The best of David Mitchell as Shakespeare is all of David Mitchell as Shakespeare

@davidstone-haigh4880

Жыл бұрын

Hang the futtock on!

The Upstart Crow series is brilliant.

LOL! Someone wrote a part for David where he doesn't have to act at all!! 🤣🤣🤣

@jimisi7424

Жыл бұрын

Haahaaaa so true!

@tinacallis9906

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 sarcasm existed in Tudor England. At it's best 👌

@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou

Жыл бұрын

That's what the writes of Peep Show said. They just wrote David Mitchell being David Mitchell.

@fransmith3255

Жыл бұрын

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Hehe, yeah, you can tell that's exactly what they did. 🤣🤣 He's not a good actor at all, but he's very good, and funny, as himself. 🤣

@jacobpaint

Жыл бұрын

While watching I was thinking it had a Blackadder vibe to it so no great surprise that it's written by Ben Elton. Me thinks it was just a matter of good fortune that the character was such good fit for Mr Mitchell although he no doubt gave it his own bent of which gave it such feel as to seem as if written for him.

0:21 "Yes, dear, t'is thy sweet and youthful timbre I would feign here, not the monosyllabic series of grunts that passes for your conversation." 👋 Standing ovation.

@MandaWard71

4 ай бұрын

I have a son similar in grunts😅😅

I used to fly a plane called G-AZMR. When you are contacting an airfield for landing you use the full five characters, then you just use the last two. Traffic control asked, "Mike Romeo, what is your distance?" I have no idea who it was, but an American accent came over the radio, "Mike Romeo, Mike Romeo, wherefore art thou?" Rare American humour.

@miffimifster7990

Жыл бұрын

A plane called "Gazmer"...

@craiglachman1379

Жыл бұрын

This is bizarre! Yesterday, I saw this airplane, now registered as N146EC, at my home airport in Colorado USA. I had never seen one before, so I googled the number and was amused by its former “G” registration. Now, today, I happen to watch this Upstart Crow video and found your comment. Very, very, weird feeling!

@spadebraithwaite1762

Жыл бұрын

@@craiglachman1379 Every plane, so far as I know, has a call sign with the first letter identifying the country of the plane's registration. Any British plane will have five letters beginning with G-. I don't know where your guy came from.

@craiglachman1379

Жыл бұрын

@@spadebraithwaite1762 It’s your old plane! It shows up in the FAA registry that way. Amazing coincidence, seriously.

@littlestbroccoli

Жыл бұрын

@@craiglachman1379 Jung would say it's synchronicity!

I just love David, He’s always make me laugh.

So original. So funny. All the characters are so well cast. I would love to see some outtakes. There must be some somewhere. David is a genius. No question. More please

The whole cast were perfect. I demand another series.

'Posh bird loves a bit of rough'😁

@robinlillian9471

Жыл бұрын

Dream on. Men never give up on these fantasies.

@dancristiangeorgescu6758

Жыл бұрын

@@robinlillian9471… neither did the women….just difference in proportion and variation, adapted to current times. Which is the proportion of women vs men in the fandom of that disturbing bit of trash writing called fifty shades of gray? Why is more popular with women in these unlighted times? Is this progress or masked rebellion of women themselves against the third wave which, ironically, is supposed to lift them above and beyond? Is it the extremes which give a regretful reaction in the form of the opposite extreme? Maturity is supposed to give the ability to balance….but as perpetual adolescence being the goal to achieve, does anyone wonder we live in schizophrenic times?

That first scene is beyond hilarious

The stage show in the west end was brilliant!

This is a series that somehow passed me by, but, going by this clip, it was easily on a par with Blackadder ...... which is high praise.

@aaronmacy9134

Жыл бұрын

I continue to pay for the completely terrible Britbox app just so I can keep rewatching Upstart Crow. It’s my favorite show and I wish Covid hadn’t ended it.

@davidstone-haigh4880

Жыл бұрын

It's very good indeed. Had the dvds for ages. Easily imminently rewatchable, like old Slackbladder.

@Mare416

Жыл бұрын

Well it’s written by Ben Elton, who co-wrote series 2-4 of Blackadder with Richard Curtis.

@colincolin13

Жыл бұрын

@@Mare416 That explains a lot!

@SimonFoston

Жыл бұрын

@@Mare416 He went through a long dodgy patch that started with Blackadder Goes Forth in my opinion, but this is as good as the best stuff he's ever written.

Best series since Blackadder brilliant

This show is genius (pun intended). Hope they do more eps.

@schrire39

Жыл бұрын

What pun?

@zapkvr0101

Жыл бұрын

Not likely

I'm not British but loved this show - there was a comedic genius to it that I think will be overlooked by people who a.) don't know or like much about Shakespeare and b.) don't appreciate David Mitchell's comedy style.

@scouseofhorror104

9 ай бұрын

I must admit, I didn't know or like anything about Shakespeare, but after binge watching this legend of a show over and over, I can now answer questions on quiz shows about him off the top of my head! 🤗😅

The best of bits. 👌

I so love this show!...

love it ......

The writing feels as good as Blackadder.

Genius.

I like the bits where Ben Elton’s politics come leaking through.

Oh David, you never fail to make me laugh... - WAIT, IT'S ELAINE FROM CORONATION STREET!!!!

Love his daughter..

Crow .. thou art a Raven now

KILLS 🤣

I so miss this series! I cannot fathom why it was cancelled!!!

@jedaaa

Жыл бұрын

Probably because it was good!

@ianclarke3627

Жыл бұрын

Was it cancelled? , I thought it was just delayed because of covid .

winter nickers it is

God's conkers LOL!!!!

Is this blackadder's house set experts?

Frasier!?

Oh wow, just noticed the lady played the lesbian pirate princess in Game of Thrones!

This is probably the only thing of his that I like, and probably only because it's written by the writer of Blackadder and has a superior support cast

The thing is , I can imagine no one hardly spoke the way shakespeare wrote his plays!

@dondoodat

Жыл бұрын

Shakespeare would have had a Brummie accent, which may have added more to the comedic effect of his comedies. The Queens Speech isn't that entertaining, but spoken by a Brummie it probably would be. I think that has been lost by Shakespeare being taken so seriously and enacted by people emulating what they think was a Lordly-style accent of the time.

@masonharvath-gerrans832

Жыл бұрын

And yet they did. English has changed in many ways since Shakespeare (Early Modern English)

@Fricasso79

Жыл бұрын

@@masonharvath-gerrans832 I'm pretty sure people didn't speak in iambic pentameter.

@masonharvath-gerrans832

Жыл бұрын

@@Fricasso79 a stunning observation, Bob. Look up Early Modern English… I’m talking about lexicon and grammar, not poetic devices.

@hectorpascal

Жыл бұрын

@@Fricasso79 But we cannot be absolutely sure they didn't - at least in the upper classes where a public display of erudition was expected...

I'm sure this is very entertaining to fans of Shakespeare.

@JJONNYREPP

Жыл бұрын

20.11.22 1959pm any man could read a facsimile of a courier-esque typed script/tome etc and re-write it with a few images added to full effect - history books are littered with such events as these.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Bon Doodat - As well as so many of the rest of us!

@dondoodat

Жыл бұрын

@@MossyMozart I feel those with a knowledge and enjoyment of Shakespeare would get the most out of it. Hence my comment. As someone who was forced to study Shakespeare at school and did not enjoy it, I just can't get into this. Sorry if that upsets anyone else. I really like everything else that I've seen David Mitchell in and it is him that brought me here, several times, to try again. But no, it must be some sort of Post Traumatic Shakespeare Disorder induced from 'O' Level English Literature. I'm glad you enjoy it.

@JJONNYREPP

Жыл бұрын

@@MossyMozartBest of David Mitchell as William Shakespeare from Series 1 | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1254pm 5.12.22 ahhhhh... speaking as a sad weirdo i can safely say: if yer in the correct frame of mind, ben elton's comedic mindset is easily contended with. whether that be young ones, thin blue line or this...i wonder if the guys from comic strip presents... are going to create something for us in the way of a decent sit-com???? they should do y'know...

@gladtobeangry

Жыл бұрын

@@dondoodat Don't know if it's the Shakespeare, but I'm the same when it comes to David Mitchell: Love everything he's in, couldn't care less about this show. To me this show felt like a sort of derivative attempt to have another go at Blackadder in another jacket. Ben Elton was funny in his day, but he's not evolved with time, he's still writing stuff rooted in late 70s/early 80s alternative comedy. Old hat. David Mitchell is always enjoyable in anything he's in, but even he couldn't really save this from feeling like being transported back to 1983. David Mitchell was a guest in Richard Herring's Leicester Square Podcast round the time this was made. He was explaining this new show he was doing playing Shakespeare, written by Ben Elton, with quite a lot of enthusiasm. Richard Herring waited for a pause and then asked with his mischievous little smirk "Is it shit?" Exactly how I felt about it just hearing it being anounced. I've seen some bits and pieces of it, including this compilation, and I still feel the same about it.

They lqugh track ia distracting, it's not needed. I'm laughing at the jokes fine with out it.

To be fair to the dad, Henry VI Part 1 is not very interesting.

As an American...i only feel like i understand 4/5ths of what's being said here...

This is all so witty and sharp, but had the clay pipe been really lit, the man by the fireplace would have never ever been able to hold its bowl. 'Twould have been so insanely hot... but then again, nobody really cares about this detail and I can't blame them just totally, so to say :-D

How can anyone think "wherefore" means "where"? Have people never heard even the expression "whys and wherefores"?

@MattMarshallUK

Жыл бұрын

I know right? Flipping idiots not knowing their wheres from their wherefores. Of course I knew that already and definitely didn't learn it just now after reading your comment like some other morons probably did.

@MerkhVision

Жыл бұрын

No, no we have not heard of that expression, ever haha

@lukehudson9369

Жыл бұрын

I can see your point Robin but as the sketch points out a) why are you Romeo makes no sense. Why are you montague does

@robinharwood5044

Жыл бұрын

@@lukehudson9369 if you think of the full name Romeo Montague it makes sense. But even without that, there is no excuse for thinking “wherefore “ means “where”.

@robinharwood5044

Жыл бұрын

@@Spearca Never mind the why and wherefore Love can level ranks and therefore Though your nautical relation In my set could scarcely pass … W. S. Gilbert

I love how this disproves Shakespeare.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Tsar Nikolai Romanov II - No, I think it parodies all those dopey Shakespeare conspiracy theories, not the man himself. Hence, all the anachronistic references within the series.

Series one and two were the best. The third one was... not that good (imo)

Women had to played by men even though everyone knew who the real women were? How times change!

Why have people from Stratford got Brummie accents. So obviously written by a southerner.

I do hope David survives this comic travesty.

the stupid laugh track

@DemstarAus

Жыл бұрын

BBC has never used artificial laugh tracks but they are often accused of it.

@rezzob

Жыл бұрын

@@DemstarAus ok, the stupid laugh in the studio. I can laugh in my own, that’s stupid

This show was so rubbish except for Mitchell

Biggest problem with this show is the audience it's targeting.

like blackadder but with no laughs

@houndofzoltan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, just misses the mark.

You have to be British to enjoy this. To the rest of us it’s a tedious attempt at humor.

@DemstarAus

Жыл бұрын

Speak for yourself

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Gary Francis - Oh, not so!

@caratacus6204

Жыл бұрын

It is the BBC as long as it entertains Brits, that is all that matters.

@paulinecoburn181

Жыл бұрын

In which case the rest of you are a trifle thick 🤒🥱

2O sec-stopped watching

@BobyourUncle

Жыл бұрын

Your loss....

@orchunter8388

Жыл бұрын

Bye felicia

The entire show was complete crap.

@andrewmurray409

Жыл бұрын

Probably a brainless triggered little Shakestan

@paulinecoburn181

Жыл бұрын

Maybe you just don’t understand it 🙄

Not funny.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

This has that lame Ben Elton tone and that mocking enemble format but with no humour or lightness.. That foppish "more enourmous than extremely enourmous thing" drivel character about it. And yes it isnt funny.

@markawbolton

Жыл бұрын

I thought as much.. After a tedious half an hour I searched it.... "Upstart Crow is a British sitcom based on the life of William Shakespeare. Written by Ben Elton.... " what a bore.

@SIS3W3N

Жыл бұрын

@@markawbolton Indeed you are. You know you could have just checked the description of the video, right?

@annh9225

Жыл бұрын

Obviously not a classically educated person - your sad loss.

@Mark_Brooks

Жыл бұрын

@@markawbolton Thanks for being here to support them!

He just isn't Rowan Atkinson, is he?

@daftphil9706

Жыл бұрын

No! He's David Mitchell. Clue's in the title.

@jojohehe3251

Жыл бұрын

@@daftphil9706 you clever sausage