Benedict Cumberbatch and Jude Law read letters about some VERY potent whiskey

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Letters Live

Letters Live

11 ай бұрын

In 1887, American lawyer and famed orator Robert G. Ingersoll sent a bottle of whiskey to his future son-in-law. He also sent him a letter explaining the whiskey’s many fine attributes - a letter so loved and shared by all who read it that it was soon printed in American newspaper The Nation. But when it was read by Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of The Christian Advocate, he responded with a letter of his own.
Jude Law and Benedict Cumberbatch joined us at a Letters Live show at the Freemasons' Hall in London to read these amusingly contrasting letters.

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@jorilindley
@jorilindley 9 ай бұрын
All those harsh words, yet note that the reverend's response begins not with "I return to you the whiskey" but with "I return to you ~some~ of the whiskey..."
@YukonWilleh
@YukonWilleh 9 ай бұрын
had to be sure :P
@viktorhammerstein
@viktorhammerstein 7 ай бұрын
How both of these exemplary Englishmen affect so effortlessly the American accent, from well over a century ago no less, is unimpeachable testimony to mastery of their craft. Hats off, fellas...brilliant!
@pennclick
@pennclick 3 ай бұрын
Law’s very good, but his accent can’t really be placed, it’s a mix of various American sounds. Cumberbatch however, nails the east coast. He’s a true master.
@rowenaburke4689
@rowenaburke4689 11 ай бұрын
Two very fine men and actors! Breathless.
@FightingTorque411
@FightingTorque411 11 ай бұрын
"So, you... liked it?"
@joshborra8407
@joshborra8407 11 ай бұрын
Sherlock and Watson
@threeofcats5803
@threeofcats5803 11 ай бұрын
My first thought too haha
@septicstache9625
@septicstache9625 10 ай бұрын
Was about to comment this
@joshborra8407
@joshborra8407 10 ай бұрын
@@septicstache9625 yeah is there any problem for you
@ConversationBomb
@ConversationBomb 11 ай бұрын
After watching this, I had to look up R.J. Ingersoll and I was not disappointed. :)
@iamshotty
@iamshotty 11 ай бұрын
I am not a whisky drinker, but now I think I must "DRINK IT" 😂xx Teresa ❤🇦🇺
@realhorrorshow8547
@realhorrorshow8547 11 ай бұрын
Ingersoll is our enabler.
@blackc1479
@blackc1479 9 ай бұрын
Yep. Sign me up.
@dixonballes2940
@dixonballes2940 27 күн бұрын
why is that in quotes teresa what are you going to do to that whiskey im scared
@nekokaitou4027
@nekokaitou4027 11 ай бұрын
Could you invite Christopher Eccleston? Also, I love Beneticts little smiles
@LordSkella
@LordSkella 11 ай бұрын
Both letters sold me on buying this whiskey!
@CatsandJP
@CatsandJP 11 ай бұрын
Sounds like Whiskey and regret to me 🤣🤣🤣
@tahoemike5828
@tahoemike5828 10 ай бұрын
How well they chose their parts.
@joxerthemighty9148
@joxerthemighty9148 5 ай бұрын
seems like the recipient needs to figure out their limits >.< I'm enjoying these "letters" videos, A new joy
@m.h706
@m.h706 11 ай бұрын
Benedict's delivery is always the best. he puts so much energy on his readings!
@EastEndBen
@EastEndBen 11 ай бұрын
both those letters were damned near Shakespearean!
@kimsherlock8969
@kimsherlock8969 11 ай бұрын
Thank you both Well done 🎉🎉
@unseelie63
@unseelie63 11 ай бұрын
They have done themselves proud! Great accents-Brits are usually better with accents-Benedict always wonderful but I find I liked Jude even better.Perhaps because Benedict's natural voice and accent is so compelling,especially in the deeper registers.I wish people still wrote so beautifully,so expressively,so...yes,over the top by today's standards,perhaps,but a pleasure for the ears just the same.I love this whole idea!
@ATLGaGirl09
@ATLGaGirl09 11 ай бұрын
I NEED this whiskey!!!! ALSO, why are their American accents better than mine?? 😂😭
@BobGeogeo
@BobGeogeo 11 ай бұрын
Spelled with an "ey," as Americans do.
@Lilacleaf49065
@Lilacleaf49065 11 ай бұрын
I cant take jude law seriously, I'm used to his lovely and quite specific voice haha. It sounds surreal when he's American 😂
@ATLGaGirl09
@ATLGaGirl09 11 ай бұрын
@@BobGeogeo 😂😂😂
@ATLGaGirl09
@ATLGaGirl09 11 ай бұрын
@@Lilacleaf49065 It is ALWAYS wild isn't it!??
@PolGara0139
@PolGara0139 11 ай бұрын
@@Lilacleaf49065it’s surreal hearing him speaking in southern American accent.
@Ghostbusters4life
@Ghostbusters4life 4 ай бұрын
I can imagine a Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd century reboot featuring Benedict and Jude.
@ahlishaholloway233
@ahlishaholloway233 11 ай бұрын
Clearly Robert Ingersoll had a brand deal with the whiskey distillery.
@jq8974
@jq8974 11 ай бұрын
😁
@kimsherlock8969
@kimsherlock8969 11 ай бұрын
Yessssss Belvedere 😂🎉😊
@rin_etoware_2989
@rin_etoware_2989 11 ай бұрын
the second letter was a parody of the first by a Prohibition advocate, but damn does it make me more curious about the whisky
@kimsherlock8969
@kimsherlock8969 11 ай бұрын
Yeap classic
@kathrynwebster6307
@kathrynwebster6307 11 ай бұрын
Wow! Their American accents are incredible!
@paolagrando5079
@paolagrando5079 11 ай бұрын
I would like very much a father-in-law so nice.
@daveretash9153
@daveretash9153 11 ай бұрын
This is exactly what to the experience is like it seems so safe and ends in total danger.
@YulkaKiska
@YulkaKiska 11 ай бұрын
Brilliant!
@kindabatooni9314
@kindabatooni9314 11 ай бұрын
Great letters and perfect delivery from Cumberbatch as always. ❤❤ It’s been long since I’ve seen Jude Law he has been missed.
@jtmartin1170
@jtmartin1170 11 ай бұрын
Back in the old days, men would get drunk and send some of the most eloquent, poetic and sensational expressions back and forth. Nowadays we urinate on fire hydrants, call upon maidens who have little to do with our affection, and try to start a fist fight with stop signs (and lose)
@frogpalpeeper4249
@frogpalpeeper4249 11 ай бұрын
Ah then. There's your error. If you fought fire hydrants and peed on stop signs, things might turn out differently. LOL
@AliciaRainbow
@AliciaRainbow 11 ай бұрын
To be fair, there was a lot of peeing on things you shouldn't, shouting at women who didn't appreciate it, and fighting with inanimate objects you couldn't win against back then too, we just didn't have a record of it the way we do the fancy sounding letters.
@GallowglassVT
@GallowglassVT 11 ай бұрын
Folks have always done that. Years come and go, but drunken jackasses remain much alike.
@Moondog-wc4vm
@Moondog-wc4vm 11 ай бұрын
I have wide ranging tastes in literature, poetry, maidens, fire hydrants and stop signs (and a strong bladder) I'm quite happy with my life. I reckon the Rev. Dr. J.M. Buckley just had a bad case of piles and was wanting to take it out on someone. He should have had more wit than to bad mouth his future father in law though. I'm betting his wife to be gave him hell for THAT badly thought out missive!
@luciahoneybee
@luciahoneybee 11 ай бұрын
​@@Moondog-wc4vm I don't think the Rev. from the reply was the son-in-law who was the intended recipient of the original letter. According to the description of the video, he was the editor of the Christian Advocate. He must have read the letter when it was published in the papers and decided to take the chance to do a little... preaching of his own 😅
@Cat919
@Cat919 7 ай бұрын
*Quill drop*
@jayabee
@jayabee 11 ай бұрын
Sounds like there were some shrooms in that whiskey.
@lechatbotte.
@lechatbotte. 11 ай бұрын
That’s why it’s called spirits lol
@rowanliggett
@rowanliggett 11 ай бұрын
Awesome
@philomelodia
@philomelodia 25 күн бұрын
I wish I knew what kind of whiskey that was, because it must’ve been some good shit! Noticed that the second guy only returned some of it. That means he drank a lot of it. He got hung over and couldn’t hack it. I am ready, willing and able to be next to try it. Especially the way it was described by RJ Ingersoll. Best description of whiskey I think I’ve ever heard.
@warlockofwordschannel7901
@warlockofwordschannel7901 11 ай бұрын
Nnnice - hadn't heard Jude Law's American accent since I ❤ Huckabee's...
@johnharrison2086
@johnharrison2086 7 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@ariadnepyanfar1048
@ariadnepyanfar1048 11 ай бұрын
Wow!
@kimsherlock8969
@kimsherlock8969 11 ай бұрын
Sounds like an invitation for lust and want in verbose language Language in coded pen. The respondent In the same verbosity 😮 Says no.😂
@blackc1479
@blackc1479 9 ай бұрын
Yeah, flowery language to say that he's a buzzkill lol
@CatsandJP
@CatsandJP 11 ай бұрын
Ah….Whiskey is the answer….because when you drink it you won’t remember the question 😂😂😂
@pleappleappleap
@pleappleappleap 11 ай бұрын
So I guess it's a love-or-hate thing.
@Garfunkels_Funky_Uncle
@Garfunkels_Funky_Uncle 11 ай бұрын
Who else was waiting for the response letter to be more like, "Dear Friend... it tastes like shit."
@nachgeben
@nachgeben 11 ай бұрын
Their American accents are so amazing. If I had no idea who they were, I'd genuinely think they came from the same area of the USA I have.
@rocarr180
@rocarr180 11 ай бұрын
🙏❤️
@price724
@price724 11 ай бұрын
Sounds like Dylan Thomas
@drawwithme780
@drawwithme780 7 ай бұрын
Sherlock in the multiverse of madness 😮
@PRANAV4877
@PRANAV4877 10 ай бұрын
Jude Law should next do "The path of a righteous man is beset.."
@UATU.
@UATU. 11 ай бұрын
Cumberbatch at the mic is evocative of a spelling bee on local cable.
@TheMichaelBeck
@TheMichaelBeck 7 ай бұрын
👏👏👏
@JadeTheorist3942
@JadeTheorist3942 11 ай бұрын
2:19 2:29 2:43 3:15 OMG that smile!!! 😍
@Osiwan960
@Osiwan960 8 ай бұрын
welp. that escalated quickly.
@tweegeTX3
@tweegeTX3 7 ай бұрын
Is there such thing as a Widow’s Warf?
@arlenehutchinson9259
@arlenehutchinson9259 6 ай бұрын
Pure ACID wit
@joshborra8407
@joshborra8407 11 ай бұрын
#KINGMAKER BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH FANS
@jillcrowe2626
@jillcrowe2626 11 ай бұрын
I am an adult child of two alcoholics. I can see the point of both.
@anmolbanerjee941
@anmolbanerjee941 3 ай бұрын
Doctor Strange and Dumbledore
@spencerdokes6056
@spencerdokes6056 11 ай бұрын
Jude struggling with the accent
@katrin712
@katrin712 10 ай бұрын
Has anyone you ever realized that wherever Men (humanity) settled and found/grew food, they also fast made alcohol out of the grains/fruits/plants they found/harvested?
@comealongcomealong4480
@comealongcomealong4480 2 ай бұрын
@katrin712 And yet, interestingly for anthropologists, not every indigenous race fermented and brewed. It's said that certain indigenous peoples are destructively susceptible to the madness of alcohol because their livers are deficient of a particular enzyme which helps to break down alcohol in our bodies. Their physiology has evolved with other unique attributes that aided their survival, but not this liver process. From memory the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, the Maori from NZ, and Pacific Islanders. I'm not sure about the native peoples of Canada, the US, South America and African countries.
@katrin712
@katrin712 2 ай бұрын
@@comealongcomealong4480 interesting piece of knowledge :). Did they not have ritual beverages? The first purpose was often this... and/or having something proper for consumption.
@comealongcomealong4480
@comealongcomealong4480 2 ай бұрын
@@katrin712 Apologies that I am not an expert. It seems more likely that many of these alcohol free cultures chewed substances (eg coca leaves, betel nuts) for relaxation or hallucinogenic effects. Or smoked various substances in pipes. (Native Americans, Central and Southern Americans). I know the Fijian people prepare and share a fermented ceremonial drink called Kava. I believe the effects are calm and euphoria, rather than drunk. > Indigenous peoples were as vulnerable to the poisonous effects of alcohol, as they were to European diseases and guns.
@katrin712
@katrin712 2 ай бұрын
@@comealongcomealong4480 you know, the “Pithy” in Delphes got her hallucination for oracles from gases coming up from a crack. I heard of Chavin de Huantar where there was initiation with also use of hallucinogenes. If I remember the coca leaves help with heights as it comes from areas in high mountains. Every plant had good and bad sides, depending of the part of the plant, so they probably made good use of that :)
@JiveDadson
@JiveDadson Ай бұрын
Easy on the virgules there, Bud. You know that stuff is exponential, right?
@cecilecochet6198
@cecilecochet6198 11 ай бұрын
😁😋😆😘
@JachAnen
@JachAnen 11 ай бұрын
Both of those would make for en excellent whiskey commercial. I sure want to taste it and I don't like whiskey
@mildredhighcock7333
@mildredhighcock7333 10 ай бұрын
They sound a little like Americans reading Shakespeare
@addie_is_me
@addie_is_me 11 ай бұрын
🥹😄
@frogpalpeeper4249
@frogpalpeeper4249 11 ай бұрын
Holy crap. People fell for all kinds of excessive verbiage back then. Forget whiskey. Was the guy on cocaine and/or 'shrooms?
@marleneashten2052
@marleneashten2052 11 ай бұрын
Promo`SM
@eightbitriddle
@eightbitriddle 7 ай бұрын
"In 1728,[2] Benedict Cumberbatch's 7th-great-grandfather, Abraham Cumberbatch of Saint Andrew, Barbados (died 1753), acquired properties on the island of Barbados in the West Indies,[3] which used enslaved people for labour. St Nicholas Abbey was owned by Cumberbatch's ancestors for at least two hundred years."
@tjmcguire9417
@tjmcguire9417 8 ай бұрын
What EJIT is incapable of casting Americans?
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