When King Charles performed the best Hamlet | Gregory Doran Remembers... Shakespeare Live! - BBC
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Gregory Doran, former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, looks back on the challenges he faced bringing together a cast of acclaimed actors and even members of the royal family for his 2016 live BBC extravaganza marking 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare.
Gregory explains how he managed to pull off the project and recalls the journey that transformed early ideas into to a huge popular success that resonated with critics and television viewers alike. He also shares his memories of working with the likes of David Tennant, Catherine Tate and a host of acclaimed Shakespeareans, and explains why he thinks the Bard remains so relevant even today.
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That sketch sounds like a great way to teach kids or aspiring actors how a single line in a play can have so many different possible deliveries.
I'm a drama teacher and that is exactly what I use the clip for.
There's a video of Patrick Stewart ( yes that one),I was it in the late 90s, where they were doing a Shakespearean Masterclass and broke down just one scene and how they would do it...down the the nuanced speech of each character involved.
The actual scene was only like 2-3 minutes long but this took them a couple of hours to talk itvthrough.
@@Elheru42 Show em a clip of Christopher Walken and they can hear em all in a quarter of the time!
@@PsyCoCinematics look up 'Dave Grohl impersonates Christopher Walken' its fantastic lol
@@AdjustableSquelch I saw that clip! Scrolled to see if I left a comment back then, alas I did not, but I am familiar and Dave was spot on!
I will always go with David Tennants "that" is the question. 😁
While the Doctor does, indeed, command much respect, it seems His Majesty commands more.
When you hear Scrooge McDuck telling you "that" is the question, move over your highness, the real royalty is here!
I guess Charles took "you've got the final word" in a different way than intended. 🤣
To be or not to be a horse. That is equestrian.
The laughter would leave me horse indeed.
Yay or neigh - that is the question.
To neigh or not to neigh?
@@einstein9901 even better!
To bee or not to bee. That is entomology.
Dench throwing Yorick to Ian at the end 😆
Yeah, I just caught that, lol
That's actually Maggie Smith playing Ian.
Dame
Alas poor Yorick, I threw him well😂😂😂😂
The look of surprise on Dame Judi Dench’s face is priceless
She can act.
And shes nearly blind
That must be 200 years of acting experience on the stage
Oh no, it's _much_ more, Judi Dench, Harriet Walter and Ian McKellen have 170 years between them.
MUCH more!
This is one of the reasons why I will always have sort of soft spot for the UK, despite recent events that have somehow shown a side of the country that perhaps many weren’t expecting, I feel that the UK’s soft power, its literature, its music, its history are its greatest asset.
And their ability to make subtly fun of themselves.
@@marial870 indeed :)
and which events would those be, extremist?
@@JK-br1mu the ones that perhaps someone who calls others extremists was probably asleep when they were taking place or maybe didn’t understand them … or a bit of both, unlike beggars, ignorants can be choosers :)
Hey Putin!
He should have said “To be or not to be…..what was the question?”
Nah, that would be if they invited Biden
@@user-lp3cf5yn5bwhy make everything political? This is the BBC, this has nothing to do with your love of trump or hatred of biden.
😂🤣 you had me...😆
I"ll do you one better "To be or not to be...WHERE is the question?"
@@xdasdaasdasd4787 It is literally the King. It can't get more definitionally political than having THE KING on stage. It may not be about political *slant,* but it is political.
Haha Dame Judy throwing the skull at Sir Ian 😅
That was the best part. Those two together are great.
Remind me who they played compared to each other in Jack and Sarah.
In fact - I hadn't noticed it before, but - King Charles has a *wonderful* voice!
His mother did too
His children have not inherited it, sadly
@@el7284 Prince William had, in my opinion.
He also has a wonderful sense of humour when he chooses to let loose and show it.
I've always said that if he lost his 'job' he could always do voice overs for documentaries, narrations etc. He's got a fabulous voice.
That was such a great sketch, the way it built up and up with the different actors.
Her majesty always had a mischievous sense of humour, and I'm pleased to know King Chuck is carrying on the tradition.
Charles loved The Goons. Nuff said !
So it’s ’King Chuck’? I’m down
@@MitchRuth I've always referred to him as "Prince Chuck"
Now he's King.
They both had/have a great sense of the absurd.
@@VeracityLH Two of my favorite memories of her were the James Bond sequence from the opening of the olympics, And her jubilee tea with Paddington Bear.
That one answered after decades the question;
"What does she keep in her purse?"
Of course, it was so obvious,
MARMALADE SANDWICHES!
Pleaseee give us the full version!! We watched this at school in our english class 2 years ago and I even asked our teacher if he could send it to me but neither of us could find it anymore!!
The full version of the whole evening is on Apple TV for 2€ or 3€ :) I bought it, and it's definitely worth it.
What is it called? What should I search? @@caroline6544
@@caroline6544 It's also all for free up on iPlayer.
So pray tell, where is the full version of this sketch? We all would love to watch the whole thing, not just bits and pieces of it.
Make it happen, BBC!!!
It's on the BBC CZcams channel.
@@GrandiaKnight Sadly, I think it's limited to the UK audience only.
@@PsychCaptain Get a VPN. I'm abroad and just watched it.
I think it's safe to say that that ending was the one and only time Ian McKellan got some head from Judy Dench.
Doctor who doctor Strange and the king of england walk in to a bar...
Gandalf: "You shall not path!"
@@karlkarlos3545 Okay, that one made me laugh out loud
I gotta say if it was truly those characters and not just actors some serious shit would be about to go down.
And Magneto says to M ...
And sherlock and gandalf-magneto
Dame Dench casually tossing Yorick’s skull to Sir McKellen is also hilarious
David Tennant with his judgy lil face at the back is comedy sensation (and how he bursted out laughing after the audience like he nearly forgot)😂 and the fact that he cared more about Dame Judy than the Prince of Wales. Bravo good man
I noticed that too. 🤣
I finally understand why it is called the "Royal" Shakespeare Company.
Can you please upload the full sketch, and make it available for everyone? Making it British property and ONLY british property is just sad.
Please!
… and unfair! Like having a teaser! 😂
Kenneth Branagh should´ve come next and corrected the Prince, hehe.
oh that would have been PERFECT!!!! I adored his version of Hamlet
I haven’t seen anything this British since my last visit to London when a lad dropped a can of beans on the pavement as he was stepping on to a double decker and shouted “bollocks!!!!”
Shoutout to inviting famous people out of nowhere, gotta be my favorite gag of all time
OMG! This is precious! I hadn't realized how deep and sonorous Charles' voice is - compared to Ian's, no less!
Beautifully done!!👌🇦🇺
I genuinely liked the Paapa Essiedu version because it HAS no unnatural word emphasis. But the sketch was nonetheless brilliant. Presumably only the RSC can pull off the casting.
Sorry just one note. You want to emphasize the "no" - because it has NO unnatural word emphasis
@@AlexHackney95 That occurred to me shortly after posting, but I forwent any redaction on the principle "de minimis non curat lex".
@@1258-Eckhart I was making a joke in the same vein as a sketch my guy
He has such a smooth voice this isn't fair
Yeah, that was pretty good !👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I go to 2B or not 2B when I am using Excel on my computer.
Didn’t know he was chill like that
Love this!💗👑👏
1:06 David Tennant's expression. Priceless
Comic Relief should have King Charles III guest appear in a sketch
No joke, an interesting interpretation -- I'd never considered how the line would sound with an emphasis on "question."
He does have good comedic timing 😊
😂 no...
A great Goons fan .He knows his comedy.
DOOR: Knock, knock, knock.
MAJOR DENNIS BLOODNOCK: I surrender!
I love that so much!
Fantastic!
The differing stresses do a great job of portraying different interpretations- especially Sir Ian McKellen, where by emphasizing “THE” he really drives in the idea that it is the single and most important question of human existence- as Camus states in the Myth of Sisyphus, “There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is su!c!de”
Have this sketch and not have the ONLY Tony Award winning Hamlet that is Mr. Ralph Fiennes is a crime, I fear 😩
Man darf nicht vergessen das Onkel Karl seit seiner frühen Jugend Schauspieler ist. Nicht nur dass die Rolle in der Monarchie ein ewiges Theaterstück ist... Er hat auch als Jugendlicher beim Theater mitgespielt.
As a Belgian I am proud of beeing so close to a nation like the UK.
Hercule, is that you?
Brilliant! He nailed that!
And for that I do love British.
Lovely!!🇨🇦❤️🇬🇧
Well done King Charles, he has his Mum's sense of humor.
NAILED IT
Love it 🌟
simply ingenious love it!
Good on him
I love the way both of the female Hamlets were edited out of this video, ladies and gentlemen I give you the BBC
King of ‘em all y’all
“To be or not to be…overly giant pause…well it’s not THE question, rather one of many in life, but if all y’all want to get hung up about it then so be it…”
Mic drop😂😂😂
Genial
On the talent interview for this gig, one question was asking whether the applicant had any experience in playing the role of a prince.
It was brilliant
Surely in the case of HRH the line should have been ..... " To be or not t be? That is Ones's question."
Bloody Great. The King nailed it.🎉
Sort of waiting for William to call him 'Daddy' now as he used to call our late Queen!!
I like “toby? Or no toby?”
Anywhere i can see a full clip of the sketch?
❤
I appreciate seeing our leaders and people we love and highly respect in high places spending time to engage with us to see their humanity and character outside of being a public figure because it feels relatable and as if we are hanging out like friends having a good time in the same moment or passively if watched on CZcams or something.
Full video? Of that scene?
Try to imagine certain American politicians having the grace and sense of fun to do something like this.
One American politician called Arnold Schwarzenegger has already done it in Last Action Hero.
That would be the Washington Correspondents Dinner. It's less subtle, but it's the same idea.
That. Is. Amazing.
Yes. That's what the whole world needs. We need actors to rule us all.
They are all actors who play many characters already
Good for our King! ❤
Amazing.
Absolutely brilliant.
I did not know that Stephen Colbert was actually English! 🤔😲
LOL, it’s completely unironic that the King’s English is excellent. Like I would want all my AI’s with that voice.
Who better to play a royal prince than Prince Charles? He had the role down cold!
Brilliant
The question is, where is the link for the full sketch? 😘
Long live the King!
So funny that Gregory used the punchline of using Our King's English as the way to define the way to say that line. I feel sometimes that thanks to artists, directors and so on, reality "is" a magical place since I choose "To be".
Charles obviously has a rich, plummy, lovely voice….a voice for the stage, actually. And his French is so amazingly good, I’d love to hear him do Molière, obviously on an audiobook format since he’d never seriously be on the stage and I’ld never get to London to see it if he did!
So funny! I’ve never seen this before!
To be or not to be here in UK is important now then from the era of master literature….
My Hero!
Awesome King Charles!!!❤
Awesome Santa Clause ceremony in November. LMAO
This is so funny, but where's Branagh?
This is really great! 🤣
Where can I find the full version of this???
I love Britain
God save the king.
Wow
is there any way we can watch the whole sketch anywhere on the webs ?
you should not have put the spoiler in the title.
The punch line could have been " You lot are just acting! "
2B or not 2B, that is the pencil!
they forgot to include Schwarzenegger from Last Acrion Hero 😅
Would love to see the addition of Patrick Stewart, Morgan Freeman , David Capaldi, and Cate Blanchett!
💛💛💛🏆💛💛💛
Royalty, all on that stage
Yorick has been THROWN!
Question the question fools… always first question the question
where can I watch this sketch?
2B or not 2B, is that the apartment?
This was hilarious.
''No no no no no idiots.'' Margaret Thatcher woke up in someone))))