Line #21 Funny/ShakespeareInLove


1	* Shakespeare's ''epic'' [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/9b9e9bdb9cdea80bb444633379fa800b/tumblr_inline_mzkr57BeLG1s1h2q7.gif shrug]] when asked where his pages are.
2	* Chasing after Viola to find out about this [[WholesomeCrossdresser Thomas Kent]] fellow, Shakespeare decides to climb up the rose vines to Viola's balcony. Just when audiences think we're about to see a re-staging of the infamous balcony scene from the play... it's the ''nurse'' who catches Shakespeare climbing up, and both are freaked out by the surprise.
3	* During the opening audition for ''Romeo And Ethel the Pirate's Daughter'', every would-be performer auditions by using the same lines from [[TheRival Marlowe's]] ''Faustus'', which annoys Shakespeare to no end. The icing on the cake is his look of disbelief when Henslowe immediately approves the audition of Wabash, who has a pronounced stutter; he explains to Shakespeare that Wabash is his tailor, and he promised him a role as a favour (presumably in place of payment for clothes).
4	* Just the very idea that all of English literature is awaiting the epic that is "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter."
5	-->"...see, there's this pirate..."
6	* Ned's reaction to learning about Mercutio's death.
7	-->...He ''dies''?
8	* How Shakespeare gets Ned to take the part in the first place:
9	-->'''Will:''' [Your character's] name is Mercutio.\
10	'''Ned:''' What's the name of the play?\
11	'''Will:''' ''Mercutio''.\
12	'''Henslowe:''' It is?\
13	'''Will:''' Shh!
14	* The London cabbies, in rowing boats.
15	-->'''Boatman:''' I had that Christopher Marlowe in my boat once.
16	* The boatman rolling his eyes at Shakespeare's PurpleProse.
17	-->'''Boatman:''' Writer, is he?\
18	'''Shakespeare:''' ROW YOUR BOAT!
19	* Shakespeare, heartbroken at the knowledge that he and Viola can't be together, tells the troupe that he's rewritten the plot of the play, and the viewer recognizes the familiar story; the lovers are separated, and due to a tragic misunderstanding they both commit suicide. The actors sit in hushed silence, clearly affected by this turn in events...except for Henslowe, who was promised a comedy; he sarcastically muses: "Well, that should have them ''rolling'' in the aisles."
20	* Burbage and his troupe storm the Rose over Shakespeare's attempted seduction of Rosaline and taking payment for a play he has already given to the other company; Henslowe's first reaction when fighting breaks out on the stage is to furrow his brow and leaf through the script, clearly thinking "I don't remember ''this'' scene..."
21	* Shakespeare starts panicking when it looks like things are going to go wrong from the start with the premiere of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet.'' Just as his fears are calmed when Wabash overcomes his stutter and delivers a brilliant opening, they flare ''right'' back up when it turns out that 'Juliet's' voice has suddenly broken:
22	-->'''Sam:''' Master Shakespeare!
23	-->'''Shakespeare:''' I'll be with you, Sam- ''(DoubleTake)'' '''S-Sam...'''
24	-->'''Sam:''' ''(tearfully)'' It's not my ''fault'', Master Shakespeare; I could ''do'' it yesterday!
25	-->'''Shakespeare:''' Do me a speech. D-do me a line!
26	-->'''Sam:''' ''(voice cracking ''twice'')'' Parting is such sweet sorrow.
27	-->'''Shakespeare:''' squeak of horrified despair
28	** Henslowe unsuccessfully attempts to calm him down:
29	-->'''Henslowe:''' The show must... you know... ''(trails off aimlessly)''
30	-->'''Shakespeare:''' ''[[TheShowMustGoOn Go on?!]]''
31	-->'''Henslowe:''' Juliet does not come on for twenty pages; it will be all right.
32	-->'''Shakespeare:''' ''How'' will it?!
33	-->'''Henslowe:''' I don't know; it's a mystery!
34	* Pretty much everything involving the bloodthirsty young scamp, Creator/JohnWebster (who would grow up to become a writer of particularly gruesome tragedies), ESPECIALLY the scene where he tips off Mr. Tilney about Viola performing in drag:
35	-->'''Viola:''' Nobody knew.
36	-->'''Webster:''' ''(pointing at Shakespeare)'' He did! I saw him kissing her bubbies!
37	* While the Admiral's Men are busy [[DrowningMySorrows drowning their sorrows]] following Tilney closing the Rose, Ralph decides that he's not working, downs his drink, and [[CantHoldHisLiquor passes out then and there]].
38	* As Lord Wessex and Viola leave the church, a flyer for ''Romeo and Juliet'' hits him in the face, blown there by the wind.
39	* When Shakespeare changes the premise of the play, someone asks Ralph (one of the actors) if he thinks is anything funny is going on.
40	--> '''Ralph:''' I was a Pirate King, and now I'm a Nurse. That's funny.
41	* Later, a prostitute asks Ralph to tell her about the play, and he claims that the nurse is the main character to impress her.
42	* When Tilney closes down the theater, he initially mistakes the male actor playing Juliet for [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the woman illegally performing on stage]] and pulls up his dress to try and prove it.
43	* When Tilney shows up during the final performance, saying there is a woman on the stage, Ralph (in his nurse costume) acts as if he thinks they're talking about him.

Context Funny / ShakespeareInLove