Super Bowl 2011: Jane Austen At The Super Bowl

During Sunday's Super Bowl, the entertainment wasn't solely coming from the game. Twitter tag #JaneAustenAtTheSuperBowl had literature fans enthralled.

According to libraryjournal.com, "Probably the biggest hit (at least among the literati set) at last night's championship game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers was singer-songwriter Roseanne Cash, who channeled the voice of Jane Austen on Twitter under the hashtag meme #JaneAustenAtTheSuperBowl."

Cash's tweets garnered plenty of responses and some of them are pure literary comic genius.

Here are some of our favorites. Come up with one of your own? Let us know in the comments!

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This was rather disagreeable More delightful than the Super Bowl!

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[Flowymac]

01:37 PM on 02/09/2011

actually it was a toss up which was funnier, the interview or the half time at the super bowl, Obama thought the same thing, since I felt he thought it was a put on and he laughed most of the time.

[Woods-shade]

10:35 AM on 02/09/2011

Love Jane Austen and this - too funny. I'd like to hear Oscar Wilde's take on it next year!

[eric14]

09:23 AM on 02/09/2011

Better to parody Mrs Trollope when she is blasting the manners of the Americans. A very amusing book. And behind all her hilarious ranting there is an admiration of the frank, even rough and ready democratic folk, whom she imitates to survive.

[Dunkleberger Karl]

11:28 PM on 02/08/2011

awesome without equil !

[Jamaul Haul]

09:48 PM on 02/08/2011

#7 was perfect. Had that "bless you're heart" quality to it. Also, I just want to add that I'm impressed that Christine Agulera attempted to sing the Banner live. They have all been canned for a long time, including Whitney Hustein. This is a hard ass song to sing. In highschool I was that guy who sang for all the events. I rocked it. One time at a state basket ball game I forgot where I was at the middle of the song. Total blank.. Dead spAce.. Right at "rockets red glare". Instead of crickets I heard a "ha- ha" ala Melvin from the simpson's.

[Janet Logan]

06:04 AM on 02/09/2011

I've been giving this some thought. Over in the US there is a famous, fabulously smokey-toned operatic soprano called Renee Fleming. They shud give her a go at singing it as it was written. Unless she's already done it?

[Hina]

09:22 PM on 02/08/2011

Oh, this was superb, I enjoyed it immensley. I hope Charlotte Bronte will make her Super bowl debut next year.

[Woods-shade]

10:43 AM on 02/09/2011

That would be cool. : )) ( Although maybe difficult to achieve the right atmosphere of forlorn windswept moors in an indoor stadium )

[Nana Amani]

08:55 PM on 02/08/2011

I'd read anything Jane Austen. These were quite clever!

[Anthony Perone]

08:00 PM on 02/08/2011

Good Lord....LITERACY! What's the net coming to? ....Great writing Jane!

[dukesman2000]

07:10 PM on 02/08/2011

Texts, facebook and twitter are the new email.

[Angiefranci]

06:06 PM on 02/08/2011

Oh, how she is turning in her grave.

[violettefemme]

06:58 PM on 02/08/2011

Actually, I think she'd be quite pleased with the way things turned out.

World fame, literary fame, enduring beyond her own century, the ascent of woman's position in Society, no longer dependent upon marriage to define our adult lives and provide for us...yes indeed, there are many things Jane Austen would approve of, and discovering herself to be iconic enough for this sort of tribute is but one.

[Anthony Perone]

08:02 PM on 02/08/2011

Does this mean that there's a hope for literature?
I'd like to see Dos Passos on the upcoming Royal Wedding!

[kareemachan]

07:53 PM on 02/08/2011

This is rather fun. I rather think she'd have turned in the grave when those monster/zombie/Jane Austen books were published.

[Goliadkin]

08:18 PM on 02/08/2011

In a perfect world, she might risen from the grave to devour the authors.

[Dan Stewart]

05:57 PM on 02/08/2011

Super Bowl = Pagan Extravaganza

[JonInPeoria]

07:08 PM on 02/08/2011

You almost make Pagan Extravaganza sound like a bad thing.... ;)

[Woods-shade]

10:49 AM on 02/09/2011

And we barbeque in place of human sacrifice... what's not to like? : )

[Anthony Perone]

08:05 PM on 02/08/2011

Better there than in the streets....