You need now. Sure you need though. Gonna be, gonna be, do not be scared, please. If forget once, remembered by other ones. It goes again, goes again, even now, you right. Indeed.
An utter genius. When he died, we held an impromptu party at a friend's place, took a lawnmower into the sitting room, and tried to see if it would run on Scotch. It did, to an extent.
As a young schoolgirl I had the biggest crush on Peter and I thought that if we should meet someday he would fall in love with me and wedding bells would ring .
Wonderful to see "new old" Peter Cook and Dudley Moore stuff! On behalf of their fans in Canada, a heartfelt thank you to Lin Cook and the BBC for sharing.
Dear Lin, thank you for making this documentary possible. For many it probably brought back fond memories. For me it helped me appreciate Peter and his life & times. What a marvelous person he was.
My hero since childhood,when I watched NOBA in the 1960s. I didn't understand all of it, but I understood all the dynamics of their relationship and his magnetism. His beauty and his mind - his profound psychological understanding of language & speech, hypnotised me. I hated watching his decline. The majority of the best of his work was destroyed the the BBC. But the best of what's left shows us what he and Dud, and Beyond the Fringe gave to the world. A genuine genius. I hate the fact that he suffered so much.
I am SO ANGRY at the idiots at the BBC for erasing all the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore shows.. Apparently they were about to wipe all of the original Python tapes (to use as blank tapes) until Terry Gilliam heard about it and rushed down there to rescue them.
Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever". Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80-90% of silent films are gone...
very nice tribute, american and just discovered peter cook this/or last year. can't seem to get enough about him. such a shame so much of what they/he did is lost.
Thank you so much for posting this, I've been a fan of Peter and Dudley for a long time and miss them both. Was a treat to see footage I'd never come across before - damn BBC for wiping all of those NOBA episodes but this lovely and very touching tribute to Peter certainly helps :)
I'm such big fans of Pete and Dud it almost feels like I knew them personally. Always get emotional towards the end of a pete and dud documentary, especially this one.
I followed Peter Cook from the age of about 12 (1963) until his death in 1995. For 32 years, Peter Cook was my favourite comedian. There were other great comedy acts too but no solo comedian ever kept me laughing as much as Peter Cook. He was deliciously incisive, blasphemous, irreverent and anarchic. He never sucked up to any section of the community. Everyone was fair game. He rightfully lampooned hypocrites, the self-righteous and pseuds mercilessly. You either loved his humour or hated it. Nowadays, it's all observational, political (and socially) polarising humour. Audiences clap, to show their moral and political affiliations, rather than laugh. That's tragic. That's why we need another Peter Cook. PS, Why no audio at 29 mins? Is it a copyright issue or is it "too rude" for us ignorant plebs"? PPS. Watch "The rise and rise of Michael Rimmer" - 1969. This film was written by Peter Cook and John Cleese. It's 53 years old but you'd easily believe it had been produced very recently. It's brilliant.
His wife basically told the vicar of Hempstead that if the boys choir couldn't sing "Love me tender" at Peter's memorial, she'd have to settle for Westminster Abbey instead. hehe... He changed his mind. Peter was huge. Voted by his peers as the comedian's comedian.
Pretty much the original Cambridge Comedy Genius. He set the standard so high that every footlights graduate since has almost the impossible task of becoming as funny as Peter Cook
PC, JC and Stephen Fry on the same boat makes tears well up in my eyes... that boat is so heavy on beauty and talent that it should have sunk straight into Parnassus...
This one left me in tears. Such a beautiful eulogy from Lynn: “He turned my life upside down when he came into it, and he shattered it when he left.” Lost my wife six years ago, hole in my heart still.
No, they had their opportunity to be together - and this was during life! .....They are dead now and pretty sure as heck wouldn't want to be spending eternity together - F.F.S!
Why do we not have genuinely funny people now, irreverent , politically incorrect, and clever. Peter was a man truly alive to the world. A great and moving tribute.
We absolutely do. If you think back, at how people middle-aged and older didn’t like or understand the genius comedy from the late 60s & 70s… it’s the same now. And believe it or not, you’re now playing the role of your parents. Personally i love so much comedy, including Beyond the Fringe, the Goons, Carlin, Python, plus so much excellent British comedy since. But the fact is, there’s great new comedy happening, as much as many would like to believe it’s untrue. I could give you examples but you’d hate all of it, in the same way your parents and grandparents hated everything you liked.
I think it's only because it was a copyrighted audio recording - part of an album on Virgin Records, and they censored it on here... I can't think of any other reason.
I'd not seen the footage from the memorial service before, obviously. When David Frost was asked what final thing would he say to Peter, a half-second before he answered, I thought, "It'll be about saving Frost from drowning." The funny thing is, Peter had been asked before what his greatest regret was and he said, "That I saved David Frost from drowning".
"I've got Myoprics of the Eyes!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩🤩🤩🐦🐸🦩🐫❤❤💖💖💚💚💚💚💚💙💙💙🤎❣ THANK you, Peters, (C. AND S.), Dudley, and ALL involved here ... forever and ever and EVERrrrrrrrrr ...
Yeah at first thought it was part of the joke because it was about BBC's censorship and the whole thing was muted. Almost adds to the joke if we could hear it.
The British had the best tongue-in-cheek and dryest humour. If not for Jonathan Winters I wouldn't have a best American comedian. The Monty Pythons were great as well. John Cleese in Fawlty Towers.
"My vistas was enlarged," Peter borrowing from Peter's left-out-of-the-universe already-published material, absolutely wonderful!! How could a slave ever possibly catch up to that, the double aspiring after what the devil just said, I think I finally got him, high-five to myself.
Some dialogues have been muted. Nothing worse than censoring someone you're celebrating for being brave. Love the video but my thumb down for the stupid censor.
@@Gambit771 Give theirs up? Like it's a possession? No, if you are surrounded by people who speak differently in another country, over time you will start to pick that up, that's just natural. Anyone who's accent gets stronger when they've been living abroad for decades is a FAKE pure and simple. The English aren't fakes.
I just thought of a sketch after hearing all shook up. In the gap before all shook up he lets out a massive quick fart, it continues but on the second one ( he has a pump in his hand) he shits his white trousers. The audience laughs but he plays it straight thinking he is doing a great gig. Well it would make me laugh
Yeah, a complete genius across the board , there's no doubting that but my dad knew him and said he was 'real life' boorish and arrogant. He should have visited Dud at his end of life but as far as I know, failed to do so. They had sadly long since fallen out by then. I am commenting as a huge BTF, NOBA and D&C fan, thought I'd better say that as Peter was truly hilarious when he chose to be. He was one of the true, stand over British comedians of all time together with Dudley, Lionell Jeffries, Alistair Sim and Peter Sellers.
Peter Cook, such a shame men like him aren't around anymore, that said, Victor Lewis Smith, who narrated this, is lamentably not on tv as much as he should be anymore....another acerbic genius - there are no real comedians or funny men anymore....not since Cook.
Derek and Clive is the only thing I find funny of him otherwise I don't understand his reputation. I've seen interviews on chat shows where the audience is laughing at pretty much everything he says even when it's blatantly not funny like I'm the only one who's not under some crazy genie spell! That opening improv thing was about as funny as getting dog shit in your eye!
Derek and Clive was the least funny thing he ever did. A boy’s humour. It’s not surprising at all that if you found that funny his other work flies over your head.
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore took the piss out the working class their entire lives. Peter Sellars was a pompous tit with his 'mid-Atlantic' accent and racist viewpoints. Cook was a bit more open minded but he did nothing substantial apart from Private Eye. These people need to be reviewed every now and then and not just worshipped.
I disagree about Sellers, unless you can correct me. If its to do with the film 'The Party' then I, as a person of Sri Lankan heritage, do not find the film remotely 'racist'. However, I do feel its the same with Milligan, everyone calls him a 'comedy genius' - take a peek at 'Curry and Chips' for his crass 'humour'...I'm not White, I do laugh at it, but at the same turn, it's hardly on a par with what Cook did. It doesn't take a 'genius' of comedy to come up with a character called 'P-ki Daddy' as Milligan did. Before anyone mentions the 'Derek and Clive' skits, Cook and Moore were literally sending everything up - the irony being two extremely well educated men were being as offensive as possible was the joke itself.
Substantial did you say - he was writing for Kenneth Williams at the age of 18, he wrote ‘beyond the fringe’ whilst at Cambridge , owner of several club where Royalty would queue to see him and started the private eye by the time he was … wait for it 25 .. substantial indeed
"Took the piss out of the working class...." How did you work that out? Because of Pete n Dud? How exactly was that a pisstake or in anyway derogatory to the working classes of whom Dudley was one? Going on your logic, they also took the piss out of the upper classes, middle classes and just about anyone and anything. I'm working class and I'm assuming you are as the inverted snobbery you display is typical of many of our class. A shame you can't flick that chip of your shoulder and just laugh like the rest of us.
Come back, Peter Cook. We need you now.
He was the best!!! 🥰
You need now. Sure you need though. Gonna be, gonna be, do not be scared, please. If forget once, remembered by other ones. It goes again, goes again, even now, you right. Indeed.
By far the most naturally gifted comedian ever. Would love to hear his comments on the current political correctness madness.
What? Grammar?😂
X
An utter genius.
When he died, we held an impromptu party at a friend's place, took a lawnmower into the sitting room, and tried to see if it would run on Scotch.
It did, to an extent.
As good as he was, Barry Humphries had him eating out of his hand!
complete and uitter SHITE made up for the attention
As a young schoolgirl I had the biggest crush on Peter and I thought that if we should meet someday he would fall in love with me and wedding bells would ring .
Wonderful to see "new old" Peter Cook and Dudley Moore stuff! On behalf of their fans in Canada, a heartfelt thank you to Lin Cook and the BBC for sharing.
o p for my o bbc k c in 2001
Dear Lin, thank you for making this documentary possible. For many it probably brought back fond memories. For me it helped me appreciate Peter and his life & times. What a marvelous person he was.
My hero since childhood,when I watched NOBA in the 1960s. I didn't understand all of it, but I understood all the dynamics of their relationship and his magnetism. His beauty and his mind - his profound psychological understanding of language & speech, hypnotised me. I hated watching his decline. The majority of the best of his work was destroyed the the BBC. But the best of what's left shows us what he and Dud, and Beyond the Fringe gave to the world. A genuine genius. I hate the fact that he suffered so much.
Thank you Lin for allowing us fans to experience this opportunity. xXx
Peter, thank you for instructing me in what comedy could be after Rabelais...
I am SO ANGRY at the idiots at the BBC for erasing all the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore shows.. Apparently they were about to wipe all of the original Python tapes (to use as blank tapes) until Terry Gilliam heard about it and rushed down there to rescue them.
they did the same thing with The Beatles Christmas shows,, they should have been sued for that kind of pathetic ness,,
@@tomwilson8607Chanel 0 in Melbourne did the same thing when they threw out all the old VFA tapes!
Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever". Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80-90% of silent films are gone...
Love this. So great with a new documentary about the man. Can't get enough of Peter Cook.
very nice tribute, american and just discovered peter cook this/or last year. can't seem to get enough about him. such a shame so much of what they/he did is lost.
So glad you discovered him! I’m old-55-so I’ve loved him since childhood.
Thank you so much for posting this, I've been a fan of Peter and Dudley for a long time and miss them both. Was a treat to see footage I'd never come across before - damn BBC for wiping all of those NOBA episodes but this lovely and very touching tribute to Peter certainly helps :)
Vashty Hawkins feel the exact same
I miss them both terribly
Thank you Lin for sharing this. I'm happy you found each other.
I'm such big fans of Pete and Dud it almost feels like I knew them personally.
Always get emotional towards the end of a pete and dud documentary, especially this one.
I followed Peter Cook from the age of about 12 (1963) until his death in 1995. For 32 years, Peter Cook was my favourite comedian. There were other great comedy acts too but no solo comedian ever kept me laughing as much as Peter Cook. He was deliciously incisive, blasphemous, irreverent and anarchic. He never sucked up to any section of the community. Everyone was fair game. He rightfully lampooned hypocrites, the self-righteous and pseuds mercilessly.
You either loved his humour or hated it. Nowadays, it's all observational, political (and socially) polarising humour. Audiences clap, to show their moral and political affiliations, rather than laugh. That's tragic. That's why we need another Peter Cook.
PS, Why no audio at 29 mins? Is it a copyright issue or is it "too rude" for us ignorant plebs"?
PPS. Watch "The rise and rise of Michael Rimmer" - 1969. This film was written by Peter Cook and John Cleese. It's 53 years old but you'd easily believe it had been produced very recently. It's brilliant.
Beautiful , heartfelt program about a most very special person. Thank you.
I really loved that thankyou for the upload. It is correct that England isn't the same without him
His wife basically told the vicar of Hempstead that if the boys choir couldn't sing "Love me tender" at Peter's memorial, she'd have to settle for Westminster Abbey instead. hehe... He changed his mind. Peter was huge. Voted by his peers as the comedian's comedian.
I so enjoyed giggling & my rather operatic laughter ❣️ Thank you to all who made this stunning documentary possible
Pretty much the original Cambridge Comedy Genius. He set the standard so high that every footlights graduate since has almost the impossible task of becoming as funny as Peter Cook
Peter was a lucky man to have Lin, a woman of very fine quality.
PC, JC and Stephen Fry on the same boat makes tears well up in my eyes... that boat is so heavy on beauty and talent that it should have sunk straight into Parnassus...
This one left me in tears. Such a beautiful eulogy from Lynn: “He turned my life upside down when he came into it, and he shattered it when he left.” Lost my wife six years ago, hole in my heart still.
My deepest sympathies on your loss. May your wife rest in peace. I hope you’re doing well.
I ADORE THEM THEY ARE UNBEATABLE COULD WATCH FOREVER XXXXXXX
As a singer Peter Cook was a great comedian.
What a fascinating film, part documentary on Peter's life and work, part love story. Hopefully they're both together again now.
No, they had their opportunity to be together - and this was during life! .....They are dead now and pretty sure as heck wouldn't want to be spending eternity together - F.F.S!
It is a very special thing to be able to make people laugh and Peter Cook made me laugh. Thank you very much for uploading this gem.
The music at the start of the documentary is the theme from Radio 4s The News Quiz. Piano played by Dudley Moore likewise the second piece
Why do we not have genuinely funny people now, irreverent , politically incorrect, and clever. Peter was a man truly alive to the world. A great and moving tribute.
We do, we just don't realise or fully appreciate them until they are gone.
People aren’t as intelligent anymore. We think and create less. 21st century is all about technology. Not about humans. That’s just a fact.
We absolutely do. If you think back, at how people middle-aged and older didn’t like or understand the genius comedy from the late 60s & 70s… it’s the same now. And believe it or not, you’re now playing the role of your parents.
Personally i love so much comedy, including Beyond the Fringe, the Goons, Carlin, Python, plus so much excellent British comedy since. But the fact is, there’s great new comedy happening, as much as many would like to believe it’s untrue. I could give you examples but you’d hate all of it, in the same way your parents and grandparents hated everything you liked.
Thanks for the upload, can't get too much Cookie.
I knew a US city girl in the 1990's whose favorite movie was Peter's "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball."
beautiful program, much thanks to Lin Cook
What a fine tribute.
16:22 Dud playing "This Guy's in Love With You" sums up my feelings perfectly.
Dudley Moore trying hard not to burst out in that clip with peter sellers
That Nile cruise looks about as funny as cancer of the wig. Who could resist Billy Bunter reading (badly) Billy Bunter.
Why was the explicit material silenced? Surely that's for the audience to decide. It's not as if this is an authorised upload.
bunch of counts..
It’s a BBC programme.
@@Claymor621 the original footage had the audio in it. The BBC allow swearing, you know.
I think it's only because it was a copyrighted audio recording - part of an album on Virgin Records, and they censored it on here... I can't think of any other reason.
I'd not seen the footage from the memorial service before, obviously. When David Frost was asked what final thing would he say to Peter, a half-second before he answered, I thought, "It'll be about saving Frost from drowning."
The funny thing is, Peter had been asked before what his greatest regret was and he said, "That I saved David Frost from drowning".
A beautiful tribute to peter
The Peter Sellers sketch has been on You Tube for ages.....
Unfortunately it has been edited and shortened here
Great little doco. And there's the famous Tiffany Lamp I've read so much about. Ah...but where is it now?
There was no one better than Peter that I know about. And I have only seen a portion of his work.
If his last marriage was happy, why did he die of alcoholism?
After watching Frost I gan see who Steve Coogan based Partridge upon......
Why have you got Dud as your screenshot for a documentary on Peter?
RIP Victor Lewis Smith
The boxing sketch was on youtube before 2016 wasn't it?
"I've got Myoprics of the Eyes!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩🤩🤩🐦🐸🦩🐫❤❤💖💖💚💚💚💚💚💙💙💙🤎❣
THANK you, Peters, (C. AND S.), Dudley, and ALL involved here ...
forever and ever
and EVERrrrrrrrrr ...
heartwarming
why the muted audio from 29:12 until 30:20?
@sandpiper It's obviously the strong D+C language.
Yeah at first thought it was part of the joke because it was about BBC's censorship and the whole thing was muted. Almost adds to the joke if we could hear it.
The British had the best tongue-in-cheek and dryest humour. If not for Jonathan Winters I wouldn't have a best American comedian. The Monty Pythons were great as well. John Cleese in Fawlty Towers.
That was beautiful
"My vistas was enlarged," Peter borrowing from Peter's left-out-of-the-universe already-published material, absolutely wonderful!! How could a slave ever possibly catch up to that, the double aspiring after what the devil just said, I think I finally got him, high-five to myself.
Thanks for the upload. Credits and air date wouldn't go amiss now tho would it, would it eh?
Truly the best.
8:05 - 8:19: I agree with Dudley. 🤬 you old 1960s bbc for destroying TV Comedy Gold.
5:15 "He looks very innocent there..." Well yes. He was a young child. How many evil-looking or worldly young children have you encountered?
Boris looked a bit of an evil looking cunt when he was that old...Still does.
Quite a few.
15.02 Banksy Eat Your Heart Out. Art on every level
i think their garbo sketch was much more exciting than the real thing
I loved that man's humour talent; it's a shame his style seems to be lacking these days.
fabulous
love Pete, but that reconstructed 'Peggy Sue' and the following 'lost' tapes are priceless!!! @7:12? + 'The Dead Sea Tapes': OMG!
A dislike for muting the Derek and Clive bits.
Why punish the uploader with a dislike? It's obviously RUclips that has requested those cuts, Have you never uploaded anything?
Surprised the burglars haven't paid a visit. Brilliant documentary.
Victor Lewis smith is doing the narrating is that right, ?
Just as I finished writing he pops up.
Some dialogues have been muted. Nothing worse than censoring someone you're celebrating for being brave. Love the video but my thumb down for the stupid censor.
Peter was actually born. You learn things from TV.
Maybe if those wives were to boldly show how they loved their husbands then their husbands would do the same back.
Quite a surprise, his third wife still retains her Malaysian accent in her speech.
It seems to be only the English that give theirs up when they move.
@@Gambit771 Give theirs up? Like it's a possession? No, if you are surrounded by people who speak differently in another country, over time you will start to pick that up, that's just natural.
Anyone who's accent gets stronger when they've been living abroad for decades is a FAKE pure and simple. The English aren't fakes.
if i want background bloody music, i can do it myself...
very very wonderfu!
10:10 Peter Cook invented "negging" lol
I thought the same!😂
presume the swear words where taken off because of RUclips stuff?
". . . my vista's were enlarged . . . " is quite accidentally precisely what mind altering drugs like a punch to the face might instigate
I just thought of a sketch after hearing all shook up. In the gap before all shook up he lets out a massive quick fart, it continues but on the second one ( he has a pump in his hand) he shits his white trousers. The audience laughs but he plays it straight thinking he is doing a great gig. Well it would make me laugh
Leaping in eternity.
great
7.27 Jonathon Ross
❤
God did Colin Flaherty put this up?
And my youtube monthly robbery suddenly makes sense.
) raw hi
What a fantastic man much like Norm MacDonald
So FRUSTRATING we can't listen to Derek and Clive, eh, all? Yeesh Bloody Puritans. apparently. Goofy.
at least it's regular 30:23
Yeah, a complete genius across the board , there's no doubting that but my dad knew him and said he was 'real life' boorish and arrogant. He should have visited Dud at his end of life but as far as I know, failed to do so. They had sadly long since fallen out by then. I am commenting as a huge BTF, NOBA and D&C fan, thought I'd better say that as Peter was truly hilarious when he chose to be. He was one of the true, stand over British comedians of all time together with Dudley, Lionell Jeffries, Alistair Sim and Peter Sellers.
I have a marmalade phobia. I can't watch this video. I love Peter Cook but I wish he'd talk about something else.
Peter Cook, such a shame men like him aren't around anymore, that said, Victor Lewis Smith, who narrated this, is lamentably not on tv as much as he should be anymore....another acerbic genius - there are no real comedians or funny men anymore....not since Cook.
Derek and Clive is the only thing I find funny of him otherwise I don't understand his reputation. I've seen interviews on chat shows where the audience is laughing at pretty much everything he says even when it's blatantly not funny like I'm the only one who's not under some crazy genie spell! That opening improv thing was about as funny as getting dog shit in your eye!
I think he was very hit or miss. When he got it right he was truly brilliant, but he could be cringingly unfunny as well.
Derek and Clive was the least funny thing he ever did. A boy’s humour. It’s not surprising at all that if you found that funny his other work flies over your head.
Don't get all the fuss. I only liked the bus sketch.
How awful for you. It must be very difficult getting through this cruel life devoid of a sense of humour.
Holy christ this AINT cambridge mmm god
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore took the piss out the working class their entire lives. Peter Sellars was a pompous tit with his 'mid-Atlantic' accent and racist viewpoints. Cook was a bit more open minded but he did nothing substantial apart from Private Eye. These people need to be reviewed every now and then and not just worshipped.
I disagree about Sellers, unless you can correct me. If its to do with the film 'The Party' then I, as a person of Sri Lankan heritage, do not find the film remotely 'racist'. However, I do feel its the same with Milligan, everyone calls him a 'comedy genius' - take a peek at 'Curry and Chips' for his crass 'humour'...I'm not White, I do laugh at it, but at the same turn, it's hardly on a par with what Cook did. It doesn't take a 'genius' of comedy to come up with a character called 'P-ki Daddy' as Milligan did. Before anyone mentions the 'Derek and Clive' skits, Cook and Moore were literally sending everything up - the irony being two extremely well educated men were being as offensive as possible was the joke itself.
Substantial did you say - he was writing for Kenneth Williams at the age of 18, he wrote ‘beyond the fringe’ whilst at Cambridge , owner of several club where Royalty would queue to see him and started the private eye by the time he was … wait for it 25 .. substantial indeed
We was truly the best ❤️
Fuck off cunts! You 're giving me the horn.
"Took the piss out of the working class...."
How did you work that out? Because of Pete n Dud? How exactly was that a pisstake or in anyway derogatory to the working classes of whom Dudley was one?
Going on your logic, they also took the piss out of the upper classes, middle classes and just about anyone and anything. I'm working class and I'm assuming you are as the inverted snobbery you display is typical of many of our class.
A shame you can't flick that chip of your shoulder and just laugh like the rest of us.