerd Rap. Ever! No offense to the others but Adam is my favorite! He's freakin' adorable!
PeteWentzRocks96 11 months ago 5
@PeteWentzRocks96 mine too, he totally the funniest. :p
MurderOfSuburbia 11 months ago
here's the story of a brother by the name of othello,
he liked white women and he liked....green jello
odysseyintime 11 months ago
36 people do not have a big... SWORD!
StealthMode86 11 months ago 8
...cause they can't ... they won't ... and they don't stop!
customcartoons 11 months ago
I got an idea that is TOTALLY boatless...
ROFLMAO
mandib91 11 months ago 2
and i thought i was white
that1artistchick 11 months ago
CAUSE HE HAD A BIG...SWORD!
EmmaKat1876 1 year ago 243
@EmmaKat1876 YES HE DID!
AMAZINGemoPAZAMABAMF 8 months ago
And Niago loved Dezzy, like Adonis loved Venus.
And Dezzy loved Othello,
Cause he had a big.... sword!
I don't know how to spell these peoples names, so yeah, I tried.
vampvixen564 1 year ago 4
@vampvixen564 NIAGO?! LOL dawg its IAGO :PP
utubepoop22 11 months ago
@utubepoop22
Oh well, I tried. :)
Thanks though.
I'll remember that.
vampvixen564 11 months ago
@vampvixen564 its all good
utubepoop22 11 months ago
hide the salami!
AvaNickol 1 year ago
Just to clear things up, Othello (remember the H is silent in Britain) rhymes with Otello, the ruler who created the Ottoman Empire. So Othello was basically from Turkey, just like the diplomats who visited England the year before this play was written. And moor was somehow short for "Mohamedan," or Islamist, even though Othello is protrayed as a Christian in parts of the play (2.3 152-154).
Nukepositive 1 year ago
@Nukepositive the word Moore technically meant an Arab Spaniard, or from North Africa. Othello was most likely Moroccan
fungiportal 11 months ago
@Nukepositive the word Moor technically meant an Arab Spaniard, or from North Africa. Othello was most likely Moroccan
fungiportal 11 months ago
@fungiportal I just meant that back in the day it was sometimes misused to refer to a Muslim, even though yes, it does originate from Morocco. It was applied variously to Turks, who had much lighter skin but were Muslim.
Nukepositive 11 months ago
hell yes!!!!
seriously the best part of english last year. hamlets hysterical too!
these guys r amazing!
XD
00PeaceLoveJonas00 1 year ago
Here's a story of a brother by the name of Othello
He liked white women and he liked...green jello.
HalloweenHotDog 1 year ago 8
"I feel like such a dork!"
"Well, go with the feeling..."
DestBassoonist 1 year ago 2
wooooooow. what a huge debate over othellos race. just enjoy the show guys.
LaurenGrass 1 year ago
Uh uh uh ! Oh Dezzy! -dies- lol
bluelenne22 1 year ago
Um...Othello is from Morocco. From Africa of the 16th century. He was probably somewhere between dark-skinned and tanned (Arabic), given where he came from and his exploits as a warrior. For the record, racism worked a helluva lot differently than it does nowadays. ANYONE from anywhere was a different race, not just based skin tones etc. So really his skin doesn't matter as much as his birthplace, history, and culture.
niteowl9491 1 year ago
@niteowl9491 SKIN TONE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH IT!! its called DNA!! or like cave monkeys like to call it a LINEAGE! white people should know more then anyone about migrating to other countries and clamining it as yours. The moors today are invaders. =) thank you.
PharaohII 1 year ago
Woah, what happened in these comments? IS someone arguing about the race of Othello? Cuz it's kind of in the script.
GrayStudios 1 year ago
lol... "I've got an idea that's totally boatless."
Ayethana 1 year ago 5
It appears someone has just got told...
CaptainZETTA 1 year ago
....Longest and most thought out youtube fight contender, that was worth reading
readingwench 1 year ago
And Iago loved Dessie like Adonis loved Venus
Dessie loved Iago 'cause he had a big SWORD!
AmishParadise27 1 year ago 2
@AmishParadise27 no its dezzy loved othello. Iago is the one who loved dezzy not the other way around. sorry for being the douche but i thought you should know ;)
hadd93 1 year ago
@hadd93 I know that. I am reading Othello reading right now.
AmishParadise27 1 year ago
Nobody let Kanye West see this ...
maxizzlefrizzle92 1 year ago 2
who had a big p """SWORD"""""""
lordvimless 1 year ago 3
i got an idea! its totally boatless.
hehe
brisingr911 1 year ago 4
THIS ISSO AWESOME!!! HAHAA xD wow
zinazina11 1 year ago
hahahah after that song, adam just goes "AFRICA" and fist bumps
oregonxc1236 1 year ago
whoooo i leared more from this song than my class :D !
badspeller101 1 year ago
PFFT. That was hilarious. xDDD
ceilingotaku 1 year ago
Eiago loved Desi like Godanas loved Venes
and Desi loved Athelo caused he had a big SWORD!
TheUmar17 1 year ago 4
cause he had a big... SWORD!
1TheHarleyQuinn1 1 year ago 2
i'm doing this play with 2 other skilled actors in my advanced theatre class, i'm doing jess, and i have sooo many lines!
MrBigmansam 1 year ago
I've got an idea that's totally boatless!
scoopawashere 1 year ago 3
lol now that white people are convinced that moor was not black they believe OTHELLO SHOULD BE A DARK ARAB LMAO!!! RACISM
PharaohII 1 year ago
@PharaohII I don't get completely what you mean, but in the context of the time period of the play originally it was possible that Othello wasn't truly 'Black' as he was by today's standards. Many of the insults of him being black were just that - insults, and not to be taken the same way. By being from "north Africa" he could have been middle eastern, so long as his skin was significantly darker colored than a Venetians.
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 ummmm so i guess having THICK LIPS AND DESCRIBING HIMSELF AS BLACK IS A NORTH AFRICAN TRAIT... please do yourself a favor and get with the fucking program. White bigotry will only get you so far then you will just be in a pit of black confusion.
PharaohII 1 year ago
@PharaohII Umm, ok. Seriously? Reading your last two comments I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I think now you are truly ignorant. Get with the program? Try and get with the times, buddy. In the 16th century Venice anyone significantly darker skinned meant they were 'black' - that doesn't mean they were completely African. Nearly all scholars agree that he was an Arab. If you know the play at all, I'm sure you would note that Roderigo didn't like Othello - hence "thicklips"
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 was more likely than not used as an insult. I don't know what to say to get through to you, because you seem really dence. I think your only reading of this play is a 10th grade English class you hated in the first place. Shakespeare was writing to HIS times, not OURS, and HIS time was about 500 years ago. Do you think that just MAYBE ideas and views have changed? The matter is not that he was black by TODAY'S standards, but that he was significantly darker and and of a
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 different race. There is no white 'bigotry' of any fashion in me simply stating what scholars have agreed on for years is not in any way racist. You really have no argument if you need to resort to calling me a bigot and racist for KNOWING a play and the society in and for it was written. Even more so for insulting me and immaturely responding to an innocent and unmalicious comment I left. Please do YOURSELF a favour and know what you're talking about before spewing idiocracy.
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 Especially when it's about a play and era (and WRITER) which happens to be very near and dear to me and prevalent to my life.
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 wow your making no sense at all. SHOW ME ONE ARAB WITH THICK LIPS AND BLACK SKIN =) THEN THE DEBATE CAN BE OVER. UNTIL THEN YOUR A BIGOT, OTHELLO AND THE MOORS STAY BLACK!!!
PharaohII 1 year ago
@PharaohII I'm sorry, you seem to be the only person freaking out about this. I have continually told you, that THE TIMES WERE DIFFERENT 400 YEARS AGO. Back then anyone with significantly darker skin could've been considered 'Black'. I've also told you that 'Thicklips" is an INSULT. Roderigo does not LIKE Othello in any way, so it is entirely possible that he is creating an exaggerated image of Othello, based out of spite and racism of his time.
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 You are basing all of your opinions off of reading lines, and are not reading into the context of the play and time.
I'll admit, it is completely possible that he was 'black' by todays standards, but considering a Moor is from North Africa, and a Moor description is a person of North Africa of Arab and Berber descent, and your only arguments are quotes from people who don't like Othello (look at it this way, if you insult someone are you on-the-nose, or do you exaggerate?),
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 while I've provided again and again quotes from the text, about society, and historical arguments as well as literary, I have more evidence that he was possibly a Moor rather than the traditional "black" of the 21st century, which is where all of your views on society seem to come from.
Also, please do not call me a bigot unless you understand that by shouting and refusing to listen to some reasonable arguments from the other side, you're making yourself a bigger bigot than I
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
@PaintedMaypole26 Last statement, and then I'm done trying to reason with you, because you are stubbornly refusing to be mature:
I concede that maybe he was the 'Black' that you seem to be thinking of. I did not live then, Othello is merely a literary figure and can be interpreted as one pleases. Just remember that you did not live then either and are not the final word on the race of Othello. All we and scholars can do is guess, and you will not ruin this play for me with dense arguments.
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
hahaha.." he liked white women and he liked green jello" and "thesie loved othello cause he had a big...sword" lol
smilze16 1 year ago 2
@smilze16 *Desi. Not Thesie :)
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
lol OMG!! I SAW THESE GUYS LIVE!! It's been so long I don't recognize the actors, but I recognize the act, remember the "carried a big... sword" line and the reason I clicked in the first place was I recognized the name of the production and thought it must be the same three guys doing the same thing. They came by my hometown in SC when I was a senior in high school-- extra credit I can thank my HS English teacher for for other reasons, definitely.
wisdomknowledgeandsk 1 year ago
haha I did this play in 7th grade
squiresuzuki 1 year ago
THAT IS SO AWESOME!
abingdonissxy 1 year ago
omg so funny!!!
Nightmare21011 1 year ago
"Cause he has a big.. sword!"
believeskye 1 year ago 4
I love this show.
"...and she really liked Othello cuz he had a big SWORD."
fruiTmajik 1 year ago 24
"No, no. I've got an idea that's totally boatless."
I love these people.
MUSpecialK 1 year ago 6
At 1:53 it sounds like he said Iago?
DJrandomiza 1 year ago
@DJrandomiza he did, iago is a character in othello
MusicLover366 1 year ago
@MusicLover366 I know Iago but in the play I never thought he really liked Desdemona :/
DJrandomiza 1 year ago
@DJrandomiza lago is the traitor in othello.
jennymeilin 1 year ago
@jennymeilin I know that but why do they say that "Iago loved dessy?" Does Iago have a thing for Desdemona in the play?
DJrandomiza 1 year ago
@DJrandomiza that is an interpretation from the text by some people, because at one point Iago says "Now, I do love her too. Not out of absolute lust; though peradventure I stand account'd for as great a sin". He also says of Othello and Desi "I will not stop till I am even'd with him, wife for wife."
I personally do not think so, but that was on theory why he hated Othello so much. Another was that Iago was trying to hide his lust for OTHELLO, and his actions were out of pure jealousy xD
PaintedMaypole26 1 year ago
AFRICA!
Chiron300 1 year ago
this is hilarious i love the reduced shakespeare company :)
emmetttaylor303 1 year ago 3
Aw, man, they didn't do the "AFRICA!" part in the end! Still, this is SO funny! Everytime I hear it I ROFL!
sonicherosfan 1 year ago
..and othello loved dessi like adonis loved venis...and dessi loved Othello cuz he had a big...sword
leoviper9 1 year ago 8