Peter Cook - John Cleese (good quality)

[stickam100]

priceless british comedy!



[DafTacoustics]

i love how he tries to get cleese to corpse by saying "Intestinal Modeling" several times

[qwyzl]

looked to me like peter cook was trying not to laugh - if you look at his eyes, it seems they're smiling at the sheer ridiculousness of what he's saying...

[Tube11ize]

john cleese is dieing to laugh xD...i love how hes reading the newspaper trying to find the bloody script...peter cook is a legend

[supersesqui]

Cleese nearly corpsed in this sketch !

[carpeinfinitum]

Would be good to have this on QI hehe :)

[odinsmagicstaff1]

Peter Cook was a genius but, he never made the most of his talents.

[straycat39]

this is hilarious peter cook is a genius

[codeastronomer]

I can't stop laughing at the whale being an insect.

[sfshinz]

Cleese is corpsing around 1:39.

[Phoenus11]

@johnsammyanfal

I've never read a more bitter post. Not really sure why you watched this. You can click to another screen you know. Looks like somebody wasn't hugged enough as a child maybe? Do you realise how absolutely pompous you sound? List one achievement in your life which equals that of Peter Cooke or John Cleese.

Anyway this is a brilliant sketch. Hilarious.

[johnsammyanfal]

Both Cook and Cleese were very bad actors. Their essential contribution in movies was as the English stiff, with eccentric proclivities - a staple role virtually any English actor can play, although it is an advantage if your tall. The genre of this sketch is a comedy of manners with obvious class based references, in which the audience is invited to laugh at an uneducated person. There are many brilliant examples in comedy of the fool fencing with the wise - this is certainly not one of them.

[irinajon]

@johnsammyanfal

What complete and utter pompous twaddle you write. I nearly pissed myself laughing with this clip. You have completely missed the humour, which, I can assure you, has nothing at all to do with "class".

Anyway, thanks Davidon30 for posting - it made my evening

[supersesqui]

Cook nearly makes cleese corpse here .

[chopinesprit]

que genio

[theocean1973]

"Do you know that you've got four miles of tubing in your stomach?"

Best pickup line EVER!

[allblue3]

E.L.Wisty, the best Prime Minister Britain never had.

[osmosisbrown1]

There is more than apassing resemblance between Peter Cook and John Lydon in the first minute of this vid...

[ghodium]

@osmosisbrown1 yes i can see that more than dylan

[LeemurCat]

yeah



[norgeskuespiller19]

I love Peter Cook in this sketch. It's the way he delivers his lines and his facial expression never changes that get me.

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

GENIOUS............Is that a fact?

You know, 'I'd' like a job as an intestinal modeller. I'll do anything to get that job. Even die.

[fuckamericanidiot]

hahaha i love it, how incredibly dull and humourless he is. 'one grain of rice??' 'no.'

[TheArchangelxxi]

this vid is faulty

[farswept]

@TheArchangelxxi No, fawlty

[mistahimaskwa]

Peter Cook should've guest starred on Fawlty Towers, that would've been EPIC :)

[ipolson]

Cleese had some of the lines written inside the paper. Some of the startled looks he gives Peter Cook are because Cookie was improvising, therefore JC didn't know where to pick it up again !

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

@ipolson Is that true? Or is that what you think?

[ipolson]

@MichaelPalinFan2008: Its true according to what I have read. I believe it is in the biography by Harry Thopmson.

[ipolson]

@MichaelPalinFan2008: Or might have been in the documentary that came with the Policeman's Ball Box Set. Can't remember now...long time ago I heard or read it

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

@ipolson Well I just ordered the book by Harry Thompson, the one with Peter smoking a pipe on the front cover. Thanks. I don't know much about Cook, but enough to know, he's one of the most interesting people on the planet....irrelevant from the fact he may have come from another planet entirely. Thankyou, I shall get that too!!!!

[eatmypies]

nero,u need a serious comedy slapping.cookie wasnt even in life of brian THATS A FACT.did you know that a car wheel when used as an electric shaver,actually commits suicide 3 hours later.This is because of you.

[kennygolightly]

How easy it is to criticise,especially when you have no fear of reply.

What a pity you were unable to say that to his face.

Peter Cook was a genius and you are devoid of any sense of humour.

Are you German by any chance?

[ThePythonfan]

They are both the serious ones and they are fantastic!

[johnsammyanfal]

Two inveterate bad comedy actors trading their larynx strained weary stereotypes. Cleese the hyper-repressed face of petit officialdom, barricading himself behind the headlines of the Standard. Cook the menacing autodidactic proletariat; proving just what a bad thing a little education is for the masses. Patronising, dated and very unfunny.

[FailboatSkipper]

@johnsammyanfal That was the most pretentious attempt at intellectual criticism I've ever seen, not to mention completely wrong.

[fuckamericanidiot]

@johnsammyanfal i liked it :)

[anonUK]

@johnsammyanfal

Cook and Cleese- inveterate bad comedy actors? On what planet?

Dated- maybe. However, why exactly do you take such offence at this sketch?

[flimpkin4]

And the amazing thing about Cook doing these skits is he didn't memorize a script or anything -- he just had a few topics listed beforehand and went from there.

[queenie1972]

John Cleese & Peter Cook = FANTASTIC

[ExodusPessoa]

Quit possibly the two funniest people ever to walk the earth queenie1972

[Corrupt5358]

!:41 notice John Cleese is struggling not to laugh.

*****

[khryanina]

@Corrupt5358 It's the first time I ever saw him trying not to laugh. Usually it's he with his unruffled manners who makes others crack up. but it's Peter Cook - he had the same attitude, that's why John Cleese hardly contains himself here, I think)))

[Pirlinetor]

Sia pure alla lontana ricordano un po' i nostrani Ale e Franz, non trovate?

[TheAnxiousMan]

Peter looks like Bob Dylan here.

[sarahlarry17]

I can see it too

[GlassPike]

@TheAnxiousMan I was just about to type that, it's really weird how much he does

[drmoonrat]

@TheAnxiousMan Yes, he really does! I was just getting ready to write that on here.

[1Splat]

@TheAnxiousMan

LOL! That's exactly what I thought!

[dvdsmlprstylr]

@TheAnxiousMan i was thinking rob brydon

[JohnLennonLover9]

@TheAnxiousMan - Really? He kind of reminds me of George Harrison

[111oooo]

Hilarious, one of my favourite sketches ever.

[oconnorthelegend]

you smell of piss

[JohnRagoon]

LOL michael Palin as the bench total genius!! :).

[shellac1925]

Two legends of comedy in one video- priceless!

[MondayAddams]

a whale is an insect living on bananas. :D:D:D:D LOL

[santefering]

Of all the comics ever. None could ever out peform Peter Cook. He can adapt to any style of comedy with natural ease.

[tachiri]

Peter cook<3 the man who made the original bedazzled so much funnier than the remake. I love how he can say the most outlandish things with a perfectly straight face.

[williamlitzler]

Cleese almost looses it at 1:45

[111oooo]

"then you'd look a bit of a fool wouldn't you?" One of the best lines ever.

[groovygirl23]

My favorite sketch of all time performed by two genuine comic geniuses.

[fab4art]

Pity they edited the shit out of it : (

[arfurwales]

nerodollinger - It's nonsense to dismiss two of Britain's funniest ever comics on the basis of one film - particularly as one of them was not even in it....

This video is pure genius by the way...

[Mucky1little2me3]

Indeed and the film was class anyway.

[nerodollinger]

while I feel these two comedians are funny, I am dissapointed in their role in Life of brian. And so, I fail to acknowledge their true comedian quality.

[cwegers1]

yeah.......... right

[trossachs2003]

I too am disappointed in Peter Cooke's roles in the Life of Brian...'cos he wasn't in it.

Disappointed only has one s. As has "pompous" whereas "ass" has two.

[nerodollinger]

I noticed you have a double 's' in your youtube name. What a pity you didn't put an 'a' in front of it. Now that;s funny.

[jumpdance24]

This sketch is so well crafted.!

[FinleyNZyeeyah]

Peter Cook could make anything sound funny! I love these guys

[kyle10655]

wow two best comedians ever in a double act, Peter was voted 1st in funniest person in Britain and John 2nd! I really thing john Cleese shouldve won though

[IpkisStanley]

john cleese was funny before he was cured of manic depression then he got VERY boring. besides Spike should've been 1st!

[dancingdiplodocus]

@IpkisStanley actually he is still writing funny limericks as on the Keith olbermann show

[Mikeburgerboy]

This is so funny

[ybot1983]

feekin genius

[StinkyKnobcheese]

The two funniest men of all time together. This would have been priceless to have been there!

[moosey62]

Arable land! FFS! PC's on form here.

[dougienancy]

not much call for intestinal modelling....very few people go for that type of work these days,I used to be one until some 35mm film got stuck in my spleen

[mickisrael]

Brilliannce!!

[acouragefann]

lol it lives on bananas.

[micktheprick31533150]

LOL Intestinal modeling

[keithmoon90]

hahaha john cleese's reactions are classic faces! :P jus reminds me of fawlty towers!

[celtno1]

funniest guy's ever from u.k...and i mean ever. what a double act, cleese and cook.

[IpkisStanley]

Two words. Spike Milligan!

[111oooo]

I have seen this many times, it is one of the funniest skits ever done IMO.

[111oooo]

Hilarious, Cleese is, and Cook was, a comic genius.

[jazzhuman]

Peter was always like that. His performances always seemed like a deadly earnest combat with the straight man to force him to his quivering, shaking knees and completely corpse himself. It's why Peter always needed a straight man for the maximum effect. Watch his face carefully - he pushes the idea of intestines harder and harder at Cleese until Cleese (who was very good at staying in control usually), actually nearly cracks up.

[henrycrumm]

two comedy legends together on stage, teriffic :)

[ladaviking]

Does anyone know if the sketch of John Cleese as Neville Chamerlain ("I have been speaking to the German Hitler Herr Chancellor") from Peter Cook and CO (1980) is anywhere on Yotube ?

[Babedacus]

Here you are /watch?v=pmwmuPTa0To

[vaizgamtas]

John almost corpses at 1:45, but he just about holds onto it.

Is that Jack Palance in the audience at 2:47?

[gmaccruyff5]

WHERES THE BILLY CONNOLLY GAG?

[SeanVallely]

hahaha!! john cleese is finding it well hard not to laugh! the best part is when he says "i know.. it was a joke"

[Macatowa]

Nothing funnier than British Humor!