Benedict Cumberbatch reads a letter about crabs (not the kind you eat)
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2021
- Benedict Cumberbatch reads Patrick Leigh Fermor's letter to his lover Ricki Huston about potentially giving her crabs.
Originally performed at the Union Chapel, London. - Zábava
That may well be the most mellifluous apology for transmitting genital parasites in the history of human discourse.
A mighty challenge for the generations which follow.
And I was thinking intercourse
“dis” is not the only course in play.
"Knowing the highest when they saw it they struck , and who wouldn't" 😂😂😂I'm dying 😂😂😂🤣
Wonder how he ended up with crabs with sweet talk like that 🤣
"lunar tyranny" is my new favorite euphemism.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. 😂 Half asleep and almost missed it.
What would you take it to mean?
@@jacktough menstruation
As much as I enjoy (the euphemism) Shark Week, 'lunar tyranny' is fabulous.
Honestly I don’t know if I would be upset with him about the crabs after this beautifully written letter. I would however be much more upset about the carnal studying having been undertaken in Paris.
The whole point of the letter is that she didn't get them from him, she got them from someone else
I hear ‘friends with benefits’. 😂 and…..crabs!
Dear Sirs, Earlier today, I found myself bereft and blue, wandering the lonely paths behind my yet winter shrouded fields, contemplating the emptiness of my purse and if all might be better if I continued on.... and then I found this post.
Thank you!
I wish people still wrote letters with this kind of language....
I thought I had crabs once but after studying them under a magnifying glss I noticed they were not walking sideways So they must have been lobsters
Thank you.
Lice
@@sounsure9108 duh. It's a very old joke.
You and Jayne Mansfield.
I just watched Benedict Cumberbatch read a humorous letter about pubic lice...
What bizarre rabbit hole did I fall down??
🙃😆
I don't know, but did you pass any penguins along the way? 😜
@@Karin_Allen 😆🐧🐧🐧
I weep for today's children, who will never find a packet of old, forgotten emails in a box in a closet.
Many of my friends (we're in our early/mid-twenties) write each other letters. Some thoughts are better on paper than texting or on the phone, and no matter how digitalized this world is becoming, some things that are analogue (like film, a vinyl, or a book) will always be appreciated no matter what.
Yea, we got all messages we've ever sent in our pocket for the most part. Many save significant ones (such as "i may have given you crabs") to dig up at a later date on old phones, drives, cloud storages etc... So seize your weeping boomer, we just stopped using paper.
Hear hear!
True. I did write a real letter recently though
I have a thumb drive and a twisted sense of humor . Don't be so sure 😂
God I wish we still got great letters in the mail😢. What a loss
Send letters and ye shall receive letters.
That voice, that beautiful, gorgeous voice. What a delight to listen to his reading.
Gorgeous voice with a gorgeous man attached to it
I could listen aaaaalllll day
Debby Martens: For your consideration, I offer the following three names of persons gifted with divine vocal attributes: Richard Burton the actor, Peter O'Toole, and Alan Rickman.
He narrates a 5+hr audiobook...Casanova. It was here on CZcams last time I looked.
“Lunar tyranny.” Dead.
I miss him reading letters live. I make his voice as my lullaby. It's just so calming and joyful to hear it. Not to mention his cute reactions! I love hiiim! 😍
He is beautiful!!
@@Babesinthewood97 Completely agree with you both. I just love him too! :)
Same for me! 🥰
So I'm not the only person like that 😂
there are audiobooks by him on youtube , sherlock for sure..
He reads as if though he really had crabs at the moment.
that's a really great actor. Hope he never did. haha
That's such a pathetic unoriginal comment.
A Sherlock movie with Hugh Laurie as Mycroft working on a case would be wonderful. Well done to Benedict and the author- most entertaining.
Could listen to him for hours 💕
I do..Iol....have audiobooks with him reading,heavenly voice.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
I am lucky to live in a world where letters exist... 🎈✨
I think that letters are the best time travelers... 😌
The same sheet of paper can be held by two different people belonging to two different era .....Kind of magic 🪄
It is magical. I used to write multiple letters a week. It inspires me to get my pen and paper out.
@@AnnabellaRedwood Yes✅....can’t agree anymore 💕... I find it brilliant to get in touch with people all around the world 🌎 using a pen and a paper....
I always rely on their magic to interact with people all over the world 😊
He is so very talented.
Who says Embarrassed???
Absolutely marvelous Mr Cumberbatch!!
You have to love the British sense of humor
Don't ya mean humour?
The letters i heard being read, were really well written and well acted, and mostly hilarious even when the subject wasn't. Very happy i found this channel!
Thank you Benedict for your vocal voice x
I so want to hear the response
I imagine something less civilized
We definitely don't write like thus any more. Excellent.
OMG!! This man! Oh, how I love him!!
I like the way Benedict says, "...darling".
He’s so brilliant.
I'm just glad it wasn't about penguins!
Penwin 🐧😂🤣😂
I hope he and others return to do more Sherlock (and that it's good)...
What an awesome show!
I could seriously listen to Benedict Cumberbatch ( Bandersnatch? Crotcheyscratch?......) read aloud from a receipt from CVS.
I also call him Bandersnatch! Long live Alice ;-)
Its Benadryl Cumberbund actually..!
Benylin Thundercrack
Crabbysnatch
Bellylick Caddyshack?
The person who uploaded this video is my new long distance BFF
Much love from a Cumberbitch in Indonesia 🥰
Agree! - a member of the CumberCollective
@@mariag.8242 Imagine someone growing a Cucumber Batch, punning on BC's name, in their backyard.
Benediiiiiict!!!!😃
Oh how I do miss letters. All lost thanks to chatt and email. I’d take a personal postcard any day over the ”correspondence” of this age.
Nothing to stop you from writing them. I regularly write them, on good paper and with a proper fountain pen. I once had an email from the recipient of a letter saying that they wished they could reply by letter but didn't know how.
@@michaelmontagu3979 what?! That's truly unbelievable...
I write, by hand, but not letters. I do send the odd postcard when travelling. I always have a notebook for drawings, notes, ideas, lists and adresses/contacts. If you ever had a phone crash and your cloud account dissappear for mystifying reasons, you never put yourself in a position of total trust in digital records again. So many of my friends around the world have private numbers only the closest receive its a nightmare and almost impossible to recover all that can be lost for no acceptible reason.
But where I live, people just don't write to one another anymore, exept texting and emails.
We even do our taxes, take public transportation, handle all banking, book the gym, laundry, doctors appointments groceries and verify our identification, plus much of the social interaction, and anything you can think of, using chatt, secure apps, QR codes, etc and if absolutely necessary, video calls or video conferences. We are all expected to carry this around carry in our phones. Nowadays even keyboards aren't necessary, you can easily manage all this with an ipad or just a phone and your thumb.
And everything is geared towards it. Since people rarely speak to strangers (if it can be avoided) and rarely write if not actual writers or academic students (also using computers naturally) and our national postal service was privatized and only delivers twice a week, it's kind of over, the era of writing by hand, on stationary, since several decades.
And I miss that part of our culture. Something important has been left behind. Also peoples ability to express themselves, their vocabulary, nuance, and general easy and elegance of social irl interactions have been severely depleted. Notnto mention the ability to read discerningly. Understand subtext, composition, language, even simple punctuation. Language has become far less personal, the phrasing. The temptation to use your thumb and hit send has corrupted everything. Which is why most people on social media seem to have the maturity of thirteen yearolds.
I'm aware that just by making this statement, I reveal I'm far beyond middle aged. I'm fifty-four years old but in this aspect feel like eighty-four.
And writing this with my thumb, on a very Chinese made smartphone I must soon exchange, bc dealimg with Chinese concepts of related issues and foreign languages isn't working for me.
Life is "more convenient" in some ways, but also very depleted of the everyday adventure it was to live, love, travel, a be open to the world and surprized by constant discoveries and spontaneousness that came with meeting the world in real life, without the algorithm, the reviews, the photos and everything preordered to a tee. I'm afraid I'm an anachronistic representative of my generation, at least here in Scandinavia.
I even have huge bookshelves full of actual novels and reference literature. Only the professional writers I know do. Everyone else got rid of books many years ago. I can't even find a proper CD player for my old mother, bc they are long since redundant. I suppose all this is merely transitional, and 50 years from now the way people work and interact will be altogether quite different. A new era.
I won't be around to see it, but hope it's different than this.
For all the convenience and "time saved", I still think human beings and society in general was better off before the efficiant digital universe as we know it ruled everything. People feel more alienated than ever, because this wasn't a healthy development. At least not as it appears today.
I feel immeasurably grateful for my early youth, travelling around the world, before all this.
I love my Benedict.
Reminds me of Groucho Marx book of letters , most excellent and hilarious!
I love this letter.
This is hilarious!!!!! 😂😂😂
Benedict!!!!!!!!
Brilhante apresentação. Parabéns por este excelente trabalho de leitura de cartas. Incrível!
Please forgive my ignorance, is this written in Portuguese?
@@cleverusername9369 Yes, portuguese
@@mariamartamarcolinocava1551 what a lovely language
@@cleverusername9369 Yes. The brazilian language is very beautiful. Difficult, but beautiful.
What a beautifully written letter.
Good Gods. Does ANYONE write like that anymore? Mastery of the language.
Hitchens could have pulled it off perhaps.
Well, this is especially florid. But I know a couple people who come close in our correspondence
I just found this channel, where have I been
Benedict ❤️
Not the kind you eat! HAHA
Brilliant
More than rice in those Paddy Fields 🍀😂
Your verbosity is superior .
The conjectural society dance of dialogue.
Now we have
direct emotions in one word.
Love your mind
Oh Benedict...
Translation:
"I'm a shameless root rat".
😂🤣😂
At Union Chapel 🙏
🦀
The pause after "crabs" was painful. Was the audience even listening?
The letter is much wittier than the title suggests.
Well darn I kinda want to see what the response to that was
We have lost our sense of humour haven't we.... we really have... what a shame email and smart phones were ever invented to make us sooooo busy that we have no time for such things...and the vocabulary we have truly lost...... it was hilarious and so very well read.
Crabs? He's lucky he's never been to Christmas Island...
Fabulously appropriate OTTT performance.
Not sure if it will fit well into his CV for when he gets 'Sirred' - but don't see why not.
You mean knighted.
@@pauljordan4452 I knew that. 'Sirred' used deliberately.
Have no idea who gave crabs to whom but it sounded wonderful.
"Choose Love" :D
👍Hi from “Peppermint Patty.” There is a song Call Your Ships to Port you ought to try to sing with.
Oh my stars 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wasn't Ricki Huston Angelica Huston's mother? Patrick Leigh Fermor's letters were always delightful reads.
Imagine Raymond Reddington reading this
Was really hoping this was about crustaceans.
he gave John Huston's wife crabs? 🤣
No pueden poner subtitulos en español?
This was a better performance than his screen Richard III.
Ouch....
I loved his performance on Richard III
Anyone knows how can I go to these "letters live" events?
Probably when everyone is vaccinated and we return to normal
The Brits do this sooooo well!!!!!
Eggs Benedict Cabbage Patch
Bellylick Caddyshack?
omg!! so funny
it's possible he made up the crabs and the affair to frighten his lover enough not to try to be with anybody else while they are apart.
Where did he find this fabulous letter?!
Why does this sound like it’s written by George from BlackAdder?
When is this from
I would guess somewhere in the 1890-1940 range, English writer, middle class
Mums the wo😂😂😂😂
I like it but have a bit of trouble keeping up with the metaphors .. sometimes I'm not exactly sure to what he was referring
Benedict Cumberbatch is probably so polite, even if he has a T-shirt and a zipper hoodie on he still wears a shirt underneath it
Why a fog machine ?
Sooo....he got pubic lice by cheating on her, passed it on to her, and can't stand the thought she might have got it from someone else? The double standard! This letter was hilarious, but I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot barge pole after this. Yikes!
her?
@@davidpatterson3475 Ricki Huston, female.
Yet the apology is so well constructed you can nearly overlook the affrontery.
Uhm... I'm pretty sure this person is implying that it didn't come from them and that they have very much assured themselves of such by conducting a formal investigation.
Also not sure there is even a single line about not standing the idea of the recipient getting it from someone else? The only thing that comes close to it is a thing we call 'I'm perfectly sure it could have only been my fault' which is a polite way of saying 'I'm pretty sure you fucked up'.
@@Salted_Fysh 3:16 "I couldn't bear it to be anybody but me."
The words were spoken, though I rather suspect they were a barbed euphemism for "I know it definitely wasn't me and you totally cheated on me."
they gave him This This!! to read?? Only he could pull it off & make it sound so wonderful. Is that the hint of a grey hair in the front? He can pull that off too.
He _chose_ it. He’s a Director of _Letters Live._
@@221b-Maker-Street thanks. Good to know. He does seem to love these events as do we. He even did one on his past birthday. That's saying something for sure.
Just because you can cut from camera to camera every second or so doesn't mean you must.
That’s acting!
Try neem oil
The girl on 0:09 is a mood
Insane mood?
What?
My hub is a brilliant Englishman that writes the best sarcastic letters to idiotic companies that do and say,
idiotic things! This BRILLIANT ACTOR should read my hub's letter that's full of very subtle sarcastic scathing 'content.'
Let's face it, he's an odd looking fella.
Can't be real letter surely lol
Pretty sure they are all real!
These performances started in 2017, the last was in 2020.
I think it is...
Nope 👎