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"Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" is a comedy sketch by the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster. First broadcast on The Wayne and Shuster Hour on CBC Radio in 1954, it was reenacted for their British television debut in 1957 and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. The sketch recasts the Shakespearean historical tragedy as a detective story with gangster overtones. Set in the Roman Senate right after the assassination of Julius Caesar, the script has Brutus (Shuster) engaging the services of private eye Flavius Maximus (Wayne) to identify Caesar's assassin. Several lines from the sketch became popular catchphrases, including Flavius's order of a "martinus" (a single martini) in a Roman bar, and the repeated lament of Caesar's widow Calpurnia in a thick Bronx accent, "I tol

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rdfs:label	Rinse the Blood Off My Toga (en)
rdfs:comment	"Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" is a comedy sketch by the Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster. First broadcast on The Wayne and Shuster Hour on CBC Radio in 1954, it was reenacted for their British television debut in 1957 and their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. The sketch recasts the Shakespearean historical tragedy as a detective story with gangster overtones. Set in the Roman Senate right after the assassination of Julius Caesar, the script has Brutus (Shuster) engaging the services of private eye Flavius Maximus (Wayne) to identify Caesar's assassin. Several lines from the sketch became popular catchphrases, including Flavius's order of a "martinus" (a single martini) in a Roman bar, and the repeated lament of Caesar's widow Calpurnia in a thick Bronx accent, "I tol (en)
dcterms:subject	Works based on Julius Caesar (play) 1958 in American television Cultural depictions of Calpurnia (wife of Caesar) 1955 in Canadian television Comedy sketches Canadian comedy
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Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://www.teachers.ab.ca/News%20Room/ata%20magazine/Volume-91/Number-2/Pages/Rinse-the-blood-off-the-adjudicator.aspx http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/video/rinse_the_blood.cfm http://www.informalmusic.com/latinsoc/rinse.html
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characters	Claudius (en) Mark Antony (en) Tiberius (en) (en) Brutus (en) Cassius (en) Calpurnia (en) Flavius Maximus (en) Regulus Bibendus (en)
genre	Sketch comedy
italic title	no (en)
place	(en) Toronto, Ontario (en) McGill Street Studios (en)
quote	Bartender: What're you drinking? (en) Bartender: You mean a martini. (en) Brutus: That's even more painful than the rotunda. (en) Flavius: Gimme a martinus. (en) Flavius: If I wanted two I'd ask for them. (en) Flavius: He's dead. He was stabbed through the portico. (en)
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setting	Roman Senate
source	–"Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" (en)
subject	Assassination of Julius Caesar

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