As part of a promotion for a new revival of The Importance of Being Earnest, two Broadway actors have released YouTube videos featuring lines from Jersey Shore recited in the style of Oscar Wilde.
There are five videos in total, and this one is arguably the funniest, as it includes the line "If you leave, I'm going to stuff your nose with tampons!" delivered in a posh British accent:
Watch the rest of the videos at the PLAYBILLVIDEO YouTube channel.
Eleanor Barkhorn is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Sexes channel. A former teacher with Teach for America, she used to edit the Entertainment channel. More
She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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