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Television comedy impressionist series originating on radio. Includes a sketch in which Trisha (the host of the studio participation show TRISHA) interviews a yobbish and inarticulate Hamlet (Culshaw in...
Television comedy sketch show. Includes a two-minute sketch, written in Shakespearean English, which satirises the BBC television soap opera COMPACT about magazine publishers.
US live anthology drama series.
BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
Television advertisement for Barclay’s Bank made as part of the company’s Fluent in Finance campaign. Samuel L. Jackson recites some lines, an approximation of The Comedy of Errors (I, ii l260) `Upon my...
Television comedy drama. A Hollywood film star is playing the lead in a New York stage production of Hamlet. While rehearsing the ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy he is stabbed in the neck with a quill. It...
Television recording of the ‘circus’ production performed live at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Centre, New York City in June 1987. This vaudeville production included circus acts from the Flying...
Television comedy sketch and music show. In one 4-minute sketch Lulu as Anne Hathaway and Les Dawson as Shakespeare enact a sketch which concludes with them singing ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ from Kiss...
A televised adaptation of Clifford Williams’ Royal Shakespeare Company stage production that was still running at the Aldwych Theatre when it was broadcast. Donald Sinden is the Duke of Ephesus, Ian...
Television comedy show hosted by Arthur Askey. This edition includes a running gag where Askey wants to prove himself a serious actor and quotes the ‘quality of mercy’ speech from The Merchant of Venice...
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