I'll discuss 'em. They're superlative.

Bloody Sophia Loren!

Love em.

I dug out 'An Audience With Dudley Moore' the other day. Well, no, it was after an 'Alfresco' episode. Let's make that clear.

What was great about it was not Kris Kristoffersen's crooning session, but the fact that Peter Cook appears on a monitor and cuts Dud during his opening monologue is fantastic. Even by 'satellite' they work well together.

pete was funnier, on his own at least...
the facts of life was good..

Anyone else think that the 'Beethoven Show' sketch on the BBC video is a masterpiece?

I wonder if Dud has caught those chickens yet.....

(If you understand this reference you watched too much TV while growing up)

>Anyone else think that the 'Beethoven Show' sketch on the BBC video is a masterpiece?

Yeah! I love his parody of 'Delilah'. Can he play piano or what?

>I'll discuss 'em. They're superlative.

Which superlative would you choose?

>Bloody Sophia Loren!

I would be something lovely and cuddly, like those lovely humming birds...

Pete and Dud, brilliant, but what about
their incarnation of Derek and Clive?

>Pete and Dud, brilliant, but what about
>their incarnation of Derek and Clive?
>
> Bit coarse for my tastes.
Good Lord! Joan Crawford's WHAT!?
Well, I've never been so...

>>Pete and Dud, brilliant, but what about
>>their incarnation of Derek and Clive?
>>
>> Bit coarse for my tastes.
>Good Lord! Joan Crawford's WHAT!?
>Well, I've never been so...
>
>
Love Derek and Clive! Well, love-hate, but I think that's the point. Lobsters, down the lav, etc, all very creative. I Don't agree with some of their opinions though, I hasten to add!

"I knew what you were going to say, Dud. I can read you like a book, and a very boring book it is too."

One of my favourite Derek & Clive exchanges would have to be during Celebrity Suicide:

Clive: They said, no it's because you're a cunt...
Derek: That's unusual.
Clive: ...And we don't want cunts on the show.....

An interruption that floored me.

How many Derek and Clive releases were there? I have "Live", "Ad Nauseum" and "Come Again" - are there any others?

Advice to anyone thinking of buying "Come Again" - don't bother. It's dire and not even funnyshocking, apart from one good random reference to light aircraft. But "Live" and "Ad Nauseum are essential."

>How many Derek and Clive releases were there? I have "Live", "Ad Nauseum" and "Come Again" - are there any others?
>
>Advice to anyone thinking of buying "Come Again" - don't bother. It's dire and not even funnyshocking, apart from one good random reference to light aircraft. But "Live" and "Ad Nauseum are essential."

I don't think there are any others. I've only heard 'Live' and 'Ad Nauseum' so far.

>One of my favourite Derek & Clive exchanges would have to be during Celebrity Suicide:
>
>Clive: They said, no it's because you're a cunt...
>Derek: That's unusual.
>Clive: ...And we don't want cunts on the show.....
>
>An interruption that floored me.

The one that always makes me laugh is in the bit about "whales are fucking stupid" - the way Cook says "you name me one whale that's had a record in the Top Ten". Well, it's funny when he says it! That was his gift, in the timing, intonation and everything. I'll always love him and I'll forever miss him.

'Come Again' is the best Derek and Clive album.

Everything either of them ever did, either together or seperately is/was very funny. Does that sentence make sense? I even love The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

>Yeah! I love his parody of 'Delilah'. Can he play piano or what?

Not anymore, sadly, due to his well-publicised illness. Very sad, as he was a pretty hot jazz pianist. I've got albums of him with his own trio and playing with the Johnny Dankworth orchestra (the gig he jacked in to do Beyond the Fringe), and he was very good indeed.

>>One of my favourite Derek & Clive exchanges would have to be during Celebrity Suicide:
>>
>>Clive: They said, no it's because you're a cunt...
>>Derek: That's unusual.
>>Clive: ...And we don't want cunts on the show.....
>>
>>An interruption that floored me.
>
>The one that always makes me laugh is in the bit about "whales are fucking stupid" - the way Cook says "you name me one whale that's had a record in the Top Ten". Well, it's funny when he says it! That was his gift, in the timing, intonation and everything. I'll always love him and I'll forever miss him.

He did have an incredible way of sounding deadpan and mischevious at the same time, that's what gets me. He is mentally willing you to laugh when he says "plankton" in an angry voice.

>>One of my favourite Derek & Clive exchanges would have to be during Celebrity Suicide:
>>
>>Clive: They said, no it's because you're a cunt...
>>Derek: That's unusual.
>>Clive: ...And we don't want cunts on the show.....
>>
>>An interruption that floored me.
>
>The one that always makes me laugh is in the bit about "whales are fucking stupid" - the way Cook says "you name me one whale that's had a record in the Top Ten". Well, it's funny when he says it! That was his gift, in the timing, intonation and everything. I'll always love him and I'll forever miss him.
>

I think the bit about whales is sheer genius - the way he adlibs the 'whales national anthem is just brilliant. Cook is my absolute hero.

>>Yeah! I love his parody of 'Delilah'. Can he play piano or what?
>
>Not anymore, sadly, due to his well-publicised illness. Very sad, as he was a pretty hot jazz pianist. I've got albums of him with his own trio and playing with the Johnny Dankworth orchestra (the gig he jacked in to do Beyond the Fringe), and he was very good indeed.
>

I recently heard the 'Beyond the Fringe' album, and his variation on 'little miss muffet is side splitting! It's really sad about his illness - he was just great.