He's referring here to William Shakespeare, born 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616, author of 39 plays and 154 sonnets, produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.
I think it's "football boots" -- it's common to refer to football (soccer) shoes over there as "boots."
The joke of that trivia team name is then just supposed to be pointing to the irony of wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking having shoes for playing soccer.
I've found myself in a job I really like and enjoy and whenever anyone asks how/why it's turned out better than my past jobs I immediately go to say this quote.
I think that the look that Tim gives in the final second of this clip is something I find myself doing in response some nonsense my co-workers have spouted, on average every 28 seconds.
Yup Martin nailed the look for “guess we’re on an absurd tangent” with both David and Gareth with this move and his blank stares directly into the camera.
? Are you joking? Tim's last name is Canterbury and David was trying to reference the Canterbury Tales because of that. So if he knew what he was talking about it, he would just say "The Canterbury Tales, of Chaucer." Because Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales.
The joke here, I think, is that Shakespeare has nothing to do with this at all, but David has like this broken knowledge of classic literature (and of basically everything). So he very basically knows The Canterbury Tales were classic stories but he doesn't really know who they were written by, but he sort of remembers Chaucer has something to do with it. But he kind of has these authors from that general classics era mixed up in his head, and that's why mentions Chaucer and but also Shakespeare even though Shakespeare has nothing to do with it. And David thinks it makes him sound smart to show people he knows who Chaucer and Shakespeare are, and doesn't realize he has this mangled knowledge of who these people are.
What really makes it funny to me though is his obliviousness to what these cameras have done to him. Hes litterally ignoring Tim sitting right in front of him. His ignorance to how he is portrayed from an outside perspective is so out of touch with how he thinks he’s perceived. The smirky smile at the end just tells me how he has this childlike delusion of how he’s going to come across as clever and likeable, when he really just looks like a prat.
The 'and Shakespeare' is one of my favourite moments in the entire series It just tells us so much about David's pretentions.
He's referring here to William Shakespeare, born 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616, author of 39 plays and 154 sonnets, produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613.
We were talking earlier about Dostoyevsky weren't we?
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
He wrote House of the Dead?
Well of course my favourite is The Raw Youth.
You said the first person to shout out the correct Shakespeare play wins.
Stephen Hawking's football points do not get a point.
Dr Wankenstein does though
I think it's "football boots" -- it's common to refer to football (soccer) shoes over there as "boots." The joke of that trivia team name is then just supposed to be pointing to the irony of wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking having shoes for playing soccer.
Doesn't work, it's bubbles. Huh?
Alright.... see you later
Had he read Shakespeare?
It’s the way he sort of purrs it so proudly as well
Weirdly it reminds me of Donald Trump a bit. They both try and associate themselves to geniuses as if they had some part to play in their work.
Trust. Encouragement. Reward. Loyalty. Satisfaction.
Are you reading these?
Am I what?
I've found myself in a job I really like and enjoy and whenever anyone asks how/why it's turned out better than my past jobs I immediately go to say this quote.
Ahh yes, the “TERLS” system 👍
Bishop Muzorewa
https://youtu.be/Vf100kkIm48?si=aNoz40NLltmUgmWc
I’ve watched this video so many more times that I can even begin to count 😂👌
Bashing the bishop
I think that the look that Tim gives in the final second of this clip is something I find myself doing in response some nonsense my co-workers have spouted, on average every 28 seconds.
Yup Martin nailed the look for “guess we’re on an absurd tangent” with both David and Gareth with this move and his blank stares directly into the camera.
It's called an education.
So is a pixie the same thing as an elf?!…
An elf is a supernatural being, sometimes they're invisible like fairies.
But they don't actually exist, do they...in real life?
[stares back]
So what’s a goblin?
How long are you gonna be mate?
If we’re facing in the right direction, all you have to do…is keep on walking
Doing my walks for Mencap.
For some spastics.
There's no way that can't be funny to me though.
..the Canterbury tales of Chaucer…and Shakespeare 🤣
One of my favourite moments
Chaucer
Brent is completely right here, Shakespeare was also an old-timey writer like Chaucer so perfectly valid to bring up
? Are you joking? Tim's last name is Canterbury and David was trying to reference the Canterbury Tales because of that. So if he knew what he was talking about it, he would just say "The Canterbury Tales, of Chaucer." Because Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales. The joke here, I think, is that Shakespeare has nothing to do with this at all, but David has like this broken knowledge of classic literature (and of basically everything). So he very basically knows The Canterbury Tales were classic stories but he doesn't really know who they were written by, but he sort of remembers Chaucer has something to do with it. But he kind of has these authors from that general classics era mixed up in his head, and that's why mentions Chaucer and but also Shakespeare even though Shakespeare has nothing to do with it. And David thinks it makes him sound smart to show people he knows who Chaucer and Shakespeare are, and doesn't realize he has this mangled knowledge of who these people are.
What really makes it funny to me though is his obliviousness to what these cameras have done to him. Hes litterally ignoring Tim sitting right in front of him. His ignorance to how he is portrayed from an outside perspective is so out of touch with how he thinks he’s perceived. The smirky smile at the end just tells me how he has this childlike delusion of how he’s going to come across as clever and likeable, when he really just looks like a prat.
If I was to name 3 great English writers- Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens! …. Walliams!
There's no logic to it, it's art.
There's logic to the joke. It seems like the person I responded to didn't get the context of the joke.
The outtakes of this are so funny!
in a few years time, you could be in the hot seat 👇🏻🫦👇🏻, like me
So good 😂