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Ignored Teacher

A Bit of Fry & Laurie
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The setup

A painfully accommodating English teacher tries to involve his silent class in Shakespeare while a visitor observes the lesson.

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The premise

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An apologetic teacher faces the studio audience as his class, with Mr Lewis sitting nearby to observe. Nobody has prepared the reading, volunteers for a part or answers his questions, but he keeps treating the silence as a reasonable choice. After correcting an insult on the blackboard, he reads both parts of Romeo and Juliet himself and tries to start a discussion about its relevance. Each attempt leaves him less confident, until he apologizes for getting in the way and asks whether anyone wants him to stay.

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