Happy birthday – and lamentable death date – William Shakespeare!

Blackadder strikes back at the Bard for Kenneth Branagh’s interminable “Hamlet” (with amusing cameo by Colin Firth):

Rowan Atkinson, again, in an unrelated sketch about Shakespeare and his publisher, this time with Hugh Laurie:

“But all I’m saying, Shakey, is let’s just shorten this one terribly dull speech.”

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