Editing Waiting for Godot (section)

==In popular culture and media==

* In November/December 1987, [[Garry Trudeau]] ran a week-long spoof in his ''[[Doonesbury]]'' syndicated comic strip called "Waiting for Mario" in which two characters discussed – and dismissed – each other's hopes that [[Mario Cuomo]] would declare as a candidate in the [[1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/11/30|title=Doonesbury Comic Strip, November 30, 1987|website=GoComics.com|access-date=26 September 2014|archive-date=13 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213124852/http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1987/11/30|url-status=live}}</ref>
* In 1992 ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had a short video in their segment "[[Monsterpiece Theater]]" entitled "Waiting for [[Elmo]]". Telly and [[Grover]] wait by a bare tree for Elmo to appear. They discuss their situation: If Elmo arrives they would be "happy", if not they would be "angry". Elmo never appears, and the tree declares it does not understand the play before leaving, prompting Telly and Grover to chase after it.<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Carl|editor-last1=Laver|editor-first2=Clare|editor-last2=Finburgh|title=Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd|pages=243–244|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2015|isbn=9781472505767}}</ref>
* The 1997 comedy film ''[[Waiting for Guffman]]'' concerns a small-town community theatre group in Missouri who put on a show hoping to attract the attention of prominent Broadway producer Mort Guffman, who never arrives.<ref>[https://www.deseretnews.com/article/548632/Hilarious-Waiting-for-Guffman-is-bound-to-ring-true-with-viewers.html "Hilarious ''Waiting for Guffman'' is bound to ring true with viewers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004053759/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/548632/Hilarious-Waiting-for-Guffman-is-bound-to-ring-true-with-viewers.html |date=4 October 2018 }} by Chris Hicks, ''[[Deseret News]]'', 14 March 1997</ref>
* In 1998 a short comedic sketch in episode 9 season 9 of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' featured the two protagonist robots Crow and Tom Servo motionless and expressing they are waiting for "Gorgo" (the titular monster of the movie that was featured). It ends with Mike Nelson disguised as the monster and scaring them off.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
*The 2010 documentary film ''[[The Impossible Itself]]'' is about the 1953 Lüttringhausen and 1957 San Quentin Prison productions of ''Waiting for Godot''.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
* A 2001 [[short film]] titled ''Pitch 'n' Putt With Beckett 'n' Joyce'', parodies the play, with Beckett and [[James Joyce]] awaiting a never-seen [[W.B. Yeats]] at a [[miniature golf]] course.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
* In the 2008 musical [[Ride the Cyclone|''Ride The Cyclone'']] by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond, the character of Noel Gruber is shown in a flashback to perform an excerpt from ''Waiting for Godot'' during his school's [[nativity play]], saying: "There is no room at this Inn, for it is Christmas… Shall we hang ourselves?" Noel's scene partner (portrayed by Jane Doe in the flashback) responds with: "I hear it gives you an erection." "Then we must hang ourselves... immediately" In the scene, the characters don bowler hats and speak in French accents, further cementing the reference.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
* The Open-Source software editor & game creation tool known as the [[Godot (game engine)|Godot Engine]] gets its name from the titular character of the play.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Engine |first=Godot |title=Press Kit |url=https://godotengine.org/press/ |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=Godot Engine |language=en}}</ref> The two Argentine developers, Jaun Linietsky & Ariel Manzur, were repeatedly tasked with updating the engine from a period of time from 2001 to 2014, and chose the name "Godot" due to its relation to the play, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but would never actually be completed. It released to the public as Godot in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mike |date=2023-11-09 |title=The Evolution/History of the Godot Game Engine |url=https://gamefromscratch.com/the-evolution-history-of-the-godot-game-engine/ |access-date=2024-07-12 |website=GameFromScratch.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
* A sketch in March 2017 on ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'', "Waiting for Godot's Obamacare Replacement", Colbert and [[Patrick Stewart]] satirized the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]]'s failure to implement their announced "[[repeal and replace]]" of [[Affordable Care Act|Obamacare]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patrick-stewart-colbert-obamacare-waiting-for-godot_us_58b7dd14e4b0a8ded67a5c47|title=Patrick Stewart And Stephen Colbert Rip Donald Trump's Obamacare Repeal In ''Waiting for Godot'' Spoof|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=2 March 2017|access-date=2 March 2017|archive-date=2 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302134520/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patrick-stewart-colbert-obamacare-waiting-for-godot_us_58b7dd14e4b0a8ded67a5c47|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The fourteenth-season finale of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' (2019), titled "Waiting for Big Mo", is based on the play, substituting [[Dennis Reynolds]] and [[Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)|Charlie Kelly]] for Vladimir and Estragon, [[Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)|Mac McDonald]] and [[Deandra Reynolds|Sweet Dee Reynolds]] for Pozzo and Lucky, [[Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)|Frank Reynolds]] for The Boy, and the titular "Big Mo" for Godot.{{cn|date=May 2025}}
* In season 2 episode 6 of ''[[Interview with the Vampire (TV series)|Interview With the Vampire]]'', members of the Théâtre des Vampires rehearse a play titled "Waiting for Guido" written by Irish vampire Samuel Barclay. When a performer demands to know at what point in the play Guido will actually arrive, Barclay replies that "He doesn't. He can't. He mustn't. Guido is hope. There can be no hope."{{cn|date=May 2025}}