English Professor Takes the Taylor SWIFT or William SHAKESPEARE Quiz (ROUND 2)

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  • Опубліковано 13 січ 2023
  • Professor Friedberg is BACK! He's an expert on William Shakespeare, you're an expert on Taylor Swift, but WHO will win? We go into much more depth about the plays and lyrics/lines from both artists' works in this video. The full version is available on PATREON (first 30 days free), so if you want more reminiscing and Dad jokes, you know where to go!
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 138

  • @patiencekillz
    @patiencekillz Рік тому +1957

    i need a whole video of him just roasting and ranting about all the shakespeare plays he hates

  • @drpigglesnuudelworte5209
    @drpigglesnuudelworte5209 Рік тому +1335

    I’m eternally pissed off that they didn’t do the full line “do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?”

  • @gcool6707
    @gcool6707 Рік тому +576

    It’s Taylor Swift’s use of “you” and “me” that gives it away.

    • @nishthagupta1357
      @nishthagupta1357 Місяць тому +13

      Ikr😂😂😂😂i was thinking the same

  • @ssp4795
    @ssp4795 Рік тому +181

    oh you ARE a swiftie when you knew to correct 'pain' for "paint"

  • @bethanyandrews3090
    @bethanyandrews3090 Місяць тому +36

    So fun! William Shakespeare being called London boy ☠️☠️☠️

  • @coreyromberg
    @coreyromberg Місяць тому +40

    The fact that you can even do this quiz and have it be fairly tough shows just how incredible of a lyricist Taylor is

  • @tophat1918
    @tophat1918 Рік тому +674

    As a Swiftie who has a BA in English, this is the best thing ever!

    • @flordeletras2203
      @flordeletras2203 Рік тому +3

      Same here, totally

    • @quibblcr
      @quibblcr Рік тому +2

      BA?

    • @reprep4821
      @reprep4821 Рік тому +7

      @@quibblcrbachelor of arts

    • @quibblcr
      @quibblcr Рік тому +1

      @@reprep4821 thx

    • @barbicel
      @barbicel 2 місяці тому

      I know this is a year old, but, if you havent - Please watch What Do You Do with a B.A. in English? by Avenue Q

  • @WitchlingFairyelle
    @WitchlingFairyelle Рік тому +80

    “we like sheep” story had me in stitches 💀

  • @amandam.4841
    @amandam.4841 Рік тому +608

    These are so much fun. Your dad is really engaging, and absolutely knows his Shakespeare!!

  • @kristinwright1679
    @kristinwright1679 Рік тому +81

    "He didn't abandon his family. He just didn't live with them for 20 years or so." That was the best!
    I don't really listen to a lot of Taylor Swift, and I don't care for Shakespeare's plays (like his poetry, though). I still guessed about 85% of these right. This was fun!

  • @jamielaw4749
    @jamielaw4749 Рік тому +45

    "Have a good verb," "avoid prepositions," such good tips

  • @crumpledpolaroid2076
    @crumpledpolaroid2076 Рік тому +48

    Ivy really is the best song on evermore TASTE

  • @erikaheck8261
    @erikaheck8261 Рік тому +20

    “I haven’t read that since I was a gentleman.” LMAO

  • @user-mp4lg2ud2m
    @user-mp4lg2ud2m Рік тому +168

    please have him back on to give us essay/writing tips because i’ve definitely been using too many ‘that’ clauses 😭

  • @blackmilk1000
    @blackmilk1000 Рік тому +279

    I love these videos with your dad. The story with the opera 'I like sheep' made me cackle!

    • @GagaBoy1346
      @GagaBoy1346 Рік тому +6

      That’s the funny thing, they are not father and son! 😅😂

    • @nicolev.3532
      @nicolev.3532 Рік тому +11

      @@GagaBoy1346 huh? in the first video he calls him dad and refers to him as "my dad"?

    • @SlowCrowSports
      @SlowCrowSports Рік тому +4

      @@nicolev.3532 he does in this video too

  • @biblioholic7139
    @biblioholic7139 Рік тому +63

    Clearly I just need to listen to Evermore more since I only missed the Ivy and Coney Island lines.

    • @luvukiekoxygen
      @luvukiekoxygen Рік тому +2

      Yes pls evermore needs more love🙏🏻

  • @turbobolt1
    @turbobolt1 Рік тому +130

    "blondie ---- shakes a pear" 💀 who wrote these

    • @canoe2455
      @canoe2455 11 місяців тому +16

      Also the “London Boy”💀

  • @WitchlingFairyelle
    @WitchlingFairyelle Рік тому +118

    As someone with B.A. in English (and a Masters in Library & Info Science) two things I hated in retrospect about the English education I received was 1) there was not a single foundational/intro course about proper grammar-I guess it was just assumed we received that education in high school and 2) very very limited course options for learning how to write. So basically the entire four years was just reading a shit ton of novels 🙄

    • @hheenan
      @hheenan Рік тому

      as in Creative Writing classes? otherwise that’s what English 100/101 is for.

    • @icantseeyou1294
      @icantseeyou1294 27 днів тому

      I’m a Literature and a Linguistics student (in my mother tongue). We had Grammar classes as well and I realised that might didn’t appreciate them enough:D

  • @lauranalyzing7679
    @lauranalyzing7679 Рік тому +91

    Honestly the tips at the end for writing an essay were amazing! He's so right, we do write for the test, not to actually write well. Please let him know it was great advice!

  • @darkday1450
    @darkday1450 Рік тому +93

    I just love your dad, him smiling, laughing and also educating me at the same time. You guys are very wholesome

  • @SlpBeauty333
    @SlpBeauty333 Рік тому +32

    OMG "Back when I was a gentleman"? On the floor cry-laughing. There are no emojis sufficient for that! Love to Professor Dad! ❤️

  • @louvelvet
    @louvelvet Рік тому +101

    I love this guy so much. More Professor Friedberg content please

  • @flordeletras2203
    @flordeletras2203 Рік тому +27

    This was so fun and also usefull,both for his knowledge about Shakespeare and his advice about writing an essay. And as both a swiftie and a Comparative Literatures master student, I love the fact that he is a university professor and yet, when faced with really good lines from a pop songs, has no problem or shame in saying "Thats brillant". Thanks to him for that! We need more scholars who are not snobish and so they can appreciate the literary worth of good lyrics in pop songs. Thank you, professor, sooo much!

  • @kathrynhowell2192
    @kathrynhowell2192 Рік тому +20

    "We like sheep" had be dying!

  • @memyselfandchristina
    @memyselfandchristina Рік тому +21

    My fav part of this delightful video is the stack of essays and the red pens at the ready!

  • @nva4687
    @nva4687 Рік тому +43

    Love it! You should try making a homemade one or with UA-cams help anyway so he can't try and game theory it. We could submit lyrics to you for it and you could pick them out a hat along with quotes.

  • @augustine8527
    @augustine8527 Рік тому +15

    guys i think his favorite evermore song is ivy

  • @yakadefi9579
    @yakadefi9579 Рік тому +20

    So much fun, I'm a theater major and a swiftie so it's a treat. Your dad's the funnest!

  • @lnhoughify
    @lnhoughify Місяць тому +2

    Your dad seems like such a gentle person. Thanks for sharing your time with us!

  • @mitsuru338
    @mitsuru338 Рік тому +9

    This guy is amazing, we need a whole video about English literature

  • @jane_edits13.
    @jane_edits13. 16 днів тому

    its really amazing how the fact that these kinds of videos just shows how taylors lyrics are so poetic to the extent that people are trying to differentiate shakespeare's writings to taylor's lyrics. congrats swifties!!!!

  • @mariamkadhimm
    @mariamkadhimm Рік тому +5

    U can tell the one who made this quiz loves Ivy

  • @Ms.MelTravelClips
    @Ms.MelTravelClips Рік тому +6

    I absolutely appreciate this! 😍😍😍

  • @theshreyarawat
    @theshreyarawat Рік тому +3

    oh wow I've been thinking about the part 1 lately. This is great thank you!

  • @vaishnavisingh9244
    @vaishnavisingh9244 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for having your dad again, I am feeling very much under the weather and it really brought me comfort!

  • @ryliegarcia.
    @ryliegarcia. Рік тому +14

    this was really nice. i really enjoyed this hes so witty and charming

  • @elaineirving77
    @elaineirving77 Рік тому +9

    Happy new year Andy’s Dad! Great to see you back on the channel.
    Gloucester is also a city in England in the county of Gloucestershire.

  • @LindsUnhinged
    @LindsUnhinged Рік тому +18

    great vid! as a swiftie myself i found some of these to be a toss up so u guys did a great job! 😊

  • @melvisciola8944
    @melvisciola8944 Рік тому +7

    I refused using so many clauses/prepositions in one of my essays and just wrote short sentences. Afterwards the professor criticized me for writing like a middle school kid.

  • @Fortunecookie111
    @Fortunecookie111 8 місяців тому

    Okay now I love you guys so much already

  • @C-Iris
    @C-Iris Рік тому +3

    Happy New Year guys and welcome back Professor!

  • @titistn7597
    @titistn7597 Рік тому +7

    He is definitely a professor

  • @sheai4955
    @sheai4955 Рік тому +4

    He has such a warm presence :)

  • @dizzylizzy8822
    @dizzylizzy8822 Рік тому +1

    “True love did never run smooth” seemed to affect your dad! Such a sweet spirit ❤

  • @lottiesummers
    @lottiesummers Рік тому +2

    loving “Mr. Zero Grammys”

  • @edu.8552
    @edu.8552 Рік тому +13

    I think his favorite musical theater song is "God, I hate Shakespeare"

  • @LivelyLinnea
    @LivelyLinnea Рік тому +16

    Oh yay part 2! So fun to see father Friedberg back again.

  • @15lenalee
    @15lenalee Рік тому +3

    He is just great!!

  • @smoothblink
    @smoothblink Рік тому +3

    Wow almost the entirety of "ivy" was in this

  • @EmilySmith-gq6nk
    @EmilySmith-gq6nk Рік тому +2

    I would love to see him give commentary on her songwriting on certain songs

  • @NYheartinAZ
    @NYheartinAZ Місяць тому +1

    Taylor has an extraordinarily large vocabulary and syllables to pull her lyrics from. Sometimes I need to look song lyrics up to understand what she is singing about.

  • @jaylencalinaw1080
    @jaylencalinaw1080 Місяць тому +1

    hehehe I have the same level of good guessing here with your dad because I know as much of Taylor's discography as Professor Friedberg's knowledge of Shakespearian poetry

  • @gigin6534
    @gigin6534 Рік тому +7

    Your dad is the best 🤣🤣

  • @fenixufficiale
    @fenixufficiale Рік тому

    i love that he is happy saying the name of the ancient one! ☺️☺️☺️

  • @modestmealsandmore
    @modestmealsandmore Місяць тому +2

    It’s paint you blue

  • @TheTortoiseBaby
    @TheTortoiseBaby Місяць тому +1

    Since you reference Ms. Swift as Blondie, you should reference bill as Baldie

  • @aishanimaheshwari390
    @aishanimaheshwari390 Рік тому

    your dad reminds me of my grandfather- knowledgeable ,warm and really sweet

  • @kerrilea73
    @kerrilea73 Місяць тому

    English profs always have the coolest glasses frames.

  • @triumphofmagic
    @triumphofmagic Рік тому +8

    This is adorable!
    I've never really listened to Taylor Swift (I think I know three of her songs), but got 20 right because I really like Shakespeare.

    • @craigmoon2121
      @craigmoon2121 Рік тому +6

      Shake It Off, Blank Space, and You Belong With Me?
      (Just a complete guess of which songs you might know)

    • @sunbearwithwrinklesonback
      @sunbearwithwrinklesonback Рік тому +5

      Is it love story,look what you made me do and lover?

    • @craigmoon2121
      @craigmoon2121 Рік тому +7

      @@sunbearwithwrinklesonback I feel like they'd have to at least know Shake It Off. That song, while not nearly as big as it used to be, is pretty hard to forget, and was incredibly common in 2014-15.

    • @sunbearwithwrinklesonback
      @sunbearwithwrinklesonback Рік тому +1

      @@craigmoon2121 true I just wanted the original commenter to have options😂

    • @mostannoyingscaramain
      @mostannoyingscaramain Рік тому +3

      Is it 22, Blank Space, and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together?

  • @kellye.5678
    @kellye.5678 Рік тому +5

    I know pretty much all of Taylor’s lyrics so I did really well haha.

  • @psyche.9262
    @psyche.9262 Рік тому +6

    geez you father is smart af

  • @ciggytwiggy
    @ciggytwiggy Рік тому

    He is sooo good

  • @monicap8561
    @monicap8561 Рік тому +1

    The quiz: All we are is skin and bone
    Me: that's courage my love

  • @sunbearwithwrinklesonback
    @sunbearwithwrinklesonback Рік тому +2

    I'm glad he got atleast one wrong

  • @skylarkimbrough3085
    @skylarkimbrough3085 Рік тому +5

    "We're finding many plays you hate today."
    your dad, bitterly & looking off at the distance at 7:44: yeah.

  • @MCP920
    @MCP920 20 днів тому

    Dad is really smart.

  • @ages6592
    @ages6592 Рік тому +1

    WHAT!! They knew of chameleons in Shakespeare’s time???

  • @bringiton5282
    @bringiton5282 Місяць тому

    Boris Johnson says Churchill used to work with mostly short anglo-saxon words, putting aside French, Latin and Greek words.

  • @morganlabatt4543
    @morganlabatt4543 Рік тому +4

    Oh my gosh this is a marriage of my two favorite things ever

  • @harleycao1332
    @harleycao1332 2 місяці тому +1

    Big swiftie and I've read Romeo and Juliet once or twice, and I'm hoping to get these right myself!!
    Edit: got them all right. That was very easy.

  • @Black-Rose12
    @Black-Rose12 Місяць тому +6

    I'm pretty sure "he didn't live with his family for 20 years" is pretty equivalent to he abandoned his family

    • @thefairychild
      @thefairychild Місяць тому

      Not if he's still providing support and sending money back home. Plenty of people today live apart from their families because of their jobs, but no one accuses them of abandoning their families.

    • @Black-Rose12
      @Black-Rose12 Місяць тому

      @@thefairychild just sending money to your family is not being present in their lives you know its still abandoning

    • @thefairychild
      @thefairychild Місяць тому

      @@Black-Rose12 No, providing willing financial support isn't abandonment. Not having anything to do with your family is. It's possible the professor was being sarcastic, but unlikely since Shakespeare split his time between London and Stratford-Upon-Avon. So this goes back to what I said before that living apart from your family due to a job isn't abandonment.

  • @minhtantrinh2954
    @minhtantrinh2954 Рік тому +5

    I was enjoying the video then the Shakira or something took me out :)))))

  • @liammitchell2225
    @liammitchell2225 Рік тому

    Sheep giving as you like it energy

  • @ClarissaWolff
    @ClarissaWolff Рік тому

    16/23 i'm proud

  • @rickles8309
    @rickles8309 Рік тому +2

    Your dad heard wrong. The repetitive part is “all we like sheep” not “we like sheep” giving it a different meaning; i.e ., we who are like sheep.

  • @kerrichristian7991
    @kerrichristian7991 Рік тому +1

    Guy who abandoned his family 😂😂😂
    This feels very bittersweet. My husband has been teaching Rhetoric-comp and literature for 16 years and is stepping away after this year because higher ed is struggling unfortunately. 😞

  • @TheGrottoGirl
    @TheGrottoGirl Місяць тому

    Wes Alum '90 English major here -- woot

  • @smritichetna4485
    @smritichetna4485 Рік тому +1

    Can you imagine sitting in front of fire or on porch and just talking with the man. I have grown around people who can't form a grammatically correct sentence. I yearn to sit with educated people . Specially those from humanities . And because am from political science background so the reality is too real, so i would like to escape it all and hear or Learn something from someone like him

  • @TheKTCM
    @TheKTCM Рік тому

    Hello!!

  • @HHasan-of2vi
    @HHasan-of2vi Рік тому

    My humble request you to react Aadat Instrumental by Nescafé Basement.

  • @brunajustino2780
    @brunajustino2780 Рік тому

    he's so funny and cute!! go listen to midnights now

  • @ange4182
    @ange4182 Рік тому

    Haha wholesome!

  • @SalomeJLata
    @SalomeJLata Рік тому +8

    Someone has finally done it! Taylor swift is a legend comparable or more to Shakespeare.

  • @TheClassicMagda
    @TheClassicMagda Рік тому +1

    I did a video on that too

  • @fanta9688
    @fanta9688 Рік тому

    Me after Earth calls @2:28

  • @heatheranderson739
    @heatheranderson739 Рік тому

    I’ve also snuck out of Handel’s Messiah. 😅
    But the we like sheep thing doesn’t seem weird when you know it’s from the Bible verse Isaiah 53:6.

  • @jamielaw4749
    @jamielaw4749 Рік тому +3

    Omggg I recognize the stack of essays he's got to grade, all in mla style 👀
    - English major

  • @MzUniverse
    @MzUniverse Рік тому

    Shakespeare iiiiiisss the devil y cervantes también 🥰🤣🥰🤣🥰

  • @carogers1202
    @carogers1202 Рік тому

    So funny!

  • @raediance5523
    @raediance5523 Рік тому

    we like sheep!

  • @user-eu1hp3mi4z
    @user-eu1hp3mi4z Рік тому +3

    Its funny cause theyre both saggitarius

  • @Maiichu14
    @Maiichu14 Рік тому

    help why did I think his advice for writing good sentences was “hella good verb”

  • @gigitaylor2934
    @gigitaylor2934 Рік тому

    I love queen Taylor ❤

  • @Liebling_li
    @Liebling_li Рік тому

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @BrentDeJong
    @BrentDeJong 4 дні тому

    7:23 (and once earlier) My instincts scream that you're pronouncing "despite" wrong as an adjective so now i need to google it lol....
    aaand Google says I'm wrong. Apparently "despite of" is just a complex preposition used much the same way as we use "despite" in modern English.

  • @risk5riskmks93
    @risk5riskmks93 Рік тому

    I did QUITE well.

  • @lirome1535
    @lirome1535 Рік тому +1

    Shakira or something 😂😂

  • @carked5707
    @carked5707 Місяць тому +1

    " I haven't read that since I was a gwntleman" I love the prof

  • @shauryagupta978
    @shauryagupta978 Рік тому

    I am so sure that father Friedberg performed wayyy better than Taylor or Shakespeare themseleves.

  • @marilynantilla7968
    @marilynantilla7968 Рік тому +12

    Um, he's a professor so he better know Shakespeare.

    • @eddiester
      @eddiester Рік тому

      by heart? this is stupid