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  • Опубліковано 2 жов 2022
  • Will pitches his new play, where a man starves his wife and deprives her of sleep to break her spirit - a riotous comedy to Bottom and Marlowe but a call to arms for Kate...
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  • @Wodehousean
    @Wodehousean Рік тому +8

    "Hot and steamy as a fresh cow pat in a frosty meadow", lmao, that line killed me. Bianca is the shrewd one actually. Cunning, devious, selfish and evil.

  • @gamewizard1760
    @gamewizard1760 9 місяців тому +4

    Male show Venice star soul 🤣

  • @rosemarywatkins4121
    @rosemarywatkins4121 Рік тому +3

    Hilarious and clever. Very well done as usual David Mitchell.

  • @rebellion2054
    @rebellion2054 Рік тому +13

    Yara Greyjoy was already thinking big

  • @kamion53
    @kamion53 Рік тому +12

    seen a very nice modern adaption of the Taming with Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell and David Mitchell

  • @reynaldk6816
    @reynaldk6816 Рік тому +39

    Yeah, Taming of The Shrew was messed up…

  • @deejayk5939
    @deejayk5939 Рік тому +4

    Sad but true!

  • @SuperTerminator50
    @SuperTerminator50 Рік тому +1

    Brilliantly Brilliant....

  • @sharonhoerr6523
    @sharonhoerr6523 Рік тому +17

    Male show Venice star! Love it.

    • @kimangommu
      @kimangommu Рік тому +1

      I don't get the joke for this bit...

    • @sharonhoerr6523
      @sharonhoerr6523 Рік тому +15

      @@kimangommu Male Chauvinist?

    • @kimangommu
      @kimangommu Рік тому +1

      ​@@sharonhoerr6523 ahh I see it now thanks

    • @jmcame
      @jmcame Рік тому

      @@sharonhoerr6523 Male Chauvinist Arsehole

    • @crazyloonchooks
      @crazyloonchooks Рік тому

      Male Chauvinist Asshole, was the full bit. :D

  • @neilgerace355
    @neilgerace355 Рік тому +18

    This sounds a lot like 10 Things I Hate About You :)

    • @kamion53
      @kamion53 Рік тому +14

      not surpricing it does as that movie was based on Thaming of the Shrew by setting it in a highschool.

  • @romainsavioz5466
    @romainsavioz5466 Рік тому +13

    Well with those real ones where would you put the fake coconuts ones

  • @samanthab1923
    @samanthab1923 Рік тому +5

    Is that Marian Lister?

  • @shelinevarghese7565
    @shelinevarghese7565 Рік тому +3

    😁😁😁

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Рік тому +1

      Sexist Shakespeare | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1821pm 3.10.22 we await the new improved cath, then...?

  • @happivaras
    @happivaras Рік тому

    Kate
    Or
    Awesome for short

  • @Pale_Mooncalf
    @Pale_Mooncalf 4 місяці тому

    Oh that's Gale from Baldurs Gate....

  • @davidlewis6464
    @davidlewis6464 Рік тому +2

    Hang on, is ‘Kate’ played by the same person who was ‘Bob/Kate’ in Blackadder?

    • @jamesvenables6202
      @jamesvenables6202 Рік тому +5

      No way. Blackadder Goes Forth was from 1989. The actor who played "Bob" would have been in her 50's when Upstart Crow was filmed.

    • @tallulahlu801
      @tallulahlu801 Рік тому +2

      @@jamesvenables6202 the actress makes a cameo in upstart crow

    • @thenumbdave
      @thenumbdave Рік тому

      No, but she did play Yara Greyjoy in Game of Thrones and Columbina in a terrific episode of Inside Number 9

    • @suebursztynski2530
      @suebursztynski2530 Рік тому +7

      She did appear in an episode, as a judge, a woman disguised as a man. Kate, who is also in male clothes to defend Shakespeare, realises Judge Robert is a woman, when she gets out a salad for lunch. She admits to it and ends by saying, “Call me Bob.” You would only get this if you have seen a Blackadder, of course.

    • @jimmunro4649
      @jimmunro4649 Рік тому

      also Game of Thrones

  • @b8nnytez
    @b8nnytez Рік тому +5

    Is that Kate? or Bob?

  • @JJONNYREPP
    @JJONNYREPP Рік тому +6

    Sexist Shakespeare | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats 1818pm 3.10.22 that badger's knocking about again... old smelly. or stinky. oh; it's shakespeare.

  • @expecto1982
    @expecto1982 Рік тому +1

    But you need to know that Shakespeare WAS female and Kate was David 😂 Reverse Sexist 🤔

    • @expecto1982
      @expecto1982 Рік тому

      The sexist males were all female so was Marlow….

    • @expecto1982
      @expecto1982 Рік тому

      The man servant is David as well.

    • @expecto1982
      @expecto1982 Рік тому

      This was on Horseyhead Jupiter….yeah the rainbow. Jupiter is funny that way 🤣

  • @shadowcat314
    @shadowcat314 Рік тому +16

    This was pretty funny. I guess the hens over at the BBC must have taken the day off when this was written. It's brilliant.

    • @terranovarubacha5473
      @terranovarubacha5473 Рік тому +13

      Trying your hand at irony methinks

    • @user-nq7eg9in8g
      @user-nq7eg9in8g Рік тому +6

      @@terranovarubacha5473
      and failing, methinks...

    • @aquatera3815
      @aquatera3815 Рік тому +3

      @@terranovarubacha5473 he's got Z and Russian flag in his avatar, he's already lost

  • @eliasaltenberg
    @eliasaltenberg Рік тому +20

    My English teacher in high school wanted us to write about how Catherine was Shakespeare's idea of a modern day woman. Sort of perplexed then and to this day. She was openly very political as very left leaning, and also based upon this project she had us do, not very bright.

  • @Zigidy
    @Zigidy 4 місяці тому

    Listen: Male. Show. Venice. Star. Soul. Find me a better joke line that challenges the sexes. I dare you.

  • @brocktoon8
    @brocktoon8 Рік тому +2

    The people who made this and who are commenting clearly have not read any or much Shakespeare. Shakespeare is actually one of the least sexist writers to ever live. His female characters are as full and rich as his male characters and played equally central roles in his plays. So this is bollocks.

    • @gerardjagroo
      @gerardjagroo Рік тому +7

      The Taming of the Shrew is super sexist.
      I understand it was a different time and I'm not one of those fanatics who would go for boycotts and book burning, but anyone who tries to defend the Taming of the Shrew in this day and age already lost all legitimacy.

    • @Trucmuch
      @Trucmuch Рік тому +12

      Actually, this show was made by and for people who know Shakespeare's work quite well. They are many jokes you'd miss without a good knowledge of Shakespeare. And The Taming of the Shrew is super sexist. It doesn't mean the rest of Shakespeare's work is. And one could argue that, as a whole, Shakespeare is less sexist than his time.
      It's obvious from the series that the authors have a deep respect for Shakespeare. But you're allowed to make fun of your heroes. It's healthy.

    • @Eudaimonia88
      @Eudaimonia88 Рік тому +2

      ​@@Trucmuch Couldn't agree more!

    • @hectorpascal
      @hectorpascal Рік тому +2

      You certainly need more than a passing acquaintance with Shakespeare's works, and the language and history of his time, to FULLY appreciate Ben Elton's dialogue. So much so that I am quite surprised the idea ever got funded by the new, populist, cash-strapped BBC. But casting Mitchell as Will was a masterstroke - as is the use of the very appropriate west Midlands accents. The canned laughter track is the worst aspect of the production. Did they believe that an average studio audience would not have the intelligence to understand and laugh in the right places?

    • @cathdodd5072
      @cathdodd5072 Рік тому +2

      ​@hectorpascal actually I think they understand Master Shakespeare rather well. And his audience: both Elizabethan and modern day.
      There is no doubt he is one of the best writers and possibly the best playwright in history - period. His insight into the human condition: unmatched.
      But The Taming of the Shrew, Othello and the Merchant of Venice don't fit with our modern-day sensibilities and he *shouldn't* have to match late 20th and 21st Century liberal ideals.