Pitch 'n' Putt with Joyce 'n' Beckett

[remoteviewing0]

that molloy sucking stones visual reference @ like 1:49 was amazing

[roryphelan]

slithering in her wetness.

[DustyAndPistolPete]

Brilliant video...but....wouldn't Beckett have only been 16 in 1922?

[carmelkeville]

Flipping excellent!!!!!! ;) ha ha ha :D :D :D

[Gazzabaw]

All feckned in it's nuttyness.

[wahzooo]

@Gazzabaw *fecund.

[Dionysos37]

Delightful! Joyce with his wrong shoulder higher than his right....

[SONofEIRE1987]

haha two legends

[Nikon05]

Ahhh bollocks, big fucking mickey. haha

[westcoastchildren]

This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen. Sucking stones FTW.

[jamesnesbitt]

They're waiting for Godot...

[boibu1]

this is incredibly stupid

[electrolinks]

All fecund in its nuttiness! LOLZ

[Flyingpig437]

"you are no more than nothing" nice one ha ha ha!!!

[savagecabage]

hes not coming!!! i love it

[Ba4209]

:) big fucking mickey. into the blue sapphire of the day...

[jamesaellis]

Clealry they are wating for Oscar Wilde!

[GeorgesBarras]

Or Godot?

[kerouac61]

@jamesaellis Think its Yeats they're waiting for chief!

[DanielRooneyIII]

@jamesaellis

No, they are waiting for W.B Yeats Joyce says it at the start!

[daldai]

class. u can putt joyce into any scenuation and its gonna be fanny

[doomkid1331]

this was as boring as...uh

[MrGeorgie84]

looks like this video created Tarantino fans

and Joyse resembles Tarantino manner of speaking

[dddaaaannnnn]

Don't mind me, just commenting on this so that people think I'm well-read.

[SquidMcGuffey]

Sheer brilliance!

[LissaLovesMusic]

Words cannot describe the pure awesomeness that is this short film.

[mandisgoj]

Great dialouge, if one can call it that with only one person rambling. Pitty about the age on the both actors. The location and year is Zurich, 1922. Joyce would have been younger and for Beckett, well he would have been 16. That guy looks like he his 40+!! For ¤%&# sake, get it right!

[yipmaster]

@mandisgoj

its a comedy sketch, it's not supposed to be historically accurate.

[dubblewalker]

Yes. I'll play.

Brilliantly put-together.

[ravewyk]

outstanding.

[sickosandsuch]

I am so very happy right now.

[kingcanti]

I love this so much.

[GeorgesBarras]

"Big fucking mickey!" - I'm going to be happy the rest of the day.

[catseyeskat]

yes.....................I laughed

[37AW2ndSt]

This is fecking brilliant! THIS makes being an English major so many years ago worthwhile!

[Caoimhin7OHeochaidh]

yes...I play.

[gdubb70]

cant be so precious colmwhatulike..just hand it to them

[indauja12]

Can a native speaker please write down the entire dialogue (or should i say monolodue :D ) of this video? I get the idea and most parts are clear, but some words are very Joyceish, full of puns and other quirky things.

[iddn]

river run and a free drop no closer to the hole

or I'll ??? on his swingingness???. Two and in the hole

and it's back on the bus, glory be the day Mr. Yeats!

Hooking and slicing like the butcher, and him and his girls,

Pitch and putt! it's bitch and slut, slithering in their wetness,

glistening like a peach... peach... peach and... peach and..

peach and... hut! peach and hut, and... and... and the blood red

something and... and...

[flammesombres]

"Or I'll show him and his swingingness"

[iddn]

Did you get a pencil?

You know I love those little pencils, small... small like the

first pencil, and...

You're very fecking quiet.

Where is the fucker? Where? drowning in the last hours of the

day are we? And he owes me a fecking tenner from when he put it

in the fucking river at the eighteenth the last time.

In the river... all 'rivery' was it?

THIS IS NEVER AN 8-IRON IT'S A FUCKING FIVE!

[iddn]

Do you think I'm fecking blind? Giving me a five and I the cock

of the land... you are no more than nothing.

And give us a pencil as well... and a couple of those tees...

and a Topic. NO NOT A MILKY-WAY YOU ARSE, A TOPIC!

All feckund in its nuttiness.

You want some? Well I don't fucking care where he is, I'm teeing

off. Into the fucking sapphire of the day with it, so I am.

[iddn]

BOLLOCKS! BIG FUCKING MICKEY!

Well? Are you going to play your fucking shot?

A dew/Adieu???, like the icy pillar.

HE's NOT FUCKING COMING WILL YOU PLAY THE SHOT!?

Yes, I'll play

WELL FUCKING HURRY UP ABOUT IT!

[indauja12]

This is laugh!

[gdubb70]

bollox big fuckin mickey! ahahahaha lets golf :)

[jamesaellis]

GENIUS

[uucat]

'He isn't coming, you twit!'

[fleurdelis19]

Because of this video, when I went to Ireland with my class I had a Topic. It was fecund in its nuttiness. :-)

[Rownia]

Yes... I'll...play... Brilliant.

[Ba4209]

Joyce spoke softly and he listened. He was poor but he tried to carry himself elegantly. Those words were all in his head. funny filthy mind. There is a tremendous amount of humor in Ulysses and FW. Most importanly, he listened. Loved the sound of words and the sound of voices. He was a singer. His eyes were failing so his ears were of utmost importance. He loved language, history and he loved to play.

[Ba4209]

Thanks for the little clip. It's funny but Jamie wasn't loud and apoplectic. But the dialogue is very funny. I think he'd have gotten a kick out of it.

[chicobangs]

He may not have acted this way in real life, but Ba4209 is right, I suspect. He'd have laughed his arse off at this.

[mostpowerfulbenjamin]

@Ba4209 and go to bars and fight people

[BrianTheMusicMan]

"Into the fucking sapphire of the day with it so we are"

Awesome.

[geasparjons]

"BOLLOCKS! BIG FUCKING MICKEY!"

hahahha! beautiful!

[classicdubliner]

"and you like the icy pillar"

I'm LOLing so much i could ROFL

[paddymourinho]

Ahhhh, fuck, that was one of the funniest things ive ever seen! fucking love Joyce!

[jamesjeffreypaul]

This is hysterical! Hope it won some awards.

[nothingunusual]

I'm trying to picture Joyce eating a topic. How bizzare.

[truthandcromwell]

All fecund in its nuttiness.

[Alicejunge]

Wow that was filmed on a derelict golf course on Bray Head , go derelict pieces of landscape!!

[mygeneration01]

perfect!

[Aristurtle89]

are they waiting for godot?

[NGS712]

Aristurtle: I think they're waitin' for Yeats.

[FreedomForTooting]

I think they're waiting for the pub to open.

And just incase your a humourless feckpig, I know that's not strictly correct.

[NGS712]

Freedom: Well I'm not a 'humourless feckpig' so my response to your original comment would be, 'Well . . . they are Irish.'

[Bahs3000]

Ah yes, casual racism...

[NGS712]

Bahs: Irish isn't a race, therefore your statement is invalid.

Besides, I like the Irish.

[Bahs3000]

Well, obviously "Irish" isnt a race. Besides I was taking the piss. Its what we Irish do, but you'd know that as you like us so much!

Anyway,its a very funny film. Joyce reminds me of Dr. Statham from Greenwing TV series ("oh my fucksie" etc). Nice to see some shameless taking the piss combined with intelligent dialogue. Joyce was a filthy fucker, and a Dub, so I think the use of profanity is really well played out. Obviously its a caricature.

[NGS712]

Bahs: Well I wasn't sure if you were taking the piss or not.

Everyone comes off as serious on the Internet, unless they say something COMPLETELY ridiculous.

[Bahs3000]

It is a problem alright. I think its probably the biggest problem I have especially because I tend to not use these annoying things like ":)" or "lol" after making a tongue-in-cheek comment. But the Irish sense of humour is based on the idea that everyone is open to a really good insult, slagging is the national past-time! Which is why this Pitch'n'Putt film works so well.

[NGS712]

Bahs: I wish everyone was like that. I like to think I can laugh at anything that's got something to it [just not bad jokes], but most other people seem to get uptight at SOME joke.

I made a jab at the French awhile back and got some flak for it.

[wgaule]

Would ye two ever just shut the fuck up!

[NGS712]

wgaule: If you looked at the comments, you would've seen we had 'shut the fuck up' for two weeks.

[wgaule]

Nevertheless, you responded pretty quick.

It is text, so the date is was written is irrelevant, it still reads the same way.

[NGS712]

wgaule: I responded quick 'cause I was online and YouTube showed I had a response.

Yes I know it's text but the date does matter. You responded as though we had kept talking ever since then.

'it still reads the same way'

Which brings me to another point. This is an open forum, so people can talk on here if they want, if you can't enjoy the video because of our conversation [though I don't see what's so horrible], I don't know what to say.

[Headrush13]

Tis true

[NGS712]

Headrush: Not to be rude, but what exactly?

[mfitzp]

Tis

[toReasonWhy]

The otherwise wonderful Joyce dialogue is ruined by its absurd excess of cussing. What made you (whoever made this) think he'd cuss that much? He would sound like a pubescent teenager if it weren't redeemed by good wordplay. Beckett is spot on.

[thebaldprod]

Oh for goodness sake, it's not meant to be a realistic representation of Joyce. It's a gag that fuses his famous style with contemporary Irish vernacular. Mind you, given what most Irish intellectuals sound like, I am fairly sure he did swear like a docker.

[wgaule]

Ah you're wrong!  You're just wrong.

Wrong is what you are!

[dinnerbucket9]

Joyce Schmoyce.....Beckett went him better.

[toReasonWhy]

Yes

[GrKGoddess10897]

Hahah, very well done! :)

[caralhovaisefude]

Hahahahaha!

This is fantastic, I'd like to see more short films like that.

[Muffalopadus]

Brilliant. I like to show people this movie to help them understand the confusion I go through while studying Joyce.

[idiotmyshkin]

there the thing that tied you to parody made you smell fish and whale, akin

[pintoplain]

Check out the improbable frequency trailer - Arthur Riordan the guy playing Beckett wrote that play.

[DeckOf52]

My pathway to fulfilment is not yet at a close with Joyce and Beckett.But laughter always eases the journey.

[vardsmith]

When was this made?

[6joyr44]

haha very good

[fearofrussians]

Hahaha, pretty funny stuff, I liked it.

[dinnerbucket9]

That anyone out there in the global idiocracy is bothering with Joyce and Beckett is a fine thing. I first read Beckett during a winter depression and found myself laughing out loud at 3 a.m, entirely unashamed.

[NGS712]

dinner: Yes, intelligence lives on!

[peacehappinessjustic]

very very very funny - excellent - highest humour - it cracks me up every time - eg, the complete undisturbedness of the woman - waiting for beckett to come out with his reply - im cracking up just thinking about these things

[dww2002]

oirland: tis a grand land.

[SxSDeath]

Hilariously captures the style of both writers.

[SeannyOg]

Deadly stuff. Five stars upon your video, good sir.

[NGS712]

And one thumbs up upon your comment, good sir.

[Polynomial9]

Just incredible ..........great script.... !!!

[vinvy]

I think the characters portrayed are based more on each writers style of writing more so then their actual characters, so Joyce swearing and ranting manically makes sense.

[liquidsilver72]

Thanks for this, it's hilarious.

[invisigal]

Fecking hilarious!

[GymnopedieTornado]

Everyone that's complaining about the things Joyce says might not be hearing absolutley everything he says, which under inspection is very faithful to Joyce's style. I liked it. Kudos.

[HammandClov]

"He's not FUCKING coming. Will you play the shot!!" Very funny.

[NGS712]

Hammand:

"Yes....I'll play"

"Well fucking hurry up about it!!!"

[maddym27]

They're waiting for Yeats. Joyce actually specifies "Mr. Yeats" during his rant (at around 17 seconds in).

Joyce, Becket, and Yeats are all Irish writers. So ... it's kind of obvious. And makes sense.

[HammandClov]

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I was wondering why people were writing Godot. Hope they know Godot does NOT refer to God, as Beckett pointed out. Anyway, GREAT FILM. Wish it was a series of movies though. I just love how the lines are written exactly like the way each writer writes.

[alfazha]

Lovely film. Though I agree with the others that Joyce probably didn't swear that much I believe that I felt James Joyce in there. Though to those people I say this is your piece of art, and it was not supposed to be some tribute to the two, these are his characters and they don't have to follow the exact image of Joyce and Beckett. Hell, I felt the stream of consciousness of it all, Joyce would have given ya props for that. Cheers mate.

[jamesaellis]

ther may have been wating for Oscar Wilde! this is clever. that is how Joyce talks.

[MistaColins]

Joyce may not have used the f-bomb ALL the time, but he was certainly taboo. Of course, I've never met either of these men, but this video really made me laugh! Thanks for posting.

[shalyma]

Poor James wouldn't be very happy, i'm afraid.

[ColdChicago]

joyce didn't use the f word all the time: you've confused a great poet with the idiot david mamet.

mamet very big in america.. should tell you all you need to know.

[LeeTempleton]

America? Did the Bórd Scannán na hEirean (based in America is it?) confuse 'a great poet with the idiot david mamet?' Okay. Good to know. Thanks! Those fecking Yanks!

Incidentally, I think the guy playing Samuel Beckett is HOT! That close-up of his mouth with "Yes I'll play"...yeah baby!

[FreedomForTooting]

How do you know he didn't, did you meet him?

[republicofwhitey]

I don't think James Joyce would want to be remembered that why.

[Rory379]

Thats so fecking funny! I don't know who came up with that but it's pure genius :P

[wildones]

Hahahaha.. that was quite funny.

[amoore2000]

"fecund in it's nuttiness"

I loved this short when I first saw it at The Kitty Flicks (Cat Laughs). The only thing funnier would be if Louie Le Brocquy was in the background going mad because he couldn't make up his mind which one to paint.

[Ingeniosis]

thats pretty lame..

[offrampt]

I agree - it could've been funnier.

[JackRimbaud]

Love this short film! Being huge fans of both Beckett and Joyce, I find this rather funny and orignal.

[geldfuss]

That may be the single best thing I've seen in my life.

[gsmt25]

Why are you so obsessed with fucking your mother, diminished347? I think your lost. Monster Hog is not here.

[lilHamster123]

hahahaha love it!

[shallowshoe]

good acting, wierd film

[nwjh1957]

Knowing the analyzing comedy can only lead to tragedy, to answer the question of why this is intelligent humour: you need to know about the writers and their works to appreciate it--Joyce and his 'stream of consciousness,' layered puns and bawdiness (for want of a better word), and Beckett and the 'Waiting for Godot' style. You need to move beyond the details of portrayal, and look at the effort to convey some essentials of the writers and their work.

[rtl4x4]

"fecund", not "thickened", ye great poltroon, ye

[antoniusblok78]

Estan muy bien hechas las caricaturas.. aunque no conozco bien el caracter de Joyce, el papel de Beckett esta muy gracioso.. los felicito.

[jamesaellis]

all thickend in its nutteness. lol!

[remygee]

My new favorite video.

[jamesaellis]

Big Fuckin Mickey!

[jamesaellis]

this may be a spoof, but its shows two very different irish writters. joyce is fab.

[bohsfan1]

first class....same writer as another class short called my dinner with oswald..."and i the cock of the land"

[braddavistube]

funny qua false.

[lifewithbeckett]

I laughed out loud at "He's not fucking coming, will you just play the shot??!"

[14xabi]

When I saw the tag I thought,great idea! But it was a let down. Joyce was too manic and well, angry. Sure, the real Joyce had a filthy wit, but his portrayal here just doesn't tally with the vision I have personally from reading Joyce. I guess everyone gets something different from an author

[DeckOf52]

Joyce's script in the video in down to a tee,but the actions had to be put in for dramatic effect against beckett and just gereral dramatic effect

[jamesaugusta]

- She's spherical, like a globe, I could find out countries in her.

- In what part of her body stands Ireland?

- Marry, sir, in her buttocks, I found it out by the bogs. (Com.Err.)

(And I'm sure Joyce must have loved that. Maybe Beckett as well.)

[finneganscake]

Ha! I laughed at this.

[grrrrrsum1stolemynam]

Ah I love this video!It's so mad and clever, I'm gonna send to my brother who misses it very much in New Zealand. It's made me addicted to Topics. (All fecking in thier nuttiness.)Fancy finding it here!

[nypunkeer]

all fecund!

[jhnmrk]

beckett had way better hair than that guy. WAY better.

[boggedy]

People are more or less starved for that kind of stuff, or else it's very difficult to find up here. Among the music videos and cute cat things. Mind you, it is a minority taste. I'm sure there are other things around here, if we check the right blogs.

[cart00nist]

Fabulous.

[phoebesmum]

Funny and smart - two words that aren't usually applicable to anything on YouTube.

[iheartmaths]

i think that that it's alluded to in an intellegent way makes this intellegent, not just that that which is alluded to is intellegent.

oh yeah. i used "that that" TWICE.

there's a grammar minefield.

[thenamenottaken]

I'm eager to hear it.

[infanttyrone]

Also it's a pretty good pastiche of both authors, based on their works and public personas.

[thenamenottaken]

Is there a reason that making allusions to Irish literature rather than, say, Dave Allen makes this video more intelligent? The intelligence wasn't inherent, just the material alluded to. Don't get me wrong, it was funny. But so is Dylan's Couch.

[Swillpower]

Yes, there is a reason.

[nypunkeer]

either way, the allusions are there. But the diction, writing (even writing based on something), and filmography (the forced shots regarding beckett revealing a lean) are quite good. Overall, a well done, hyper-referenced film.

[FeldBum]

Nice. Never expected to see something that intelligent and still funny 'round here.

So Godot golfs? That works for me.

[exobscura]

Godot doesn't exist. He's the figment of a child's imagination. Huh!

[CruelTutelage]

Exquisite, utterly.

[Yumzo]

Very nice. One might say they have Joyce and Beckett down to a tee, as it were. *titter*

[nypunkeer]

har har har!

[videowombat]

Awesome. Smartest thing I've seen on YouTube.