Lucky's speech Waiting for Godot

Stephen Brennan in Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film

[@davidlean1060]

It's like a drum solo! A torrent of rhythm and phrasing. It's incredible!

[@hexagonaltv754]

When you keep pressing the middle autocorrect word

[@JXEditor]

Hexagonal Tv Given of a god and then I was a god of god the man and I had been the best and family I was able for the day and he had been a very good man for the first day and I had been the same as the one day of the day he said he had a chance of a man who would have a god and he had been the same as a man and he was the best of god to help him with his brother god bless you with the same as the one day god is a man who will the brother and god god bless them all and he came a man with that god and the god bless them and he came and god god and the brother and the other one god god and god bless you with a little god bless them all those things are god god and the brother and the world god god and the god of the world

[@spodybanjack8800]

omfg yes

[@kaworureal1736]

k great job with the same credentials if the black person has a name like James the white house in her parlor to read a novel is set to be released on e mail to read a novel is set to be released on e mail to read a novel is set to be released on e mail to read a novel is set to be released on e mail to read a novel is set to be released on e mail

[@JoseMoreno-uf5ph]

She better be careful with the rest and get the rest of her out and then she can go back and see if she is going well in her own life if you want some help and then you have time for a test tomorrow to see how you feel and feel good and you will love her but she is not a good friend.

[@tubegoolaz]

Hexagonal Tv lol

[@aashikarif1731]

A man broken in thought, trying to build thought through referencing it to other ideas, to the infrastructure of philosophy and religion, science, recreation. But in Waiting for Godot, all infrastructure is gone, so thought can no longer be sustained. Hence it falls apart as seen by Lucky's speech.

[@Spahny1]

This will never be repeated . This will never be repeated in spite of the tennis.

[@ecxstasy347]

Perfect comment

[@bitoffbalance4021]

inspite of divine apathia, divine athambia, divine aphasiaa

[@JAEtsler]

of all sorts

[@ItsPallasAthena]

I learnt this monologue years ago. Parts of it still comes to me every now and then.

[@tubegoolaz]

Likewise. I’d like to include it in my solo repertoire but unfortunately the good folks that control Becket’s legacy are very restrictive.

[@ItsPallasAthena]

​@@tubegoolaz It's a shame really, it's incredibly fun to perform :)

[@roofdweller]

Who would not like this play?!! or this brilliant performance, one of the most difficult monologues to authentically "pull off"?!!

[@louisskulnik7390]

Evidently Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor from "Home Improvement" was not a fan, lol! First time I ever heard of this play was from that one episode.

[@bognarog]

Yes Warren agree 100%

[@howardting2460]

Beckett beautifully parodies the blithering and blathering of long-winded philosophizers. I read Waiting for Godot 9 years ago, and it still blows me away every few years.

[@BradBrassman]

Yes, that and most of the blathering of modern "Poets" which all come under "Absurdism".

[@alphonseelric5722]

@@BradBrassman Beckett himself was part of Absurdism. Pozzo's speech has some of that Joycean humor and Surrealist bending of language-logic.

[@AurensYT]

@@alphonseelric5722 Yes, definitely. I was reading Finnegan's Wake when this video was suggested to me and it felt like it came straight from the book.

[@toottootgoestheboot]

ahh one of the greatest plays ever written, and one of the greatest performances of luckys speech, beckett was a genius. will always have a special place in my heart for “the play in which nothing happens, twice”

[@tubegoolaz]

Likewise and lol

[@propershite]

I was reading Waiting for Godot for the first time and oh my god I did not picture how someone could deliver that monologue, watching this I am lost for words

[@henhenhen19]

I love this speech. And this performance is impeccable. Amazing

[@alastairjinks6966]

some of the parts Tennis, golf etc you can use visual cues

[@bognarog]

Henrik i agree 101%

[@SnowTheJamMan]

For reasons unknown but time will tell

[@galileogriffin7333]

of all the actors in this particular production, he was the best!

[@ET-yc4ll]

I like to listen to this sometimes... I don't know why...

[@docbailey3265]

For reasons unknown (of course) but time will tell...

[@PortugalPaula]

The best of Irish stage actors 😍. I am lucky to have seen these very actors performing Godot in the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

[@Enigmatic57]

I saw that too! I was lucky enough to be in the front row. Mesmerising performance! :)

[@michealcherrington6531]

wahoo!

[@jamesmcmillan8610]

That would have been a treat! Probably one of the best performances of this play to date.

[@CatCat-ef2sk]

This actor is the better than others his role and speech need talent

[@mgm553]

Cat Cat he is better than others but he needs talent? What are you saying

[@mei89anio]

It's a damn hard speech. I tried it and my breath always gives out.

[@yorgoskontoyiannis6570]

​@@mgm553 I Cat Cat is... giving a compliment? Here's how I understand his comment: "This actor is better than the others [in the scene.] [The role he's playing] and [the] speech [he's preforming] need [a] talent[ed actor to pull them off].

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

Had to read his part for English class, and let's just say my tongue got a hernia

[@tubegoolaz]

Thanks Chumpy I REALLY needed a good laugh rofl

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

Laz Brezer you're welcome

[@9000ck]

sounds painful

[@cyrusmallison6157]

I had to memorize it and got a headache.

[@singhangika]

😂

[@eronavbj]

A born politician.

[@CommieHamiHa]

"quaquaquaqua"

[@louisskulnik7390]

Google translation: Whichever way. Interesting.

[@theorangeoof926]

@@louisskulnik7390”Qua” in Latin just means “the capacity of”. It’s meant to be rhetorical and by repeating it over in the same sentence stacked on each other, it becomes absurd and meme worthy

[@kalladom5592]

In spite of the Tennis...

[@davidlean1060]

In Feckem, Peckham...

[@Liboo52]

Fantastic! Thanks for uploading. Saw this play in New York with Ian McKellen as Estragon, Patrick Steward as Vladimir, Shuler Hensley as Pazzo, and Billy Crudup as Lucky. Whole cast was amazing of course, and Crudup did an absolutely astounding job, he walked about as he spoke, and chased Didi around the stage at one point. It was terrific.

[@alastairjinks6966]

Saw Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen in London forget who the other two where. Very challenging speech to do

[@jamesmcmillan8610]

I think this interpretation makes more sense, though - Pozzo tells Lucky to "think," so he stands there and launches into his nonsensical monologue. Moving around too much would seem to add a bit of distraction. Remember, he did whatever Pozzo told him to do, which, at the moment, was to "think," and that was it. He wouldn't have taken upon himself to chase after Didi. But that would have been an amazing cast to watch, though.

[@Liboo52]

@@jamesmcmillan8610 I like your analysis! Thank you for replying even though it’s been a decade since I made my comment lol. It was amazing to watch and I still remember my impression of the scene quite vividly. I’m happy you’ve given me another way to view the scene’s meaning

[@KhalidAli-vw8ln]

Greatest performance in history

[@Revsusu1]

Brilliant! I can not conceive of remembering this dialogue, let alone all the passion around it. Totally brilliant!

[@cubles6825]

He actually got a lot of words wrong in the speech. But I mean really, who would notice?

[@HarmonicHewell]

That old school Dublin accent is one of the best accents of all time. You don’t hear it around very often, these days.

[@tubegoolaz]

I love the accent too but I wonder what SB would think about it consider his antipathy towards his country of birth

[@imaonarseal]

There may be better renditions of this speech and I'm sure across the world there are many fine actors doing a good job of it, but I've never heard anything close to this. For me, Stephen Brennan here captures its humour, pathos and quintessential Irishness, perfectly. I've watched a number of other productions of this play on youtube and saw some nice Godot stagings in years past, but having seen this and grown to love it, I can't image Lucky's speech being done any other way.

[@literallyanythingelse]

what do you think is quintessentially Irish about it? it seems much more a satire of distinctly English Oxbridge pedantry. Then again I saw Billy Crudup do a pretty astounding job with it in unaffected U.S. dialect.

[@sandymark94]

this is how iggy azalea raps

[@supercrazyponyo4309]

i actually liked this. btw best performance ever! he memorised all this wtf?

[@tubegoolaz]

Leyla Mecnun za I agree. Great performance... but “ever”？　Ｍｙ　“ａｃｔｏｒ’ｓ　ｅｇｏ　ｗｉｌｌ　ａｌｌｏｗ　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｔ　ｈａｓｎ＇ｔ　ｂｅｅｎ　ｓｕｒｐａｓｓｅｄ，　ｂｕｔ　ｉ’ｄ　ｓａｙ　ｔｈｅｒｅ　ｈａｖｅ　ｂｅｅｎ　“ｅｑｕａｌｌｙ”　ｅｘｃｅｌｌｅｎｔ　ｒｅｎｄｉｔｉｏｎｓ　　ａｎｄ　ｙｅｓ，　ｗｅ　ｄｏ　ｍｅｍｏｒｉｚｅ　ｉｔ　ｌｏｌ

[@KnjazNazrath]

Nah, there's a few cuts.

[@Bahaaeldeenmoh]

But time will tell ...

[@stevenlevine9526]

Thank you for posting this.

[@NorthernFrost96]

Thanks for uploading this, it was killing me to find the exact beginning in the full movie, made my essay like a million times easier

[@tubegoolaz]

Nine Exotic my pleasure. At your service ( ◠‿◠ )

[@bitoffbalance4021]

This man is fantastic 👏

[@kaworureal1736]

Wow, I find it really interesting how different actors interpret the same character, when I saw the play lucky stood almost completely still.

[@leahdelasheras3809]

I love this song 😫👏

[@pwnedduffy]

This is such a damn good representation of my life

[@user-zp1zr3wj2f]

واحدة من اعظم المسرحيات التي رأيت في حياتي

[@adriennekennedy1319]

Total gibberish. Acted to PERFECTION.

[@stanzinhrijvy8832]

Incredible 💯🌟

[@supercamperninja9012]

this is my favorite videogame ever!!

[@msblue1003]

his hat has got the battery to his brain

[@egapnala65]

As with "Not I" its like the erupting forth of a person trapped in silence for years, many years and not a word. No. Not one and now the erupting, the vomiting forth of words, devoid of meaning, the words erupting forth after years, of many years of not speaking and now the pouring forth.....

[@DonOnAMeme]

Pozzo and Lucky's would what I would name my Gay bar should I ever open one.

[@ReignOfPraine]

Avenged!

[@idiotglee]

brilliant

[@EMERALD451]

LUCKY: Given the existence as uttered forth in the public works of Puncher and Wattmann of a personal God quaquaquaqua with white beard quaquaquaqua outside time without extension who from the heights of divine apathia divine athambia divine aphasia loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell and suffers like the divine Miranda with those who for reasons unknown but time will tell are plunged in torment plunged in fire whose fire flames if that continues and who can doubt it will fire the firmament that is to say blast hell to heaven so blue still and calm so calm with a calm which even though intermittent is better than nothing but not so fast and considering what is more that as a result of the labors left unfinished crowned by the Acacacacademy of Anthropopopometry of Essy-in-Possy of Testew and Cunard it is established beyond all doubt all other doubt than that which clings to the labors of men that as a result of the labors unfinished of Testew and Cunnard it is established as hereinafter but not so fast for reasons unknown that as a result of the public works of Puncher and Wattmann it is established beyond all doubt that in view of the labors of Fartov and Belcher left unfinished for reasons unknown of Testew and Cunard left unfinished it is established what many deny that man in Possy of Testew and Cunard that man in Essy that man in short that man in brief in spite of the strides of alimentation and defecation wastes and pines wastes and pines and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts penicillin and succedanea in a word I resume flying gliding golf over nine and eighteen holes tennis of all sorts in a word for reasons unknown in Feckham Peckham Fulham Clapham namely concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown but time will tell fades away I resume Fulham Clapham in a word the dead loss per head since the death of Bishop Berkeley being to the tune of one inch four ounce per head approximately by and large more or less to the nearest decimal good measure round figures stark naked in the stockinged feet in Connemara in a word for reasons unknown no matter what matter the facts are there and considering what is more much more grave that in the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman it appears what is more much more grave that in the light the light the light of the labors lost of Steinweg and Peterman that in the plains in the mountains by the seas by the rivers running water running fire the air is the same and then the earth namely the air and then the earth in the great cold the great dark the air and the earth abode of stones in the great cold alas alas in the year of their Lord six hundred and something the air the earth the sea the earth abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea on land and in the air I resume for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis the facts are there but time will tell I resume alas alas on on in short in fine on on abode of stones who can doubt it I resume but not so fast I resume the skull fading fading fading and concurrently simultaneously what is more for reasons unknown in spite of the tennis on on the beard the flames the tears the stones so blue so calm alas alas on on the skull the skull the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the labors abandoned left unfinished graver still abode of stones in a word I resume alas alas abandoned unfinished the skull the skull in Connemara in spite of the tennis the skull alas the stones Cunard (mêlée, final vociferations) . . . tennis . . . the stones . . . so calm . . . Cunard . . . unfinished . . . POZZO: His hat! Vladimir seizes Lucky's hat. Silence of Lucky. He falls. Silence. Panting of the victors. ESTRAGON: Avenged!

[@colinbrown3775]

Divine Aphasia is a good description of this moment.

[@christopherroberts6041]

I have goosebumps

[@johnmejia7736]

When you make a speech and you realize you said literally nothing

[@tubegoolaz]

John Mejia there’s more to communication than words John

[@johnmejia7736]

@@tubegoolaz you got to think

[@johnmejia7736]

heeeeee

[@michael24taggart]

John Mejia Well... you’re not wrong.

[@andersonk-stones272]

This is the best

[@spodybanjack8800]

IN SPITE OF THE TENNIS I RESUME

[@johnnyormsbee]

perfect roll for robben williams

[@shwetadhiman7232]

My god👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@josephonwhidbey]

Lucky is the stare in this play because what he says it that our lives are totally meaningless. However, many of you will never get this. FYI, I went through est and I got my life back.

[@lobi4836]

Don't listen to this when you're high

[@tubegoolaz]

LØB! MUSIC : hmmm when I’m someplace where that state of mind is legal, I might just give it a try just to be contrary 😃

[@lobi4836]

@@tubegoolaz 😂😂😂😂😂

[@iamnotnormal7941]

He's doing it on Porpoise!!

[@louisskulnik7390]

This play is the next step after Joyce. The speech reminds me a lot of the "Willingdon Museyroom" discourse from Finnegans Wake.

[@alphonseelric5722]

Reminds me a bit of Tender buttons by Gertrude Stein, which preceded The Wake.

[@youtubeisevil]

Precisely, the same punctuation as Penelope

[@77stosh]

"THE FACTS ARE THERE!"

[@tahasyrien6429]

With so much exceptions indeed

[@MaeTheWolfDemon]

I have the feeling Lucky hates Tennis. LOL!

[@theestheticapostle3071]

Back and forth is tiresome

[@tubegoolaz]

lol

[@Kgabo_Tauatsoala]

Wow🔥🔥🔥

[@edwardprice140]

What is....Waiting for Godot was the final question on "JEOPARDY" today, 11/14/2017 One of the 3 got it right. At 17.26 mark.

[@Shreejansurya98]

Who else are here after Elon Musk Tweet about ChatGPT

[@superitgel1]

me :P

[@Sir.Azazello]

Recently I've been watching a lot of content about Godot Game Engine. And I guess youtube thought that is similar enough...

[@tubegoolaz]

Within 6 degrees of separation? LOL

[@JosephRobinsonSMBX]

*Q U A Q U A Q U A Q U A*

[@RennovaMOCs]

Big mistake: telling Lucky to think.

[@KnjazNazrath]

The reasons remain unknown.

[@murphypaschal]

The definitive interpretation of this play. Search no further.

[@tubegoolaz]

Mine, although interesting in its own right, came in a distant second ☺️😇

[@dawidjagusiak]

Despite science, religion and culture we couldn't hold back our instincts leading to hate, wars and destruction, what's more it's often those concepts that led us to conflict and anarchy in the first place. Quaquaqua.

[@ince55ant]

with enough philosophy or religion, any horror can be justified.

[@MegaNea99]

quack quack quack

[@tubegoolaz]

Andy Collados , That’s “qua qua qua qua” with which some say Becket was mocking philosophers, sophists et al. cf “Sine qua non” etc... or did you actually already know that? A single “qua” is a conjunctive similar to “and”, ergo “&&&&” （╹◡╹）

[@SouvenirKidneyStone]

That's it. Next Halloween, I'm dressing up as Dr. Westman only to point at people and say "Hahaha. You have cancer. Hahaha." 😂

[@OIP_1]

tfw this makes perfect sense

[@ufukcelik999]

Federer disliked this

[@Bahaaeldeenmoh]

But time will tell ....

[@MileyAgrawal]

the acacacademy of the anthropopopomentry

[@libir7035]

Lets again to be creative again

[@m0rtale195]

rappers Eminem too afraid to diss

[@gentlelife8415]

i literally applaused when he said " I am finished! "

[@helenedahlsveen93]

for reasons unknown....

[@wallywoahjack]

I read this in English today and god my tongue felt fat in my mouth

[@johnbrocado1083]

3:50 he gets his iphone

[@BDizDaBest]

Man how do you even write something like this. Like what is even the thought process lol

[@Pepper-cd9yr]

livesay gang where yall at

[@ghost-yv3ky]

of course we waiting Saver

[@b-csundgren568]

👍

[@tubegoolaz]

👍🏼👍🏼

[@Guitcad1]

I had to do this whole rant for an entire run of this play a few years ago. I still have no idea what it's purpose was or, for that matter, what this play was supposed to be about at all. I just went with my ignorance and somehow managed to make it work for me. It seems like it went over well.

[@robertcarhuayo8477]

Guitcad1 it's meant to be a representation of the entire play, in a way. The play is about the absurdity of existence: there is no meaning. Similarly, his speech has no meaning whatsoever. Though many try to analyze it, it is genuinely random bits of sentences. At first, Pozzo finds it entertaining, but then begins to realize he's just being absurd. Then, he realizes that Lucky is just a reminder of the absurdity of existence, so he needs to shut him up. This is also why he is going to sell him. He cried earlier in the play because the way Lucky is hurting and scaring him is deep and true. All in all, the speech has no meaning

[@pigcentralz6211]

@@robertcarhuayo8477 I wouldn’t say it’s an absurdist piece though, although there are themes of absurdism within (I’m digressing off what you said btw). I would say that by describing the play as something to show the absurdity of existence is problematic. The play creates a paradox by showing something which has utterly no meaning, so by us attaching some sort of meaning to the play, whether it to show the absurdity of existence, is actually contradicting the key principle of the text. However I understand that by saying you are wrong in your interpretation is also problematic as that would mean my interpretation or meaning of the play is the correct one which is not the point of the play. By saying the plays meaning is to show that there is no meaning, is in actuality applying some sort of meaning ! I think it’s interesting that we try to apply meaning to something which absolutely has none, even if we take it down to its philosophical and metaphysical basics. We would never read this text as a collection of words and I believe Samual Beckett has meticulously chosen and placed these words so they have obviously been placed in a way for some reason. Just like how he would not allow certain adaptations of the play as he would not want certain interpretation to be considered, pigeonholing the play in one specific way. I guess that’s the point of the play and the speech, we will always be waiting for a reason for this piece to make sense, just like Vladimir and estragon as they wait for Godot. But it’s very infuriating to try and make sense of the text which was designed to have none haha

[@robertcarhuayo8477]

@@pigcentralz6211 genuinely interesting reading, thanks for taking the time to respond! I might write some longer response later, but for now, check out my KZbin channel. I uploaded a clip from a show I directed of this play right before the pandemic started. Lucky’s speech, with my direction

[@alphonseelric5722]

The speech is dadaist/surrealist. It's a satire of language-logic in a world which has no need for it. That is also what torments the other characters. They are become used to silences now, they can't bear Pozzo's wordgames.

[@yusufayaz2356]

3:47 He missed "great deeps," it's "...abode of stones in the great deeps the great cold on sea..."

[@gedbob1]

Kings cloths luvvies saying how great this is Nutters

[@massivecumshot]

I prefer to listen to this over hip hop. Quaquaquaqua.

[@garundip.mcgrundy8311]

As, as, as, as!

[@nomad27]

Bing GPT indeed

[@richardbartnett6400]

Gibberish giberish gibbetish constant !

[@docbailey3265]

All this inspite of the strides in alimentation and defecation?

[@Girl10112]

Doc Bailey and in spite of the tennis

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

But wait.... There's more.

[@FalcaoXTZ]

Lucky is critcizing academia because it's futile. ... we'll all die one day

[@lewissupreme6156]

Not true. The academy is full of "caca" because it crowns the incorrect conclusion that man can hope for his own self-importance to be proved in a heaven as false. The academy incorrectly gives insignificant and fading man a feeling of importance which, in reality, he does not possess. the hope of heaven is "more that as a result" of labors "left unfinished" but "crowned" as complete.

[@robertmacphail5086]

Dear, oh dear! It ain't gibberish,u friend! Just listen

[@SharifMatar]

here because of elons reference

[@HayshishTV]

"VLADIMIR: I got a bear fur coat from my old man... ESTRAGON: No shit... VLADIMIR: But it's falling apart a bit. So I sneeze from it. I always sneeze from fur coats. ESTRAGON: You sneeze!? VLADIMIR: You see, it has these little tiny hairs. See? Those are bear hair. ESTRAGON: So... bristly." kzbin.info/www/bejne/aV65m5SIhb56oNE

[@himanshiverma5915]

Can someone explain what hhe says ?

[@PizzaTime2020]

sieggg

[@tylerhe]

Autofill be like

[@TheDwayneKing]

I bet this was one take

[@davidwhitney1171]

Why did Fartov and Belcher leave their labors without finishing them? Was it a bad case of dyspepsia along with poor ventilation?

[@tubegoolaz]

There’s no end to farting and belching?

[@bahramand6743]

The speech is broken one because there is no coherence in the ideas. He takes various ideas giving them one shape but it is impossible because then it couldn't give any meaning thats why we may call it absurd speech and there are ideas of absurdism behind such speech of lucky.