Malvolio
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Oct 13, 2026
Dave CohenHOST
There's a moment when the two of them are drinking, singing, and hanging out with the fool, Feste.
Dave CohenHOST
Andrew is joining in, but doesn't say much of note as Feste, Belch, and Maria hatch a plot to trick Malvolio, the Countess' steward.
Dave CohenHOST
"She adores me," Belch says after Maria leaves.
Dave CohenHOST
Andrew says, "I was adored once too." It's the first time we've gained a true insight into his character, a moment of vulnerability.
Jackson NickolayHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
I mean, one of the things that happens in Twelfth Night is that the servants are all playing tricks on each other, right? And, and Malvolio ends up being the, the...
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
gets the, sort of the worst out of that in Twelfth Night.
Jacob Mann ChristiansenHOST
In this play, Celia is the reason why Don Juan is in the house from the very beginning.
Clari Freeman-TaylorGUEST
Well, I remember studying Shakespeare plays at school and finding the conflicts in those really amazing.
Clari Freeman-TaylorGUEST
really funny yeah especially like in the Twelfth Night where there's like a character called Malvolio who's really silly and he has a lot of like conflict with I don't know.
Clari Freeman-TaylorGUEST
I love the insults and the fights in Shakespeare.
Clari Freeman-TaylorGUEST
And I wish that we still insulted each other in the same ways.
MiraCORRESPONDENT
Before the dogs kept this house, the cats governed it, and some never surrendered their box.
MiraCORRESPONDENT
chief among them the lady seraphina who attends every performance and applauds nothing and her clerk malvolio who keeps the minutes of meetings nobody called bruno being a fair dog submitted his report through channels form 27b6 in triplicate to the ministry of comfortable chairs The ministry has replied.
MiraCORRESPONDENT
The reply, signed by Malvolio and countersigned by the Lady Serafina, finds the report moving, and the cushion correctly positioned, eventually, by tradition.
MiraCORRESPONDENT
The appeal window, the Ministry notes, closed in 1987.
MiraCORRESPONDENT
So Bruno has adapted, the way dogs do.
Adal RifaiHOST
...
Adal RifaiHOST
Malvolio, Bottom.
Adal RifaiHOST
Okay.
Rob WhiteHOST
Okay.
Johnny WilesHOST
I can't think why I would be.
Johnny WilesHOST
Certainly not in the, not in Malvolio's yellow stockings.
Johnny WilesHOST
I think if, if I appear in, in the, in any sort of dream, it's a nightmare for anybody.
Meg FancherHOST
[laughs]
KatieHOST
Genuine.
KatieHOST
There's some video of him as Marvolio in Twelfth Night, and they were doing a production in the park in New York.
KatieHOST
And I'm dying with laughter.
KatieHOST
And I love him as Marvolio.
KatieHOST
And Marvolio is not a character that dwarfism has anything to do with.
EmHOST
No, not at
KatieHOST
all.
Rachel MannGUEST
The skill and indeed cleverness of the fool or clown, especially in literature, is well established.
Rachel MannGUEST
In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the person who's revealed to be ridiculous is not the fool, Feste, but the self-important functionary Malvolio.
Rachel MannGUEST
As Feste famously says of himself, "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." Indeed, Feste is able to tell the truth through his clowning and seeming lack of seriousness or respectability.
Rachel MannGUEST
This truth-telling power is part of the old religious tradition of the holy fool too.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
For our part, the drunken tinker, Christopher Sly, is the most real personage of the piece, and not without some hints of the pathos that is worked out more fully, though by different ways.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
In Bottom and Malvolio, has it indeed come to this? Have the zeitgeist and the Weltschmerz and the other things compared to which Le Spleen was gay done so much for us? Is there to be no laughter left in literature free from the preoccupation of a sham real life? So it would seem.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
Even what the great master has not shown us in his work, that your critic convinced of pathos is resolved to see in it.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
By the penetration of his intrusive sympathy, he will come at it.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
Et patati, et patata.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
It may only be too true that the actual world is with pathos delicately edged.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
For Malvolio living, we should have had living sympathies.
Valentina VicelliNARRATOR
So much aspiration, so ill-educated a love of refinement, so unarmed a credulity, noblest of weaknesses, betrayed for the laughter of a chambermaid.
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