Good luck guys! This video is fantastic and I’ve really enjoyed all the stuff you’ve made. Hope to see you in the final round. You really deserve it…more than some others out there.

I would love to see this show on tv! There is a long and glorious tradition of adapting the Bard's work. Blank Verse would be a great addition.

sweet take on this play! nothin like it. i really appreciate what you're doing here. youve got serious game and i have become a big admirer. you deserve to win this contest. you are definitely welcome to entertain me any time of the year. keep it up and be the people youve always wanted to be.

Love the idea of you guys bringing us Shakespeare on a comedy series! Makes me think of Slings and Arrows! I would really like to see some more of what you can do to balance education with humor in telling the bards tales while at the same time making us laugh with the characters

Very unique and interesting. I can see it being a great series. Shakespeare can be overwhelming, but what you guys are doing can make it fun and educational. Good Luck

Nice!

If nothing is original anymore how are you guys original??? Are you original because you said nothing is original? I think there could be something funny in that idea!! Shakespeare knew how to make some jokes in his time, and I think you guys could make some funny jokes about Shakespeare!!!

Great job guys and gals.Love your outfits really fit the title.Would love to see more.Good luck in top 15 .Keep up the great work.Cheers.

Oh yes! The Sailor Moon costume was nostalgic ! I love the concept and the title really hooked me as a fellow Shakespearean! Awesome presentation and approach as the voting process comes to end! You guys will definitely be turning some heads in the future!

I've gotta say, it was the Sailor Moon costume that won me over. That being said though, this video seemed a little too aggressive in trying to get it's message across. Nancy M, just like myself, is entitled to her opinion (albeit it was a lame one), but still. You know?

Pretty original idea and good presentation. I love the comment re Nancy M and her low rating (guessing it's from week one or two)! Original.

Some funny stuff here with some good actors. Would be interested in seeing a bit more to see where it goes. Good luck on making it to the top 15.

This isn't my favorite concept but all you guys are very talented. I really can't get into anything to do with Shakespeare even with a modern twist, Sorry! Midsummer is one of my favorite though.

I think it is great that you have this opportunity and I wish you the best of luck as you go along. I appreciate the effort you have put forth so far.

I hear there will be rain today. And then the thieves jump from the tree and scream, LET IT COME DOWN and Banquo gets a knife in the neck. Or something like that. I made a movie out of that in grade 10 and never looked back. love this project...

i think you've got lots of poential to be the XKCD of TV - jokes that are funny to literature nerds for one reason, and funny to us....regular folk for another reason.

Pretty bold to go after Shakespeare, but it seems to be going well so far! Interested to see how this show will develop. Keep on pushin'.

I love the concept for this project, super funny and creative idea! Good luck in the top 15 voting, I'm exited to see what unfolds!

I love Shakespeare which is why I came to your video. It looks promising but a lot of the jokes fell flat for me. But I love the premise for sure.

The concept behind this sounds really cool and its actually something that I would like to see and check out, interesting idea for sure becasue I like William Shakespeare and all his plays Comedy of Errors Taming of the Shrew etcetera etcetera

I love the nerdy appeal happening here, I would recommend some kind of audio soundtrack to back up your videos because sometimes the jokes fell flat just because it was so silent...

It is my understanding that fans will decide how the teams move forward in this competition and I am not sure how that will work.

I really enjoyed this video as a fellow Shakespeare lover! The writing is very witty and I can't wait to see more. Good luck guys!

definitely enjoy the premise and it definitely has a lot of potential for comedy. i think it can be interesting to see where a pilot to the series might take the audience. good work guys.

It's shows like these that make me wish I'd paid attention in English class so I could appreciate the Bard's work better, especially in a modern satire such as this. This has potential!

As a fan of Shakespeare I can definitely see the potential within this project, and I possibly think it can inspire some people of younger generations to approach Shakespeare outside of an English Language Arts class.

I love the pie joke. If done well the Shakespeare twist could really be interesting. Just have to push it further, lessen the geek and up the clever Shakespeare and I think you guys would be solid. Keep it up.

I love Shakespeare! This Project is very original (though nothing in the world is original ;)) and I would love to see where this crazy modern telling of the classic works goes!

This is pretty cool and I'm excited to see where this goes!! Cannot wait to see more from this project

I'm loving the content you guys are putting forward in this video, and Congrats on making it to the Top 55. There is so much talent to appreciate here in acting, filming and writing. Best wishes to all involved!

You know whos boring? Fuckin THOR.....LMFAO. Well done with this one. I really like your concept, there are SO many possibilities for a show like this :)

prithee! taketh this forrad to ye nexteth level

Every English teacher's favourite pitch! I love when you call out Nancy M and eat all that pie.

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Seems very sweet! At first I thought it was more teen drama than comedy show but that's what made it stand out a little in my head, what can you do to make it more comedic? Interesting idea though, way to shake(speare) it up.

I like you concept and this was my favorite video of yours yet! Best of luck in Top 50!

Well done. Except when the commentator swore in the stairwell. He needs to be more relaxed and comfortable with profanity if he is going to use it. He seemed to twitch a little. Everything else was a "go" for me. Fresh, crisp, and engaging. Keep it coming.

This is such a fresh "new" idea ! I see a lot of great energy and talent here. This concept will give you a lot of material to work with and it will be interesting to see how you use it. Great work, keep us interested!

Watching your Differentiator made me want to go back and check out your first mission video. I think your “everything is old and boring… so we have to make it new again” idea, and your delivery, has lots of room to sustain interest and stay creative over a series. Good luck!

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I love this webseries. It would be great seeing more from these guys. I think it would especially be interesting seeing them tackle a comedy this time around.

Love the shout out to Nancy M! I think you've got a lot of material to work with here and could really flesh out some great characters. Haven't watched the web series but I will check it out. I was wondering how you managed to pull off such a slick video for week 1!

Happy St Crispin's Day!!!
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. Be ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition; and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves a curs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon St Crispin's day.

Interesting different style from your week 1 Mission (which your differentiator just made me go back and watch) so bravo! Looks like an interesting concept and you seem to have a great cast from your Mission 1 video that would make this an interesting show. Might have a little feel of a drama like 'my so called life' or the like but if it has enough humour throughout would likely be really watchable.

This vid wasn't quite up to the first two, but I'm still a fan

"Shakespeare stole first" is doing a better job of getting the comedy across than the first video, but I have a minor beef... what do you mean that Thor is "old and boring"? Thor just became a woman, and anyone trying to say they're "a little nerdy" should know that.

Revisiting Shakespeare is always worth a go in my mind. I look forward to seeing how much actual Shakespeare text is used in episodes.

I'm digging the concept for this show. Admittedly, I am not a huge Shakespeare fan. However, I am finding your modernization and portrayal of the characters to be funny and intriguing, and even without being a Shakespeare buff I would be interested in watching more of this. The idea of recreating historical characters and seeing how they might react in a modern day setting has so much potential!

Loved the Sailor costume and Game of Thrones thrown in there.

The biggest strength in the webseries was the interaction between all of the characters and how each of them evolve and created new relations. I feel like this is the part that was missing in Ben Jonson's vlog.I would like very much to see all of the characters again.

"Too nerdy for Nancy M." That cracked me up. :)

I like the concept, but I'm curious as to how you could flesh this out over several seasons. I'm looking forward to seeing more to give some insight as to the long term development.

I have been a huge fan of the webseries from the beginning and can't wait to see where this show and crew end up. The sophisticated humor mixed with the outright jokes cater to a variety of audiences.

Love it!!!

Love this video, love this project, hope to see it advance.

Really like the idea for this project. Looking forward to seeing more content in the next couple of weeks!

I love this idea. I have high hopes for this show turning out like a live action Clone High but with Shakespearean characters working out their modern day angst. I'm sure Willy would be proud (or mortified, especially at the idea of women acting rather than men in dresses, or, for instance, at being referred to as 'Willy') and would lend his quill to this project. Good luck!

Looks like a great show for people who really dig Shakespeare. Very topical... for people who really dig Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote a lot of stuff, so there won't be any problem coming up with ideas for episodes. Shakespeare got the writer's block out of the way for you!

i dig it, i actually want to see more shakespeare in this. way more. it's an interesting concept with many possibilities.

Every mission is great. What great lines: "fuck Thor!" "JOCK!" Stylistically interesting, narratively compelling, keep up the great work! Also, sweet rotoscope.

Just noticed the "ROMEO FUCKED JULIET" shirt. Amazing.

Good stuff

you guys are cool!

Blank Verse is very original for this ComedyCoup competition. It is very Shakespearean. It reminds me of the days, way back when, in one of my literature courses, and we were given a series of pictures, or part of a movie with volume down, and had to fill in the script. I loved doing that, it was so interesting how the others students filled in theirs. That is the suspense right now, how will BVMidsummer fill in the Blank Verse???

Hahaha! I love the Nancy M tribute. Good to see you have a sense of humour :D (Also love the concept!) Break a leg :D

Another point that could speak to how different Blank Verse will be from other projects is the range of Shakespeare's work itself. There's pretty awesome diversity of tone, form, and characters within Shakespeare, which gives Blank Verse great material with which to differentiate. Some might think a Shakespeare themed TV series is about one thing, so it's a good idea to show your limitlessness.

I think I understand your concept better from your second and third video, but your first was a bit confusing. I read your synopsis and what I understood from it was that a group of friends follow a dead friend into the woods for enlightenment. I don't quite get how this links up to the rest of your videos. It would have been a good idea to make that a bit more clear since it's what is supposed to explain the concept really. Good luck with the competition though!

Haha! That was some funny stuff. Fuck Thor! Followed and faved. - Shirts

Excellent intertwining of the concept differentiators and its characters. This further cements and clarifies the overall idea of what you are planning to do with this sitcom. Kudos to you for using this opportunity to weave in a comeback to the poster who thought you were too nerdy!

That's some serious "Game of Thrones" shit. And how! Wil invented the gorefest political thriller. He was Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and MacBeth was the original Walter White. Rock on!

I was kind of lost after mission 1 but definitely love mission 2 and 3! I did study English Lit and read a bunch of Shakespeare but have forgotten most of it. As long as you guys keep it accessible to those of us who've forgotten everything we learned in school, I'm in!! Have I hit 100 characters yet? I feel like I'm back in school with word limits and everything. Too bad I can't triple space this shit! Time to use some pretentious words...what was it again, imbroglio? Spelled it wrong but eventually found it: "a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations."

It's not realistic for the fans to be commited to viewing all of the videos and be required to make 100 character essays on their comments to get a chance to vote. Most of us just don't have that kind of time! I hate Shakespeare but only because Its so hard to recite. Good work folks

Okay, so now I find out that comments need to be 100 + characters to earn votes. Really, CBC, can you make it just a liiiiiiiitle more complicated? We're already making housecalls, walking people through how the frig to navigate this website. And while I'm at it, what's up with the "Pro's Pick" stuff anyway? I think this competition was to be decided AFTER Oct 26. Fans are just gonna pick the top stuff identified by the Pros and the stuff that appears at the top of the page each day. This fan system just perpetuates itself so those projects that trend early will just stay at the top. There, earned my votes.

I like nerds. I like Shakespeare. I like pie.

I thoroughly am enjoying all of these videos. As a Shakespeare fan myself, I can see myself watching this! Also, I love that you called someone out in your video. Definitely made me giggle.

Great video, loved how you used an actual comment from the comments section. Oh I better watch what I say. Making shakespeare cool again?? Maybe

I want this show like a geek wants Darth Grapes.

love nerds!

Amen! #shakespeareiscool

Fourteen, huh? And so that's not including Titus' ridiculous number of sons he brings back dead at the beginning of the play (I suppose they die off stage). I like the geek approach. In Shakespeare's own, brilliant words from Henry IV Part 1, it is "more goodly" that you make a few clever jokes than sink to slapstick humor.