Showing posts with label downton abbey parody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downton abbey parody. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Downton Abbey: Enjoy 2 great Youtubes - SNL"s Fancy Entourage and THE FRESH PRINCE OF DOWNTON
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6736895/the-fresh-prince-of-downton-abbey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9TF-GKGvgE&feature=player_embedded
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Downton Abbey on Spike TV (the video has been locked down by NBC the bums)(LA Times)
'SNL' knows that even macho dudes love 'Downton Abbey' [video]
We already know that "Downton Abbey" has won over a far wider audience than the usual PBS "Masterpiece" fare. But this weekend, a "Saturday Night Live" skit mocked Downton-mania by imagining a crossover between fans of Lord Grantham and the cars, tattoos and extreme sports-loving young male Spike TV viewer.
The spoof "Downton" ad featured the Spike narrator explaining the premise for dudes: "They've got three daughters named Hot, Way Hot and The Other One." He goes on to describe the beloved, sharp-tongued dowager played by Maggie Smith as an "old lady who looks like a chicken. We hated her at first but then we got high and she made us crack up."
What about the servants? They're "a bunch of tuxedo'd people who live in the basement and their lives suck!"
Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/02/snl-knows-that-even-macho-dudes-love-downton-abbey-video.html
Sunday, January 15, 2012
'Downton Abbey' Spoofed by Saunders, Lumley and Cattrall in 'Upstairs Downstairs Abbey' Video (She Wired)
By: Tracy E. Gilchrist
Sun, 2012-01-15 13:56
It’s a big night for the British import and phenomenon Downton Abbey with it up for several Golden Globes and with the American premiere of the show’s second season just last week.
The Masterpiece Classics’ show about the haves and the haves-nots living in the early part of the 20th century has oft been compared to Upstairs, Downstairs and Gosford Park with its depiction of the lives of earls and ladies as well as maids, valets and footmen. But Downton Abbey goes a step further with its appeal in a sort of Remains of the Day meets Revenge sort of soapy, period piece drama.
Even the most beloved of television dramas can’t escape spoofing by British comedians, and who better to skewer than Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley and Sex and the City’s Kim Cattrall?
With that all said, in honor of Downton Abbey's Golden Globes debut we thought we’d post Upstairs Downstairs Abbey, a loving spoof that aired last March for the BBC’s Red Nose Day, the British equivalent of Comic Relief.
Watch Cattrall do a spot-on impression of Elizabeth McGovern’s American living in Britain Lady Grantham while Saunders takes on Maggie Smith’s killer one-liner spewing Dowager Countess and Joanna Lumley steps in as the head housekeeper Mrs. Hughes.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Christmas at Downton Abbey: 'Ouch, milord! I believe I'm rather dead' (Mail On Line)
By Craig Brown
Last updated at 8:16 AM on 22nd December 2011
The Grantham family have assembled in the hall of Downton Abbey. They are playing traditional Edwardian computer Country House games such as SuperPosh Lord Mario, Grand Theft Motor-Car and Stately Invaders.
CARSON: Might I have a word, milord?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Can’t it wait, Carson?
CARSON: There’s a gentleman at the door, milord, claims he is all he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: And is he all he seems to be?
CARSON: No, milord. In my opinion, he is not all he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: So what does he seem to be, Carson?
CARSON: He seems to be not what he doesn’t seem to be. Or in other words, milord, what he seems to be is not what he is. And what he is is not what he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: You’ve made yourself very clear, Carson. Show him in.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Ah, Havers, old chap! Come in! This is really most awkward, Havers, but some people are putting it about that you are not all you seem to be. So I would be most grateful for a straight answer. Are you all you seem to be?
HAVERS: I . . .
CARSON: There’s a traditional Edwardian advertisement break at the door, milord.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Can’t it wait, Carson?
CARSON: I’m afraid not. There are sofas to be sold, milord.
SCENE TWO: Outside, Thomas the footman is hurling red squirrels high into the air and the Earl of Grantham is firing at them with his stately machine gun.
SIR RICHARD CARLISLE: Gadzooks, methinks we’ll be feasting mighty well on traditional red squirrel and kidney pie tonight, and that’s for sure!
NIGEL HAVERS: Ouch!
EARL OF GRANTHAM: My dear fellow, I seem to have shot you in the stomach! I really am most dreadfully sorry!
NIGEL HAVERS: Ouch! Ouch!
DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM: No true gentleman would ever say ‘ouch’ upon receiving a wound to the stomach. It is my belief that Mr Havers is not all he seems!
MRS CRAWLEY: He looks in a bad way. My caring nature leads me to believe that blood gushing out of the stomach is rarely a good sign. Does anyone have a bandage about their person?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: I regret to say there was a frightful run on them in the last series, the First World War being what it was. Might the poor fellow respond to a teaspoon of cod liver oil? It’s the very least we can do.
NIGEL HAVERS: I’m dying!
DOWAGER COUNTESS: No gentleman ever announces his own death in advance!
NIGEL HAVERS: I’m dead!
DOWAGER COUNTESS: Ditto.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Gather round, everybody. It is with great regret that I have to announce the death of Mr Havers. He was everything he didn’t seem to be. We must put that on his gravestone, if space permits. A most tragic loss. Oh, and Carson?
CARSON: You called, milord?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Inform Mrs Patmore that we will be one less for Christmas dinner.
CARSON: Indeed, milord.
JUDGE: How do you plead?
BATES: Gloomy, milord.
THOMAS THE FOOTMAN: I overheard him saying: ‘I’ll kill the first Mrs Bates with my own hands, even if I have to swing for it.’ I thought nothing of it at the time.
ANNA: He never did nuthin', milord! He’s as gentle as the day is long!
JUDGE: Members of the jury, what is your verdict? Guilty or Not Guilty?
FOREMAN OF THE JURY: Having considered the matter, My Lord, we, the members of the jury, have come to the conclusion that the defendant is . . .
JUDGE: The court will now retire for an advertisement break.
SIR RICHARD: Not long now, Mary, before we are trapped together in a loveless marriage. I can’t wait!
LADY MARY: But I don’t love you, Sir Richard! In fact, on reflection . . . I loathe you!
SIR RICHARD: That’s marvellous news, because I loathe you, too. But we mustn’t let a silly little thing like that come between us.
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2077259/Christmas-Downton-Abbey-Ouch-milord-I-believe-Im-dead.html#ixzz1hGyticRA
Last updated at 8:16 AM on 22nd December 2011
The Grantham family have assembled in the hall of Downton Abbey. They are playing traditional Edwardian computer Country House games such as SuperPosh Lord Mario, Grand Theft Motor-Car and Stately Invaders.
The Grantham family has assembled in the hall of Downton Abbey for Christmas
Enter Carson:
CARSON: Might I have a word, milord?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Can’t it wait, Carson?
CARSON: There’s a gentleman at the door, milord, claims he is all he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: And is he all he seems to be?
CARSON: No, milord. In my opinion, he is not all he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: So what does he seem to be, Carson?
CARSON: He seems to be not what he doesn’t seem to be. Or in other words, milord, what he seems to be is not what he is. And what he is is not what he seems to be.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: You’ve made yourself very clear, Carson. Show him in.
CARSON: Nigel Havers, milord!
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Ah, Havers, old chap! Come in! This is really most awkward, Havers, but some people are putting it about that you are not all you seem to be. So I would be most grateful for a straight answer. Are you all you seem to be?
HAVERS: I . . .
CARSON: There’s a traditional Edwardian advertisement break at the door, milord.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Can’t it wait, Carson?
CARSON: I’m afraid not. There are sofas to be sold, milord.
SCENE TWO: Outside, Thomas the footman is hurling red squirrels high into the air and the Earl of Grantham is firing at them with his stately machine gun.
SIR RICHARD CARLISLE: Gadzooks, methinks we’ll be feasting mighty well on traditional red squirrel and kidney pie tonight, and that’s for sure!
NIGEL HAVERS: Ouch!
EARL OF GRANTHAM: My dear fellow, I seem to have shot you in the stomach! I really am most dreadfully sorry!
NIGEL HAVERS: Ouch! Ouch!
DOWAGER COUNTESS OF GRANTHAM: No true gentleman would ever say ‘ouch’ upon receiving a wound to the stomach. It is my belief that Mr Havers is not all he seems!
Scene two: The Earl of Grantham is firing at squirrels with his stately machine gun
Havers is sprawled on the ground, blood gushing out of his stomach.
MRS CRAWLEY: He looks in a bad way. My caring nature leads me to believe that blood gushing out of the stomach is rarely a good sign. Does anyone have a bandage about their person?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: I regret to say there was a frightful run on them in the last series, the First World War being what it was. Might the poor fellow respond to a teaspoon of cod liver oil? It’s the very least we can do.
NIGEL HAVERS: I’m dying!
DOWAGER COUNTESS: No gentleman ever announces his own death in advance!
NIGEL HAVERS: I’m dead!
DOWAGER COUNTESS: Ditto.
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Gather round, everybody. It is with great regret that I have to announce the death of Mr Havers. He was everything he didn’t seem to be. We must put that on his gravestone, if space permits. A most tragic loss. Oh, and Carson?
CARSON: You called, milord?
EARL OF GRANTHAM: Inform Mrs Patmore that we will be one less for Christmas dinner.
CARSON: Indeed, milord.
SCENE THREE: Bates is in court, charged with the murder of the first Mrs Bates.
JUDGE: How do you plead?
BATES: Gloomy, milord.
THOMAS THE FOOTMAN: I overheard him saying: ‘I’ll kill the first Mrs Bates with my own hands, even if I have to swing for it.’ I thought nothing of it at the time.
ANNA: He never did nuthin', milord! He’s as gentle as the day is long!
JUDGE: Members of the jury, what is your verdict? Guilty or Not Guilty?
FOREMAN OF THE JURY: Having considered the matter, My Lord, we, the members of the jury, have come to the conclusion that the defendant is . . .
JUDGE: The court will now retire for an advertisement break.
SCENE FOUR: Sir Richard Carlisle and Lady Mary are alone in the drawing room.
SIR RICHARD: Not long now, Mary, before we are trapped together in a loveless marriage. I can’t wait!
LADY MARY: But I don’t love you, Sir Richard! In fact, on reflection . . . I loathe you!
SIR RICHARD: That’s marvellous news, because I loathe you, too. But we mustn’t let a silly little thing like that come between us.
(Sir Richard places the needle on the gramophone and the pair dance to Loathe Is The Sweetest Thing. Matthew looks on in tears)
TO BE CONTINUED . . .
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2077259/Christmas-Downton-Abbey-Ouch-milord-I-believe-Im-dead.html#ixzz1hGyticRA
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