A Shakespearean Baseball Game

Xenophon · 04-14-2009, 12:36 PM

If you like baseball, you should watch this video.
If you like Shakespeare, you should watch this video.
If you like classic humor, you should watch this video.

Here at youtube.

Xenophon

RWood · 04-14-2009, 12:57 PM

Cute. Wayne & Schuster were everywhere in the late 50s and early 60s.

Parts of it were also included in the Firesign Theater early 1970s album "TV or Not TV"

Xenophon · 04-14-2009, 01:13 PM

My favorite of their routines is "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga!" which is a rework of Julius Caesar as though it had been written by Mickey Spillane (of The Maltese Falcon fame), and then done up as a TV detective show. But I do not recommend the version of that routine that is up on youtube -- it's been butchered!

I have an old Wayne and Shuster LP that includes audio-only versions of both of these sketches, along with "I Was a TV Addict" (a thoroughly forgettable true-confessions style routine) and "Frontier Psychiatrist" (a sendup of a totally stereotyped Freudian analyst in the Old West).

A few quotes from FP:
"This program is respectfully dedicated to those brave pioneers -- the Frontier Psychiatrists -- who brought mental health to the West!"

"Tell me... When did you first discover you hated your horse?" <--Viennese accent
"I don't hate my horse!" <--bad "cowboy" accent
"Then when did you first discover your horse hated you?"

and on, and on.

Xenophon

digitalzen · 04-14-2009, 03:44 PM

This actually reminds me a ton of the Conan O'Brian 1864 baseball skit --
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd1...-1864-baseball

04-14-2009, 12:36 PM	#1
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,481 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	A Shakespearean Baseball Game If you like baseball, you should watch this video. If you like Shakespeare, you should watch this video. If you like classic humor, you should watch this video. Here at youtube. Xenophon

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04-14-2009, 12:57 PM	#2
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Cute. Wayne & Schuster were everywhere in the late 50s and early 60s. Parts of it were also included in the Firesign Theater early 1970s album "TV or Not TV"

04-14-2009, 01:13 PM	#3
Xenophon curmudgeon Posts: 1,481 Karma: 5748190 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Redwood City, CA USA Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500	My favorite of their routines is "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga!" which is a rework of Julius Caesar as though it had been written by Mickey Spillane (of The Maltese Falcon fame), and then done up as a TV detective show. But I do not recommend the version of that routine that is up on youtube -- it's been butchered! I have an old Wayne and Shuster LP that includes audio-only versions of both of these sketches, along with "I Was a TV Addict" (a thoroughly forgettable true-confessions style routine) and "Frontier Psychiatrist" (a sendup of a totally stereotyped Freudian analyst in the Old West). A few quotes from FP: "This program is respectfully dedicated to those brave pioneers -- the Frontier Psychiatrists -- who brought mental health to the West!" "Tell me... When did you first discover you hated your horse?" <--Viennese accent "I don't hate my horse!" <--bad "cowboy" accent "Then when did you first discover your horse hated you?" and on, and on. Xenophon

04-14-2009, 03:44 PM	#4
digitalzen Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 202 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: none	This actually reminds me a ton of the Conan O'Brian 1864 baseball skit -- http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd1...-1864-baseball

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