(9:29 min – start @1:07)
This stand-up routine is from Dry Bar Comedy, which promotes itself as family-friendly, and “funny for everyone,” so you can rest assured that using stand-up bits from here will be appropriate for the classroom. In this particular piece, Branyan reflects on how Shakespeare had an active vocabulary of 54,000 words, whereas people today have an active vocabulary of 3,000 words. He then re-words “The Three Little Pigs” in Shakespearean English and muses on how 16th century children had a better vocabulary than he does.