“I am, as should be apparent, poking fun at those benighted souls who believe that someone other than William Shakespeare–the most prominent candidates being Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford–wrote “Hamlet,” “Macbeth” and “Romeo and Juliet.” In a saner world, nobody would need to poke fun at them, for nobody would give them the time of day, there being no credible evidence whatsoever to support their claims.”