They Really Did That to Othello - Key & Peele

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  • Two black men attending the world premiere of “Othello” compare notes after the first act. (Contains strong language.)
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  • @ThePurposedone
    @ThePurposedone Před 4 lety +6137

    “Moor please...” I think we didn’t understand the genius of that line.

    • @rowingaway
      @rowingaway Před 4 lety +210

      It's clever, but not really genius

    • @michaelpencil666
      @michaelpencil666 Před 4 lety +469

      Not to mention the Hamlet nod "youd be talkin to a skull right now". They are really incredible comedy writers.

    • @ThePurposedone
      @ThePurposedone Před 4 lety +48

      Rowing Away It’s definitely genius

    • @TinyShaman
      @TinyShaman Před 4 lety +40

      I'm feeling particularly dumb right now, but... is it... is it about moor hens being inferior food as compared to cornish hens? 🤔 (no sarcasm, I'm really at a loss here)

    • @ThePurposedone
      @ThePurposedone Před 4 lety +4

      A Girl Has No Name exactly!

  • @carolusrex3973
    @carolusrex3973 Před 4 lety +5002

    ”Alloweth me to partaketh up in this bish”😂😂😂

  • @jonocasuyon4252
    @jonocasuyon4252 Před 4 lety +3727

    "Thou already tried to use that line of argument when Jewish people wanted to kick yo ass after the Merchant of Venice." They really did Shylock dirty.

    • @dehavillandvampire
      @dehavillandvampire Před 3 lety +165

      Although the fact is that at the time there were no Jews in England, thanks to Edward I being generally a terrible person and expelling them after borrowing all their money. The so called 'Edict of Expulsion' would only be revoked by Oliver Cromwell in 1655.

    • @hopekeeley2122
      @hopekeeley2122 Před 3 lety +78

      @@dehavillandvampire Oliver cromwell sucked but he did good with that on

    • @Mugruncher
      @Mugruncher Před 3 lety +21

      @@dehavillandvampire holy shit I never knew that.

    • @CoAndCoLaptopAccount
      @CoAndCoLaptopAccount Před 3 lety +48

      @@Mugruncher In the game "Crusader Kings 2" you can recreate it by borrowing a ton of cash from the jews and then expel them in your own game with little to no consequences. That's how I learned about it.

    • @Shaztrot
      @Shaztrot Před 3 lety +24

      @@DantesHaven I'm actually of the strong opinion that the devil really doesn't need a third-party advocate at the moment. I think he's well aware of his faculties, his actions, and how to present them.

  • @purplehoody
    @purplehoody Před 2 lety +1176

    “A black man got it goin on and you shuffle off his mortal coil?!” 💀💀💀💀😂😂 Too many brilliant lines in this skit

    • @lirich0
      @lirich0 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Yeah that’s the line from an iconic Hamlet soliloquy 😂

    • @pelletrouge3032
      @pelletrouge3032 Před 7 měsíci +4

      Can’t a young black man live in this stale promontory??!

    • @purplehoody
      @purplehoody Před 7 měsíci +3

      ⁠@@lirich0yep just as “you’d be talking to a skull right now” is another Hamlet reference

    • @jenniferp403
      @jenniferp403 Před měsícem

      That’s my favorite line from this skit full of great lines.

  • @eren-tv2et
    @eren-tv2et Před 4 lety +7146

    These sketches are unbelievably addictive, you say you're gonna watch a couple, and before you know it the whole evening has gone by.

    • @lawson_taylor2158
      @lawson_taylor2158 Před 4 lety +14

      LMAOO facts

    • @veenoir1991
      @veenoir1991 Před 4 lety +32

      Legends. Not to be a hipster but, if you grew up watching MadTv these guy hold that special spot lol

    • @danitacook4890
      @danitacook4890 Před 4 lety +9

      That is so true before you know it the whole day has gone by and you are laughing so hard you almost pee on yourself.
      P. S.
      Please forgive me for saying PEE out loud. 🤓

    • @marvinthemartian857
      @marvinthemartian857 Před 4 lety +10

      *helleth yes.*

    • @commaJim
      @commaJim Před 4 lety +1

      Watch the show then, man. Lol

  • @KabirChattopadhyay1991
    @KabirChattopadhyay1991 Před 4 lety +4793

    This sketch got infinitely better for me when I remembered Key is actually an experienced and trained Shakespearean stage actor. 😃

    • @bidishah
      @bidishah Před 4 lety +28

      Well, hello stranger.

    • @J.JONAH.Jameson
      @J.JONAH.Jameson Před 4 lety +50

      That's amazing

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před 4 lety +160

      Now that you mention it, I would love to see Jordan Peele direct a Shakespeare-based movie.

    • @KabirChattopadhyay1991
      @KabirChattopadhyay1991 Před 4 lety +110

      @@eastvandb Absolutely. He has a remarkable command over horror and psychological thrillers (Get Out for example) and I'd love to see a modern, somewhat surreal take from him on The Tempest maybe.

    • @KabirChattopadhyay1991
      @KabirChattopadhyay1991 Před 4 lety +2

      @@bidishah Small world. 🤣

  • @becauseynot8209
    @becauseynot8209 Před 3 lety +309

    I like how historically accurate the insults are
    "be gone sirrah"

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 2 lety +2

      i had to look that up

    • @ulture
      @ulture Před rokem +11

      unfortunately the people writing the subtitles spelled it wrong

    • @icemanjr.5819
      @icemanjr.5819 Před 3 měsíci +1

      3 years late lol but trust me if it wasnt this accurate someone would have tried calling them out

  • @frezerh
    @frezerh Před 3 lety +1311

    "You'd be talking to a skull right now!"
    Such an underrated line

  • @deburke321
    @deburke321 Před 4 lety +4235

    "We doth not purchase it Slick Willy"

    • @chalan30
      @chalan30 Před 4 lety +75

      he said "Moor please!"

    • @goot6474
      @goot6474 Před 4 lety +6

      Oh hey I know you

    • @Herc08
      @Herc08 Před 4 lety +17

      The fact that it fit so perfectly blows my mind. Probably my favorite line

    • @quincyeagleman9921
      @quincyeagleman9921 Před 4 lety +6

      Best line in there lol

    • @jessewest3523
      @jessewest3523 Před 4 lety +3

      Damn it that's what I was gonna comment! 😂

  • @yorickstrangefield2976
    @yorickstrangefield2976 Před 4 lety +3161

    "We doth not purchase it, Slick Willy: we doth not purchase it." LOL

    • @petersayatshkin7454
      @petersayatshkin7454 Před 4 lety +63

      verily that.

    • @eazybuxafew
      @eazybuxafew Před 3 lety +20

      Immediately after they lose their old English accents 😭😂. Ain’t playing no games with Shakespeare

    • @fadew55
      @fadew55 Před 3 lety +17

      Doth though heareth thine decree? ="Know what I'm saying?"

    • @SlimJ1980-Eire
      @SlimJ1980-Eire Před 3 lety +9

      🤣all of this dialogue is 🔥🔥

    • @LordGurciullo
      @LordGurciullo Před rokem +1

      Best Line!

  • @CLaw-tb5gg
    @CLaw-tb5gg Před 2 lety +427

    This is probably way more accurate to the vibe of actual Globe performances than we might imagine. Back then theatre was on about on a par with watching bear-baiting. Can imagine everyone throwing shit at the stage and yelling the whole way through.

    • @mrcritical6751
      @mrcritical6751 Před rokem +8

      Like a pantomime audience on speed

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 Před rokem +22

      THIS! I am so sick of this idea that Shakespeare is high culture...only because it's in old timey speak that no one can understand. It would be like having The Fresh Prince of Bel Air considered fine art 500 years from now

    • @omg9261
      @omg9261 Před rokem +12

      ​@@lenawagenfuehr53 but he is deep, you can't deny that. That's why he is remembered and most of his other old timey fellows are not. He is considered high culture not because it's old, but because he is deep, existential and witty.

    • @omg9261
      @omg9261 Před rokem

      ​@@lenawagenfuehr53
      Also because he was brilliantly creative in his approach to language and to his craft.
      Your comment is weird and funny at the same time.
      On the one hand you sound weirdly triggered ("I'm so sick of this idea..."), like why do you care so much as to be so triggered by such a normal and simple thing?
      And on the other hand you demonstrate that you totally ignore Shakespeare's merits when you compare him with some Prince of bel air (btw wtf is it?).
      AS IF his works were considered great literature only because they are old. Like Wtf is wrong with you?? Triggered by a normal fact that Shakespeare is considered great literature loved by educated people and at the same time devaluing him like you did?

    • @JohahnDiechter
      @JohahnDiechter Před měsícem +1

      Most people would be standing for the whole play. These folk were referred to as groundings and as a person who stood through a short play, you would be too tired to be that rambunctious for long.

  • @c0rr0s10n
    @c0rr0s10n Před 4 lety +1034

    they hit us with a "hey nonny nonny" from robinhood men in tights.

    • @BeegtymeRawkstah
      @BeegtymeRawkstah Před 4 lety +10

      Ripping off Dave Chappelle is kinda their thing

    • @dimetronome
      @dimetronome Před 4 lety +159

      @@BeegtymeRawkstah They didn't rip off anyone here. "Hey nonny nonny" is a retrain used in Elizabethan music. It's actually more suited to this skit, which is set in the Elizabethan era (compared to Robin Hood Men in Tights, which is set in the Middle Ages).

    • @anthonygordon9483
      @anthonygordon9483 Před 3 lety +65

      Just to cut you all off. Men in tights was written by Mel Brooks who ripped of Elizabethan Music. Dave Chappelle had no say in the movie cause that was his first movie ever. Being in a Mel Brookes film for your first film is a helleth of a accomplishment. Even Dave admitted to that.

    • @josephmorris3778
      @josephmorris3778 Před 3 lety +42

      When I heard the "hey nonny nonny" I thought of "Much Ado About Nothing", actually.

    • @reedr7142
      @reedr7142 Před 3 lety +15

      "Hey nonny" was way before Robin Hood Men in Tights. They may have given an homage to Brooks' masterpiece, but it was probably alluding more to Shakespearean times.

  • @sloth4235
    @sloth4235 Před 4 lety +1254

    “You know I got a concealed Cornish hen up in my doublet”

    • @ShifuCareaga
      @ShifuCareaga Před 4 lety +28

      tis it fried?

    • @AceOfMem
      @AceOfMem Před 4 lety +12

      Yeeeet 👅

    • @wakiwama6348
      @wakiwama6348 Před 4 lety +7

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @luuketaylor
      @luuketaylor Před 4 lety +14

      And here I thought he was just happy to see me!

    • @nyubi007
      @nyubi007 Před 3 lety +11

      Had to stop the video for a 5min LOL session right there :D

  • @SgIronMan
    @SgIronMan Před 4 lety +411

    "You know I got a concealed Cornish game hen up in my doublet". Hahaha sneaking food into the theater is such a time honored tradition

    • @baloney2271
      @baloney2271 Před rokem +5

      Alloweth me to partaketh up in this bitch😂😂😂😂

  • @loqutor
    @loqutor Před 3 lety +458

    Mad respect that they mentioned Christopher Marlowe. That's some serious attention to detail.

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 Před rokem +4

      It they watched Shakespeare in Love

    • @zerog2000
      @zerog2000 Před rokem +16

      and of course the duo would "not purchase" that explanation, for Marlowe had his own mortal coil shuffled off nearly ten years prior to the writing of Othello ;)

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 Před rokem

      @@zerog2000 The Earl of Oxford, otoh, was still alive in 1603 ;).

    • @golds04
      @golds04 Před 11 měsíci

      Yup. 🎉🎉

    • @paulbuono5088
      @paulbuono5088 Před 5 měsíci

      Actually I think it would have been more accurate to mention Cinthio

  • @aaliyahkassim9142
    @aaliyahkassim9142 Před 3 lety +122

    " Moor please '! " take my wig just take it

  • @matth3w2002
    @matth3w2002 Před 4 lety +2266

    "Me thinks things are looking up for the people of the darker hue" Idk why this line makes me laugh.

  • @arda160
    @arda160 Před 4 lety +4049

    TIS THAT NOT THE Troubadour Kanye of the WEST. AHAHAHAA

    • @BobbyB910
      @BobbyB910 Před 4 lety +149

      My wife is reading a book across the room and she cracked up when she heard that

    • @SC-xf3mz
      @SC-xf3mz Před 4 lety +13

      😂😂😂

    • @diggitydoo5836
      @diggitydoo5836 Před 4 lety +59

      Mr.BlazinBudz . Why are you watching loud CZcams videos while your wife is trying to read?

    • @BobbyB910
      @BobbyB910 Před 4 lety +47

      David Ullman because she loves KP

    • @kourtneestroman
      @kourtneestroman Před 4 lety +3

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @zenfrodo
    @zenfrodo Před 4 lety +953

    Oh my gods. SOMEONE ACTUALLY USED "SIRRAH" CORRECTLY!!!
    That has to be a freakin' first in anything written after 1950.
    (For those who don't know, "sirrah" was NOT a medieval/Renaissance form of "sir". It wasn't an honorific. it wasn't...exactly...an insult, but it wasn't complimentary either. It was only used to address people you perceived as inferior, and it implied a shit-ton of contempt. K&P are the only folks I've heard use the word correctly, outside of Shakespeare and SCA events).

    • @spacepopeXIV
      @spacepopeXIV Před 3 lety +21

      That's interesting, I must have heard it from Shakespeare because I forgot about that word but I sort of guessed right on why he used it. This makes the sketch better.

    • @EdgeOfLight
      @EdgeOfLight Před 3 lety +4

      yeah it's used a lot in most of his plays.

    • @noticias6111
      @noticias6111 Před 3 lety +45

      Kind of like ironic use of the word 'buddy' when the person's tone is not friendly ?

    • @martabachynsky8545
      @martabachynsky8545 Před 3 lety +21

      I thought it was awesome when they used "sirrah". Very few people know its meaning. I've used it a couple of times in my life, and thought about using it a lot more (picked it up in SCA when I was in college); the people didn't know I was mildly insulting them. I've also used the British "two finger" sign to people who thought I was flashing a peace sign. 😁

    • @hellborne7995
      @hellborne7995 Před 3 lety +3

      So basically it's just one use of sir? Cuz modern day sir can be derogatory, complimentary, and implied contempt.

  • @chocothun1
    @chocothun1 Před 3 lety +66

    This is an accurate representation of what was going on in my head the first time I read Othello.

  • @VivaLaDnDLogs
    @VivaLaDnDLogs Před 4 lety +4291

    Can't get over how flawlessly they incorporate the period dialects into this skit!

    • @shockofthenew
      @shockofthenew Před 4 lety +57

      Seriously! This sketch is so satisfying to watch 😌

    • @ZippyDan
      @ZippyDan Před 4 lety +160

      I don't mean to ruin it for you, but the "period dialects" they include are completely wrong. Just as an example "I just speaketh about Shafte". The "eth" is basically the same as our modern-day "s" ending and would only be used for the third person, as in "he speaks/speaketh". The first person would be unchanged as compared to today: "I speak". Furthermore, the language Shakespeare used was often already old-fashioned for its time and only reserved for stage use, so it's unlikely that the audience members would speak in the same overly formal language as the actors.
      What Key & Peele are doing here is basically a parody of what most modern English-speaking people THINK Shakespeare's English sounded like, and in that context, I guess it's fine - they are comedians and this is comedy after all.

    • @VivaLaDnDLogs
      @VivaLaDnDLogs Před 4 lety +70

      @@ZippyDan I do appreciate the background info on period vernacular. Talking like the actors in a play you just watched is pretty common though. You ever left a James Bond movie with your own British accent? Or started dropping more f-bombs in a Boston accent after watching The Departed?

    • @alexandredesouza3692
      @alexandredesouza3692 Před 4 lety +6

      I can barely understand them and I love it. Pretty impressive how quickly they speak in full Olde English impressions.

    • @snowboarderdude123
      @snowboarderdude123 Před 4 lety +10

      Daniel Castellanos in the versions of this skit that take place now these two characters add s to words and names so I think it makes sense that speaketh was “misused”

  • @briank8809
    @briank8809 Před 4 lety +1444

    "F*cketh Yeah" and "Helleth Yes" could you guys be any funnier?

  • @typerexc
    @typerexc Před 3 lety +49

    "You know I got a concealed Cornish Game Hen up in my doublet."
    - Me, except it's Sour Patch Kids & Swedish Fish

    • @DeathBringer769
      @DeathBringer769 Před 2 lety +1

      I'd usually sneak some Milk Duds and a Baby Ruth bar, lol.

    • @brumhelldah917
      @brumhelldah917 Před 2 lety

      @@DeathBringer769 how could you? Milk duds? Baby Ruth? Me thinks it time thou must take thy farewell

  • @tonimartinez320
    @tonimartinez320 Před 3 lety +130

    James Callis plays a slimy weasel SO CONVINCINGLY that i feel like we innately don't trust him lmao

    • @SyzygyNoon
      @SyzygyNoon Před 3 lety +3

      I didn’t realize his eyes are always that shiny.

    • @dljennings
      @dljennings Před 3 lety +38

      Right when he popped on screen I was like “is that Gaius Baltar?!”

    • @williamkezmarr
      @williamkezmarr Před 3 lety +5

      He should do more comedy.

    • @Lafemmefutile
      @Lafemmefutile Před 3 lety +5

      @@dljennings Right, since Battlestar Galactica, he’s the face of deviousness and sneakiness. Always that person doing terrible things but acting like a victim.

    • @seandlax9
      @seandlax9 Před 3 lety +4

      I had to scroll too far for this. Sitting there staring at Shakespeare for like 5 minutes trying to figure out why he looked so familiar

  • @zenzeon
    @zenzeon Před 4 lety +6889

    I need a whole movie of this. Like a hood movie but everyone talks shakespearean.

  • @elizabethbryce4283
    @elizabethbryce4283 Před 4 lety +3145

    “A black man got it going on and you shuffle off his mortal coil???”

    • @1yabeyabe
      @1yabeyabe Před 4 lety +40

      Look at all the Hollywood movies. First one to go is always the black man.

    • @PolrisTired
      @PolrisTired Před 4 lety +1

      @42 jade Lmaoo you're not wrong

    • @PolrisTired
      @PolrisTired Před 4 lety +17

      @Yung You asked for it, buddy.
      Coming to theaters soon, "You don't look Puerto Rican" written by the whitest Hollywood writers out there

    • @Laura-Yu
      @Laura-Yu Před 3 lety +5

      All these follow up comments “How about MY race”🤦‍♀️

    • @halalisanizungu4509
      @halalisanizungu4509 Před 3 lety

      😂😂😂

  • @coosoorlog
    @coosoorlog Před 3 lety +780

    As a popular Shakespeare scholar who consumes most of his time on youtube, I have to say this sketch portrays the time and context of the Bard without fault.

    • @HiNinqi
      @HiNinqi Před 3 lety +6

      What would their outfits be labeled as? I'd like to sew some

    • @k.c1126
      @k.c1126 Před 3 lety +5

      The attitude was on point too.

    • @cheesecakelasagna
      @cheesecakelasagna Před 3 lety +7

      @@HiNinqi I know not of the specifics of the garments but the time period in which Shakespeare walked the earth in was Elizabethan.

    • @elisabethschmerzler963
      @elisabethschmerzler963 Před 2 lety +13

      @@HiNinqi The play wasn’t preformed until the James The Ist had already taken the throne in 1604, however since Elizabeth I had literally died the year before, I’d put it at late Tudor, Early Stuart, with an emphasis on Elizabethan and Jacobean style

    • @maximummatt73
      @maximummatt73 Před 2 lety +4

      God damn dude, you trippin

  • @Tommy-gw8ns
    @Tommy-gw8ns Před 3 lety +20

    “‘Tis mine as well, ‘tis mine as well”
    🤣🤣

  • @eckoh2889
    @eckoh2889 Před 4 lety +1399

    Troubadour Kanye of the West had me 💀💀
    Imagine if Sir Savage the 21st was there with Slim Shady of the 8th mile....

    • @mickcorless960
      @mickcorless960 Před 3 lety +128

      by the gods, he was The Slimmest of the Shady

    • @4no3bo3dy
      @4no3bo3dy Před 3 lety +79

      @@mickcorless960 (aside) Yet why protest his mother's spaghetti?

    • @Anxiou5Panda
      @Anxiou5Panda Před 3 lety +14

      His song Great Monster of the East is beautiful.

    • @fuferito
      @fuferito Před 3 lety +30

      And, the poet The Drake, kinsman of the adventurer and navigator, Sir Francis Drake.

    • @DragonBlack199
      @DragonBlack199 Před 3 lety +28

      And Jay of the Z or rather his more common name Sir Hov of the Roc Nation 😂

  • @brandondavidson4085
    @brandondavidson4085 Před 4 lety +397

    "And 'tis about tyme Shakespeare doth scriven the play that placeth a brotha amongst the firmament." Helleth yes.

  • @Tsuki570
    @Tsuki570 Před 3 lety +19

    “Where’s Shakespeares? Shakespeares?! Prithee, make way. Prithee. Make way. Be gone, sirrah!”

  • @TheMightyMcClaw
    @TheMightyMcClaw Před 3 lety +39

    Every second of this is beautiful. Like the East/West College Bowl skit or the Family Matters bit, this sketch is more about character work than it is about setting a punchline. You're never waiting for the joke to happen - the joke is happening continuously throughout the entire piece. The "punchline" - Shakespeare writing Shaft - is incidental.

  • @youdontknowme5980
    @youdontknowme5980 Před 4 lety +696

    "The troubadour Kanye of the West" haha i'm dying

    • @myrul233
      @myrul233 Před 4 lety +2

      that's my favourite line LMAO

    • @AminNazari666
      @AminNazari666 Před 4 lety +2

      What is troubadour?

    • @5quepasa
      @5quepasa Před 4 lety +12

      @@AminNazari666 Old timey word for traveling musician

    • @Darealkush8
      @Darealkush8 Před 4 lety

      Bruh 😂😂
      .
      czcams.com/video/M2y10J8QaLw/video.html

  • @babufits1584
    @babufits1584 Před 4 lety +307

    "Twas Marlowe!"
    "Nay, we doth not purchase it" 😭

  • @roniyarose9470
    @roniyarose9470 Před 10 měsíci +9

    I'm studying Othello in uni right now and was looking for free movie adaptations on youtube, gotta say this is the best version I could possibly stumble across.

  • @JehBasquiat
    @JehBasquiat Před rokem +8

    Lmao I didn't know Othello died until I had to play him in high school as the only black kid in the class lmfao

  • @katharinehorowitz1709
    @katharinehorowitz1709 Před 4 lety +621

    As someone who makes a living as a designer in theatre, which basically barely exists right now, this makes me so happy.

    • @katharinehorowitz1709
      @katharinehorowitz1709 Před 4 lety +3

      @M D Sound and music

    • @morehn
      @morehn Před 3 lety

      Have you ever heard of a woman last named Langer who is in costume design for Broadway shows?

    • @user-cn8me5nh8g
      @user-cn8me5nh8g Před 3 lety +3

      @@morehn Yeah, for sure, they're best friends. They name their kids after each other & tour historical theaters together in the summer

    • @morehn
      @morehn Před 3 lety +3

      @@user-cn8me5nh8g I had a sneaking suspicion. Thanks for confirming.

  • @RedLorryYellowLorry_
    @RedLorryYellowLorry_ Před 4 lety +84

    "Moor please" This one has got to be one of the best skits 😂😂

    • @jgavpercussion
      @jgavpercussion Před 4 měsíci

      wow years later and im finally understanding that line LOL

  • @bradybox
    @bradybox Před 4 lety +62

    "HE made the beast-with-two-backs with that comely white maiden" hhmmmmmmmm

  • @marvin3242
    @marvin3242 Před 3 lety +25

    Okay how is no one talking about the “Shafte” punchline??? That tambourine had me dying lmao

  • @simrsm5908
    @simrsm5908 Před 4 lety +373

    he said "MOOR PLEASE" that's just so brilliant :DDD

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 4 lety +16

      i want to give that line 10 thumbs up, but alas....

    • @MrSunbeam
      @MrSunbeam Před 4 lety +4

      Didn't get it, what does it mean?

    • @javicoca
      @javicoca Před 4 lety +3

      I didn't get that one. I'm a non native, could you explain a bit pls?

    • @sean668
      @sean668 Před 4 lety +38

      @@javicoca It's poking fun of the phrase "n**ga, please", which means something like "of course", but at the time "moor" was an English term for people of darker skintones, thus the renaissance English equivalent of "n**ga" (originally it meant Spanish Muslims but it became more generalized by Shakespeare's time)

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 4 lety +17

      @@MrSunbeam Moor's were dark skinned people, possibly from Northern Africa, Spanish, or a dark skinned Arab. So he would have stood out in Venice. The joke is replacing the n**** word, changing the common phrase "n**** please" to become "Moor, please". Hope that helps.

  • @Montesama314
    @Montesama314 Před 4 lety +619

    Centuries-old equivalent of hiding movie snacks in your coat pocket. Nice.

    • @seanrequiredfieldcannotbel1362
      @seanrequiredfieldcannotbel1362 Před 3 lety +2

      Noice!

    • @SyzygyNoon
      @SyzygyNoon Před 3 lety +1

      @@seanrequiredfieldcannotbel1362 Nooice?! NOOICE?!

    • @Lafemmefutile
      @Lafemmefutile Před 3 lety +1

      Went to movies with a guy who smuggled a whole burrito. SMH

    • @SyzygyNoon
      @SyzygyNoon Před 3 lety +1

      @@Lafemmefutile I know this is kind of an obvious reply, buy isn’t a burrito the easiest food for a guy to smuggle?

    • @horseman4now
      @horseman4now Před 3 lety +1

      @@SyzygyNoon Oh, you went there...

  • @RichardX1
    @RichardX1 Před rokem +5

    I read Othello my senior year in High School, and to this day I'm still pissed that Iago was still alive at the end of the play.

  • @sebandrews4395
    @sebandrews4395 Před 3 lety +33

    So we’re all in agreement that these are the ancestors of the Hotel dudes, right?

    • @tarajh
      @tarajh Před 3 lety +3

      Absolutely! The instant they broke into the sword fight reenactment ♡

    • @GarfieldiusPrime
      @GarfieldiusPrime Před 3 lety +1

      YES!

  • @ObiWanKenobean
    @ObiWanKenobean Před 4 lety +304

    I feel like Shakespeare himself would be proud of this art

    • @shihoblade
      @shihoblade Před 4 lety +14

      I would love Slick Willy and Kanye of the West to speak together about the arts.

  • @Jayfive276
    @Jayfive276 Před 4 lety +358

    Brother doth be dropping an uncensored m-word like it ain’t no thang.

  • @edjamaz4636
    @edjamaz4636 Před 3 lety +49

    “Methinks things are looking up for people of the darker hue”
    Uh oh

  • @10ksubsnovids
    @10ksubsnovids Před 4 lety +10

    Nothings better than watching a key and peele skit that you haven’t watched yet

  • @rantallaboutit
    @rantallaboutit Před 4 lety +549

    Im going to need a full series of them during this time period. The vocabulary and old English was just too good.

    • @yescyer3420
      @yescyer3420 Před 4 lety +4

      Seriously I'm here for it

    • @benvoliothefirst
      @benvoliothefirst Před 4 lety +4

      Can we get Brennan from Colleghumor and Adam Driver from Medieval Times to join?! czcams.com/video/2KKRiXcivAQ/video.html

    • @stiaangroenewald1573
      @stiaangroenewald1573 Před 3 lety +22

      This isn't old english this is early modern english

    • @MACK0142
      @MACK0142 Před 3 lety +11

      @@stiaangroenewald1573 Yes, Old English actually sounds almost German.

  • @zt1788
    @zt1788 Před 4 lety +87

    "Moor please!" genius

    • @garlicjr08
      @garlicjr08 Před 4 lety +6

      Might go over some heads

    • @Trazynn
      @Trazynn Před 4 lety +2

      Every single Dutch person picked up on that as in the Netherlands the Moors are a highly debated topic every day of the year.

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 4 lety +2

      this line was so gold!!!! i do not use the n** word, although i have been know to drop a 'negro please' here or there. i am gonna use 'moor please' until it becomes a thing. and if you say it fast, it really flows, almost like 'boy please'....'moor please'

    • @Juice4o2
      @Juice4o2 Před 4 lety

      Went over my head until I read this comment. Had to go back and listen to it.. Good catch 😂😂🤟🏽

    • @dwhite8997
      @dwhite8997 Před 4 lety +1

      @@garlicjr08 yes! I loved the line but knew most didn't get it🤣🤣🤣

  • @ejikemeuwaejelonu1935
    @ejikemeuwaejelonu1935 Před 4 lety +10

    The way he threw that bell killed me.

  • @thedragondemands5186
    @thedragondemands5186 Před 3 lety +7

    “Villain...I have _done_ thy mother”

  • @Karin_Allen
    @Karin_Allen Před 4 lety +686

    English teacher over here, rolling over the Christopher Marlowe joke and "Moor, please!"

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin Před 4 lety +18

      It was good, but I think it would've been better if they'd said Francis Bacon.

    • @Karin_Allen
      @Karin_Allen Před 4 lety +4

      @@roguishpaladin LOL!

    • @cosmicphoenix9342
      @cosmicphoenix9342 Před 4 lety +3

      Haha me too!!! Sans English teacher bit.

    • @Yilzzz
      @Yilzzz Před 4 lety +8

      Lol the merchant of Vince joke was good too!

    • @mehraj2729
      @mehraj2729 Před 4 lety +2

      Hey Karen

  • @danix4883
    @danix4883 Před 4 lety +790

    Did they just say “Moor pls” instead of n***a pls lmaooo

    • @dungdungpolo
      @dungdungpolo Před 4 lety +8

      It should've been "Moops pls"

    • @danix4883
      @danix4883 Před 4 lety +9

      dungdungpolo LMAOO I thought they said “moor” instead bc of the moor invasion into Europe during the medieval ages

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před 4 lety +39

      @@danix4883
      When Elizabethans used the term Moor, they were imagining Africans, not Arabs. Othello is a Moor in the play, but it's very clear from the description that he's a Black man.

    • @danix4883
      @danix4883 Před 4 lety +6

      David Bloom oh yes here in Spain we are still kinda ehh about Arabs bc of how they invaded Spain and it took us 700 years to get it back

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb Před 4 lety +14

      @@danix4883
      Built some beautiful buildings while they were there, though!

  • @newjerseyyouth4853
    @newjerseyyouth4853 Před 2 lety +5

    “I knew iago was up to something in the first act” not like he says that he’s up to something lol

  • @TheNorthie
    @TheNorthie Před rokem +11

    Now I want entire Key and Peele sketches devoted to these guys giving their reactions of plays.

  • @tallsmile28
    @tallsmile28 Před 4 lety +155

    "Tis not the Troubador Kanye of the West?"

  • @Noah-ge4kx
    @Noah-ge4kx Před 4 lety +96

    2:08 "Oh, 'tis that not the troubadour Kanye of the West?" bro my throat _hurts_ from laughing 😂😂

  • @drkFenix9
    @drkFenix9 Před 3 lety +12

    One of their best written skits. Been re-watching it again and again with subtitles on just to not miss any words. :D

  • @strongbongus
    @strongbongus Před rokem +3

    “begone sirrah”. perfect

  • @sumper_man
    @sumper_man Před 4 lety +565

    If you ever heard of Othello you’d think he was one heck of a fellow

    • @JohnWhiteHere
      @JohnWhiteHere Před 4 lety +5

      I never cared for him but Iago might be the biggest dick in Shakespeare

    • @ArmyFrog
      @ArmyFrog Před 4 lety +16

      The voice, deep and mellow, it’s far smoother than a cello.

    • @adad7421
      @adad7421 Před 4 lety +3

      Othello was a tight General bro

    • @sumper_man
      @sumper_man Před 4 lety +2

      Ad Ad he was a gent who rose from slavery to glory

    • @JohnWhiteHere
      @JohnWhiteHere Před 4 lety +2

      sumper man he was never a slave?

  • @arthikalexander316
    @arthikalexander316 Před 4 lety +376

    Everyone knows them as comedians..but these guys are really underrated as actors

    • @arthikalexander316
      @arthikalexander316 Před 4 lety +3

      @Serial Killa aren't NECESSARILY, meaning comedian CAN be bad actors, so presuming a good comedian to be a good actor as well wouldn't be right

    • @punkyprincesspop1237
      @punkyprincesspop1237 Před 3 lety +2

      They've acted before too, they were in Fargo I think

    • @jimmyredd
      @jimmyredd Před 3 lety +1

      @@punkyprincesspop1237 The scene where Key feeds Peele into the woodchipper always gets me.

    • @jayjaydubful
      @jayjaydubful Před 2 lety

      If I was a director they would be the leads in every single film, whatever the genre

    • @genocyber4842
      @genocyber4842 Před 2 lety +2

      Underrated? Literally always someone saying this under any video of theirs. We get it, they’re great actors.

  • @insignificantaftermathPROJECTS

    Its incredible how Key plays articulate family friendly characters in films and shows when not with Peele but he plays such great gangster characters in these skits.

  • @CryingFre
    @CryingFre Před 3 lety +4

    “Moor, please. You know I got a Cornish game-hen up in this doublet.”

  • @thndr_gazza2850
    @thndr_gazza2850 Před 4 lety +520

    "If I know Shakespeare, Othello is bouta kill everybody up in this bih!"

    • @MrAwesomepandas
      @MrAwesomepandas Před 4 lety +26

      Dumbasses XD, if they knew Shakespeare they'd know being the titular character is ass

    • @gamingsherlock1879
      @gamingsherlock1879 Před 3 lety +3

      Ironically only *read the play* 4 people died including the main character which is the least deaths in a Shakespeare play

    • @harmonicarchipelgo9351
      @harmonicarchipelgo9351 Před 3 lety +2

      @@gamingsherlock1879 *tragedy he also wrote comedies where nobody dies.

  • @aragorn1780
    @aragorn1780 Před 4 lety +303

    Can we just talk about how they actually combined AAVE with Shakespearean English and made it actually work?! XD

    • @lenawagenfuehr53
      @lenawagenfuehr53 Před rokem +6

      That's what Shakespeare is - popular culture from 500 years ago rammef down your throat because it's "fine art"
      In 500 years time kids will have to do courses on the "sophisticated wit of Benny Hill"

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 Před rokem +1

      Verily😅

    • @mintybadgerproductions
      @mintybadgerproductions Před rokem +4

      @@lenawagenfuehr53 Not really, firstly Shakespeare was a master of rhetoric and turning memorable phrases, and secondly unlike AAVE no one spoke Shakespearean English except for Shakespearean actors performing his plays. He wrote in verse, primarily iambic pentameter. You'd have to be the most articulate man in the world to speak like that regularly.

  • @thesagessaid9202
    @thesagessaid9202 Před rokem +23

    Methinks it’s about time we get a John Shaft play by the bard! Of course, it ought be a Jordan Peele horror production!

  • @josephyussuff7485
    @josephyussuff7485 Před 3 lety +7

    'Trifling ass Iago' is a phrase I'm going to incorporate a lot more in my life

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 2 lety

      mine include "verily that" and "moor, please!"

  • @velorn8927
    @velorn8927 Před 4 lety +197

    Funny how the clothing here is much more historically accurate then in 99% of the movies set in that time period

  • @likespurple2261
    @likespurple2261 Před 4 lety +900

    As a high. school English teacher, I appreciate the humor as well as all the Elizabethan references that indicate how really educated Key & Peele
    are. Great job, guys.

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 2 lety +10

      agreed. they are brilliant on so many levels.

    • @jonpoon3896
      @jonpoon3896 Před 2 lety +33

      Well, Keegan is a classically trained Shakespearean actor. He’s done Othello

    • @cjheaford
      @cjheaford Před 2 lety +35

      As a high school English teacher, you made at least 2 punctuation errors and one usage error in those 2 sentences.

    • @cleverusername9369
      @cleverusername9369 Před rokem

      If you're an English teacher, we're all fucked. That sentence was a train wreck.
      "How really educated"?
      Good lord.

    • @alephmale3171
      @alephmale3171 Před rokem +5

      @@cjheaford They may have made syntactical errors, but they’ve not made any semantical errors.

  • @claytonjewett320
    @claytonjewett320 Před rokem +2

    "We doth not purchase it slick willy, we doth not purchase it."
    😂😂

  • @GlenRwodzi97
    @GlenRwodzi97 Před 3 lety +2

    “We doth not purchase it”🤣🤣

  • @dennesey
    @dennesey Před 4 lety +482

    They should have snagged Sammy Jackson for a Shaft cameo.

  • @frostykid9999
    @frostykid9999 Před 4 lety +214

    They knew Kanye West before Kanye West knew himself.

    • @HotaruZoku
      @HotaruZoku Před 4 lety +7

      To be fair
      Does Kanye know Kanye?

    • @Darealkush8
      @Darealkush8 Před 4 lety +1

      😂😂😂
      .
      czcams.com/video/M2y10J8QaLw/video.html

    • @DeadlyDanDaMan
      @DeadlyDanDaMan Před 4 lety +2

      Well, apparently Kanye is literal God, so he's been around for ever. That's according to Kanye at least. And no, I'm not joking. Kanye literally thinks he's God. He's batshit insane.

  • @larkermouse
    @larkermouse Před 3 lety +50

    I love how quiet all the white folks are coming out of "Shafte".

    • @warpnin3
      @warpnin3 Před 3 lety +7

      They behaved normally; It's Key and Peele who were noisy!😄

    • @KingZoneOne
      @KingZoneOne Před 3 lety +4

      I love how the theme song was soft and "pipey", like it was being played with recorders 🤣

  • @I_am_milan
    @I_am_milan Před 3 lety +6

    Their chemistry is amazing. They get each other.

  • @test-jt5el
    @test-jt5el Před 4 lety +471

    They never stop, these skits go on until infinity and beyond

  • @luvotheoduntsu708
    @luvotheoduntsu708 Před rokem +3

    "Shakespeare: Oh is that not The Troubadour Kanye of The West!?" Kills me every time😂🤣🤣.

  • @Worthley11
    @Worthley11 Před rokem +1

    "we doth not purchase it" is such an amazing phrase

  • @amirhaddadi4600
    @amirhaddadi4600 Před 4 lety +38

    "We doth not purchase it, slick willy." I'm dead yall 😂😂😂

  • @xeroxsos3659
    @xeroxsos3659 Před 4 lety +64

    "I say unto thee that's a tragedy"
    Damn son, thou got thath floweth

  • @typerexc
    @typerexc Před 3 lety +5

    One couldst maketh a dissertation of the Doctorate on the plethora of comedic jewels dispersethed in this sketch alone.

  • @silverhawk8699
    @silverhawk8699 Před 3 lety +2

    There's no way in hell-eth these two aren't the previous incarnations of the valet duo

  • @ANGELILYworks
    @ANGELILYworks Před 4 lety +275

    Hey nonny nonny talkin' hey nonny nonny

    • @ishmaelvilmenay3340
      @ishmaelvilmenay3340 Před 4 lety

      Still wondering how dat start, was it from the indian skits?

    • @amandah.6728
      @amandah.6728 Před 4 lety +10

      @@ishmaelvilmenay3340 Uh, it's literally a song from the Elizabethan era.

    • @RebornLegacy
      @RebornLegacy Před 4 lety

      This feels like a qualuude!

    • @ishmaelvilmenay3340
      @ishmaelvilmenay3340 Před 4 lety

      @@RebornLegacy for real? It's not from their skits??

    • @RebornLegacy
      @RebornLegacy Před 4 lety

      @@ishmaelvilmenay3340
      Yes, the word nonny is kind of like the "na na na" that's used in sings today.

  • @miawallace2306
    @miawallace2306 Před 4 lety +85

    Wow. This sketch has SO MUCH dialogue and had a lot of long takes. Key and Peele really are tremendous actors/writers.

  • @EvilFookaire
    @EvilFookaire Před 4 lety +3

    1:05 "Moor please!" - Jesus christ.... you guys can have me!

  • @liesbethann
    @liesbethann Před 3 lety +5

    This sketch is perfection. Thank you K&P. You guys should do a Shakespeare comedy film.

  • @PartialVeil
    @PartialVeil Před 4 lety +67

    "You heard the Ursher" got me dead.

    • @katrinab7657
      @katrinab7657 Před 2 lety +2

      i just heard this. i had watched it like six times before. so many great lines. so much to unpack.

  • @annexius504
    @annexius504 Před 4 lety +1080

    'Tis clear now. Every generation doth hath a Kanye Of The West of their owneth.

    • @kalexander777
      @kalexander777 Před 4 lety +12

      Same Kanye, like Keanu he's a vampire.

    • @zeffery101
      @zeffery101 Před 4 lety +4

      verily. ve-ruh-lee.

    • @AceOfMem
      @AceOfMem Před 4 lety +3

      Thou Speaketh Lies!!!!!!!!!

    • @hahashreyaspp
      @hahashreyaspp Před 3 lety +1

      haha, brilliant use of words!

    • @garcalej
      @garcalej Před 3 lety +11

      Forsooth, I do not favor this Kanye. His pride goes before his good sense, his vanity before his wisdom. He doth walk as one who is not of mere flesh, but a god amidst the chaff, yet he hath the head of a fool, and his Persian mistress hath the airs of one born to great fame, though she can boast of no such talents herself, but hath lain with so many such as to make no difference.

  • @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne
    @AdrianMartinez-gq7ne Před 2 lety +5

    After studying Othello in a literature class, I can't help but love this lol

  • @elizamcclain207
    @elizamcclain207 Před 3 lety +6

    This needs to be a whole movie. Lmao

  • @moonzipper739
    @moonzipper739 Před 4 lety +237

    “Me thinks things are looking up for people of the darker hue”

    • @black76561
      @black76561 Před 4 lety +1

      👏🏾👏🏾

    • @BlaqueTyrone
      @BlaqueTyrone Před 4 lety

      Oh, how wrong they were. 😥

    • @wiseguy01
      @wiseguy01 Před 4 lety +6

      @Mr Ross How dumb are you? scale of one to ten?

    • @selkie5041
      @selkie5041 Před 4 lety

      @@wiseguy01 😂😂😂 this killed me

  • @olamideadio
    @olamideadio Před 4 lety +72

    "Is that not the troubadour Kanye of the West" had me in stitches.

  • @ariesmp
    @ariesmp Před rokem +1

    "Its about Time Shakespeare doeth scriven the play that places a brother amongst the firmament". Best line ever.

  • @SuperlunarNim
    @SuperlunarNim Před rokem

    It doesn't matter how many times YT recommends me this video, I watch it every single time. It's like a piece of music or something, such a perfect sketch.

  • @HartatySirait_hidamari
    @HartatySirait_hidamari Před 4 lety +45

    Now, I'm feeling more cultured than 3 minutes 16 seconds ago.

  • @TheLamana39
    @TheLamana39 Před 4 lety +26

    "We doth not purchase it slick willie, we doth not purchase it!" Lmao

  • @gatsbygaming_gg
    @gatsbygaming_gg Před 4 lety +5

    "We doth not purchase it" 😂🤣

  • @KaritKtana
    @KaritKtana Před 3 lety +17

    "you'd be talking to a skull right now" - ah I see what you did there 😉

  • @eplanti
    @eplanti Před 4 lety +89

    gotta love baltar, he can play the guy who's tossed around for everyone else's pettiness without breaking a sweat... while actually breaking a sweat