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* ''The MAD Revue'', a 1960s revue based on ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' magazine, had a parody of "The Girl From Ipanema", written pseudonymously by Creator/MaryRodgers and Creator/StephenSondheim and performed by Creator/LindaLavin, called "The Boy From Tacarembo la Tumba del Fuego Santa Malipas Zacatecas la Junta del Sol y Cruz". The punchline is that the boy is moving to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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* Greek playwright Creator/{{Aristophanes}} coined the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, the name of a food dish formed from stringing together its ingredients. No writer has ever created a longer word, and this record has been held since 390BC!
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* Greek playwright An object example: the comedy ''Assemblywomen'' by Creator/{{Aristophanes}} coined contains the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, "Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon", as the name of a food dish formed from stringing together its ingredients. No writer fictional dish. At 183 letters, it has ever created a longer word, and this held the record has been held for longest made-up word used in a work of fiction since 390BC!390 BC. While we don't get a recipe for it, the name itself explains what some of the ingredients are, and it apparently is [[NoodleImplements some kind of fricassee containing a bunch of birds and fishes.]]
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* Greek playwright Aristophanes coined the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. No writer has ever created a longer word, and this record has been held since 390BC!
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* Greek playwright Aristophanes Creator/{{Aristophanes}} coined the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon.Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, the name of a food dish formed from stringing together its ingredients. No writer has ever created a longer word, and this record has been held since 390BC!
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** And that isn't even the play's full title. It's ''The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The most tragical tragedy]] [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice that ever was tragediz'd]] [[RuleOfThree by any company of tragedians]]''. Any actor who can say both his name and/or his line in one breath, without tripping over his tongue deserves a medal.
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** And that isn't even the play's full title. It's ''The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The most tragical tragedy]] [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice that ever was tragediz'd]] tragediz'd [[RuleOfThree by any company of tragedians]]''. Any actor who can say both his name and/or his line in one breath, without tripping over his tongue deserves a medal.
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* A song from the musical ''Operette'' by Creator/NoelCoward is sung by a character known to everyone as "Countess Mitzi":
-->They call me Countess Mitzi,\\
But I can't imagine why,\\
For my name is really Ludovika Anastasie Frederika Isabel Rosa Mariposa Nikinikolai.\\
You can perfectly well see why\\
That to alter it people try,\\
For they'd rather say "Countess Mitzi"\\
Just a teensy-weensy bitsie,\\
Than a string of names like Ludovika Anastasie Frederika Isabel Rosa Mariposa Nikinikolai.
-->They call me Countess Mitzi,\\
But I can't imagine why,\\
For my name is really Ludovika Anastasie Frederika Isabel Rosa Mariposa Nikinikolai.\\
You can perfectly well see why\\
That to alter it people try,\\
For they'd rather say "Countess Mitzi"\\
Just a teensy-weensy bitsie,\\
Than a string of names like Ludovika Anastasie Frederika Isabel Rosa Mariposa Nikinikolai.
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* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', you get Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yosen Tallen-Hallen Svaden Svanson.
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* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', you get Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yosen Tallen-Hallen Svaden Svanson.
Svanson. [[spoiler: And that's just her first name. We don't get to hear the rest of it because the characters "don't have the time."]]
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* In Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical version of ''Film/{{Cinderella}}'', the three members of the royal family all have absurdly long names, the Prince being introduced as "His Royal Highness, Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander François Reginald Lancelot [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Herman]] Gregory James, son of Her Majesty, Queen Constantina Charlotte Ermintrude Gwinyvere [[AerithAndBob Maisie]] Marguerite Anne and His Majesty, King Maximilian Godfrey Ladislaus Leopold [[AerithAndBob Sidney]] Frederick John."
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* In Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical version of ''Film/{{Cinderella}}'', ''Theatre/CinderellaRodgersAndHammerstein'', the three members of the royal family all have absurdly long names, the Prince being introduced as "His Royal Highness, Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander François Reginald Lancelot [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Herman]] Gregory James, son of Her Majesty, Queen Constantina Charlotte Ermintrude Gwinyvere [[AerithAndBob Maisie]] Marguerite Anne and His Majesty, King Maximilian Godfrey Ladislaus Leopold [[AerithAndBob Sidney]] Frederick John."
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{{Overly Long Name}}s in theatre.
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* Greek playwright Aristophanes coined the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. No writer has ever created a longer word, and this record has been held since 390BC!
* An opera called ''The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern'' holds the dubious honour of being the longest English manuscript title ever written.
* ''Chrononhotonthologos'', a 1734 satire by Henry Carey. The opening lines go:
-->''Aldiborontiphoscophornio!''\\
''Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?''
** And that isn't even the play's full title. It's ''The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The most tragical tragedy]] [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice that ever was tragediz'd]] [[RuleOfThree by any company of tragedians]]''. Any actor who can say both his name and/or his line in one breath, without tripping over his tongue deserves a medal.
* In Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical version of ''Film/{{Cinderella}}'', the three members of the royal family all have absurdly long names, the Prince being introduced as "His Royal Highness, Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander François Reginald Lancelot [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Herman]] Gregory James, son of Her Majesty, Queen Constantina Charlotte Ermintrude Gwinyvere [[AerithAndBob Maisie]] Marguerite Anne and His Majesty, King Maximilian Godfrey Ladislaus Leopold [[AerithAndBob Sidney]] Frederick John."
* There's a scene in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' where most of Cyrano and Christian's fellow soldiers are introduced to Roxane:
-->"Baron de Casterac de Cahuzac.--Vidame\\
De Malgouyre Estressac Lesbas d'Escarabiot.\\
Chevalier d'Antignac-Juzet.--Baron Hillot\\
De Blagnac-Salechan de Castel Crabioules..."
** It's even {{lampshaded}} in the next two lines:
--->'''Roxane''': But how many names have you each?\\
'''Baron Hillot''': Scores!
* In ''A Day In Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine'' the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]] {{Expy}} asks the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Chico]] {{Expy}} what his name is,
-->"Oh, my name! She's-a Carlo Luigi Biondella Buonanova di Mozzarella."\\
"How do you spell that?"\\
"Wrong, every time!"
* Creator/EddieIzzard's comedy special ''Definite Article'' featured a bit where he [[http://thinkcrate.blogspot.com/2005/03/eddie-izzard-comic-genius.html poked fun at the trend for heads of the United Nations to have exceedingly long names]]:
-->"I've changed my name, it's Jeff Jeff Jeff Smith Smith Smithly Ghali!"\\
"Come on in, Jeffrey-big long-named person!"
* In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''Theatre/TheEmperorConstantine'', Helena's servant derides the Emperor's name -- he didn't have it that long when he had wooed (and abandoned) Helena.
* Leon Steponovitch Tolchinsky, Sophia Irena Elynya Zubritsky and Count Gregor Mikhailovitch Breznofsky Fyodor Yousekevitch from ''Theatre/{{Fools}}''.
* Lampshaded by Joan of Arc (La Pucelle) in Shakespeare's ''Theatre/HenryVI, Part 1,'' Act 4, Scene 7:
-->LUCY: But where's the great Alcides of the field, \\
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, \\
Created, for his rare success in arms, \\
Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence; \\
Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield, \\
Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton, \\
Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield, \\
The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge; \\
Knight of the noble order of Saint George, \\
Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece; \\
Great marshal to Henry the Sixth \\
Of all his wars within the realm of France? \\
JOAN LA PUCELLE: Here is a silly stately style indeed! \\
The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath, \\
Writes not so tedious a style as this. \\
Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles \\
Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
* The play ''The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'' by Peter Weiss is commonly referred to as ''Theatre/MaratSade'' for obvious reasons, often times even on posters.
* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', you get Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yosen Tallen-Hallen Svaden Svanson.
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{{Overly Long Name}}s in theatre.
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* Greek playwright Aristophanes coined the longest word ever written in literature from a comedy called ''Assemblywomen'', Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsaneilsmellsnodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitoyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon. No writer has ever created a longer word, and this record has been held since 390BC!
* An opera called ''The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern'' holds the dubious honour of being the longest English manuscript title ever written.
* ''Chrononhotonthologos'', a 1734 satire by Henry Carey. The opening lines go:
-->''Aldiborontiphoscophornio!''\\
''Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?''
** And that isn't even the play's full title. It's ''The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos: [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The most tragical tragedy]] [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice that ever was tragediz'd]] [[RuleOfThree by any company of tragedians]]''. Any actor who can say both his name and/or his line in one breath, without tripping over his tongue deserves a medal.
* In Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical version of ''Film/{{Cinderella}}'', the three members of the royal family all have absurdly long names, the Prince being introduced as "His Royal Highness, Christopher Rupert Windemere Vladimir Karl Alexander François Reginald Lancelot [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Herman]] Gregory James, son of Her Majesty, Queen Constantina Charlotte Ermintrude Gwinyvere [[AerithAndBob Maisie]] Marguerite Anne and His Majesty, King Maximilian Godfrey Ladislaus Leopold [[AerithAndBob Sidney]] Frederick John."
* There's a scene in ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'' where most of Cyrano and Christian's fellow soldiers are introduced to Roxane:
-->"Baron de Casterac de Cahuzac.--Vidame\\
De Malgouyre Estressac Lesbas d'Escarabiot.\\
Chevalier d'Antignac-Juzet.--Baron Hillot\\
De Blagnac-Salechan de Castel Crabioules..."
** It's even {{lampshaded}} in the next two lines:
--->'''Roxane''': But how many names have you each?\\
'''Baron Hillot''': Scores!
* In ''A Day In Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine'' the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho]] {{Expy}} asks the [[Creator/MarxBrothers Chico]] {{Expy}} what his name is,
-->"Oh, my name! She's-a Carlo Luigi Biondella Buonanova di Mozzarella."\\
"How do you spell that?"\\
"Wrong, every time!"
* Creator/EddieIzzard's comedy special ''Definite Article'' featured a bit where he [[http://thinkcrate.blogspot.com/2005/03/eddie-izzard-comic-genius.html poked fun at the trend for heads of the United Nations to have exceedingly long names]]:
-->"I've changed my name, it's Jeff Jeff Jeff Smith Smith Smithly Ghali!"\\
"Come on in, Jeffrey-big long-named person!"
* In Creator/DorothyLSayers' ''Theatre/TheEmperorConstantine'', Helena's servant derides the Emperor's name -- he didn't have it that long when he had wooed (and abandoned) Helena.
* Leon Steponovitch Tolchinsky, Sophia Irena Elynya Zubritsky and Count Gregor Mikhailovitch Breznofsky Fyodor Yousekevitch from ''Theatre/{{Fools}}''.
* Lampshaded by Joan of Arc (La Pucelle) in Shakespeare's ''Theatre/HenryVI, Part 1,'' Act 4, Scene 7:
-->LUCY: But where's the great Alcides of the field, \\
Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, \\
Created, for his rare success in arms, \\
Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence; \\
Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield, \\
Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton, \\
Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield, \\
The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge; \\
Knight of the noble order of Saint George, \\
Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece; \\
Great marshal to Henry the Sixth \\
Of all his wars within the realm of France? \\
JOAN LA PUCELLE: Here is a silly stately style indeed! \\
The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath, \\
Writes not so tedious a style as this. \\
Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles \\
Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.
* The play ''The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'' by Peter Weiss is commonly referred to as ''Theatre/MaratSade'' for obvious reasons, often times even on posters.
* In ''Theatre/TheProducers'', you get Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yosen Tallen-Hallen Svaden Svanson.
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