Acting While Eating a Sandwich - Hamlet
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Acting is hard. Acting while eating a sandwich is harder.
Featuring Hamlet from Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1.
Also featuring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on Challah bread.
#Shakespeare #Comedy #Acting #Hamlet #Starkid
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Alternate title: Man forgets to eat breakfast and lunch and needs to film a self tape.
More common than you’d believe
this feels like we're having an argument at the dinner table
I definitely need a multi-character version, where they're all seated at the same dinner table.
Rarely has something moved me this much and made me sort of hungry at the same time
You're too kind
I feel like I'm being lectured by an uncle I don't see very often
“Can’t be that hard. What kind of sandwich? BLT? Turkey Club? Grilled cheese?”
PB&J on Challah bread
“…dear god…he’s an artist…”
"Acting While Eating a Sandwich - Hamlet" well then it had better have been a HAM sandwich
Hamlet if he had a pang of despised hunger
I love this so much
He's chewing the scenery.
NICE
If I had a nickel for every Jon video that contains bread, I'd have four nickels... I think
🍞
What a good amount of nickels
Hamlet was 100% the right choice for this, but genuinely, seeing as Hamlet on stage would be incredible. I feel like you’ve got a really good balance between the somber scenes and the brighter humour. Please do more Shakespeare man, you’re awesome at it.
I'd go and see Jon do anything on stage. The only problem is I don't live in america. 😅
THANK YOU!
this feels like a kid eating lunch alone in the cafeteria after getting bullied in dodgeball
Too real for me
As someone who has bangs, the whole time I was thinking "how the heck is his hair NOT stabbing his eyes!?" as if that wasn't a sacrifice I've also had to do in film projects-
Something I love about this is how it really does feel like an intentional acting choice. Hamlet here verbally considers death with dreamy awe, as if he yearns not for the end itself but to be the decisive, determined kind of person who could actually do it. But at the same time, the sandwich betrays his true intention to live. A man truly on the brink of a desperate moment like he claims likely would not care whether his stomach was full or not when he did the deed. He doesn't want to perish. He wants to be the guy who's brave enough to do the deed. He sees in himself a failure to truly live; to make his impact on the world and do what he deems right, but also a fear to end his percievedly meaningless existence, and thus he is left with only the third option: to simply survive. That third tiny islet between the continents of determination and despair. And he can only hate that even more. His meek existence is anathema to his worldview that a man should change the world in his favor or die trying.
All this revealed by a sandwich.
'The sandwich betrays his true intention to live.' This is probably the best comment here. 🥪 I'm going to have the urge to say this to the next person I see eating a sandwich.
Best review ive ever received
This feels like a sad coworker eating lunch by himself, staring off lazily, asking himself “what’s the point of this dead end job? Where am I even going in life?” but then the sandwich is done, and he’s back to everything being the same disappointment again.
This reads like we both got high, caught the munchies and started discussing the afterlife. I'm surprisingly into it.
On a serious note, I haven't seen a take of this monologue played so... casual, almost. It's not depression, it's scientific and spiritual curiosity.
More please. "The play's the thing" but through a mouthful of popcorn?
YOU
ME
HAMLET READING
WHAT ARE WE GETTING FOR DINNER?
SANDWICHES OF COURSE
the hair is “i’m gonna put some dirt in your eye”
noooo 😂
the amount of sandwich in his mouth by the end was truly unsettling
This has gotta be the start of some new avant garde art movement. I wanna see more
Imitate THIS, A.I!
these gargantuan bites im sobbing
I feel your sandwich acting has surpassed even the man portraying the Hamilton Historian who needed a glass of milk, all those years ago.
"Get thee to a Deli! I need another sandwich! "
This is awesome! 😂
Excellent choice
now i really want a sandwich, lol. happy to see you back Jon!
Jon literally _ate_ with this one
Nice
This is so incredible. So moving.
1:54 easily the best of the OG Trek films
Mayo or no mayo, that is the question
On a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I'm gonna go ahead and make the bold claim, no mayo... never mayo.
@@dannykent6190 shakespeare can pack it up, we finally found the answer
To me it feels like saying your lines with the idea of just one bite, but the sandwich is just TOO good.
This is gonna be added to my watch while eating playlist lol
This definitely changes the energy of the scene, now it feels like your buddy is fed up after a hard day at work and is venting to you about it over a snack. Love this
OMFG I SWEAR IVE BEEN CHECKING HIS YT ACCOUNT EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR MONTHS IM SO HAPPY
ME TOO, IVE CHECKED HIS TIKTOK 20 TIMES TODAY😭
Real.
Im finally finally back. Working on next week’s video now…
Stephanie J. Block famously sang I'm Breaking Down with a banana in her mouth and that was cool but imagine how good Falsettos would be if the whole cast ate sandwiches in every scene
Wow, I felt this pierce my heart.. The eating of the sandwich really brought out the emotion and emphasis in the projection of your voice… Truly, mind-blowingly, life-changingly, jaw-droppingly, moving. Thank you Jon Matteson, for this beautiful performance… ❤
This was so mesmerizing to watch in a way I can't describe...
I just watched Angela have a very serious dialogue while eating a pb&j with Ellis Grey of Shondaland in their short film GUTS. I’m typing this before I finish this video - but so far sounds to me like Angela spent some time working with Jon to TRULY learn how to act while eating a sandwich. LOVE FRIENDS HELPING FRIENDS EAT SANDWICHES ❤
wait wait what? I must find this short film right now
I watched this after watching Angela in GUTS - Omeleto, why are all the starkid members eating pj and js
*pb, mb
Acting: 10/10
Sandwich: 5/10, doesn't look like challah
GASP
"Acting While Eating a Sandwich - Hamlet" well then it had better have been a HAM sandwich
sorry... it wasn't. It was a twist!
no one does it like you do, jon
love how you don't even swallow what's in your mouth before taking another bite, sandwich just keeps accumulating in there while you talk around it and something about that feels very on brand for Hamlet in a way i can't really explain
Ngl the explosion outro at the end definitely got me cackling
First we get "I'm a success" and now this masterpiece!?!? 2025 is looking up🎉🎉🎉
got rejected for 3 roles in the past month using shakespeare monologues… now i see i should have brought my lunch to the auditions. goddammit jon, you mastermind!!!
this is so me in therapy
to wheat or not to wheat, that is digestion
Omg this is pure gold…
this has made me feel things
A metamodern masterpiece
Average shenanigans and my friends get into at midnight
jon you’re a genius
Just getting started!
not me cutting when this is uploaded 😭im way too hungry for this
This was incredible and I hope it becomes a series!!!
yes! with polls where we vote on the monologues and food stuffs 😁
Im looking for formats this year!
i teared up
hamlet if he asked for ham on his bread , and they didn't let him.
Taking the HUGEST bites
Gott fit it all in!
Being one of the first thousand to see this video from everybody's favorite actor is veey cool
GOSH DARNIT JON YOU’RE MAKING ME HUNGRY
Day 34 waiting for him to sing a Banda MS song
As someone who eats their feelings, this speaks to me
reminds me of that scene of Michael Caine reciting this speech with only the vowels - except a thousand times funnier
I gotta see that now
@@jonmatteson It's a scene from "The Actors" which is old enough to be entirely on UA-cam! (6:40) ua-cam.com/video/dahmaoN_2LI/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Nozin%27Aroun%27
Actually watching it again he doesn't do the whole speech, just the opening line but I dunno, this killed me when I watched it the first time - the whole movie's pretty funny too: two actors trying to scam the mob out of money and then having to ACT their way out of trouble
beautiful
Ah, a fellow believer of the "fat Hamlet" argument
banger as per usual, keep it up
damn you’d be great at that marshmallow face stuffing challenge, but like, with sandwiches
A profile picture change AND a new upload? Why I oughta cover you in syrup.
More to come - maybe even…consistency
@@jonmatteson ong you could post yourself just staring blankly at the camera and that would make my day 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Can I have some
Orsen Welles could never!
Don't fancy sharing that sandwich then
I’m laughing AND I’m hungry
also is this going to be a series? Cuz now I'm imagining you eating cake and doing that crazy Miss Trunchbull monologue (from the musical). 😁
oh my gyatt!
This feels like I cornered a guy who I see around and told him he could have a sandwich if he did some Shakespeare... then I stop seeing the guy around because he disappears and I'm always wondering where he went. Can't explain -- but intended as a compliment! 🤷♀😂
seal king approves👑🦭
Gasp!
Hamlet mukbang!!
was it a ham(let) sandwich? it better have been
im hungry
Now do Little Shop with a tuna melt
It’s on the list!
to eat or not to eat
not even a question.
Do you usually eat by swallowing so little? I'm mortified
was the sandwich good
Was it a good sandwich, Jon?