Claiming that someone has mistaken me for another and that I am Portaccio has gotten me out of a lot of scrapes at work where I am extremely incompetent.
I love the attention to detail in Simon Pegg's costume, he's an upstart Shakespeare lookalike complete with leather jacket and grunge-y haircut. I can't help but think the idea for this sketch stems from the fact that Arthur Mathews naturally looks like Shakespeare (or at least our idea of him).
According to Simon Pegg on the DVD commentary the line where he says "he really really look like shakespeare" was the line that inspired Fran Healy of the band Travis to use the word "Really" twice in the song Driftwood.
Portaccio's fate subsumed the two works that tower over all of English literature: Hamlet (recall the name of his villainous uncle), and Tiger's Revenge, by Claude Balls. Cats have dirty claws, and Big Train had brilliant writers.
I was in the surgery waiting room when he came to have in knackers checked. He walked in and said "my good woman, I have perchance cometh verily for a check up". I thought he really really looked like Shakespeare
Big Trains humor in a nutshell - Studio audience is confused about when to laugh, but the jokes never get old The real joke was that Portaccio was legendary because couple people though he lookes a lot like Shakespeare
Nice looking refind bunch of guys one may want to invite over to a renaissance "faire" to talk over "olde" times. And maybe rework Lear and compose a few more sonnets ( and then exeunt).
Many people don't know that, while Portaccio was widely known among Shakepeare lookalikes as the very image of the Bard, he was also the creator and CEO of the company that gave us the Portaccabin.
