Incomparable, just absolutely unreal. A real hell raiser, a massive drinker. A devil may care attitude. I know every word of every Derek and Clive live. It’s just simply genius......for its day it was groundbreaking RIP a Peter, I’d have given anything to meet you x
Christ we need him. I remember when I was 16, seeing him walking down Fleet St with the Private Eye under his arm. I didn’t realise then I was seeing a legend stroll past.
Arguably the most important thing he did was be the proprietor of Private Eye and to ensure the strength of Private Eye even to this day. That John Cleese said he's the funniest man he ever met is enough for me. Thst he effectively kept investigative journalism alive in my homeland makes me as happy as any of his comedy did. That is saying something.
I have waited literally years for this to appear on RU-vid and I am so pleased to have now found it. The completely Peerless and lovely Peter Cook on top form with Clive Anderson! Enjoy RIP Peter
He was most certainly one of the handful of our satirical geniuses. But he was tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview and all I can do now when I watch this is remember how it felt when we lost him far too soon in '96. Well, maybe that's my problem, but I still wish he'd found some kind of way of being more than existentially incomplete in his later years. But who could convince a kind-hearted renegade genius of anything, even if he wanted them to?
@@Ingens_Scherz I don't understand what you mean when you say Cook was _"tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview."_ I've seen many a Cook interview and I don't recall any that were more laidback and effortlessly witty than this one.
Very very funny. Peter Cook was one of the few people you could say was just effortlessly witty. And Clive Anderson is at his best too. Thank so much for posting.
Peter Cook appeared on talk shows many times between 1985 and 1993. Invariably he seemed effortlessly brilliant. Lack of other work was an issue, but he reminded us of his genius with these appearances.
I like Clive Anderson. Very funny, very sarcastic. An excellent show this was because of his skill. Great rapport he had with Cook. Cook clearly enjoyed his comedic company.
TV is full of 'clever' improv people, few of them funny, but Peter Cook was the master. I remember watching this and Clive Anderson got him back a few weeks later to do a full show with Peter improvising two characters one of them a football manager. Jaw dropping considering his alcholism and it must be on youtube somewhere
christ do we need him now--but, we all know that this kind of forthright smart reposte is considered 'cruel ; AND LACKING CONSIDERATION FOR THE PATHETIC LITTLE DARLINGS TODAY. ALL THANKS TO THE PC MANIACS.
I'm approaching 60 years old and I've listened, watched and read the wonderful Peter Cooke all my life. Every interview, every comedy skit, every editorial. Can't believe there is much in print he has written that I haven't read. Much of it many times. And for the life of me I can't see where the political or social overlap with Ian Hislop is. (!?) How Private Eye survived the change and remained even vaguely "similar" is beyond me. (Much prefer Peter's take on the world by the way. No contest)
All comedians are sweethearts. They want to make people either laugh or respect them or feel warm towards them or at least make people know some internal world or viewpoint that many seem to lack. Cook was .. a genius. An adorable , towering intellect , generous , precise yet affable genius the kind of which only Cambridge, and occasionally Oxford, University seems to produce (aside from Ivy Leagues) where showbiz and learnedness are comfortable bedfellows in the body of ever young minds who must understandably struggle with the harshness that the world is not, actually, them.
Well, the world is not, first of all. Secondly, pandering to ivy leagues is kissing up to oxford, which is kissing up to cambridge, a slippery slope in reverse. You haven't got the free verse thing worked out is my point.
I wonder if he really watched german satirical tv - back in those days, there was only one show of that sort and it was really good (because it emulated the black british humour to an extreme and always got the participants in trouble).
Why is the vid of Peter doing his impressions on his last Clive Anderson show (the judge, the nerd, the rockstar) nowhere online? It was the funniest thingI’ve ever seen! Future generations deserve to see it!
I've only known Clive from QI - forgive me ... but now, after viewing Talks Back, I appreciate his full credentials. He's smart, handsome and funny ... who could ask for further? I have heard though that he was once one of them legal cunts ... nobody's perfect I suppose. No offence.
"My boy lollipop" I've only heard the girl version (The compelete uncut unremixed OFFICIAL MOUTHINGS OFF, and thats 'no feat' of forgetfulness) so there you/we have/had it ..........like.
Cliff anounced the end.......it's so funny how we don't talk anymore. and today we play over and over Bowies song, "Where have all the good times gone" cos they just wont tell us anymore.
He'd have been about 55 at the time. Just 3 more years to live. I wonder what he'd have been like, if he were still alive? Some comedians go right off the boil (such as George Carlin, who was brilliant in the 1960s and 70s but became dark, cynical and politically progressive in later life). I doubt if Peter Cook would have ever been influenced by "groupthink" and probably would have maintained his disrespect for everyone - including Hollywood progressives.
Carlin was great as he aged. I think his very last show was one of his best. He was left-leaning, but said the censorious pc types were just as bad as the killjoys on the religious right, just coming from another direction. In particular Carlin would’ve been against ideologues messing with our language, that was something he was already critical of before he died.
Stephen Fry take note - 6 minutes in to this interview, Clive Anderson asks Peter if we [Britain] are a part or Europe. Peter's answer - we are an island!. I'm posting at 23.10pm, 7th December 2018 with a few days prior to Parliament voting on Mrs May's deal proposal on Tuesday, 11th December 2018. History - take note of what was said before and what will be! Let comedy reign and all else follow!
They assumed I was German but I was not. Ha ha ha ha ha! Laugh I did not shat. Did the whole audience have facking autism? I have, but it didn't even make me laugh.
Marmamarquess You have a lot to learn, Marmamarquess. 8:11 'It may have precipitated his downfall...' (with the deadpan look at CA). And shortly after: 'Unless his death was a ruse to upset me'. Typically brilliant Peter Cook.
Sure about that? Granted, I only know about the laugh machine applied in the States (It was extensive.), but the audio on this is exaggerated, at least. hmmm
I'm 100% sure about this. I've been to many studio recordings for comedies over the years, and the laughs they record are very real. Even in the states, many sitcoms were and are recorded in front of an audience, and chat shows almost always are. In many shows they'll even occasionally cut to a shot of the audience or (like Have I Got News For You) even open with a wide shot showing the audience. 'Canned' laughter is virtually nonexistent in comedy these days. If you hear laughter, you're hearing an audience watching the show.
In my experience of canned laughter - 4:20 would never happen for the point of it is to illustrate where the jokes are. Subsequently, the line 'there were alot of Germans around' constitutes a setup and therefore doesn't warrant the resulting titter - which to me demonstrates its genuine nature...
@@d7sfblab Positvely live. Anderson's show was recorded in front of a live audience. It's not particularly exaggerated, the sound engineer rides the volume of the audience mics (there are several) so that they don't override the interview, but the little interjections by members of the audience are a dead give away, you never have anything like that on canned audience, plus there would be nothing for Anderson or Cook to respond to as they do several times in the interview.
Interesting to hear Cook's own take on the raid on the Mirror offices, before Hislop took it up and embellished it and told it 100 times and made himself the toast of the Parkinson show (despite Parkinson being listed as a contributor to 'Not Private Eye').
