Benedict Cumberbatch reads a hilarious letter of apology to a hotel

Having served in the Canadian Navy, being from Nova Scotia, I personally did this! I would bring back Brother's pepperoni when coming off leave,to Victoria, BC from Halifax, Nova Scotia!!! Luckily no seagulls were harmed! 😃😃😃😃

If the fkn hotel doesnt have a ground fault circuit interrupter for the hairdryer its either trash or the most American hotel ive ever heard of. Lol, fake and gay. =3

what an incredible generic **american accent. i mean, it’s really good!! that poor guy. i sure hope he made it through the dinner with flying colors! :) 🌈
** soeo e below says it’s supposed to be generic Canadian, which sorta sounds right! :) 🇨🇦

Rude ad disruptions ruin it.😢

Too funny...but Benedict, that is NOT a Canadian accent!

This is proof-positive that seagulls will eat just about anything. I'm guessing that the pepperoni had a better taste than that of a rotting seal carcass.

Know the story well and the hotel, played music there…hadn't heard the letter…cool.
Vitoria ain’t the only place with those flyin garbage cans. One beautiful day, I majestically sailed my boat right up to the crowded dock, at which point I was bullseye for a massive load of white dribbly stuff. We were not amused.

Ugh, the image!! 😁
He's a one man demolition unit!!

I love these letters, I would pardon this poor bastard immediately. Damn seagulls.

My. Cumberbatch's reading is very neat and understated.

Thank goodness the seagull in the towel was unharmed. I hope the rest were unharmed.

As soon as he mentioned the Empress and the Navy I assumed it was the Empress in Victoria BC. I live just outside Victoria. I was not living here when that happened, but I'm fascinated to read a comment from someone who says they were here and remember it happening. I am sure it made the local news.

First mistake: Being Canadian.
Second: Accepting responsibility and apologizing.
Third mistake: Not marching to the front desk and demanding to know what the hell is going on in as Mid-Atlantic an accent as possible, and what compensation will be provided.

Why did it take him 18 years to apologize?

You can hear when his accent/word choice slips, but I keep forgetting he's a British actor.

😂

Does he normally speak with a North American accent nowadays?

This hotel guest is a walking casualty! 😂

OMG I'm from here, I remember this!!! Hahahahaha The seagulls here are no joke! They'll steal shit right out of your hands, can you imagine what a smorgasbord this fellow spread out for them? OMG.

Why is he putting on that accent??

Why the American accent?

Amazing accent. Not super Canadian sounding. But yeah man, really great, especially when you think about how he sounds on talk shows.

Funny, I just heard the song by the group Flock of Seagulls.

Good thing it was seagulls and not penguins.

at least it didn't involve him having to say "penguins"

I'd love to see dramatisations filmed to accompany some of these tales! 🤣🤣

How the hell did an ex navy guy forget how seagulls can find a single potato chip on an aircraft carrier deck hundreds of miles offshore? A suitcase of peperoni meat? I'm surprised he could open the door! Brilliantly done Benedict, I'd have corpsed in the first 30 seconds. 🤣😂🤣😂

omg i thought it was his OWN letter lmao. "now that i'm famous 18 years later, will you let me back in pls?" rofl

The airline and the Empress are to blame, surely. If the airline hadn’t lost his luggage and the hotel had a fridge in the room…

Omg. I woke my partner up laughing like an idiot. I traveled extensively for work and I can completely see this happening. I went to a conference where a duck got in to a colleague’s room and trashed it.

When he walked in and found A Flock of Seagulls in his room, did he ask for autographs from Mike Score or Paul Reynolds? 😄

His voice is so much less sexy with the Canadian accent.

Love it❤❤❤❤❤

Victoria, BC is a beautiiful place. I spent 10 years in the US Navy, and it is one of my most favorite port visits.

Isn't he British? 😅

An episode of Mr Bean in the making....

I want to know what the response was!

Why is this in my rec list?

But I came for the pengwings!

Really nice American accent. Having trouble saying “room” though. Sounds more like “rum”, which gives it away a bit.

I am strangely reminded of "Why Paddy's Not at Work Today."

Why the American accent?!😅I prefer his own natural accent, personally.

as a thrown shoe which is still somewhat traumatised by entire ordeal, I was there when it happened and can assure you that this is Absolutely TRUE!

Birds are unaffected y capsasim in chilli so they didn't even get a spicy tongue or butthole/ cloaca

Great annectdot terrible writing.
A good test for gpt4 to rewrite as James Thurber.

This sounds like the Hotel's fault for not having refrigerators in their rooms. Like, seriously, who doesn't have mini-fridges for a location that houses EVENTS?

I've loved Benedict Cumberbatch in many movies and always considered him a wonderful actor but this reading of the letter is the thing that most highlights for me his incredible acting talent. I've had limited experience of acting but my sons have done more than I did and I was closely involved in helping my sons rehearse things like acting monologues, etc, suggesting to them subtle ways that they could change things to improve the delivery where every tiny inflection, look on the face, tone of voice, variation in pace and volume, etc, etc takes time to work out to find the perfect way to do each line and each section of each line and each transition to the next line and doing it over and over until it is just perfect. I mention this because, having had those experiences, I feel that I can really appreciate the actual work and skill that is involved in the way that Benedict read this letter. He delivers it in a smooth and wonderful way that just flows and totally captures the audience in the story and, in doing so, we can enjoy the story and it seems such a simple thing to read out that letter but it actually takes great talent to read it that way so that we enjoy it without really appreciating how much skill went into it. I really appreciated all the tiny, intricate changes, variations and choices that Benedict brought to the reading and how incredible his is as an actor.

I swear that Ricky Lafleur wrote this letter.

As a housekeeping supervisor for 20+ years i really enjoyed this story as i have been retired for 2 years now. People have no idea the things we see