David Mitchell's Funniest Moments as Shakespeare from S2 - Pt 1 | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats

[@orpattmaks490]

I don’t see David Mitchell acting here….he’s just him 😂😂😂

[@nneisler]

Who? That's William Shakespeare.

[@Barrheedyin]

@@nneisler hmmm yes 😂😂😂

[@MossyMozart]

@Orpatt Maks - You mean to say that he's the actual embodiment of the great William Shakespeare alive on Earth today? You Brits are soooo lucky!

[@RichardBrown-xe8zm]

Point being?

[@votemonty1815]

Dangling Tackle...hell of an expression.

[@rdhunkins]

This show has a shed load of them.

[@shelbynamels973]

@@rdhunkins ...not just a few of them made up for the occasion.

[@bazcuda]

Dangling Tackle...of which the scrotingsack forms a part 🤣

[@paulknight5018]

Who bonketh who! Love it

[@Psychlist1972]

Gemma Whelan has some range. To go back and forth between Yara Greyjoy in GOT to Kate in this comedy, is quite a leap.

[@MrUndersolo]

She was in "Killing Eve", too.

[@Psychlist1972]

@@HampsteadOwl There are plenty of actors who don't have any real range, and certainly not this type of range. Many of the most popular ones play essentially the same role in each thing they're in. She was doing this and GoT concurrently (along with a bunch of other roles).

[@robertfeldman2417]

@@Psychlist1972 right but yara had no real character traits

[@Aaaaaaaaaaaaa558]

Wait what!!! Is he yara greyjoy!! Whaaaaaaat 😮

[@MossyMozart]

Bottom says, "I don't know why they're talking to themselves, to my experience means things are going to start going very wrong." (While breaking the 4th wall, talking to nobody within the play. What a card!)

[@bazcuda]

Helen Monks is simply brilliant as "the grumpy little bitchington who be of teening years" 🤣

[@GypsyPirate]

11:16 "Listen carefully, I shall say zis only once."

[@razzle1964]

To turn what is effectively ‘the life, times & works of the Bard’ into a sitcom is nothing short of genius. Like it or not, Leftie Ben is fast becoming our next national treasure.

[@OBWanKenobi]

Genius?

[@razzle1964]

@@OBWanKenobi Yeah, I know. The word ‘genius’ & ‘legend’ is banded about far too liberally these days & Elton’s not always my cup of tea (especially as I’m a Stewart Lee fan, too) but, he DOES have a good body of work behind him that’s rather difficult to ignore, I feel. Shakespeare was the bane of my, and every other schoolboys, life - and ‘Upstart Crow’ DID help make his work more understandable, accessible, relatable (insert other banal adjective, as it suits), etc. so, I reluctantly gotta give credit where credit’s due.

[@neilgerace355]

15:34 "RESULT!" Hahaha

[@happivaras]

Extremely generous "gift".

[@GypsyPirate]

"If fame itself be more important than the means by which it'd be got, then will there dawn a day in Albion where we simply watch a gaggle of inadequates sitting about in a house, and call _them_ famous?" 😂

[@monsignorerasmus.6441]

11:00 HENIMORE!!!!

[@JJONNYREPP]

David Mitchell's Funniest Moments as Shakespeare from S2 - Pt 1 | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1646pm 15.1.23 well done, sir. i do find this amusing... the fav skit being he love potion and the horse head love scene...

[@guharup]

Cant I botsky? watch this space... Epic, especially when you realise its not a joke

[@mericet39]

Kate is lovely ❤❤❤❤❤

[@KLAUSKARES]

Best comedy so far .

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

A cretin, who goes by "Tobehonest", who lies about their real name?

[@KLAUSKARES]

@@MichaelKingsfordGray yo mama out of shame?for ex ))

[@MaskOfAgamemnon]

You are not pardoned for living, Saesnag.

[@chicagotruckerlifeforlife5570]

I Have Discovered Ah New…🙌

[@ramthian]

😂😂😂

[@neilgerace355]

13:25 Highly directional hearing

[@Bless-the-Name]

I am not crap at comedy 😂

[@jankarieben1071]

Modern satire through a Victorian lens, brilliant!!

[@bazcuda]

Elizabethan 😜

[@MrSimonmcc]

Methinks thou shouldst brush up on thy history.

[@jackdonovan554]

Heh...Boobingtons.

[@chrisvowell2890]

I don't like Ben Elton's political stance but he does write very funny dialogue fed from Will Shakespere's original texts. Perhaps the only truly funny comedy to come from the BBC in many a year.

[@razzle1964]

‘Credit where credit’s due’ kinda guy, eh! Good chap. I agree. In much the same way I think Liam Gallagher’s an arsehole but I don’t let it stop me from enjoying a bit of Oasis! Also, I think the Bard would’ve approved.

[@happivaras]

I kinda think Kate does.

[@PattiAnn507]

What is Susanne's accent? It's so strange.

[@larryparis925]

This could be so much better without the fake laugh tracks.

[@zapkvr0101]

Agre

[@liamatsutv]

the show was recorded before a studio audience. it’s not a fake laugh track - but the audio of the laughter is sometimes edited a little abruptly.

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

Beneath him. A foul combination of sickeningly woke, with only toilet-humour. It could even have been written by the now execrable Ben Elton, or the even lamer James Cary!

[@zapkvr0101]

Except woke wasnt a thing in the 90s

[@MichaelKingsfordGray]

@@zapkvr0101 It certainly WAS at educational institutions, especially Universities. The rot started there in the 1970s.

[@zapkvr0101]

@@MichaelKingsfordGray NOT correct. Back then it was called "pc". Dumb@ss It was a perjorative invented by the right to disparage the group think of the left. The irony it served only to highlight the group think of the right was lost on them of course. You could never accuse the right of having any insight into their revolting behaviour. Some of them still think Pinochet and Reza Pahlavi were the good guys.

[@andrewmurray409]

Naturally, it would be someone with your worldview to have such limited cognitive capacity that they fail to comprehend the other 98% of the humour.