This is my next QI review, starting them up again. I'm going to start with the Immortal Bard. Why do you ask? Well, ask any other 18 year old from anywhere in America you would get the opposite you would get from me. I'm a sucker for Shakespeare. One of my favorite books when I was in Middle school was one call Shakespeare's Secret even though I don't remember the author at this moment in time.
So I love Shakespeare and this is why I decided against starting with the J series, or finishing the I series. So let's begin shall we?
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| From the BBC website. We have Alan, Bill, Stephan, Sue, and Mitchell are sporting their amazing outfits for this show. |
Our panelists today (Besides Alan of course) are Bill Bailey, David Mitchell, and Sue Perkins. All three are among my favorite panelists on the show. I wanted Sue's hat the most, or Alan's hat. All the amazing hats.
Well. Let's have some fun shall we?
Let's start off with the fact that Shakespeare's handwriting (or at least his signature) looks like mine. Well, at least I spell my name the same every time I do such. Only a few examples of his handwriting has been found, and they aren't really impressive. Oh well right?
The tangent about 3D printing, I think we have one here at OU somewhere here? I heard rumors about it. We can make a 3D copy of a shrew easily.
Chances are, today you have used at least one word that Shakespeare used for the first time in his plays. Come on, we know you have. He used around 20,000 words in all of his plays, half the vocabulary of a modern Briton. The other half of the vocabulary are words no one in their right minds would us anyways.
The Lion King is based off of Hamlet. Amazing isn't it? What they didn't tell you is that the second movie was based off of Romeo and Juliet. I wonder why they didn't say it.
Also Morris Dancing. It gets made fun of, and as an American I say, you can take them back you've made your point. There is 150 sides of Morris Dancing here in the states, just in case you are wondering. Though some of the suggestions that what a group of Morris Dancers are called were pretty hilarious. "An arse", "an embarrassment"" a plague" might be my favorites.
So let's talk about my favorite parts of the show. The Klaxon. Who got the Forfeits? And what were they?
1. Bill said that the Movie based off of Romeo and Juliet was originally called West Side Story. Although it ended up called that, Sue gave the correct answer of East Side Story.
2. In the XL version only- Dangerous Dan Tucker did not clean up Shakespeare by taking out the rude bits like Sue said, though the town in New Mexico named Shakespeare probably wished he did, when he hanged everyone including someone just because she was a "damned nuisance". The Bowdler's where the ones who took out the rude bits.
3. No Bill, Richard III was not Hunchbacked.
4. And finally, Christopher Marlowe did get stabbed, just not in a tavern brawl. It may have been a brothel, just not in a tavern. Sue got the forfeit this time.
And that is it, now all that's let is to have a peak at the scores.
David- Wins with 6. Horrah!
Alan- Second with 3.
Sue- Third with a -10. Quite a few points lower than Alan
Bill- Last with a frowny face with -14.
So, this is all for right now. Next planned is Jargon. However I reserve the right to do whatever the hell I want. So from me and the staff of the Comedy Stars Blog... err me. I say goodnight, follow this blog or if not already, follow me on Twitter handle Heather_Short17. Comment, follow, or insult me, or all three if you want!
Thank you and see you latter gators!
-Heather Short.
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