Yorick
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Oct 29, 2026
Leah AbramsHOST
Maybe.
Leah AbramsHOST
Well, there's poor Yorick, so... whoa
HeatherHOST
oh my gosh
Leah AbramsHOST
hold on
Jordan HoffmanHOST
But the skull from – I would close my eyes and I would see that skull to the point that when I would see other skulls, not that I go around seeing skulls, but I don't know.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
If my mother was watching Masterpiece Theater and there was Hamlet and he's holding Yorick up and that's not a scary skull.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
That's just a skull skull.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
Just seeing that skull would freak me out.
Dan OwenHOST
So it's really kind of puts Barry's really upsets him kind of thing that he's lost yet another great part, even though he's the better actor and stuff.
Dan OwenHOST
But the twist is that the theatre troupe are only there because the part that they have in mind for them is not Hamlet, it's Yorick, who's famously just a skull.
Dan OwenHOST
And they plan to kind of chop off the heads of whoever wants to play that role and use a real skull in the production that they have on.
Dan OwenHOST
And then obviously there's a second twist in the sense that obviously they're all doing this, but because of the fact that they're all inmates in an asylum and it isn't really a theatre they've attended in Canal Street down this back alley.
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Hugh McStayHOST
Yeah, I'm the same.
Hugh McStayHOST
We did it, I think, in my first year at university, Dan, and I remember really enjoying it, and I could pretty much give you the broad strokes that's about it.
Hugh McStayHOST
I am allowed to be pompous, though, and get annoyed when people misquote the Alas, poor Yorick line.
Hugh McStayHOST
I can definitely do that,
Justin AndersonHOST
Okay.
Chris GiffordGUEST
Instead of holding Yorick's skull, I talked to his zombie.
Chris GiffordGUEST
Okay.
Chris GiffordGUEST
Yeah, there was a lot of fun stuff in that one.
Justin AndersonHOST
Yeah,
Chris GiffordGUEST
got to see a statue of Hamlet right after playing Hamlet.
Chris GiffordGUEST
Statue of Yorick, that was cool.
Justin AndersonHOST
Yeah.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
I saw it at home under these conditions of all the horror movies.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
It's like the horror movie, but the skull from, I would close my eyes and I would see that skull to the point that when I would see other skulls, not that I go around seeing skulls, but I don't know if my mother was watching masterpiece theater and there was Hamlet and he's holding Yorick up and that's not a scary skull.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
That's just a skull skull.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
Just seeing that skull would freak me out.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Well, thank you, Tom.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
And give my best regards to Yorick.
Tom PaveyGUEST
Oh, cheers, Robin.
Tom PaveyGUEST
I appreciate it.
Tom PaveyGUEST
Thank you very much for having me.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Hope you don't end up saying the same about those lions.
Robyn WilliamsHOST
Tom Pavey, doing his doctorate in Oxford after a spell at Monash.
PeterAUDIENCE
What's the story? Uh, well, first of all, his name was, uh, Andrzej Tchaikovsky, so my initial thought was, you know, with a name like Tchaikovsky, the odds of him becoming a Polish concert candidate, do you think, um, maybe Pushy Parents? Well, as it turns out, his original name was Robert Krauthammer, so perhaps it's quite wise to change his name.
PeterAUDIENCE
This poor soul died of cancer, sadly, in 1982, and he bequeathed his school to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and this school apparently has sat untouched for 25 years, waiting for its stage debut, and currently Doctor Who himself is playing Hamlet, and every night the school that is grasped by Doctor Who for the role of Yorick is, uh, played by this, uh, real, as it were, skull.
PeterAUDIENCE
I mean, you know, Dustin Hoffman, eat your heart out, that is, that is real method acting.
PeterAUDIENCE
You know, being a skull to actually play a skull.
Jon RichardsonHOST
Who's, whose skull is it? The Tchaikovsky's? Yeah.
Matt FordeGUEST
And they're using his skull in their play? In Hamlet, yeah.
Matt FordeGUEST
Tennant's holding it every night, alas, poor Yorick.
Matt FordeGUEST
Wow.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
He left his body to science, but he said, "I'm gonna leave my head to the theater.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
I'm gonna offer my skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company for use in theatrical performance." I actually don't think he specified what use, but I think everyone assumed, well, you gotta be the, "Alas, poor Yorick,"-
James HarkinHOST
[laughs]
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
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Mike BloomHOST
They're always doing card tricks and pulling out coins behind each other's ears before brutally stabbing each other to get death.
Mike BloomHOST
I also assume in that Penn and Teller Hamlet adaptation that, uh, Teller played Yorick.
Jessica LieseHOST
Yes.
Mike BloomHOST
Okay, as-
Mike BloomHOST
They're always doing card tricks and pulling out coins behind each other's ears before brutally stabbing each other to get death.
Mike BloomHOST
I also assume in that Penn and Teller Hamlet adaptation that, uh, Teller played Yorick.
Jessica LieseHOST
Yes.
Mike BloomHOST
Okay, and-
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