Three Little Pigs Old English

[pannyy55]

If you can't laugh at this, then you are all boring humans.

[VulcanTrekkie45]

This isn't Old English. This is Early Modern English.

[pegsmy989]

why aren't people laughing their heads off???

[maliwahtallhei]

AMAZING

[tacfoley]

THIS is Old English - youtube.com/watch?v=4L7VTH8ii_­8

tac

[tacfoley]

That was NOT old English. That was 18th century English. Old English is a Germanic language spoken in England before the Norman Conquest - listen to Old English in the movie - The Lord's Prayer in Old English.

tac

[Romans5and5]

That was absolutely brilliant.

[tbed63]

How does this video only have 30k views? It's amazing!

[Asmodius02]

Very nicely done. I would to hear this version performed by David Attenborough.

[k8prince]

I love the wolf's voice

[comsumedbygrace247]

"to the...to the second pigs house" This is surprisingly entertaining :)

[GoodyChild7]

old english sounds funny even though i grewup with it it called the king james bible

[GoodyChild7]

mmhh a swines abode

[ertsamel]

A most amusing translation, although I was distracted by waiting for "lupine" and "porcine."

[LdWilloughby]

Brilliant alliteration.

[Voidmaster05]

I want to see David Tennant perform this without the American bits.

[siobhanniseaghdha]

I too like this version better! Now I want to gather 3 other folks and perform it albeit without the American bits.

[pigmental23]

Shakey wrote in Early Modern English, not much different from what we speak today.

An easy way to know how the medieval wrote popular stories, read Aesop's fables printed by Caxton.

Bill Bailey does better spoofs of the olden days.

[dovermail]

This is not Old English. Old English is a combination of Old German (Anglo-Saxon) with some Norse thrown in and would be completely unintelligible to the Modern English speaker. Look at Beowulf, for example. What the comedian is doing is Modern English dressed up to sound like Elizabethan poetry.

[gabergren]

Awesome! Sounds like Monty Python!

[TheWeezle97]

Methinks this procession of moving portrait doth be a pleasurable source of entertainment. On the morrow, I shall proceed to send through the waves of the air, this video to the book of faces, so that mine friends may view and enjoy as well. =p booyah!

[TheFireball100]

Man - that's a lot to remember! hahaha No way I could wing this version of the story. Great performance!

[4Gottlos]

This is not Old English. Old English is a Germanic language brought to the British Isles by Scandinavian raiders around the 6th century.

Shakespeare, 1000 years later, spoke Middle English, the result of a fusion between Old English, Old Norse and French brought by the Normans.

[PaxEmpyrean]

@4Gottlos Exactly. This is not Old English. Beowulf is in Old English, and it's pretty much entirely incomprehensible to modern English speakers. Most people who claim to understand Old English probably couldn't even understand Geoffrey Chaucer, much less actual Old English.

[semyofpearls]

@PaxEmpyrean Thank you! I was hoping someone else would note the difference.

Three Little Pigs would have started "Hwaet!" :)

[FantasyAdventuress]

Absolutely love this! As a point of interest, Youtube is rife with videos similar to this, where people take clips from cartoons, commercials or video games and reword them in this kind of grandiloquent language. However, Mr. Branyan's addition of the "clueless American" character just makes it even better!

[MsGavrielGirl]

Love it! I could listen to this ALL DAY!

[BeatlesLuvr36]

I saw this live- it was AMAZING! how do you remember all that?? :)

[silver821000]

Impressive



[diannerin]

Funny! Gotta be the anal linguist tho. The 3 Little Pigs Story is in Modern Day English. Shakespeare spoke MDE. Today we speak Present Day English (I didn't make this up, this is academic) OLD ENGLISH, would sound like a more beautiful version of German. It's not recognizable to us today.

[toxicbob2000]

@diannerin It's generally frowned upon in academia to call some languages "more beautiful" than others. You didn't grow up speaking it, so maybe it sounds more beautiful to you, but it's pretty subjective.

[dischic109]

This made the three little pigs interesting!!!!

[mrsoctagoneapus]

GAAAAAAAAA!!!!! My brain hurts!!!!!! XC I would be crying if I had to do that cuz it was so hard DX

[ashlandkiss]

WOW!!!

[FireOfElijah1838]

This is great, and I need to memorize it for my kids :D... only problem is that it's not Old English... not even remotely... it's not even Middle English... it's Early Modern English... not of us would understand a word if it was Anglo-Saxon Old English... lol

[Ephesians3v20]

Best Three Little Pigs reading EVER :D

[SingularlyAbby]

This made me so happy. :')

[InGodsArmy18]

absolutely genius! haha. i love this guy!

[SSdetectiveagency]

three little pigs were just made dramatic and elegant lol

[stillquirky]

I heard this at the show in Vacaville yesterday, and decided that this was definitely my favorite version of the story. Though that alliterative bit in the middle seems hard to say.

[lazybunny629]

THIS IS HILLARIOUS!!

[GiftednTalented909]

am I the only one who prefers this version?

[BeatlesLuvr36]

@GiftednTalented909 nope, this is way better lol ;)

[RoyalKnightVIII]

@GiftednTalented909 nay!

[pssshInewtht]

yes

[Thefarmgirl193]

I LOVE this video! John, you're amazing!!! I love your comedy so much! Keep it up!!! :D

[yesJESUSCHRIST]

knickers.

[CamoGirl4Ever]

"American made" YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[davespielman]

Is the sound in two tracks, with one your mic and the other a mic in the audience? With headphones on, I hear the audience in the left side and your voice in both sides, but sounding a little different. By the way, you are really funny. Thanks for being funny and clean!

[internetangelX]

This humorous and cleverly imagined narrative of classic tale have rendered me laughing so completely that, indeed, I find it impossible to stop smiling. This was simply genius :D

[ResoundingMusic]

I loved this.

[dmsdyDan]

that was awesome! :D totally better than the original ;)

[LilCorpJanie18]

I understood every word. :P That was AWESOME. :D

[CarrieWallestad]

My family and I were introduced to John, and this well-constructed narrative when he and Tim Hawkins visited Grace Church in Eden Prairie, MN. The reworked story was my favorite sketch of the evening.

HeavensDeclarePs19 - thou dost express the sentiments of thy fellow audience members supremely and with eloquence of pixeled-pen.

[jeffrinck146]

OMG! I SAW THIS GUY LAST NIGHT at a Tim Hakins show! thisss wasss hilariousss!!! i got to meet him afterwards and he's such a cool dude!

and @smb1810 AGREED! come backk to GR!

when i met him he said that GR is his new favorite crowd! :D YES! SCORE!

[smb1810]

Saw this live tonight and laughed till I cried. Loved it!! Please come back to GR, Michigan :)

[edthemed1]

Very good! Sounds like pork to me!

[Arkatox]

John, you're awesome. This going to be on a DVD?

[bobsmiley12]

Great bit. Well, I didn't listen to the last wordy part...I stopped and put in a DVD.

[FutureMarine246]

awesome

[KnightOwl2006]

Funny.