What would Oscar Wilde have made of Jersey Shore? Some clever fellow at Playbill (everybody's clever nowadays!) thought to find out, asking the cast of the current Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest to read transcripts of Jersey Shore episodes. The results are, naturally, hilarious. Of course, this isn't the first connection between Wilde and MTV's most profitable idiots; literary historians have often speculated that Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino's gym/tan/laundry routine was actually the original inspiration for The Picture of Dorian Grey. (Not really.)
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This is possibly the greatest thing I've seen in a while. My day is made.
Just...amazing.
Delightful.
i don't think i've ever actually lol'd quite so much.
The greatest!
I will think of this when I translate the "real" version. It might just make it bearable. :)
The British comedy duo Armstrong & Miller do something like this quite regularly. They have a couple of WWII RAF pilots with upper-crust accents talk in present-day street patois. It's pretty funny. Check them out on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/lwNQf08Kxsw
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