The Importance Of Being Earnest (Wendy Hiller) part 4 of 11

[SheristenJames]

why is this in the Foster the People playlist

[Miranda9VM]

"I wish we had a few fools left?"

"Oh we have."

"I should extremely like to meet them - what do they talk about?!"

"the fools? Oh about the clever people of course."

LOL! This is such a classic, and Oscar Wilde was such a literary genius! i love this so much.

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@Miranda9VM after Algernon's line "About the clever people, of course." Jack responds with "What fool!" Good little icing on the cake. They didn't add it for some reason.

[reachforthelasers]

I see it as no coincidence that most of the comments on this video are written with perfect grammar.

[aram01201]

Hahaha 'Never met such a Gorgon. I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I know Lady Bracknell is one.' :-)

[deathstarsuperlaser]

algy is so condescending

[Issun9000]

0:00 it would be so funny if he said: fuck you Biatsch ^^ atleast he would say that in modern times ^^

[niveen74]

- أوسكار وايلد

[Jeffx007]

Exxon ftw.

[hwuoahc]

This Cecily is sooo annoying... It's a shame, really, I love everyone else in this.

[TheMrDrewsky]

I had to do the scene between Jack and Algy in drama. I played Algernon. I was mouthing the words the whole scene watching this haha.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

Stupid commercial breaks should be made at once a court-martial offence, to be punished by immediate death by firing squad! Else it is the typical Oscar Wilde: Victorian dandies being bored by luxury and life and try to cope with the shallowness of bourgeois society. Sometimes quite charming but nothing to the plays of Shakespeare or the Greek triad (Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus); and I muse what this nonsense about German is all about, though you need it indeed to read the serious folks...

[Earlo45]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar ...o_0 ....whaaat?

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@Earlo45: Maybe you should formulate a proper question instead of just the word what, so that I may know what you are asking me.

[Jeffx007]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar NICE. keep it classy.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@Jeffx007: So you do not have any question regarding my comment and made the remark what combined with a question mark out of mere idleness?

[Jeffx007]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar the person who made the question was @Earlo45. I was commending you for your diction.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@Jeffx007: But you must not do that! Commenting on people for diction should be made a court-martial offence!

[Lordofthepastries]

I'm familiar with "Good day" and "Good night" being used in a disdainful tone, but that's the first time I heard "good morning" said in such a way.

[kyoutenshi]

MONDAY NIGHT AT 8!

[clay180]

Sponsored by Exxon! This is definitely from the 90's!

[AZN3d3wade]

thanks a lot to this video I was able to comprehend the play.

[sidneyx2]

"I hope tomorrow will be a fine day."

"It never is, sir."

[xfmaverickd]

Hehehe! Love Algernon's humorous one-liners here,especially what he says about relatives-"A tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct of when to die"

[goodluckpeace44]

so far as I can remember, I love the one about "arguments" and the one about "fools" . quite witty isnt it?

[maribyla1]

Oh my, those obsolete commercials :) Love them :)

[Zelthie]

Wow, it took me a moment to realize that this was Oregon/Portland telecast! :O That's where I live!

[AmatureComposer]

This is a terrific performance. Is it available on dvd anywhere?