# God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - where does the comma go? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 27, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700 "2021-12-27T02:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/1 "2021-12-27T02:20:28Z")
It’s worth your time watching this, I promise you! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sxfxy-3dGz0/maxresdefault.jpg "Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfxy-3dGz0) ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/2 "2021-12-27T03:15:44Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > It’s worth your time watching this, I promise you! Agreed. It was fun even though I knew the answer. It’s nice to consider all the possibilities in song. With metrically sound, rhyming lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/3 "2021-12-27T11:53:08Z")
OK, glad we got _that_ settled! Next question - just how many people are actually in that video? Because all those guys look a LOT alike. Is it one guy singing different parts, progressively shaving off part of a beard between each filming? Or am I just imagining that possibility? Maybe the slap-guy is one of just two people here? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/4 "2021-12-27T13:58:25Z")
Well, you can live in the love of the comma, people. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/5 "2021-12-27T14:01:46Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Is it one guy singing different parts Are you saying he’s a comma chameleon? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/6 "2021-12-27T14:02:41Z")
You win the thread ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/7 "2021-12-28T02:07:03Z")
I think it is all the same person, a technique perfected by Randy Rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/8 "2021-12-29T00:46:31Z")
Yeah, it’s all one person. I didn’t even notice all of the facial hair differences originally–only that he’d shaved for the slapping guy. I’m actually quite surprised he doesn’t have more such videos on his channel. The splitscreen single-person harmony genre is pretty common online. And he actually sounds like he can sing the parts–even if I do hear a certain effect that seems to be used in a lot of places to make tenors sound better. Still, I find it interesting that a more generic video producer knew how to make it sound that good. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-rest-ye-merry-gentlemen-where-does-the-comma-go/956700/9 "2021-12-29T00:51:04Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’m actually quite surprised he doesn’t have more such videos on his channel. Well it takes time to regrow the beard between videos.