That is so true before you know it the whole day has gone by and you are laughing so hard you almost pee on yourself. P. S. Please forgive me for saying PEE out loud. 🤓
"Thou already tried to use that line of argument when Jewish people wanted to kick yo ass after the Merchant of Venice." They really did Shylock dirty.
Although the fact is that at the time there were no Jews in England, thanks to Edward I being generally a terrible person and expelling them after borrowing all their money. The so called 'Edict of Expulsion' would only be revoked by Oliver Cromwell in 1655.
@@Suchwerewolf In the game "Crusader Kings 2" you can recreate it by borrowing a ton of cash from the jews and then expel them in your own game with little to no consequences. That's how I learned about it.
@@DantesHaven I'm actually of the strong opinion that the devil really doesn't need a third-party advocate at the moment. I think he's well aware of his faculties, his actions, and how to present them.
@@eastvandb Absolutely. He has a remarkable command over horror and psychological thrillers (Get Out for example) and I'd love to see a modern, somewhat surreal take from him on The Tempest maybe.
This is probably way more accurate to the vibe of actual Globe performances than we might imagine. Back then theatre was on about on a par with watching bear-baiting. Can imagine everyone throwing shit at the stage and yelling the whole way through.
THIS! I am so sick of this idea that Shakespeare is high culture...only because it's in old timey speak that no one can understand. It would be like having The Fresh Prince of Bel Air considered fine art 500 years from now
@@lenawagenfuehr53 but he is deep, you can't deny that. That's why he is remembered and most of his other old timey fellows are not. He is considered high culture not because it's old, but because he is deep, existential and witty.
@@lenawagenfuehr53 Also because he was brilliantly creative in his approach to language and to his craft. Your comment is weird and funny at the same time. On the one hand you sound weirdly triggered ("I'm so sick of this idea..."), like why do you care so much as to be so triggered by such a normal and simple thing? And on the other hand you demonstrate that you totally ignore Shakespeare's merits when you compare him with some Prince of bel air (btw wtf is it?). AS IF his works were considered great literature only because they are old. Like Wtf is wrong with you?? Triggered by a normal fact that Shakespeare is considered great literature loved by educated people and at the same time devaluing him like you did?
Most people would be standing for the whole play. These folk were referred to as groundings and as a person who stood through a short play, you would be too tired to be that rambunctious for long.
I don't mean to ruin it for you, but the "period dialects" they include are completely wrong. Just as an example "I just speaketh about Shafte". The "eth" is basically the same as our modern-day "s" ending and would only be used for the third person, as in "he speaks/speaketh". The first person would be unchanged as compared to today: "I speak". Furthermore, the language Shakespeare used was often already old-fashioned for its time and only reserved for stage use, so it's unlikely that the audience members would speak in the same overly formal language as the actors. What Key & Peele are doing here is basically a parody of what most modern English-speaking people THINK Shakespeare's English sounded like, and in that context, I guess it's fine - they are comedians and this is comedy after all.
@@ZippyDan I do appreciate the background info on period vernacular. Talking like the actors in a play you just watched is pretty common though. You ever left a James Bond movie with your own British accent? Or started dropping more f-bombs in a Boston accent after watching The Departed?
Daniel Castellanos in the versions of this skit that take place now these two characters add s to words and names so I think it makes sense that speaketh was “misused”
@@BeegtymeRawkstah They didn't rip off anyone here. "Hey nonny nonny" is a retrain used in Elizabethan music. It's actually more suited to this skit, which is set in the Elizabethan era (compared to Robin Hood Men in Tights, which is set in the Middle Ages).
Just to cut you all off. Men in tights was written by Mel Brooks who ripped of Elizabethan Music. Dave Chappelle had no say in the movie cause that was his first movie ever. Being in a Mel Brookes film for your first film is a helleth of a accomplishment. Even Dave admitted to that.
"Hey nonny" was way before Robin Hood Men in Tights. They may have given an homage to Brooks' masterpiece, but it was probably alluding more to Shakespearean times.
I'm feeling particularly dumb right now, but... is it... is it about moor hens being inferior food as compared to cornish hens? 🤔 (no sarcasm, I'm really at a loss here)
and of course the duo would "not purchase" that explanation, for Marlowe had his own mortal coil shuffled off nearly ten years prior to the writing of Othello ;)
Oh my gods. SOMEONE ACTUALLY USED "SIRRAH" CORRECTLY!!! That has to be a freakin' first in anything written after 1950. (For those who don't know, "sirrah" was NOT a medieval/Renaissance form of "sir". It wasn't an honorific. it wasn't...exactly...an insult, but it wasn't complimentary either. It was only used to address people you perceived as inferior, and it implied a shit-ton of contempt. K&P are the only folks I've heard use the word correctly, outside of Shakespeare and SCA events).
That's interesting, I must have heard it from Shakespeare because I forgot about that word but I sort of guessed right on why he used it. This makes the sketch better.
I thought it was awesome when they used "sirrah". Very few people know its meaning. I've used it a couple of times in my life, and thought about using it a lot more (picked it up in SCA when I was in college); the people didn't know I was mildly insulting them. I've also used the British "two finger" sign to people who thought I was flashing a peace sign. 😁
@@javicoca It's poking fun of the phrase "n**ga, please", which means something like "of course", but at the time "moor" was an English term for people of darker skintones, thus the renaissance English equivalent of "n**ga" (originally it meant Spanish Muslims but it became more generalized by Shakespeare's time)
@@MrSunbeam Moor's were dark skinned people, possibly from Northern Africa, Spanish, or a dark skinned Arab. So he would have stood out in Venice. The joke is replacing the n**** word, changing the common phrase "n**** please" to become "Moor, please". Hope that helps.
Every second of this is beautiful. Like the East/West College Bowl skit or the Family Matters bit, this sketch is more about character work than it is about setting a punchline. You're never waiting for the joke to happen - the joke is happening continuously throughout the entire piece. The "punchline" - Shakespeare writing Shaft - is incidental.
@@dljennings Right, since Battlestar Galactica, he’s the face of deviousness and sneakiness. Always that person doing terrible things but acting like a victim.
this line was so gold!!!! i do not use the n** word, although i have been know to drop a 'negro please' here or there. i am gonna use 'moor please' until it becomes a thing. and if you say it fast, it really flows, almost like 'boy please'....'moor please'
As a popular Shakespeare scholar who consumes most of his time on youtube, I have to say this sketch portrays the time and context of the Bard without fault.
@@HiNinqi The play wasn’t preformed until the James The Ist had already taken the throne in 1604, however since Elizabeth I had literally died the year before, I’d put it at late Tudor, Early Stuart, with an emphasis on Elizabethan and Jacobean style
@@danix4883 When Elizabethans used the term Moor, they were imagining Africans, not Arabs. Othello is a Moor in the play, but it's very clear from the description that he's a Black man.
I'm studying Othello in uni right now and was looking for free movie adaptations on youtube, gotta say this is the best version I could possibly stumble across.
As a high. school English teacher, I appreciate the humor as well as all the Elizabethan references that indicate how really educated Key & Peele are. Great job, guys.
That's what Shakespeare is - popular culture from 500 years ago rammef down your throat because it's "fine art" In 500 years time kids will have to do courses on the "sophisticated wit of Benny Hill"
@@lenawagenfuehr53 Not really, firstly Shakespeare was a master of rhetoric and turning memorable phrases, and secondly unlike AAVE no one spoke Shakespearean English except for Shakespearean actors performing his plays. He wrote in verse, primarily iambic pentameter. You'd have to be the most articulate man in the world to speak like that regularly.
Well, apparently Kanye is literal God, so he's been around for ever. That's according to Kanye at least. And no, I'm not joking. Kanye literally thinks he's God. He's batshit insane.
That's actually a line in the play. Iago basically yells through the dark to the parents that their daughter is "making the beast with two backs" with othello, trying to get them to exact some racist revenge but when othello says he's marrying her to the Duke in court and the Duke is like "hey, he's a great general who is going to be a great husband, y'all need to not be racist" the parents embrace othello as their new son in law and Iago has to come up with a new plan to get rid of othello.
"And Othello did the beast with two backs with that comely white maiden..." This is like a top 5 Key & Peele line, only a genius doth scrible such a phrase.
@@BlastBreaker yeah i remember looking for the old skits on comedy central that i haven't watched😂. Good thing they upload it here, now i dont have to keep looking
Forsooth, I do not favor this Kanye. His pride goes before his good sense, his vanity before his wisdom. He doth walk as one who is not of mere flesh, but a god amidst the chaff, yet he hath the head of a fool, and his Persian mistress hath the airs of one born to great fame, though she can boast of no such talents herself, but hath lain with so many such as to make no difference.
Speaking modern slang in Olde English is the funnest thing ever. Me and my friends used to convert entire rap songs like that and try to guess which ones they were :D
My first Shakespear ever was Romeo and Juliet with the original lines, but the actors dressing and acting (body language, etc) as modern hoodlums and rich people. The first half was amazing, Romeo roaming the streets with his gang getting into trouble, then second half that ive heard rehashed a thousand times was much more boring as I knew the story already.
The dialog sounds kinda poetic at times. Their line about "Shakepeare doth shriven the play" was so good and the "if a brother kill himself", so good! Feels like when you read Shakespeare and the flow just comes out of nowhere sometimes because of how he wrote his plays.
@@confusedpebble6265 'scriven' is a very old word for 'written' ^-^ Also I agree it's so satisfying listen to them talk, this sketch is written and delivered perfectly!!
Its incredible how Key plays articulate family friendly characters in films and shows when not with Peele but he plays such great gangster characters in these skits.
These sketches are unbelievably addictive, you say you're gonna watch a couple, and before you know it the whole evening has gone by.
LMAOO facts
Legends. Not to be a hipster but, if you grew up watching MadTv these guy hold that special spot lol
That is so true before you know it the whole day has gone by and you are laughing so hard you almost pee on yourself.
P. S.
Please forgive me for saying PEE out loud. 🤓
*helleth yes.*
Watch the show then, man. Lol
"Thou already tried to use that line of argument when Jewish people wanted to kick yo ass after the Merchant of Venice." They really did Shylock dirty.
Although the fact is that at the time there were no Jews in England, thanks to Edward I being generally a terrible person and expelling them after borrowing all their money. The so called 'Edict of Expulsion' would only be revoked by Oliver Cromwell in 1655.
@@dehavillandvampire Oliver cromwell sucked but he did good with that on
@@dehavillandvampire holy shit I never knew that.
@@Suchwerewolf In the game "Crusader Kings 2" you can recreate it by borrowing a ton of cash from the jews and then expel them in your own game with little to no consequences. That's how I learned about it.
@@DantesHaven I'm actually of the strong opinion that the devil really doesn't need a third-party advocate at the moment. I think he's well aware of his faculties, his actions, and how to present them.
I like how historically accurate the insults are
"be gone sirrah"
i had to look that up
unfortunately the people writing the subtitles spelled it wrong
3 years late lol but trust me if it wasnt this accurate someone would have tried calling them out
"We doth not purchase it, Slick Willy: we doth not purchase it." LOL
verily that.
Immediately after they lose their old English accents 😭😂. Ain’t playing no games with Shakespeare
Doth though heareth thine decree? ="Know what I'm saying?"
🤣all of this dialogue is 🔥🔥
Best Line!
This sketch got infinitely better for me when I remembered Key is actually an experienced and trained Shakespearean stage actor. 😃
Well, hello stranger.
That's amazing
Now that you mention it, I would love to see Jordan Peele direct a Shakespeare-based movie.
@@eastvandb Absolutely. He has a remarkable command over horror and psychological thrillers (Get Out for example) and I'd love to see a modern, somewhat surreal take from him on The Tempest maybe.
@@bidishah Small world. 🤣
“A black man got it goin on and you shuffle off his mortal coil?!” 💀💀💀💀😂😂 Too many brilliant lines in this skit
Yeah that’s the line from an iconic Hamlet soliloquy 😂
Can’t a young black man live in this stale promontory??!
@@lirich0yep just as “you’d be talking to a skull right now” is another Hamlet reference
That’s my favorite line from this skit full of great lines.
This one got me 😂
”Alloweth me to partaketh up in this bish”😂😂😂
Idk why reading it made it 100 times funnier 😂😂
Lmfaoo
"Helleth yes!" 😂😂😂
I came here to write this. Cracked me up!
😂😂😂 Reading it makes it funnier
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"You know I got a concealed Cornish game hen up in my doublet". Hahaha sneaking food into the theater is such a time honored tradition
Alloweth me to partaketh up in this bitch😂😂😂😂
"You'd be talking to a skull right now!"
Such an underrated line
To be, or not to be!! lmao
Alas poor Yorick
@@JohnWasinger I didn't realize that until your comment!
Facts on facts on facts.
OMG like Hamlet. I just now got it lol
"We doth not purchase it Slick Willy"
he said "Moor please!"
Oh hey I know you
The fact that it fit so perfectly blows my mind. Probably my favorite line
Best line in there lol
Damn it that's what I was gonna comment! 😂
“You know I got a concealed Cornish hen up in my doublet”
tis it fried?
Yeeeet 👅
😂😂😂😂😂
And here I thought he was just happy to see me!
Had to stop the video for a 5min LOL session right there :D
This is probably way more accurate to the vibe of actual Globe performances than we might imagine. Back then theatre was on about on a par with watching bear-baiting. Can imagine everyone throwing shit at the stage and yelling the whole way through.
Like a pantomime audience on speed
THIS! I am so sick of this idea that Shakespeare is high culture...only because it's in old timey speak that no one can understand. It would be like having The Fresh Prince of Bel Air considered fine art 500 years from now
@@lenawagenfuehr53 but he is deep, you can't deny that. That's why he is remembered and most of his other old timey fellows are not. He is considered high culture not because it's old, but because he is deep, existential and witty.
@@lenawagenfuehr53
Also because he was brilliantly creative in his approach to language and to his craft.
Your comment is weird and funny at the same time.
On the one hand you sound weirdly triggered ("I'm so sick of this idea..."), like why do you care so much as to be so triggered by such a normal and simple thing?
And on the other hand you demonstrate that you totally ignore Shakespeare's merits when you compare him with some Prince of bel air (btw wtf is it?).
AS IF his works were considered great literature only because they are old. Like Wtf is wrong with you?? Triggered by a normal fact that Shakespeare is considered great literature loved by educated people and at the same time devaluing him like you did?
Most people would be standing for the whole play. These folk were referred to as groundings and as a person who stood through a short play, you would be too tired to be that rambunctious for long.
Can't get over how flawlessly they incorporate the period dialects into this skit!
Seriously! This sketch is so satisfying to watch 😌
I don't mean to ruin it for you, but the "period dialects" they include are completely wrong. Just as an example "I just speaketh about Shafte". The "eth" is basically the same as our modern-day "s" ending and would only be used for the third person, as in "he speaks/speaketh". The first person would be unchanged as compared to today: "I speak". Furthermore, the language Shakespeare used was often already old-fashioned for its time and only reserved for stage use, so it's unlikely that the audience members would speak in the same overly formal language as the actors.
What Key & Peele are doing here is basically a parody of what most modern English-speaking people THINK Shakespeare's English sounded like, and in that context, I guess it's fine - they are comedians and this is comedy after all.
@@ZippyDan I do appreciate the background info on period vernacular. Talking like the actors in a play you just watched is pretty common though. You ever left a James Bond movie with your own British accent? Or started dropping more f-bombs in a Boston accent after watching The Departed?
I can barely understand them and I love it. Pretty impressive how quickly they speak in full Olde English impressions.
Daniel Castellanos in the versions of this skit that take place now these two characters add s to words and names so I think it makes sense that speaketh was “misused”
"Me thinks things are looking up for the people of the darker hue" Idk why this line makes me laugh.
The irony of the statement, probably.
Instant classic !
Read this just as it played
Wow! Brother 303 likes in just over an hour! 👍
"Helleth yes!"
they hit us with a "hey nonny nonny" from robinhood men in tights.
Ripping off Dave Chappelle is kinda their thing
@@BeegtymeRawkstah They didn't rip off anyone here. "Hey nonny nonny" is a retrain used in Elizabethan music. It's actually more suited to this skit, which is set in the Elizabethan era (compared to Robin Hood Men in Tights, which is set in the Middle Ages).
Just to cut you all off. Men in tights was written by Mel Brooks who ripped of Elizabethan Music. Dave Chappelle had no say in the movie cause that was his first movie ever. Being in a Mel Brookes film for your first film is a helleth of a accomplishment. Even Dave admitted to that.
When I heard the "hey nonny nonny" I thought of "Much Ado About Nothing", actually.
"Hey nonny" was way before Robin Hood Men in Tights. They may have given an homage to Brooks' masterpiece, but it was probably alluding more to Shakespearean times.
“Moor please...” I think we didn’t understand the genius of that line.
It's clever, but not really genius
Not to mention the Hamlet nod "youd be talkin to a skull right now". They are really incredible comedy writers.
Rowing Away It’s definitely genius
I'm feeling particularly dumb right now, but... is it... is it about moor hens being inferior food as compared to cornish hens? 🤔 (no sarcasm, I'm really at a loss here)
A Girl Has No Name exactly!
“A black man got it going on and you shuffle off his mortal coil???”
Look at all the Hollywood movies. First one to go is always the black man.
@42 jade Lmaoo you're not wrong
@Yung You asked for it, buddy.
Coming to theaters soon, "You don't look Puerto Rican" written by the whitest Hollywood writers out there
All these follow up comments “How about MY race”🤦♀️
😂😂😂
Mad respect that they mentioned Christopher Marlowe. That's some serious attention to detail.
It they watched Shakespeare in Love
and of course the duo would "not purchase" that explanation, for Marlowe had his own mortal coil shuffled off nearly ten years prior to the writing of Othello ;)
@@zerog2000 The Earl of Oxford, otoh, was still alive in 1603 ;).
Yup. 🎉🎉
Actually I think it would have been more accurate to mention Cinthio
TIS THAT NOT THE Troubadour Kanye of the WEST. AHAHAHAA
My wife is reading a book across the room and she cracked up when she heard that
😂😂😂
David Ullman because she loves KP
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣😂🤣
"F*cketh Yeah" and "Helleth Yes" could you guys be any funnier?
Prob not lmaoo
They could, because that was not funny.
I didn't catch it at first, but when it became apparent what they were doing... Genius! K&P :)
" Moor please '! " take my wig just take it
I need a whole movie of this. Like a hood movie but everyone talks shakespearean.
There is one kinda, Romeo + Juliet
Helleth Yeah
Varasa thou shalt not speak of that one
Martin had a movie called Black Knight I think. Close enough
@@Hellshinigamy yup Romeo + Juliet is definitely one
As someone who makes a living as a designer in theatre, which basically barely exists right now, this makes me so happy.
@M D Sound and music
Have you ever heard of a woman last named Langer who is in costume design for Broadway shows?
@@morehn Yeah, for sure, they're best friends. They name their kids after each other & tour historical theaters together in the summer
@@J29-u8u I had a sneaking suspicion. Thanks for confirming.
Oh my gods. SOMEONE ACTUALLY USED "SIRRAH" CORRECTLY!!!
That has to be a freakin' first in anything written after 1950.
(For those who don't know, "sirrah" was NOT a medieval/Renaissance form of "sir". It wasn't an honorific. it wasn't...exactly...an insult, but it wasn't complimentary either. It was only used to address people you perceived as inferior, and it implied a shit-ton of contempt. K&P are the only folks I've heard use the word correctly, outside of Shakespeare and SCA events).
That's interesting, I must have heard it from Shakespeare because I forgot about that word but I sort of guessed right on why he used it. This makes the sketch better.
yeah it's used a lot in most of his plays.
Kind of like ironic use of the word 'buddy' when the person's tone is not friendly ?
I thought it was awesome when they used "sirrah". Very few people know its meaning. I've used it a couple of times in my life, and thought about using it a lot more (picked it up in SCA when I was in college); the people didn't know I was mildly insulting them. I've also used the British "two finger" sign to people who thought I was flashing a peace sign. 😁
So basically it's just one use of sir? Cuz modern day sir can be derogatory, complimentary, and implied contempt.
"The troubadour Kanye of the West" haha i'm dying
that's my favourite line LMAO
What is troubadour?
@@AminNazari666 Old timey word for traveling musician
Bruh 😂😂
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"And 'tis about tyme Shakespeare doth scriven the play that placeth a brotha amongst the firmament." Helleth yes.
This is an accurate representation of what was going on in my head the first time I read Othello.
Im going to need a full series of them during this time period. The vocabulary and old English was just too good.
Seriously I'm here for it
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This isn't old english this is early modern english
@@stiaangroenewald1573 Yes, Old English actually sounds almost German.
he said "MOOR PLEASE" that's just so brilliant :DDD
i want to give that line 10 thumbs up, but alas....
Didn't get it, what does it mean?
I didn't get that one. I'm a non native, could you explain a bit pls?
@@javicoca It's poking fun of the phrase "n**ga, please", which means something like "of course", but at the time "moor" was an English term for people of darker skintones, thus the renaissance English equivalent of "n**ga" (originally it meant Spanish Muslims but it became more generalized by Shakespeare's time)
@@MrSunbeam Moor's were dark skinned people, possibly from Northern Africa, Spanish, or a dark skinned Arab. So he would have stood out in Venice. The joke is replacing the n**** word, changing the common phrase "n**** please" to become "Moor, please". Hope that helps.
Every second of this is beautiful. Like the East/West College Bowl skit or the Family Matters bit, this sketch is more about character work than it is about setting a punchline. You're never waiting for the joke to happen - the joke is happening continuously throughout the entire piece. The "punchline" - Shakespeare writing Shaft - is incidental.
correction: 'Shafte'
Brother doth be dropping an uncensored m-word like it ain’t no thang.
With the hard “re”
assmane999 *hard “or”
It's mohr
Khalif Williams it’s really not.
English teacher over here, rolling over the Christopher Marlowe joke and "Moor, please!"
It was good, but I think it would've been better if they'd said Francis Bacon.
@@roguishpaladin LOL!
Haha me too!!! Sans English teacher bit.
Lol the merchant of Vince joke was good too!
Hey Karen
James Callis plays a slimy weasel SO CONVINCINGLY that i feel like we innately don't trust him lmao
I didn’t realize his eyes are always that shiny.
Right when he popped on screen I was like “is that Gaius Baltar?!”
He should do more comedy.
@@dljennings Right, since Battlestar Galactica, he’s the face of deviousness and sneakiness. Always that person doing terrible things but acting like a victim.
I had to scroll too far for this. Sitting there staring at Shakespeare for like 5 minutes trying to figure out why he looked so familiar
Troubadour Kanye of the West had me 💀💀
Imagine if Sir Savage the 21st was there with Slim Shady of the 8th mile....
by the gods, he was The Slimmest of the Shady
@@mickcorless960 (aside) Yet why protest his mother's spaghetti?
His song Great Monster of the East is beautiful.
And, the poet The Drake, kinsman of the adventurer and navigator, Sir Francis Drake.
And Jay of the Z or rather his more common name Sir Hov of the Roc Nation 😂
Centuries-old equivalent of hiding movie snacks in your coat pocket. Nice.
Noice!
@@seanrequiredfieldcannotbel1362 Nooice?! NOOICE?!
Went to movies with a guy who smuggled a whole burrito. SMH
@@Lafemmefutile I know this is kind of an obvious reply, buy isn’t a burrito the easiest food for a guy to smuggle?
@@SyzygyNoon Oh, you went there...
"You know I got a concealed Cornish Game Hen up in my doublet."
- Me, except it's Sour Patch Kids & Swedish Fish
I'd usually sneak some Milk Duds and a Baby Ruth bar, lol.
@@DeathBringer769 how could you? Milk duds? Baby Ruth? Me thinks it time thou must take thy farewell
"Moor please!" genius
Might go over some heads
Every single Dutch person picked up on that as in the Netherlands the Moors are a highly debated topic every day of the year.
this line was so gold!!!! i do not use the n** word, although i have been know to drop a 'negro please' here or there. i am gonna use 'moor please' until it becomes a thing. and if you say it fast, it really flows, almost like 'boy please'....'moor please'
Went over my head until I read this comment. Had to go back and listen to it.. Good catch 😂😂🤟🏽
@@garlicjr08 yes! I loved the line but knew most didn't get it🤣🤣🤣
I feel like Shakespeare himself would be proud of this art
I would love Slick Willy and Kanye of the West to speak together about the arts.
As a popular Shakespeare scholar who consumes most of his time on youtube, I have to say this sketch portrays the time and context of the Bard without fault.
What would their outfits be labeled as? I'd like to sew some
The attitude was on point too.
@@HiNinqi I know not of the specifics of the garments but the time period in which Shakespeare walked the earth in was Elizabethan.
@@HiNinqi The play wasn’t preformed until the James The Ist had already taken the throne in 1604, however since Elizabeth I had literally died the year before, I’d put it at late Tudor, Early Stuart, with an emphasis on Elizabethan and Jacobean style
God damn dude, you trippin
Did they just say “Moor pls” instead of n***a pls lmaooo
It should've been "Moops pls"
dungdungpolo LMAOO I thought they said “moor” instead bc of the moor invasion into Europe during the medieval ages
@@danix4883
When Elizabethans used the term Moor, they were imagining Africans, not Arabs. Othello is a Moor in the play, but it's very clear from the description that he's a Black man.
David Bloom oh yes here in Spain we are still kinda ehh about Arabs bc of how they invaded Spain and it took us 700 years to get it back
@@danix4883
Built some beautiful buildings while they were there, though!
"Twas Marlowe!"
"Nay, we doth not purchase it" 😭
I'm studying Othello in uni right now and was looking for free movie adaptations on youtube, gotta say this is the best version I could possibly stumble across.
"Moor please" This one has got to be one of the best skits 😂😂
wow years later and im finally understanding that line LOL
If you ever heard of Othello you’d think he was one heck of a fellow
I never cared for him but Iago might be the biggest dick in Shakespeare
The voice, deep and mellow, it’s far smoother than a cello.
Othello was a tight General bro
Ad Ad he was a gent who rose from slavery to glory
sumper man he was never a slave?
“Where’s Shakespeares? Shakespeares?! Prithee, make way. Prithee. Make way. Be gone, sirrah!”
"If I know Shakespeare, Othello is bouta kill everybody up in this bih!"
Dumbasses XD, if they knew Shakespeare they'd know being the titular character is ass
@Gaming Sherlock *tragedy he also wrote comedies where nobody dies.
2:08 "Oh, 'tis that not the troubadour Kanye of the West?" bro my throat _hurts_ from laughing 😂😂
Lmao I didn't know Othello died until I had to play him in high school as the only black kid in the class lmfao
Everyone knows them as comedians..but these guys are really underrated as actors
@Serial Killa aren't NECESSARILY, meaning comedian CAN be bad actors, so presuming a good comedian to be a good actor as well wouldn't be right
They've acted before too, they were in Fargo I think
@@punkyprincesspop1237 The scene where Key feeds Peele into the woodchipper always gets me.
If I was a director they would be the leads in every single film, whatever the genre
Underrated? Literally always someone saying this under any video of theirs. We get it, they’re great actors.
As a high. school English teacher, I appreciate the humor as well as all the Elizabethan references that indicate how really educated Key & Peele
are. Great job, guys.
agreed. they are brilliant on so many levels.
Well, Keegan is a classically trained Shakespearean actor. He’s done Othello
As a high school English teacher, you made at least 2 punctuation errors and one usage error in those 2 sentences.
If you're an English teacher, we're all fucked. That sentence was a train wreck.
"How really educated"?
Good lord.
@@cjheaford They may have made syntactical errors, but they’ve not made any semantical errors.
One of their best written skits. Been re-watching it again and again with subtitles on just to not miss any words. :D
They never stop, these skits go on until infinity and beyond
Kendrick Laman and we are here for it
Yessir
So be it
Don't you dare put that evil eye on them.
Python showed that a punchline is not always necessary.
"Tis not the Troubador Kanye of the West?"
“‘Tis mine as well, ‘tis mine as well”
🤣🤣
Can we just talk about how they actually combined AAVE with Shakespearean English and made it actually work?! XD
That's what Shakespeare is - popular culture from 500 years ago rammef down your throat because it's "fine art"
In 500 years time kids will have to do courses on the "sophisticated wit of Benny Hill"
Verily😅
@@lenawagenfuehr53 Not really, firstly Shakespeare was a master of rhetoric and turning memorable phrases, and secondly unlike AAVE no one spoke Shakespearean English except for Shakespearean actors performing his plays. He wrote in verse, primarily iambic pentameter. You'd have to be the most articulate man in the world to speak like that regularly.
Okay how is no one talking about the “Shafte” punchline??? That tambourine had me dying lmao
They knew Kanye West before Kanye West knew himself.
To be fair
Does Kanye know Kanye?
😂😂😂
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ua-cam.com/video/M2y10J8QaLw/v-deo.html
Well, apparently Kanye is literal God, so he's been around for ever. That's according to Kanye at least. And no, I'm not joking. Kanye literally thinks he's God. He's batshit insane.
Hey nonny nonny talkin' hey nonny nonny
Still wondering how dat start, was it from the indian skits?
@@ishmaelvilmenay3340 Uh, it's literally a song from the Elizabethan era.
This feels like a qualuude!
@@RebornLegacy for real? It's not from their skits??
@@ishmaelvilmenay3340
Yes, the word nonny is kind of like the "na na na" that's used in sings today.
"HE made the beast-with-two-backs with that comely white maiden" hhmmmmmmmm
That's actually a line in the play. Iago basically yells through the dark to the parents that their daughter is "making the beast with two backs" with othello, trying to get them to exact some racist revenge but when othello says he's marrying her to the Duke in court and the Duke is like "hey, he's a great general who is going to be a great husband, y'all need to not be racist" the parents embrace othello as their new son in law and Iago has to come up with a new plan to get rid of othello.
"I say unto thee that's a tragedy"
Damn son, thou got thath floweth
Wow. This sketch has SO MUCH dialogue and had a lot of long takes. Key and Peele really are tremendous actors/writers.
The way he threw that bell killed me.
They should have snagged Sammy Jackson for a Shaft cameo.
This was before Sam Jackson was Shaft II
Right...?
"I just speaketh about Shaft." LOL
@@CaptainKrimsonHeart Negative. The Jackson Shaft was 2000. Christian Bale plays the villain.
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuh
"Is that not the troubadour Kanye of the West" had me in stitches.
I read Othello my senior year in High School, and to this day I'm still pissed that Iago was still alive at the end of the play.
“Me thinks things are looking up for people of the darker hue”
👏🏾👏🏾
Oh, how wrong they were. 😥
@Mr Ross How dumb are you? scale of one to ten?
@@SantanicoDiabolical 😂😂😂 this killed me
gotta love baltar, he can play the guy who's tossed around for everyone else's pettiness without breaking a sweat... while actually breaking a sweat
SO SAY WE ALL
@@austinledley So say we all
@@jaysonbunnell8097 SO SAY WE ALL
"And Othello did the beast with two backs with that comely white maiden..." This is like a top 5 Key & Peele line, only a genius doth scrible such a phrase.
"You heard the Ursher" got me dead.
i just heard this. i had watched it like six times before. so many great lines. so much to unpack.
So we’re all in agreement that these are the ancestors of the Hotel dudes, right?
Absolutely! The instant they broke into the sword fight reenactment ♡
YES!
When your day becomes so boring and lifeless.
And then another Key & Peele skit is uploaded. Happiness restored
Well, this is not a new skit
@@BlastBreaker yeah i remember looking for the old skits on comedy central that i haven't watched😂. Good thing they upload it here, now i dont have to keep looking
@D9INE THE NEXUS LEGEND Still not a new skit. I've seen this one on youtube already
"We doth not purchase it, slick willy." I'm dead yall 😂😂😂
Rip
“Villain...I have _done_ thy mother”
'Tis clear now. Every generation doth hath a Kanye Of The West of their owneth.
Same Kanye, like Keanu he's a vampire.
verily. ve-ruh-lee.
Thou Speaketh Lies!!!!!!!!!
haha, brilliant use of words!
Forsooth, I do not favor this Kanye. His pride goes before his good sense, his vanity before his wisdom. He doth walk as one who is not of mere flesh, but a god amidst the chaff, yet he hath the head of a fool, and his Persian mistress hath the airs of one born to great fame, though she can boast of no such talents herself, but hath lain with so many such as to make no difference.
"THEN Othello did the beasts with two backs with that comely white maiden, and DIDST NOT ANYONE SPEAKETH AGAINST HIM!" Hhahahahaha
HE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO which made him more convinced that Desdemona was unfaithful
“I knew iago was up to something in the first act” not like he says that he’s up to something lol
Glad they finally made this one public. It’s one their best. Every line is quotable
Now, I'm feeling more cultured than 3 minutes 16 seconds ago.
"we doth not purchase it" is such an amazing phrase
Speaking modern slang in Olde English is the funnest thing ever. Me and my friends used to convert entire rap songs like that and try to guess which ones they were :D
man that's a great idea for a youtube channel (I'd watch it)
That's not Olde English, or even Middle English: it's early Modern English. But I think you'd like ua-cam.com/video/JcKqhDFhNHI/v-deo.html
AAVE*
@@cottonhairedaesthetic2005 Thank you.
*Early Modern English
"We doth not purchase it slick willie, we doth not purchase it!" Lmao
“Methinks things are looking up for people of the darker hue”
Uh oh
The informal thou and alloweth is so accurate
"I say unto thee that's a tragedy" 😂
Now I want entire Key and Peele sketches devoted to these guys giving their reactions of plays.
The valets but for plays
They wasted a good opportunity to say "mother fornicator."
LOL more tragedy
Perhaps change that to "Thou Whoreson"
This is the only thing that made reading it at school worth it.
That hurt me. Othello is a damn good read.
Shihoblade I spark noted it lol (as did everybody else in the class).
My first Shakespear ever was Romeo and Juliet with the original lines, but the actors dressing and acting (body language, etc) as modern hoodlums and rich people. The first half was amazing, Romeo roaming the streets with his gang getting into trouble, then second half that ive heard rehashed a thousand times was much more boring as I knew the story already.
“We doth not purchase it”🤣🤣
The dialog sounds kinda poetic at times. Their line about "Shakepeare doth shriven the play" was so good and the "if a brother kill himself", so good! Feels like when you read Shakespeare and the flow just comes out of nowhere sometimes because of how he wrote his plays.
*"doth scriven the play"
@@innertubez Huh, I thought it was just a poetic way of saying he did the play justice, but that makes so much more sense. thanks!
@@confusedpebble6265 'scriven' is a very old word for 'written' ^-^
Also I agree it's so satisfying listen to them talk, this sketch is written and delivered perfectly!!
I sayeth to thee, that's a tragedie!
Key and Peele skits are like 5G radiation. You never get sick of them.
I know, I think I must've watched this clip about 20 times already! 😂🤣🤭
I doest purchase it!
💀
Niiiiice.
"Tis that not the Trubidor,
Kanya of the West" 😅
Best comment: “MOOR PLEASE”
Ngl "Helleth yes" is one of my favorite expressions now
I’d like to think they’re the ancestors of the valet drivers, due to having a similar appearance and personality.
OH SHIT 😱 I THINK YOURE RIGHT 🤣🤣🤣🤣
💯👆😂😂😂 I do not think it's a coincidence
I'm speechless, my brain can't handle so much art in a K&P sketch,
“Tis that not the troubadour Kanye of the west” made me laugh outloud 💀
“begone sirrah”. perfect
Is no one going to comment that Gaius Baltar was William Shakespeare? So say we all!
Tis not he, it is that knave Marlowe.
Wait what from BG?!
Thank you! Was trying to make the connection . . .
So say we all
Gaius Baltar the traitor?
“Me thinketh things are looking up for people of the darker hue ✋🏾” 😂😂😂
They were only four hundred years wrong.
Its incredible how Key plays articulate family friendly characters in films and shows when not with Peele but he plays such great gangster characters in these skits.