0:21 "Yes, dear, t'is thy sweet and youthful timbre I would feign here, not the monosyllabic series of grunts that passes for your conversation." 👋 Standing ovation.
@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Hehe, yeah, you can tell that's exactly what they did. 🤣🤣 He's not a good actor at all, but he's very good, and funny, as himself. 🤣
While watching I was thinking it had a Blackadder vibe to it so no great surprise that it's written by Ben Elton. Me thinks it was just a matter of good fortune that the character was such good fit for Mr Mitchell although he no doubt gave it his own bent of which gave it such feel as to seem as if written for him.
I used to fly a plane called G-AZMR. When you are contacting an airfield for landing you use the full five characters, then you just use the last two. Traffic control asked, "Mike Romeo, what is your distance?" I have no idea who it was, but an American accent came over the radio, "Mike Romeo, Mike Romeo, wherefore art thou?" Rare American humour.
This is bizarre! Yesterday, I saw this airplane, now registered as N146EC, at my home airport in Colorado USA. I had never seen one before, so I googled the number and was amused by its former “G” registration. Now, today, I happen to watch this Upstart Crow video and found your comment. Very, very, weird feeling!
@@craiglachman1379 Every plane, so far as I know, has a call sign with the first letter identifying the country of the plane's registration. Any British plane will have five letters beginning with G-. I don't know where your guy came from.
So original. So funny. All the characters are so well cast. I would love to see some outtakes. There must be some somewhere. David is a genius. No question. More please
@@robinlillian9471… neither did the women….just difference in proportion and variation, adapted to current times. Which is the proportion of women vs men in the fandom of that disturbing bit of trash writing called fifty shades of gray? Why is more popular with women in these unlighted times? Is this progress or masked rebellion of women themselves against the third wave which, ironically, is supposed to lift them above and beyond? Is it the extremes which give a regretful reaction in the form of the opposite extreme? Maturity is supposed to give the ability to balance….but as perpetual adolescence being the goal to achieve, does anyone wonder we live in schizophrenic times?
I continue to pay for the completely terrible Britbox app just so I can keep rewatching Upstart Crow. It’s my favorite show and I wish Covid hadn’t ended it.
@@Mare416 He went through a long dodgy patch that started with Blackadder Goes Forth in my opinion, but this is as good as the best stuff he's ever written.
I'm not British but loved this show - there was a comedic genius to it that I think will be overlooked by people who a.) don't know or like much about Shakespeare and b.) don't appreciate David Mitchell's comedy style.
I must admit, I didn't know or like anything about Shakespeare, but after binge watching this legend of a show over and over, I can now answer questions on quiz shows about him off the top of my head! 🤗😅
Shakespeare’s little diatribe about women not being able to practise law, be a doctor, etc., begs the question, “what about good Queen Bess?” She was superb monarch!
How Dare you guys not play tonight November 5th me and my meme were supposed to watch tonight instead were watching the news. The news isn't fun to watch for a 14 year old...
Nice to see a bit of wit and mock Elisabethan rudery has risen above the humorous capabilities of the bedchamber-secluded Trolls who seek to empty their electronic chamber pots on anything that lies beyond their limited contentions...
This is all so witty and sharp, but had the clay pipe been really lit, the man by the fireplace would have never ever been able to hold its bowl. 'Twould have been so insanely hot... but then again, nobody really cares about this detail and I can't blame them just totally, so to say :-D
I know right? Flipping idiots not knowing their wheres from their wherefores. Of course I knew that already and definitely didn't learn it just now after reading your comment like some other morons probably did.
@@lukehudson9369 if you think of the full name Romeo Montague it makes sense. But even without that, there is no excuse for thinking “wherefore “ means “where”.
@@Spearca Never mind the why and wherefore Love can level ranks and therefore Though your nautical relation In my set could scarcely pass … W. S. Gilbert
@Tsar Nikolai Romanov II - No, I think it parodies all those dopey Shakespeare conspiracy theories, not the man himself. Hence, all the anachronistic references within the series.
This has that lame Ben Elton tone and that mocking enemble format but with no humour or lightness.. That foppish "more enourmous than extremely enourmous thing" drivel character about it. And yes it isnt funny.
I thought as much.. After a tedious half an hour I searched it.... "Upstart Crow is a British sitcom based on the life of William Shakespeare. Written by Ben Elton.... " what a bore.
The Upstart Crow series is brilliant.
The best of David Mitchell as Shakespeare is all of David Mitchell as Shakespeare
Hang the futtock on!
0:21 "Yes, dear, t'is thy sweet and youthful timbre I would feign here, not the monosyllabic series of grunts that passes for your conversation." 👋 Standing ovation.
I have a son similar in grunts😅😅
LOL! Someone wrote a part for David where he doesn't have to act at all!! 🤣🤣🤣
Haahaaaa so true!
🤣🤣🤣 sarcasm existed in Tudor England. At it's best 👌
That's what the writes of Peep Show said. They just wrote David Mitchell being David Mitchell.
@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou Hehe, yeah, you can tell that's exactly what they did. 🤣🤣 He's not a good actor at all, but he's very good, and funny, as himself. 🤣
While watching I was thinking it had a Blackadder vibe to it so no great surprise that it's written by Ben Elton. Me thinks it was just a matter of good fortune that the character was such good fit for Mr Mitchell although he no doubt gave it his own bent of which gave it such feel as to seem as if written for him.
I used to fly a plane called G-AZMR. When you are contacting an airfield for landing you use the full five characters, then you just use the last two. Traffic control asked, "Mike Romeo, what is your distance?" I have no idea who it was, but an American accent came over the radio, "Mike Romeo, Mike Romeo, wherefore art thou?" Rare American humour.
A plane called "Gazmer"...
This is bizarre! Yesterday, I saw this airplane, now registered as N146EC, at my home airport in Colorado USA. I had never seen one before, so I googled the number and was amused by its former “G” registration. Now, today, I happen to watch this Upstart Crow video and found your comment. Very, very, weird feeling!
@@craiglachman1379 Every plane, so far as I know, has a call sign with the first letter identifying the country of the plane's registration. Any British plane will have five letters beginning with G-. I don't know where your guy came from.
@@spadebraithwaite1762 It’s your old plane! It shows up in the FAA registry that way. Amazing coincidence, seriously.
@@craiglachman1379 Jung would say it's synchronicity!
So original. So funny. All the characters are so well cast. I would love to see some outtakes. There must be some somewhere. David is a genius. No question. More please
I just love David, He’s always make me laugh.
The whole cast were perfect. I demand another series.
Best series since Blackadder brilliant
Blackadder was one of my favourites!
This is amazing. How am I just finding it now?? Now I must find every episode...
'Posh bird loves a bit of rough'😁
Dream on. Men never give up on these fantasies.
@@robinlillian9471… neither did the women….just difference in proportion and variation, adapted to current times. Which is the proportion of women vs men in the fandom of that disturbing bit of trash writing called fifty shades of gray? Why is more popular with women in these unlighted times? Is this progress or masked rebellion of women themselves against the third wave which, ironically, is supposed to lift them above and beyond? Is it the extremes which give a regretful reaction in the form of the opposite extreme? Maturity is supposed to give the ability to balance….but as perpetual adolescence being the goal to achieve, does anyone wonder we live in schizophrenic times?
The stage show in the west end was brilliant!
That first scene is beyond hilarious
This is a series that somehow passed me by, but, going by this clip, it was easily on a par with Blackadder ...... which is high praise.
I continue to pay for the completely terrible Britbox app just so I can keep rewatching Upstart Crow. It’s my favorite show and I wish Covid hadn’t ended it.
It's very good indeed. Had the dvds for ages. Easily imminently rewatchable, like old Slackbladder.
Well it’s written by Ben Elton, who co-wrote series 2-4 of Blackadder with Richard Curtis.
@@Mare416 That explains a lot!
@@Mare416 He went through a long dodgy patch that started with Blackadder Goes Forth in my opinion, but this is as good as the best stuff he's ever written.
I'm not British but loved this show - there was a comedic genius to it that I think will be overlooked by people who a.) don't know or like much about Shakespeare and b.) don't appreciate David Mitchell's comedy style.
I must admit, I didn't know or like anything about Shakespeare, but after binge watching this legend of a show over and over, I can now answer questions on quiz shows about him off the top of my head! 🤗😅
This show is genius (pun intended). Hope they do more eps.
What pun?
Not likely
mark heap is absolutely brilliant in this show
The writing feels as good as Blackadder.
Love to see Ben Elton writing great historical comedy like Blackadder or Thanks!!
Shakespeare’s little diatribe about women not being able to practise law, be a doctor, etc., begs the question, “what about good Queen Bess?” She was superb monarch!
I so love this show!...
I like the bits where Ben Elton’s politics come leaking through.
The best of bits. 👌
Oh David, you never fail to make me laugh...
- WAIT, IT'S ELAINE FROM CORONATION STREET!!!!
Love his daughter..
I so miss this series! I cannot fathom why it was cancelled!!!
Probably because it was good!
Was it cancelled? , I thought it was just delayed because of covid .
God's conkers LOL!!!!
love it ......
I didn't get to see the cat on the intro screen
Crow .. thou art a Raven now
Genius.
Is this blackadder's house set experts?
Oh wow, just noticed the lady played the lesbian pirate princess in Game of Thrones!
This is probably the only thing of his that I like, and probably only because it's written by the writer of Blackadder and has a superior support cast
winter nickers it is
How Dare you guys not play tonight November 5th me and my meme were supposed to watch tonight instead were watching the news. The news isn't fun to watch for a 14 year old...
KILLS 🤣
Frasier!?
Nice to see a bit of wit and mock Elisabethan rudery has risen above the humorous capabilities of the bedchamber-secluded Trolls who seek to empty their electronic chamber pots on anything that lies beyond their limited contentions...
The thing is , I can imagine no one hardly spoke the way shakespeare wrote his plays!
And yet they did. English has changed in many ways since Shakespeare (Early Modern English)
@@masonharvath-gerrans832 I'm pretty sure people didn't speak in iambic pentameter.
@@Fricasso79 a stunning observation, Bob. Look up Early Modern English… I’m talking about lexicon and grammar, not poetic devices.
@@Fricasso79 But we cannot be absolutely sure they didn't - at least in the upper classes where a public display of erudition was expected...
Jensen Tunnel
They lqugh track ia distracting, it's not needed. I'm laughing at the jokes fine with out it.
Women had to played by men even though everyone knew who the real women were? How times change!
This is all so witty and sharp, but had the clay pipe been really lit, the man by the fireplace would have never ever been able to hold its bowl. 'Twould have been so insanely hot... but then again, nobody really cares about this detail and I can't blame them just totally, so to say :-D
To be fair to the dad, Henry VI Part 1 is not very interesting.
Series one and two were the best. The third one was... not that good (imo)
As an American...i only feel like i understand 4/5ths of what's being said here...
How can anyone think "wherefore" means "where"? Have people never heard even the expression "whys and wherefores"?
I know right? Flipping idiots not knowing their wheres from their wherefores. Of course I knew that already and definitely didn't learn it just now after reading your comment like some other morons probably did.
No, no we have not heard of that expression, ever haha
I can see your point Robin but as the sketch points out a) why are you Romeo makes no sense. Why are you montague does
@@lukehudson9369 if you think of the full name Romeo Montague it makes sense. But even without that, there is no excuse for thinking “wherefore “ means “where”.
@@Spearca Never mind the why and wherefore
Love can level ranks and therefore
Though your nautical relation
In my set could scarcely pass …
W. S. Gilbert
I love how this disproves Shakespeare.
@Tsar Nikolai Romanov II - No, I think it parodies all those dopey Shakespeare conspiracy theories, not the man himself. Hence, all the anachronistic references within the series.
Why have people from Stratford got Brummie accents. So obviously written by a southerner.
This show was so rubbish except for Mitchell
the stupid laugh track
BBC has never used artificial laugh tracks but they are often accused of it.
@@DemstarAus ok, the stupid laugh in the studio. I can laugh in my own, that’s stupid
I do hope David survives this comic travesty.
Biggest problem with this show is the audience it's targeting.
like blackadder but with no laughs
Yeah, just misses the mark.
You have to be British to enjoy this. To the rest of us it’s a tedious attempt at humor.
Speak for yourself
@Gary Francis - Oh, not so!
It is the BBC as long as it entertains Brits, that is all that matters.
In which case the rest of you are a trifle thick 🤒🥱
2O sec-stopped watching
Your loss....
Bye felicia
Not funny.
This has that lame Ben Elton tone and that mocking enemble format but with no humour or lightness.. That foppish "more enourmous than extremely enourmous thing" drivel character about it. And yes it isnt funny.
I thought as much.. After a tedious half an hour I searched it.... "Upstart Crow is a British sitcom based on the life of William Shakespeare. Written by Ben Elton.... " what a bore.
@@markawbolton Indeed you are. You know you could have just checked the description of the video, right?
Obviously not a classically educated person - your sad loss.
@@markawbolton Thanks for being here to support them!
The entire show was complete crap.
Probably a brainless triggered little Shakestan
Maybe you just don’t understand it 🙄
He just isn't Rowan Atkinson, is he?
No! He's David Mitchell.
Clue's in the title.
@@daftphil9706 you clever sausage