Friday Videos like Baseball and Shakespeare

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by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | May 30, 2008 | Friday at 1:33 pm | 16 Comments

Karen McCullough sent in a video link that so amused me, I watched it twice, sent it to Hubby, and am debating about unleashing it on the entire 12 member manager roster of my rotisserie baseball league (yes, confirmed, I am a dork). Nothing is better than mixing Canadians, baseball, and Shakespeare.

“‘Tis a tale told by an umpire, fill of sound and fury, signifying one-nothing.”

Filed: Friday Videos

Tagged: shakespeare, history

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Nathalie said on 05.30.08 at 03:12 PM • [link]

TV or no TV, that is not the question!!!

Ahhhhaahhaha!!!

Man, I needed that. :)
Darlene Marshall said on 05.30.08 at 03:23 PM • [link]

Perfect summer fun! Thanks for sharing.
Gennita Low said on 05.30.08 at 03:57 PM • [link]

That was just excellent! I’m going to share it with my biz partner who has to read Shakespeare in class. He moans about missing baseball all the time.
Suze said on 05.30.08 at 04:22 PM • [link]

Ah, Wayne & Shuster! Sunday night TV through the 70’s. So campy. And so much fun!

out36!
Tinkerbon said on 05.30.08 at 05:26 PM • [link]

CLAS-SIK Canadian comedy, thank you very much!

I grew up on (Johnny) Wayne & (Frank) Schuster, and their very literate and ahead-of-it’s-time brand of comedy. Sadly they have both now gone on to that great Yuk-Yuk Club in the sky. I used to pray that my family wouldn’t go to church on Sunday evenings, just so I could watch Disney and W&S!!
Sandra D said on 05.30.08 at 05:29 PM • [link]

Oh man, where was that when I was in high school and we had to go to Stratford every spring. I was too young to appreciate Shakespeare then but THIS I would have enjoyed lol.

spaminator: indeed14, no I think I was indeed16 the first time I went.
Robyn said on 05.30.08 at 05:53 PM • [link]

Fabulous. I wish they were still around.
miaserene said on 05.30.08 at 06:21 PM • [link]

I was in this in high school. Well, a very low-budget student adaptation of this, anyway.

I’d completely forgotten about it. I think I was a last minute stand-in for…MacDuff.

Speaking of classic sketches, it occurs to me a Shakespeare-recast of Who’s on First might work….
Anj said on 05.30.08 at 07:34 PM • [link]

Get thee to an optomitrist!

amazing. That is so funny.

thank you. so. much.
Eileen Dreyer said on 05.30.08 at 07:44 PM • [link]

I wish I’d been able to see them. This was freakin’ brilliant.
MS Jones said on 05.30.08 at 08:48 PM • [link]

I think my favorite line is “Alas, poor Durocher, I knew him. A man of infinite lip.”

Thanks for sharing this.
Susan/DC said on 05.31.08 at 12:54 AM • [link]

Having seen two Shakespeare plays in the past week, I actually recognized the source of some of the lines—which only made this funnier. Thanks so much for posting.

Spam filter is work85—no, I didn’t go to work today but helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity (anything to get out of the office on a beautiful day).
Mary Lynn said on 05.31.08 at 12:58 AM • [link]

Hmmmm… an acquired taste methinks!
Arsie said on 05.31.08 at 06:32 AM • [link]

Yay for Wayne and Schuster!

They’re awesome.
Jools said on 05.31.08 at 05:40 PM • [link]

absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing. I have a friend who is crazy about baseball and Shakespeare. He’s going to so love this!
LDH said on 06.01.08 at 06:22 AM • [link]

Hahaha!!!

That’s AMAZING! I think that the Macbeth bits at the end were my favorite just because I had to memorize the “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” soliloquy. It’s all pretty wonderful, though.

I’m glad I’m in theater, because it means that I have so many people to send this to.