Derek & Clive - In The Lav

[jonrotten31]

are you handy? i thought, hello, some cunt is showin out! lmfao

[TheKenfig]

This record should have a warning on it not only that it might cause offence and should not be played in the presence of minors, but that by listening to it you could literally DIE laughing

[chuckyoofarley]

I remember hearing this for the first time many years ago and laughing so hard at 3:13

[MarkDeNaif]

"I applied for Lucozade" ... LOL

[MarkDeNaif]

It's even funnier if you know some stuff. Masseur Hulot is an allusion to Jacques Tati. I think Peter was impressed .. but not enough to break character.

[stopthismadness1]

They sound old as shit in this one!!!

[pix042]

well, of course, there is the fucking pong as well...

[joeytwiddle]

"they took me away and had me scraped"

[sotefb]

improv at its best. The masters of comedy rule all that you may hear today

[drwhatson]

For those that don't know the UK, when Cook says; "I applied for Lucozade" after being arrested, it's a comedy spin on accused persons with insufficient funding for their defence costs applying for Legal Aid (Lucozade is a well-known glucose energy drink!) Genius.

[kenfig]

"So i pulled up my trousers" ; "they were DOWN were they ?" Lol, priceless ; great how Peter NEVER laughs

[kenfig]

I ran over this old lady on a zebra crossing with my motorcycle and my exhaust pipe ripped through her knickers & charred her around the 'toilet area' so .... i stooped down to RAPE her ....

[Professor6871]

@kenfig I agree the person who did that sort of vandalism to one of the most enduring comdies of all time should be up before a court. I always wonder if that section of the Horn in Ad Nausm where he tells those Africans to go round too the BBC, because the camera crew messed up filming him masturbating, and burn down the television centre was a vailed reference too the careless destruction of these series. Just concidence you may say but it would be interesting if that was true.

[kenfig]

@Professor6871 What's even worse and arbitrary was that Cook offered to buy videotape to store the stuff on out of his own pocket when they first refused to sell it to him so he could prevent it being destroyed but they STILL said no to that offer as well !! . Yes, the swearing alone isnt whats funny,that's what critics of D & C dont get,including M.Parkinson who is a fan of Cook, but although the swearing accentuates the wicked fun, it's his imagination,imagery and the eloquence that's magic !

[Professor6871]

@kenfig I know it was bloody stupid of those twats in the BBC not too take up Peter Cook's offer to buy the videotape. It just proves how bloody petty minded that the Beeb can be. What year did this all happen then?

Your right critics only seem to see past the extreme profanity and shock value of these albums than the brilliant use of language, serial imagery that Cook uses on these albums, which makes it so special.

[kenfig]

You articulated the sentiment that you were down the Lav ; you were IN the Lav ? ; all i was trying to establish is where you fuckin' were ; fine

[Professor6871]

@kenfig 'Like a lonely turd, I wasn't in the basin wonderful stuff.

[billyconnearly]

How can you mention BenElton in the same breath as Derek and Clive? If Ben had had had had 1/25th of the talent of Derek and Clive he would have...well you get my mening with that! Peter and Dudley have nevr been equalled never mind bettered....FUCKIN'  STAGGERIN'!

[silver9645]

lmfaoooooo

[kenfig]

I try to rule that out of my life ; that's just a personal view

[MattStait]

If I could fiscally afford it I'd make a movie out of this sketch. It'd contain everything: the cops hauling him out and having 'scraped' - then weighing the crap at the forensic laboratorys. Finally having a caricature of the Queen dipping into the heaps of shit blindfolded.

[kenfig]

@MattStait it wouldnt work ; no disrespect to you but it wouldnt be funny in reality ; its the mental pictures rather than real ones and word play that does it ! "i try to rule that out of my life !" "no point in squeching...." Lol

[Professor6871]

@kenfig Yeah the mental picture of the Queen Mother getting wif of the crap from the palace and then having idenity parade too see which turd it was that upset her higness was brilliant sereal stuff. His use of the English language not just the swearing bits, was remarkable here as it was in the rest of the three albums.

[JohanDeSilentio]

What I like about this is that Dud is taking the sketch in one, potentially very funny way, then at 1:50 the comic genius of Peter Cook hi-jacks it and takes it in a wholly different, and fabulously disgusting, direction. On walking about all day with warm crap all over you: "I try to rule that out of my life, I don't know about you". Pete and Dud are both dead, yet Ben Elton lives. How can that be right?

[destructivedandy]

@JohanDeSilentio Exactly! There is no God

[MrKendallMintcake]

@JohanDeSilentio In 2007, Ben Elton was awarded an Honorary Rose for lifetime achievement at the Rose d'Or festival, Frankly Johan I hardly think it neccessary for you to knock one of the most influenctial screenwrites of our time. I mean i like derek and clive as much as anyone but jeez, why is it that for everyone else it has to be at the cost of other valid comedians?

[Pinskip2]

@MrKendallMintcake Ben Elton is a sell-out and a cunt. He can shove his awards up his arse, sideways.

[billyconnearly]

@Pinskip2 The Right Honourable Mr Elton is a typical JEW - no offence - he jumps on the current bandwagon - even if it is driven by the "LORD" - hahahaha - Andrew LLLLoyd-VVVebber!!!! supported by Grahame (up the arse) Norton!

[Pinskip2]

@billyconnearly Anti-Semitism and Homophobia? Congratulations, you are a dickhead. Elton is a cunt for who he is, not what he is.

[Bustaaaaaahhhhhhh]

Naw not down the Fakkin Lav, Kant..

[threecoloursblue1]

Wow!! Thanks for posting this, who are they??? 3:13 I've never laughed so much ever!

[PatrickBalfe]

Peter Cook & Dudley Moore

[scumbag1975]

oh yea and "cos they weighed it later at the forensic laboratories" and even Peter is slightly losing it :)

[Professor6871]

@scumbag1975 Then Peter says at end they held me over but I applied for Lukysade wonderful stuff.

[scumbag1975]

This is my fave comedy sketch of all time. Two bits "...which is a fucking headache" and Derek trying not to burst out laughing and the classic "the pong from that, was fucking staggering" and Derek losing it and cackling.  The first time I heard that bit I had tears running down my face, absolutely hillarious. Comedy genius, RIP guys.

[kenfig]

Yes,TREMENDOUS fun ; the mental image of the Queen Mother,blindfold walking along the 'identity' parade of heaps of SHIT to identify the 'whiff' ; "she was a KEY witness" is PRICELESS & unbelievable fun !!

[Professor6871]

@kenfig I can't stop laughing when get too this bit.

[kenfig]

@scumbag1975 Theyre not dead ; i cant think of them as dead ! They live on !

[Professor6871]

@kenfig That's right way think about them there live forever in our minds. I myself can't think of them being dead until my dying day. People will be laughing at there work for hundreds of years too come, more than the Office or any other comedy of today.

[kenfig]

@Professor6871 Yes and criminally,the BBC wiped loads of the priceless 60s series 'Not Only But Also' for good so there's no copies of it the bastards ; that includes most of series 2 (1966) & series 3 (1968 ), and series 4 (1972) most of what's left is from series 1, 1965. The BBC are insane.They also completely wiped virtually all of series 2 of Till Death Us Do Part 1967 and all series 3 ,1968 in black and white with Alf Garnett - Madness , some of our best comedy EVER !

[Professor6871]

@scumbag1975 I think Dudley says Queen Mother's massure messure Holo. Then he says that could be on the radio with that material great stuff there.

[vonpork]

And....the pong from that.....was fucking staggering!! I love Dud loosing it and collapsing in laughter!

RIP Pete and Dud.

[linden72]

doesn't sound like the derek & clive i know?

[frontbum666]

what derek and clive from down the fucking pub ?

fucking cunt .... cunt

[SunboXUK]

well, its on one of their albums..so i guess it IS them ;) .."ad nauseum" or "derek n clive live" i think..You can check track listings on Amazon

[firstxsquid]

@linden72 : No, this was based on a tape that Cook used to record their conversations in the car on tour in Australia. Somehow a studio engineer got hold of it back in the 60s and bootlegged a copy. It became very popular amongst musicians; everyone wanted a copy of the bootleg. Peter and Dudley reunited in N.Y. to cut some of that material. Totally unscripted. I still have the cassette that I recorded from a studio reel back in the 70s laying around somewhere! Funniest duo ever.

[pix042]

you articulated the sentiment...all I was trying to establish is where you fucking were

brilliant

[rflan42250]

is pong cockney rhyming slang? Fucking hilarious anyway

[Gixxeraldaway]

nah it's just slang for something that smells bad

[kazvbooze]

oh jesus, they are hilariousxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[rusamene]

the pong from that bit is fucking staggering

[chunkyboymania]

I love it how Dud keeps going "yuh" in that stupid voice whilst Pete's waffling at the end.

[daisydokes]

Peter Cook was an absolute genius, pissed or not. Pete and Dud/Derek and Clive were pioneers of this totally blue style of comedy. Uproariously funny. Completely without merit. Contradiction? Only to small minds.

[JNRbamyai]

i rekon there both absouletly pissed

but still hilarious!!!!!

[nefhead]

Of course they were pissed, what rock have you been hiding under, they used to famously get together, get fucked up and record shit.

[JNRbamyai]

sorry I am not as famously aware as you after all Im 14

jeez settle down

[wesmatron]

@JNRbamyai 14!? You shouldn't be listening to this then, young man!

;)

[pix042]

@JNRbamyai if you are 14 you should not listen to this as it is for 18 plus adults. you are a child and parental controls should have been applied to your computer terminal.

[HullBloke1313]

Actually it's not as simplistic as that, clever fucker ;)

[SuperstarTradesman05]

fack u , u fackin cuunt. to have the audacity to call me a fackin cuntt

[markyboythewolf]

Funniest pile of fucking shit fucking going cunt!

[rob26melton]

Great pleasure in commenting on the funniest little skit of all time. I also, like Clive here, often make the mistake of not pulling me trousers down. Does anyone else?