How to Steal Famous Sayings | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats

[@josephkarl2061]

0:35 and so every Shakespearean for the next 400 years has had the wool pulled over their eyes 🤣🤣

[@Nullifidian]

The problem with that joke being applied to reality is that nobody thinks that _The Two Gentlemen of Verona_ is one of Shakespeare's great plays. There are flashes of Shakespeare's talent in the play, but it's widely agreed that the ending is _not_ one of those examples.

[@shadowbear66]

I coined the phrase" I coined the phrase."

[@Tobio88]

David Mitchell as Shakespeare looks a bit like Bill Bailey

[@Njald]

"the bald long-haired guy"

[@neilgerace355]

"You like it?" "Yeah!" "It's yours!" "Thanks!" -- Wayne and Shuster

[@sidarthur8706]

some english teacher is pissing themselves laughing

[@harvestcanada]

The irony of it if Bill Shakespeare had done his plays as a degree, he would have kicked out for plagiarism. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

I'd watch David Mitchell read a phone book. If they still made them.

[@julianaylor4351]

The stage version is back in London's West End.

[@JJONNYREPP]

How to Steal Famous Sayings | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 0706am 27.9.22 the words: "in the paddock!" will rest with me as a fine comedic interaction til the day that i die. hahahah... mitchell almost losing the plot, himself, as he enjoyed that bit of farce akin to mayall several years earlier in the young ones or bottom. i wonder if they used the same studios?

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

@@JJONNYREPP I wondered if Ben Elton wrote it.

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@cainealexander-mccord2805 How to Steal Famous Sayings | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1357pm 27.9.22 Ben Elton wrote what - the entire oeuvre of shakespeare..? if that be the case he pilfered a whole host of damnable mythos from the greeks and the romans, then... or do you mean the words: in the paddock!!! which could be ascribed to ben elton or alan partridge (to paraphrase: take it into the paddock and give it a big kiss) or vic and bob's novelty island... dunno what we're actually discussing, here, merely that i doubt it matters. the guy playing old tefal head gets somewhat hysterical and screams something along the lines of: get in the paddock (which would enable some for escape from the pursuer) and i thought it amusing. hardly motions to war, madam. hardly worth folk gettin' upset about..

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

@@JJONNYREPP No, just wrote the piece. I fell asleep for everything after that.

[@SuperTerminator50]

Absolutely Brilliant...

[@neilgerace355]

1:43 Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris 1:50 "wont" not "won't" !!

[@livrowland171]

Yes but it's correctly pronounced like 'won't', not, as people often do, like 'want'.

[@Britpop938]

I imagine that this is exactly the conversation Will had with his family and friends.😂

[@happivaras]

Kate kills it again

[@lloydthomas2896]

I wish he’d read audiobooks.

[@emmanuelwolf6568]

This was genius

[@rosemarywatkins4121]

Brilliant, quite brilliant.

[@lightspeeder]

Did they re use the set from Blackadder 2?

[@samanthab1923]

Was definitely getting that vibe

[@excelents]

Same time period even to the point that "Bob" who appeared in S2 of Blackadder appears as the same character and played by the same actress in an episode of Upstart Crow disguised as a boy canonically I think before he / she meets Blackadder.

[@balfnet]

And the script

[@lavrentivs9891]

Only natural that two series taking place in the same time period and is centered around scenes in rooms would look very similair. Doesn't hurt that Ben Elton was one of the two writers for Black Adder as well.

[@neilgerace355]

@@excelents Holy crossover, Batman!

[@JJONNYREPP]

How to Steal Famous Sayings | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1816PM 26.9.22 DID HENRY VIII WRITE ALL OF THE SHAKE'S WORK AS SAID TUDORS ALLOWED SOME UPSTART SPY TO USE ALL THAT LIT TALENT TO HIS OWN BITTER END?

[@embreis2257]

at lest he wasn't some bloody forriner like that upstart Holbein... 🤭

[@stevequinn1424]

Since Henry VIII died in 1547 are we assuming he put all the plays in a box to be opened 45 years after his death?

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@stevequinn1424 Comments on ‘How to Steal Famous Sayings | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats’ ok.. what have you iterated before this? henry viii and shakepeare's alleged plays? i thought liz the first had written most of the works...? maybe good old henry and erasmus wrote them and left them for posterity to play out?

[@helenwhite2066]

David Mitchell is an Oxfordian.

[@Nullifidian]

Then it's odd that he didn't mention that on the QI segment from the I series episode "Immortal Bard" that explicitly dealt with this subject. Instead, he noted that the fact of Shakespeare's active career postdating Oxford's death "might almost be the point at which to abandon the theory".

[@allenanderson4911]

Canned Laugh Track=CRAP

[@covrtdesign5279]

Recorded in front of a live audience.

[@ridethelapras]

I wish people would stop getting this wrong.

[@jamesbradley2186]

the canned laughter is a bit tiresome

[@lavrentivs9891]

Recorded infront of a live audience.

[@Hankblue]

@@lavrentivs9891 That doesn't really mean what you think it does. They have mics all around the space and are free to edit the timings/volumes of the laughs as they please, they can even supplement it with prerecorded laughs if they're not feeling the live audiences response. You wouldn't be able to tell one way or another.