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Tina’s Leaving Do
Yorkshire Tea
I could listen to Patrick Stewart all day long. The man does gravitas better than any human alive. He makes James Earl Jones voiceover sound like a lost puppy squealing for its mama.
Here Stewart gives a farewell speech to Tina as the fellow employees gather around. He dramatically inches closer to Tina with every word and gesture. The man is a tour-de-force who knows how to deliver an inch-perfect script. As the office co-workers well up with tears, Stewart informs the crowd there will also be a shout at the local pub.
“The emptiness felt within these walls where only the soft weeping of the forgotten reverberates. Shall we not hear again the enchanting echoes of your laughter? Or the sweet rasp of your stapler?”
Brilliantly scripted. Instantly memorable. It’s the leaving speech of a lifetime!
“Stewart seems a sensible choice for the ad considering he claims he always has some Yorkshire Tea with him, “for a proper brew”. In a 2015 Reddit Ask Me Anything the actor, who was born in West Yorkshire, expressed his love of Yorkshire Gold, claiming, “Any other kind of tea bag needs two bags”.” Source Creative Review
