Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - 'The Frog and Peach'

[jcmaloney32]

Brilliant! B-)

[Katalyzt]

Classic :O) ★★★★★

[MrZetteke]

This is seriously one of the funniest things I've seen.. Well.. It's up there...

Bougth the tapes because of Kate Bush and am so happy they came out on DVD ..

"The policy is to aim the cointreau... at the peach.."

[Bambambicbic]

@MrZetteke I'm glad to know others still find this as amusing as I do.

[tuxguys]

The Road Goes Ever Onward... Monty Python owed so much to these guys (and Jonathan Miller), just as these guys owed so much to Peter Sellers and the Goon Show...

[hellesterne]

I think this is Peter Cook's finest sketch! He and Dudley go together like ham and eggs...

[johnnugentiscool]

"The T is silent as in fox"

[ColtraneTaylor]

Why did Dudley's face change a lot when he was older?

[AlanRickmanFan1122]

@ColtraneTaylor Alcohol



[davewatcher]

Delicious.

[ipolson]

Great stuff. After all those years he was still cracking Dudley up !

[HughieDixon]

I can't believe they're both dead now. This doesn't seem so long ago and they look so well.

[billbonesknows]

For me Peter Cook is the greatest comedian who ever lived - I'll never cease to be utterly bowled over by his absolute genius of wit.

RIP Peter we will never forget you!!!

missing here but my fave bit:

"She's not a well woman."

"No?"

"No, she's not a well woman... And she very much resents going down to the well each morning to collect the frogs. I have to lower her screaming on a rope."

"HOLY CHRIST, she screams.... Frogs don't like it much either. They spit the flies back in her face."

[Bambambicbic]

@billbonesknows I know, I know. If you like that kind of humor, you must be a Firesign Theatre fan as well. If not, you should be.

[mlawren7]

Now I know why that fancy restaurant in my town was called the Frog and Peach!

[ScaIIyvvag]

Ab Fab!!!!!!!!!

[tog20]

absolutely fucking brilliant....... I wrote a letter HAHAHAHA

[SelinaGregory]

I enjoyed this. Hope you will enjoy my channel

[gridlo]

gridlo

1 minute ago From my memory of the SNL version:

Who does all the cooking?

My wife. Fortunately she does all the eating as well. She's... not a well woman.

Oh no?

No. No, she's not a well woman.... And she very much resents going down to the well each morning. To collect the frogs. I have to lower her screaming on a rope.

Frogs don't like it much either. They spit flies back in her face.

[transistersis]

@gridlo You can rent or instant stream that SNL episode hosted by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on Netflix now. It's one of the 1st episodes from Season 1. There are a bunch of other great sketches on that episode. Yes, it's true, kids. SNL used to be FUNNY! I take it that everyone has seen the ORIGINAL movie "Bedazzled" that starred Peter Cook & Dudley Moore?

If not, you Must rent it. Just make Sure that you get "Bedazzled" from 1967, and not the cheesy Hollywood remake from the year 2000!

[gridlo]

They're leaving stuff out!

"Yes well, I wrote a letter. "Dear Sirs....Stop it."

"Which, of course, they did."

"Yes, but it took 8 years for my letter to get through."

"Well, thank god you wrote."

[ColtraneTaylor]

@gridlo Where is that version?

[TheSacredTurf]

"I have learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them exactly." RIP Pete and Dud.

[anonUK]

"There's the Alan a Dale song in which the lyrics mainy consist of the the words Alan a Dale"

Yes, I never got that one- what's the joke in it?

bbcisrubbish:

Maybe the decline set in when that woman was still PM- dumbing down education and flogging everything off to the lowest bidder.

[radicalsystems]

@anonUK its just repetitive thats the point..

[groovygirl23]

Peter Cook made clearing his throat hysterically funny.

"Seize it!"

[ScrapsG]

Wasn't this The Secret Policeman's BIGGEST Ball?

[eyeqew]

"Yes. Well I wrote a letter." Gold

[radicalsystems]

@eyeqew  briiliant

[lomun402]

This is why I love British comedy so much. Completely understated and yet so over the top!

Wish we got more of it here in the States...

[bbcisrubbish]

I wish we had some of it in the UK still.

All "mature" humour has been destroyed by Blair and Brown and their gang of politically correct freeks, aided by the 27,000 morons at the BBC.

Thank God for youtube where one can at least look at those from the past. Alf Garnett, Uncle Mort, Spike Milligan etc.

[rainbowchild8888]

Well put Sir

[pvuf431]

@bbcisrubbish cunt

[bbcisrubbish]

pvuf431.

A typical New Labour ignorant reply.

Surpassed only by the foul mouthed BBC.

[pvuf431]

@bbcisrubbish you really are though. A petty minded hateful little prude.

[bbcisrubbish]

pvuf431

I have no wish to communicate further with such a vulgar, common person who obviously has no standards of civilised behavour.

Good bye.

[radicalsystems]

@bbcisrubbish well go and watch sky tv ...that obviously suits you better..

[radicalsystems]

@bbcisrubbish -yeah like jim davidson, bernard manning such 'talent' ps spike and peter cook were friends and on the same wavelength..

[dondoman]

@bbcisrubbish Hope things are better for you with that well known culture vulture Cameron and his little boy sidekick Clegg.

[111oooo]

This was on their comedy record called "Good Evening", probably the funniest comedy record ever made.

[DeafFret]

what year is this?

[jvujcic]

1989

[DeafFret]

thank you

[soeffingwhat]

@DeafFret - its from a Secret Policeman's Performance which took place over 3 Nights in Cambridge from August 31st to September 2nd 1989. Not sure what night this Performance was from but I have in on CD. Great Stuff :-D

[countyaandkillya]

is there a song where dudley moore just said one word in the whole song? does anyone know what the song is called?

[chompersdayoff]

Can't think of it. There's the Alan a Dale song in which the lyrics mainy consist of the the words Alan a Dale

[Bambambicbic]

Back in the 60's, when I knew they were going to be on The Dick Cavett Show (the re-run), I ran for my audio cassette player so I could hear this again and again, back in the days before VCR's. I was only a teen, but I knew what funny was, and they were the best!

[godfreycambridge]

as a teen then, i agree. saw the show Beyond the Fringe twice but didn't understand it all until years later. Try Victor Borge.

[danielhewson]

The T is silent as in fox lol

[FundamentallyMental]

"I believe it was shortly after World War 2"

"Ah yes"

"Do you remember that? Absolutely ghastly business... I was completely against it"

"I think we all were...."

"Yes well I wrote a letter!"

[arbeitsscheuer]

"...brought to the table, by the waiter, again covered in boiling coitreau -"

"-the waiter?"

"-very often!..."

That's my fave bit, laughed my ass off at that! XD

[why1so1serious1]

the frog and peach hahahahhahaha

[sweetiepenguinman]

the t is silent as in fox xD

[dudleysjmoore]

"It's so....what's the word? It's down there, isn't it?" That's my fave part, lol!

[54spiritedwill54]

I like this one, too!

[Pathtith]

I know this is heresy, but I just don't find Peter Cook as funny as he obviously thinks he is...

[111oooo]

We can all have our opoinions and I respect yours but I think Peter Cook is pure comic genius.

[jim8202]

and by contrast I judge you to be twice the heretic you admit to being!!

[Brythalious]

Fair enough old bean however Dud obviously found him to be very funny and so do most of us. Good luck in your comedy quest.

[hummlyhummly]

Their performance of this skit on SNL was masterful, but obviously the peripatetic Moore, fingers in too many pies, had lost interest in this side of his art; his hammy bumbling ruins the context, despite the audience's utter starvation for entertainment. He's just phoning it in. T'sn't funny. Don't think Cook didn't resent this, either.

[errolli]

agreed, they'd moved too far apart by this stage.

[radicalsystems]

@hummlyhummly this still works, they hadnt see each other in years and theres stiil a kind of mutual admiration here//

[DAZZAMAGOO]

Had to pause it cos im on the floor laughing lol

[xxCorinnaxx]

I love the way he says "seize it"

[derby46a]

Brill!!!

[13Naru13]

My sister & I love British humor. She has old recordings of various radio shows, like Goon Show & Beyond the Fringe. I'd love to hear again Pete & Dud doing the reporter from the Bethlehem Star talking to a shepherd about 2000 yrs ago.

And didn't the Goons do one about Sherlock Holmes, who was hidin' (inside a piano). "Don't be rediculous! Haydn's been dead for years!" ROFL

[111oooo]

One of the funniest sketches ever. If you get a chance to track down their record "Good Evening" do it. It is one of the funniest recording ever produced, this one is on it. Comic genius.

[Kenro199x]

I like the other video better for one reason. The follow up line to "but I wrote letter. STOP IT."

[iwantmooredudley]

I agree... I like this version better than the others I have seen!

[sunnysidedown04]

haha. awesome. I have to reproduct this in theatre class! this helped a lot!

[Hitchmeister]

Brilliant!

Not as good as the original audio only radio version and missing a couple fo the oneliners "I send the wife down the well to get the frogs... she HATES the job, infact she isn't a well woman!" but still great, Thanks.

[YKW2]

"We have to lower her screaming on a rope. Frogs don't like it either" :D

[jessieemeg]

"but i wrote a letter"

[freeindeed7]

I like this one, too! Thanks for posting