Grooving the bag, Mamaa (Dudley Moore, Peter Cook)

[sandybluhm78]

BRILLIANT!



[Dgoosh1000]

This is soooo funny, comedy these days sucks mostly, and sketch humour has almost completely disapeared.

[WhalesUnite]

Would someone please upload Goodbye Again's "Long Distance" (ATV 1968)? I know that it still exists, as there's a clip in "The Comedians' Comedian."

Many Thanks.

[HEV29]

How can 5 people dislike this - Unless they came across it by mistake?

Genius x

[pavement77]

This is not racist, it's funny, anyone who sees it as such is a very silly and sad person.

[ATC1810]

Absolutely superb, like so much of their stuff, works on so many levels.

[NoyzyBoyZ3]

This is fucking hilarious!

[XxXNailPolishXxX]

♥ Dudley Moore!!!

[dutch99958]

they were fantastic!!

[billyconnearly]

I wish that the politically correct, humourless, arseholes of 2011 would just FUCK OFF back where they came from!!! Let's have jokes about the Tight Scots, The Thick Irish, The Sheepshagging Welsh, The Stiff-Upper-Lip English and the fuckin' useless Americans!! They add fun to life!! Not serious! If you don't think this is right, well, eh....how can I put it??? - fuck off!

[LeHair]

It's certainly not racist. It denigrates the British sensibilities of the era and mocks the uptight format, approach and lack of understanding and that was often seen in the '60s. It's extemely well observed and cleverly written, not to mention DM's great playing.

These 2 were years ahead of their time which is why we can find interest and humour in it decades later.

[MeMrJust]

This is some funny stuff, considering it's British and old. Simple yet effective. I did not intend to watch all of it, yet I was happy to.

[TheRollingstones1964]

@MeMrJust Whats the fact that it's English got to do with it? Everyone knows we English have always made the best comedy on television.

[99mrstella]

@TheRollingstones1964 ans australians

[alexlee7773]

first time ive seen peter crack up more than dud

[demonsbutterfly]

real comedy.....my childhood.

[angrysamoan666]

Bernard Manning gets called aracist because he's a vile racist.

These guys are 'nice' so you think it's okay.

But it's old, past it, and not funny . No more.

[Magnetoman69]

This is sooooooo funny! It knocks the establishment, wonderfully observed, beautifully played ... it also shows how far we have come as a nation in our understanding of other cultures. Yes we have a long way to go but branding everything to do with race as racist makes it more and more difficult to move forward and have honest debate. "Irony is wasted on the unintelligent " - who said that? Me!!!! Hahaha

[chopinesprit]

lloro de la risa con esto...

[angrysamoan666]

James Brown man he was fucking da bomb

These guys dont get him LOL

I like that

[thinkingevil]

"igloo or wigwam"!!!

[MrElectrician59]

Hilarious

[mitsymagicful]

This must be my most favourite sketch everrrrr!!! 4:34 turn for me in parenthesis the light on baby

[RaRaLandEQ]

Some people put way too much emphasis on a word instead of the context or implication. But having them name a (not bad) movie like "the Hangover" as the best comedy ever written, I can understand how this kind of humour would go straight over their heads.

[fletcherman1]

It's very funny, English white chaps not getting it ! A lot of 60's English musicians were trying to play rhythm and blues, so it is a very clever satirical comedy.

[primarxism]

I remember this on the telly too. Their art gallery sketch has to be the most enduring in British television comedy. Check out the wonderful LS Bumble Bee single too from 1967. On YouTube it's just the record playing, which is in better nick than my scratchy old 45. Probably banned by the Beeb for its more than explicit drug references. In comparison could you imagine today's comedians penning a song about, say, ketamine, with anything like the lyrical ingenuity and irony of Pete & Dud?

[johngreen120]

4:53 Pete nearly loses it.

I remember seeing this for the first time and being in pain I was laughing so much.

[sulijoo]

As a tribute to the great Peter Cook, I have but one word to say. Mawwage!

[MMM613]

This "interview" would perfectly fit (cut out "darkies") to PBS

[cenfy57]

Glad that some of these episodes survive . Not just the BBC but alot of other TV Stations had that practice of re-using video tapes back in the day . I was told by someone that the BBC even wiped the original Monty Python shows and it was only by chance that someone made copies that the show survived . Maybe it was the accountants that made the decision to tape over shows , but of course if they had preserved the whole series they could have made alot of money from them.

[gnolti]

PRICELESS

[Malfinnien]

This is my favourite sketch of their's :D

[PooyaRadbon]

Really funny ... I enjoyed it . Thanks ...

[birdie399]

Dud`s a great pianist.

Yeah daddy!

Thanks for sharing.

[Bleeter]

MISSISSIPPI GROOVER

[Corrupt5358]

Peter Cook is brilliant at accents!

[smithrory]

MISSISSIPPI GROOVA'! 2:35

[Clivepom]

LOVE it when they laugh. Classic.

[Gruntol5]

If you did this is Britain today, the BBC would be inundated with phone calls from "outraged people" - black, white and everything in between.

[selfobsessionhoney]

Mr Cook was indeed beautiful. This is my favourite sketch of theirs but then again I haven`t seen many as the only dvd that seems to be available is The Best Of.. which ironically enough, is really rather poor.

[ReNoirIN]

Peter just about starts to loose it in or about 4:56 when Dud sings -"Your burning up now baby!" Too funny!

God bless the the late Bedazzleds' Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore!

[doublealufwaffe]

Ahh, The value of such african american songs has been sub-estimated. I now understand that these songs were meant as social commentary-should there be legislation to prevent the sale of bags to those unprepared to use them-and have been misinterpreted by the white man.

[WoseyPosey]

Fucking awesome comedy. Peter was so sexy and graceful. Dud was so talented with his magic fingers and had such a cute chuchy face. Such ashame so many of their recordings were destroyed by the STUPID BBC. Any one remember the fairy goblin who cobbled all night and day?

[DarceOhMatic]

It's rentable on Netflix "Not Only ... But Also". I just saw it on DVD and laughed and laughed.

[fpsjonny]

thanks:-)

[suhuso59]

Amazing how humour has degenerated over the years. That you have to EXPLAIN that this is satire. That they are PARODYING the cultural ignorance of the day. That shane dawson's shanaynay is considered funny and this in any way racist is a sign of the idiocracy that the planet has descended into.

[peaceric]

you're exactly right.

its a satire of cultural insensitivity and racism, that should be obvious

the sketch would be pointless were this not the case

[timhirst]

Reading back through the comments.... I must agree with FOARP.... if you think any aspect of this sketch is racist, then you don't get it. It's too subtle and too clever for you. The genius of this sketch is that it was ahead of its time in parodying the patronising, ignorant approach to black people taken by much of the media. The use of the word "igloo" sort of makes this obvious. Pete and Dud were at the forefront of the liberal movements of the 60s.

[gymnosophy]

On one hand it is funny, on the other hand it is not funny

[AndrewJimScott]

Love this sketch!

Very simple,taking somthing very large and the putting in a small context.

[FOARP]

Typical Youtube, this is one of the funniest comedy skits of all time, and the response?

1) "Your British accents are so cute"

2) "Isn't this racist?"

3) "I don't get it"

Guys, go back to watching Happy Days clips, there more your sort of thing.

[ultramagnus73]

@FOARP love that comment !!! i think it takes longer than 200 years to understand irony sarcasm and wit, one day maybe the yanks will learn , until that day we`ll all just keep laughing at them.

[PhilintheBlank1]

@FOARP Monday, Tuesday, Happy Days!!!

[angrysamoan666]

@FOARP But it is racist even if you think its funny

These guys are often racist and sexist

You want to enjoy that fine, dont think that lets you off the hook LOL

[silvi01977]

@angrysamoan666 Do you watch the clips to be offended? BTW, if you knew anything about the era that this sketch was actually set against, Dudley Moore could have been mocking any number of white, middle class Brits who treated this music like it was their own (Lonnie Donnegan and Georgie Fame spring to mind) So there's no `hook`. Were it not for middle-class Brits from this era the music would have had an even smaller audience. Usually the people who scream racism are the ones with the problem.

[angrysamoan666]

@silvi01977 No mate, you are a twat

People who scream racists are victims

People who do not scream racist do not need to do so. Fuck witt.

This old racist humnour is funny if you remain racist. When you've moved on, make a comment then.

[silvi01977]

@angrysamoan666 You're still the only one who's talking about this so I think you're the one with the racial hang-up. You know nothing about the era that this was set against and as for what Bernard Manning is called in the present tense he's been dead for the last three years, moron. Take the chip off your shoulder and try and pull yourself away from the archive comedy footage.

[angrysamoan666]

@silvi01977 Listen sexbomb, I'm right and you are white LOL

[silvi01977]

@angrysamoan666 Regarding what?! Have you started combing through the Goon Show & Hancock footage yet to allow your valuable observations to continue?

[ColtraneTaylor]

@FOARP You forgot. 'I bet those Americans just don't get it. (Aren't we smarter than them lol?)'

[SparrowisSexy]

"Oh Good Lord no and anyway, I wouldn't sing that sort of garbage" *cheesy grin*

xD

[phixl]

The whole Igloo!!! hahahaha

[gadask1]

I was thinking the same thing myself. I wasn't born then, but I suppose it must have been. The BBC would not have let them use the word other wise.

[stravinskyrocks]

"Darkie"?????

Was that acceptable usage in Britain in the 60's? You could say "colored" in the States back then, but "darkie" went out of common public usage in the 1940's.

[theamazingzeno]

they grew up in a monoracial culture. They didn't think there was anyone to offend, nor would they have been exposed to enough black people to have made them think about the words they were using. Yes, it's racist, but not malignantly so. Just a result of the society they lived in. One that was overwhelmingly white and to whom dark-skinned people were a distant concern. To our ears it sounds jarring, but they probably wouldn't have understood that there was anything wrong with it

[stravinskyrocks]

I wasn't looking for any apologies, I'm just surprised that with the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. at that time, that one could still use the term "darkie" on the BBC. I'm a writer and I'm interested in word usage, so I'm just curious how common that expression was in the UK then. The way they toss it off, it seems like it was perfectly fine to use.

[MrGarrard]

I don't think it's fair to make that "with the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S." comment, as though US tv didn't trade on stereotypes (or, indeed, still doesn't) and slurs at the same time.

Besides, it's not as if Cook isn't parodying the embarrassing cold fish BBC establishment.

[LaMagnifica13]

I presume you are speaking of the people they were satirizing and not Pete and Dud?

[almanacofsleep]

@theamazingzeno yeah either that or IT WAS SATIRE!!! They were clearly taking the piss out of the stuffy establishment and the way they looked down and missunderstood other cultures. Funny how you talk as if they were ignorant of the fact that black people existed, you know by that time there were black people living in britain.

[eocarcharia]

No, it wasn't acceptable use in Britain in the 60s. It's part of the joke.

[tocaat2410]

It was during my college days (late 1960s). After many hours of study on the day before an examination, I decided to relax a bit and happened to see this sketch on TV.

Next morning, half-way through the exam, I suddenly remembered it - and spent the rest of the time trying to suppress laughter. The invigilator must have thought I had gone round the bend! I did pass the exam though.

[Pippin76]

4:50 Peter Cook almost loses it

[weikko79]

He almost loses it 4:58, I would say.

[Pippin76]

Its more subtle at 4:50 though. If you wanna nitpick about it...

[sarahnewt]

very rare to see him lose it - it's usually Dud !

[54spiritedwill54]

Utterly superb!

[coralarch]

Has anyone seen their hilarious skit on the First Christmas? I can't find it.

[Irratzo]

"Well, to summarize, basically this is a simple story:

The mamma has gone out into the gay ?dazling? streets of harlem. She's seen a brand new bag, she's bought it, this gaily coloured plastic bag. ..."

How language changes in such little time.

[Abknorm]

"The bag is already grooved"

[wilsparky]

Very illustrative. Only after all these years do I truly understand the clap trap that this exposed.

Unfortunately political correctness took over and now we are made to feel ashamed for laughing at the cultural trash that this takes the piss out of.

[sarahnewt]

you are a very welcome voice of reason and common sense - couldn't have put it better myself - the PCs don't get the sophistication of these kind of jokes.....

[stacyblue1980]

Peter Cooks speaking voice is as funny as Dudley's stuff here. ....."And so the bag is grooved by the mother ....its a long prO-cess".....funny how he says "process"! Haha English!

[xxInnerChildxx]

........? Yes. You comment on the funniness of the accent. Well done.

[BennyComa]

One of their funniest satirical bits ever. "We're going to work it out baby... MMM." LMAO!!!

[jessesgirl1212]

they don't make comedy like this anymore!! outstanding!!

[kibblecrunch24]

my dad nearly wet himself watching this

[chinagirl84]

4:56 he was laughing lol

[dudleysjmoore]

That's why I came back to rewatch cos I love that bit.

[lyrics4sale]

lol my name is dudley lol...cant tell first name some scammers and hakers out there

[mytheropy]

I didn't know Dudly M. was soooo silly.

[Joachim010]

Bo Dudley! rules , yeah baby ,

what kinda bag ?

[giles422]

Dud should have been introduced as a (white)English bluesman "expert" who understands nothing of the blues, instead of as a (black) blues musician. Would have been a funnier and more pointed, and those quaint "darky" phrases would have gone down a little easier. I'm pretty sure that's what they both had in mind, anyroad

[giles422]

not one of my favorites this lol

[Zjwrsa]

Absolutely hilarious!

[iowabrit]

its funnier on 'Derek and Clive live'.........one of the first comments is 'America has their souls singers and we have ar soul singers

[thesteveus]

Yeah I agree.....

[acetremendous]

This sketch is priceless, thank heavens it's one of the few that survived the big BBC wipe of Not Only But Also tapes.

Nowadays people don't seem to be able to tell the difference between making fun of prejudice and perpetuating it; thus I don't think you could get away with this kind of satire anymore. Thanks for posting this & making it available to all!

[jimlagos]

Absolutely spot on, couldn't have put it better. Thank you

[acetremendous]

Peter Cook wasn't sullen on "Whose Line", he was blind drunk. He was drinking constantly in those days so he wasn't the falling-down type even when totally hammered, but you can tell.

If you compare this to the (very drunken) Derek & Clive movie you'll see what I mean. His voice doesn't slur so much as get really thick.

[BardTheBowman101]

This is one of my fave comedy skectches of all time. A classic

[alexlee7773]

"darkie momma"!?

[Ve4Vendetta]

Delightfully politically incorrect and hilarious - 'absolutely terrific' - Peter reminds me of so many of my alumni prof's. OMG my sides still hurt from laughing at this!!! Thanks for sharing this one Davdon30 -

[cleverjeeves]

"a darkie decorative process"?!

[HURLEYP]

Naturally....what else but....?

[artbychristine]

so funny on so many levels - where does one start?

Brilliant!!

[monster0129]

I absolutely loved it. I had no idea Peter Cook was so funny. Saw him beside Stephen Fry a couple of times on Whose Line is it Anyway and he often appeared a little sullen

[ingahauks]

lol

[Rogere76]

Brilliant satire of the high-minded , condescending BBC arts programming of the era .

[publicanimal9]

Utterly superb!