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Besting the Bard
It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no…
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It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no chance to best them. We'll do fine. We got this. Brad actually has to. It should have been Brad Best the Bard. Yes. Okay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read a quote from a Shakespeare play. Both Brad and Ryan. Were you going to call him Rad? That's how he was going to call me Rad.
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Winner: Ryan
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Was Brad(ley)'s concept better or was Ryan's execution better?
That sounds fun. Quick point of order. What is a monologue? Just talking. Just one character talking. Oh.
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Brad(ley)?
Mary Wise of Windsor? I don't know what that is. I'm just going to help you out, Brad. You will have heard of the plays that I'm going to pick.
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Brad(ley), what is Midsummer's Night Dream?
Okay. It's July 12th. Summer's going great. The main character, his name is Johnny O. Okay? Johnny O, he had a hot dog.
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Ryan Sansone, would you like to enact that for us?
Yeah. I think now I'm just trying to make it hard for Ryan. Oh, Johnny-O. What a terrible name. Just to be clear, Brad gave me, I'm doing a monologue of a guy in a coma.
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I gotta tell you, Brad(ley), the hot dog element, was that in your thing?
Yes. Oh, interesting. I think this is like when you're in high school and you read, like, Romeo and Juliet, and it just is completely flat and lifeless and you get nothing out of reading the words.
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Brad(ley)?
Othello? Oh, I was going to go that route as well. I will go with Hamlet. This was Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. Out of a bitch.
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Brad(ley)?
I think that's Hamlet. I think that's Othello. Ding, ding, ding. Well, much like Macbeth. Oh, is Macbeth not Hamlet? The prophecy has come true.
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Were you going to call him Rad?
That's how he was going to call me Rad.
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And then I will award points to either one of you, depending on who did it better.
Was Brad's concept better or was Ryan's execution better?
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What is a monologue?
Just talking.
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You think voices aren't happening?
I mean, like, different voices for each character.
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King Lear is about an elderly king who divides his kingdom among his daughters, and then they reject him.
And he's just out.
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Mary Wise of Windsor?
I don't know what that is.
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Why'd you give me a chance if we got it right?
If you answered the same answer and you were both right, you'd both get a point.
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I know how Curtis thinks.
All right.
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Ah, the game's afoot, huh?
Our revels now have ended.
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Brad, what is Midsummer's Night Dream? · Okay.
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Ryan, would you like to enact that for us? · Yeah.
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I gotta tell you, Brad, the hot dog element, was that in your thing? · Yes.
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Oh, is Macbeth not Hamlet? · The prophecy has come true.
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- It's a segment we're calling Besting the Bard. Oh, that's a good name. I thought this was a Brad segment. I thought this was Besting the Brad. No. I quickly read that. I was like, oh, yeah, Besting the Brad. Yeah. That's too easy. That's too easy. Let's instead try to best the most prolific author of all time. I can't even say it. We're in trouble. We have no chance to best them. We'll do fine. We got this. Brad actually has to. It should have been Brad Best the Bard. Yes. Okay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to read a quote from a Shakespeare play. Both Brad and Ryan. Were you going to call him Rad? That's how he was going to call me Rad.
- Participants assume characters and perform an unscored role-play.
- And then Ryan will have to do an impromptu Shakespearean monologue or soliloquy, I should
- But then they have to deal with this other dude named Arthur Franzarelli.
- For the record, you don't have to encompass everything he said.
- You don't have to recreate that movie.
- He doesn't even have to go to rehab.
- And by the way, is what you need to do next time to win just play better?