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Best. Headline. Ever.

· Arts & Entertainment

This theatre review’s headline takes the prize as one of the best I have ever seen. It involves Shakespeare.

Talking of the Bard, there is a lot about him at the moment on the BBC and elsewhere. London’s Globe Theatre is running all of his plays.

May 12th, 2012 |

11 comments to Best. Headline. Ever.

  • Hmm
    May 13, 2012 at 12:58 am

    Wow! Thanks for linking that Johnathan – following the ‘outstanding’ headline, the review itself is so damning (and so damn funny) that it almost makes it intriguing enough to want to go and see the ‘clusterfuck’ in action.

    I would love to be a fly on the wall when the members of the company read that.

    It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of Shakespeare done in the style of “The Producers”!

  • Rich Rostrom
    May 13, 2012 at 2:47 am

    Not bad, aside from the gross offense against ordinary civility of the language.

    However, it is still far from the “best ever”: that honor remains with the New York Post of Friday, April 15, 1983.

  • bradley13
    May 13, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Sounds all too typical. Somebody cannot bear the idea of producing just another Shakespeare performance. Where’s the fame in that?

    So he or she “improves” it beyond recognition. It’s “art”, what they did, and anyone who doesn’t understand is clearly an unworthy member of the hoi polloi.

  • James Strong
    May 13, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Rich Rostrom:
    Could you tell us what that New York Post headline was?

  • Philip Scott Thomas
    May 13, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    James –

    It was “Headless body in topless bar”.

    Walter Kerr’s review of the Broadway production of “I Am Camera” was both witty and succinct: “Me no Leica”.

  • Lang Spoon
    May 13, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    As a Brit I have always been led to believe that the best headline ever was: “Fog in Channel – Continent isolated!”

  • Ernie G
    May 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    Then there’s the apocryphal New York Times headline:

    WORLD ENDS TOMORROW – WOMEN, MINORITIES HARDEST HIT

  • David Bouvier
    May 13, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    The New Republic’s review of a certain Richard Curtis movie: “Crap, actually”

  • manuel II paleologos
    May 13, 2012 at 10:00 pm

    Then there was the review of Caledonian Thistle’s defeat of Celtic FC:

    “Super Cally go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious”.

    My favourite though was a delightful misunderstanding in the NY Times:

    “Harkness to go to Sheffield, Wednesday”

  • MajikMonkee
    May 14, 2012 at 7:52 am

    Here in South Africa there’s a news paper called the daily Sun that mainly reports on allegations of witchcraft. One headline was “Zombies suck my breasts”. I think I’m gonna frame it, much to the annoyance of the misus who takes these things fairly seriously!

  • Steven Rockwell
    May 15, 2012 at 4:35 am

    The most famous headline in history?

    STIX NIX HICK PIX
    Variety, July 17, 1935

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