Brief items of Hamlet/Shakespeare humor from John Atkinson, Katie Burgess, Stephen Ruddy

Here are links to three items of Shakespeare-related humor:

1. The first is a comic by John Atkinson (via his Wrong Hands website), "Jukebox Shakespeare," listing song recommendations for Shakespeare plays:

2. The second is by Katie Burgess, available at Medium.com,, a satire of austerity economics as conducted and justified by Claudius, who decides to decrease funding for the arts after viewing "The Mousetrap."

3. The third is from McSweeney's ("Internet Tendency: Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998"), by Stehpen Ruddy, and imagines Shakespeare in heaven, meeting Walter Mondale, who asks him if Edward De Vere wrote his plays (the "Shakespeare authorship question").

All three of these are funny and short, each worth a read.

For those who are unfamiliar with Walter Mondale, he was Vice President under Jimmy Carter, lost to Ronald Reagan in a presidential bid, but is famous in part for having been instrumental in arranging international aid for Vietnamese refugees ("boat people") who were fleeing Vietnam.
- On that, see the following link to Minnesota Public Radio story observing a previous anniversary of Mondale's address to the UN meeting in Geneva, which was instrumental in convincing world leaders to offer their support.
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