The one in the art gallery is even funnier, as Cook gets Dudley going and you can see the glint in his eye as he tries to get him to break down into fits of laughter.
Half passed eleven at night, standard time for getting home after getting kicked out of the pub at closing time in those days. Last orders 10.50 11.00 closing 11.10 kicked out after drinking up time, in my area, in summer half an hour earlier in winter. Sometimes got lockins till o'crack stupid o'clock
Gosh this brings back memories from my childhood. Much loved comedians. What is funny is that they are both from Oxford or Cambridge, Dudley Moore was a brilliant jazz pianist, so they are playing in the most working-class accents. I loved the characters. I saw the other guy, Peter Cook in a cafe in Hampstead about 30 years ago! May they both RIP.
Peter was always sometimes on purpose and sometimes not, making Dudley lose it or most often coming very close to totally cracking up. Sometimes Dudley the short one would recover and make Peter the tall one lose it. This was their trademark and all sketches like this one were totally ad-libbed. This was their trademark what they were known for and what we all loved in the UK.
Pete and Dud were pure gold; a match made in comedy heaven. This sketch is among my favourites, along with the one at the zoo and another where they're at the hospital.
There’s something wholesome about watching a Pete and Dud sketch, because once Dudley starts laughing, Peter just rides it to get him to laugh more and that makes him laugh as well. The art gallery one’s the best for that.
Got in one, Electric...one upmanship...Dudley Moore came from a very working class family, and was raised just a few streets from where I was raised...Dagenham Essex. His "one upmanship" portrayal was typical of that area, AND in that accent!! Miss these two guys, very much! Thank you for playing it...Great to see it again!!!
they did a similar routine in an art gallery Dud is eating his sandwiches while Pete is talking at one point he corpses so badly he sprays sandwich bits everywhere
You should definitely watch the similar one set in an art gallery. That one has Pete very deliberately set about making Dud choke on a sandwich he’s eating
You can see the glint in his eye in that one, when he realises he's got Dud. They did it to amuse themselves, I reckon. The fact it was brilliant was secondary.👍
If you know about the Gerry Anderson puppet shows of the 60's, like Stingray & Thunderbirds - Pete & Dud did a brilliant spoof called "SuperThunderStingCar".
I’m glad you finally found Pete and Dud! Also you need to watch their sketch in the Art Gallery, and their dirty/blue alternative ‘Derek and Clive - get the horn’.
I think you would enjoy the classic In the Box sketch with Roy Castle, James Casey and Eli Wood, from the Parkinson show 1982. It is a real music hall sketch that was popular in the UK for decades.
Pete would always try and get Dud to corpse and this went out live, Peter set up The Private Eye Magazine with a few other people, Dud loved music and you can find him playing the piano
Dud 'playing the piano'? Moore was a highly regarded jazz musician. His band, The Dudley Moore Trio, produced a number of albums that still stand worthy today.
EB ! Watch " Derek & Clive Get the Horn " ....Cook & Moore ad-libbing sitting in a recording studio 1979 with some of the most CRAZY outlandish & filthiest comedy of it's age. You even see a very young Richard Branson , he was just a record producer & fast becoming a big name in the music industry & the album helped highlight his profile. It's on RU-vid 😉.
Thanks, enjoyed this. Some years ago I was in a lift at work and my mobile announced a text message. I looked at it and said 'Bloody Sharon Stone!'. After a few seconds, another guy in the lift seemed to get it and smiled. The funny thing is, I don't think I specifically remembered this sketch at the time (probably saw it as a kid).
The significants of the 11.30 time is that at the time when this was recorded pubs UK ( bars USA ) would close at 10 pm 10,30 pm or 11pm subject to where you lived in the UK
These old sketches are excellent. Totally ad-libbed and both of them trying to get the other to lose it and laugh. The reference to 11.30 pm is because the pubs would call 'Last orders' at 10pm to 10.30 pm and closed by 11pm. They released an album in the 70's starring two similar characters (Derek and Clive) but they were a lot ruder. A lot. No limits, basically. The album was called 'Derek and Clive Live' and it's worth hunting down.
Hi E.B., I used to love watching this back in the `60`s. Amazing beer their characters were drinking to create all these hallucinations of creative run-ins with famous Hollywood actresses. They used to finish around the piano like (Flanders & Swann), singing their outro song, Goodbyeee !!
pubs used to call last orders just before 11pm ( this was the law). you then had 20 mins drinking up time. 10 minutes to walk home (pubs were everywhere in the 60's) and hey presto its 11.30
PUBS in Britain used to close at 11:00.officially ,but they shut the Doors close the curtains, and had a Lock in .you made sure you got in your Local pub, before 11:00 .
As the previous comments say, this was all improvised ad-lib. As their partnership developed, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's characters and sketches grew more outlandish and surreal, culminating in the Derek and Clive recordings, which were their obscenely foul-mouthed and hilarious alter-egos. Check this out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SentQjMIioY.html
Mate, you simply have to check out their "Papa's got a Brand New Bag" sketch. Dudley is the jazz pianist, whilst Peter provides the critique. It is a bloody gem!
Their fantasy story telling is getting more and more absurd and they are pissed (drunk).... Could be any two blokes in any pub in the world throughout time. 🤣
Bottom, red dwarf, only fools and horses, men behaving badly, Dennis pennis, Mike strutter, Ali g, Lee evans, jack dee… my fave Uk comedies / comedians
A lot of comments about the art Gallery sketch, I would agree. There is another one which is good Groovin' The Bag, in which Peter cook comments on Dud's blues song which he's playing on piano. deliberately side stepping the innuendo in the title of the song.
EB. Look up on RU-vid... Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Alan-A-Dale. You won't learn much about Alan-A-Dale, but it's really funny and cleverly performed. You might even find yourself singing along !!!
I know I'm a week behind so probably this won't be seen by anyone, but if you can find the episode of Clive Anderson Talks Back when every guest was Peter Cook it really is worth watching. Clive Anderson Talks Back was a pretty standard weekly talk show but for one week they decided to break from the usual set up and instead had Peter Cook improvise 4 different characters for Clive to interview. Watching them both try to roll with wherever Peter Cook's mind took them was wonderful.
Half-past eleven at night - pubs in the UK close (or at least used to) at 11pm, so getting in at 11:30pm sounds about right, after reaching a state of 'adequate refreshment' at the pub.
Peter Cook interviews on PARKINSON are very funny. Also on CLIVE ANDERSON. He also did a piss take/ satire on the 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS, it's called "A LIFE IN PIECES " All the best
The "Bloody Greta Garbo!" sketch is one of those repeated ad infinitum across the playgrounds of the UK at the time. Pete: "What's that, Dud? Dud: "AD Infinny Tum! It means - well - It means never end - It 'as no sides, it 'as no top nor bottom. You'd never cycle it". Pete: "I know. Round 'ere it's one of those words that you never hear the end of . . . or beginning!"
In the bad old days licencing laws meant you could no longer consume alcohol in a bar/pub, so at 11pm ALL the pubs would empty out of mainly blokes that had just downed as much beer as possible bufore the landlord called Time, so 11:30 is approximately when must chaps would arrive home in a very merry state. Ergo 11:30 is an indication they were arriving home extremely drunk. Hence all the strange imaginings
The one with Dudley playing a schoolboy being taught the facts if life by his extremely embarrassed father is genuinely one of the greatest comedy sketches ever. That an the one legged man turning up to audition for Tarzan. "A role normally filled by bipeds. But I can't help noticing, Mr Spigot that you are a mono-ped. I've got nothing against your leg, it's a beautiful leg. But the trouble is, neither have you..."
They were mostly stoned or drunk and sometimes both when they performed together. You could see that in some of there shows as they both used to forget the words and improvise which made it even funnier for both the audience and them as they used to lose it and started laughing as well. Awesome duo you should watch more of them.
Dear old Dud was buried in Scotch Plains, New Jersey in 2002, not in England. He had a sad ending to his life, he was only 66. I loved him in '10' and 'Arthur', such a great talent.
This so great see if you can find a recording of a record they made it is the F***,C*** word from start to finish it is so funny I think you would injoy that
This whole sketch was improvised meaning that it was totally made up on the spot. Pete and Dud were brilliant together and imho, should have been involved with Monty Python. Thanks for the video Alan. 👍
They should not have been involved with Monty Python! They were contemporaries and they tried to out goon each other! The people back then were pleased and the comedians beloved. We had a choice of comedy that was taken for granted. Today comedy has to pass though many filters and none of those filters have a sense of humour.
@@alanfoster6589 i might be wrong, but I think at least some of the filters referred to in the previous comment are a part of the commissioning process. Not to do with PC rules, but quality control. As a result those at the top are still talented, but there is less stylistic variation. It would be difficult to imagine so much improvisation and experimentation being given premium air time these days.
These. 2 were a great improv team , Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse did a sketch in the pub in memory of the duo called "Angry Frank", if you get chance have a look to compare with a more modern outlook. Great stuff.
When they start to crack up,laugh when their not meant to it's called corpseing sometimes they will try to make the other corpse on purpose.when I saw wicked glinda was trying to make elphaba corpse it added to the fun.
As many people have said, Peter and Dudley loved trying to make each other break 🤣 Satirical comedy is what Brits do best... I only know this through my Dad, who was a huge fan of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, the Goon Show, and Monty Python... I rememeber having a conversation with my Dad about one of these sketches, and my Dad tried to explain the satirical element... ....here you have two "working class" men, in a pub.. but what we could never expect is the dialogue and intelligence of these two characters... noone expects the working class, with such thick London accents to have such eloquent discussion ! And the lunacy that ensures 😂 I didn't fully understand at the time, but I certainly do now ! 😄👍
That tickled you. All those stories are true by the way, as are all things told to you in the pub. This is serious comedy, if there is such a thing. They made me laugh and so did your astute reaction. Love Pete and Dud.
Definitely NOT for a youtube video but, Derek and Clive live. Album by them which is rather sweary in parts. Still have a cassette copy somewhere around the house.
EB they were notorious for 'corpsing'' on live tv, unable to contain their bawdy humour reactions with each other! Check out Derek and Clive too - they went on to make recordings that can't be broadcast these days!
