Neil Gaiman's take on David Tennant in Hamlet

[The Nth Doctor]

I got this from the Neil Gaiman thread in the Science Fiction and Fantasy forum:

From Neil Gaiman's journal:

I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers that are positively astronomical and... for that matter the other question is what you lot are doing on this planet in the first place, and er, did anyone try just pushing this little red button?"

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There. Thanks. Sorry about that.

Pure. Brilliance.

 

[CommodoreKong]

Hilarious. Sounds exactly like something he would say as the Doctor.

 

[Count Zero]

That's very much in tone with the Tenth Doctor.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

Thanks for sharing, nicely spoofed

 

[Jim Steele]

Read this myself yesterday funnily enough (after following the link in that very thread, no less).

Such a perfect parody. I want him to write an episode now more than ever.

 

[Gepard]

Jesus, that's spot-on. I totally heard Tennant in my head while I was reading that.

 

[Winterwind]

So did I. Very well done.

 

[HappyDayRiot]

That is brilliant.

 

[Iamnotspock]

That totally works, especially if you imagine him saying it at a rate of knots in a squeaky voice.

 

[Samurai8472]

The part where he italicizes the I could totally hear Tennant. He does that alot like in the "Blink" video with explaining time travel

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

It's almost a shame that Tennant's Hamlet run came before "Utopia." With Derek Jacobi as the Master, it took me a while before I recognized him as King Claudius from the 1996 Hamlet movie with Kenneth Brannagh.

 

[diankra]

It's almost a shame that Tennant's Hamlet run came before "Utopia." With Derek Jacobi as the Master, it took me a while before I recognized him as King Claudius from the 1996 Hamlet movie with Kenneth Brannagh.

And before that, Jacobi played Hamelt for the BBC, with Patrick Stewart as Claudius (again) and Lalla Ward as Ophelia.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Love it!

 

[Skywalker]

That man needs to write an episode!

 

[Gepard]

^And he has to use the Hamlet quote in it.

 

[Vinta 18]

That man needs to write an episode!

IIRC he mentioned in his blog that Steven Moffat asked him to.

 

[drasche]

There's this entry in his blog but I didn't find anything after that.