Selected Great Books Humor Videos
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A Small Rewrite
5:50 Rowan Atkinson & Hugh Laurie Shakespeare and his editor put the finishing touches on Hamlet.
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The Death of Socrates
3:59 Steve Martin “It was always: ‘Socrates, what is truth? Socrates, what is the nature of the good? Socrates, what should I order?’”
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The Philosophers’ Football Match
3:47 Monty Python The heavyweights of Germany and Greece battle for domination at the 1972 Olympics.
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Marcus Aurelius Does Stand Up
0:51 Michael Connell "Hey, you know what annoys me? ... Nothing!"
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The Shakesperian Baseball Game
7:50 Wayne & Shuster A slightly abridged version of a classic sketch.
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Rinse the Blood Off My Toga
7:56 Wayne & Shuster Flavius Maximus, private Roman eye, investigates the “Julius Caesar Caper.”
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Brush Up Your Shakespeare
4:59 Cole Porter From Act II of Kiss Me, Kate.
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Who Doth Inhabit the Primary ...
8:57 David Foubert & Jay Leibowitz An adaptation of the classic routine made popular by Abbott and Costello.
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Men on Books
4:12 Damon Wayans & David Alan Grier A skit from In Living Color that “looks at great literature from the past and present ... from a male point of view.”
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Origin of Love
5:09 Stephen Trask Adaptation of the myth told in Plato’s Symposium from the movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
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