Thursday, September 4, 2025

they know the answer

Have you seen any of those bits on late-night comedy shows where they send a crew out on to the street and ask passersby some simple question (like, "can you point to and name any country on this boundary-outline map of the world?") and compile clips of people completely failing at it?

Here's such a video in which, gratifyingly, most of them get it right. Query is to fill in the missing word in various famous quotations from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Not from a comedy show, but filmed at and by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the lobby of the theater holding this year's production of same (which I saw), which might be considered a giveaway.

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