Peter Cook - Experiences Down The Mine

[EScottAndrews]

Truly the funniest and most wonderful monologue I've even heard. Deadpan is the apex of comedy, and Peter Cook was the apex of deadpan.

[chelseandrew]

Is "Stella Wittington" a reference to MI5 boss Stellar Rimmington? I have yet to find a word used by Peter Cook that was random and did not have some additional meaning. Nobody else could do this, to the best of my knowledge. Monty Python, brilliant though they COULD be could also be crap due to random silliness; Cook's nonsense is never actually nonsense at all, it merely takes a mad premise and follows all the logical implications until the sktech is finished.

[broadstem]

@chelseandrew way before her time

[PhasmaFelis]

@mediumal57 @rafhenlow Yeah, I'm voting you both down.

[TheDjinn2]

"I got 75% on that"!!

[mediumal57]

God blew all the trees down to create coal...Ha! Devastating critique of the infantile and simple flawed logic inderpinning most religion.

[rafhenlow]

@mediumal57 Actually there was a great flood that knocked all the trees down, so he got it partly right. Before you say "how do you know there was a flood?", it is generaly accepted that there was. Whether of Biblical proportions open to debate. I suppose you believe in that flawed logic of evolution.

[mediumal57]

@rafhenlow I didn't say I disbelieved in God. Just the infantile explanationssome people come up with to explain his Universe. Personally I find the evolution story a far more satisfting explanation. If for no other reason, that it is not finished. Religious bound people always presume that their explanations are final and complete, which is a sort of conceit really.

[rafhenlow]

@mediumal57 Thanks for the reply, & for not jumpling up & down on your soapbox, (yes, I have one). The reason I believe in a creator, I see no evidence for creation. Every web site that evolutionists have sent me to carry the words/sentences, "we think"/ "this could have happened"/we believe that??".

Atheist T. H.Huxley, 'The tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesisby an ugly fact.' Darwin was not a scientist, & most of what he fiddled with has reverted back to type. So, God!

[jlthopper]

"a scene unparalleled in mining history"

[MaskedMan66]

I did the shorter version of this skit for a church talent show and it went brilliantly.

[marshhen]

He was a genius.

[TheApollopotter]

Classic!!!

[Lainie777]

nellgwen48, i watched this vid & the "did you know whales...etc" is not in there, do you have a link to that? saw Cook doing that years ago, could never find it again.

[MaskedMan66]

@Lainie777 "Interestin' Facts," that one was called.

[Lainie777]

@MaskedMan66 Thanks mate.

[MaskedMan66]

@Lainie777 You're welcome!

[RussMoxham]

I love the fact people are criticising this as monotonous. Of course it'e bloody monotonous--it's E L Wisty!! It's like watching 'Countdown' on British TV and saying it needs more tits.

[nellgwen48]

Did you know whales are not fish. They are insects that live on bananas. if giraffes could hop like a grasshopper, pound for pound, they could avoid a lot of trouble.

[hsgowers]

Actually surprisingly un-dated given its age. Brilliant!

[BillynBertie]

Very dated and a bit monotonous.

[Yehudittx]

@BillynBertie Like Cook says, it's extremely bo-ring."

[neilimo]

fantastic!

[Shockwave474]

I think that by having several different versions of this monologue, they were trying to keep it fresh. The one my mom knows and loves is about dropping coal on people's feet, and that one is also really funny.

[rafhenlow]

the man was an absolute genius, with Dudley Moore, priceless.

[lewisner]

"My god what a rigorous exam"! LOLZ

[clondraboy]

He was a genius!

[garybh2112]

nark dipples

[jimmypageisgod2]

I have the vinyl record of 'Beyond The Fringe'. Classic sketch!

[IAmTheSecretOfMana]

Decided to use the first 3 and a half minutes for my Drama School Applications... SO AWESOME! I love Cook's E.L. Wisty.

[garykelly1944]

Bloody genius.

[p717]

danke!

[TheOdderOne]

One of the best comedy bits ever that can always make me laugh. Classic.

[pdmkierst]

Genuis! Cook was so wonderful. Beryl, Stella and Margaret--the funniest three names ever. He did a million versions of this monologue, each of them wildly inventive and not to be missed. Many are available--check out the 3 CD Complete Beyond the Fringe.

[aartvegan]

Brilliant!

[Sistererica]

Beryl, Stella, and Margaret. Perfect.

[evolegnartsrd]

This was definitely my favourite skit of Beyond the Fringe. Peter Cook is beyond hilarious, undoubtedly in my top comedians.

[tarnopol]

Possibly the funniest monologue ever.

[111oooo]

Love Peter Cook.

[thpaine1950]

Funny as all Hell!

[montannea2]

Wonderful! This really takes me back. Thanks for posting it.

[moosey62]

Peter xx

[voodoochild1138]

Wow, I've never seen this before. I performed this monologue in high school. I got it out of a book of Beyond The Fringe skits, it was a bit shorter in the book. I think Cook's performance was funnier than mine.

[122172639]

Awesome man, awesome performance. Some of the best minutes ever recorded.

[struckdownpictures]

Fantastically funny.

[jeffh31687]

shitttt....its FINALLY up!!! rules! best thing i've ever seen

[stad97]

Quit your sweearing!

[KINGROOSTER45]

brilliant stuff- thank you muchly

[dougienancy]

G E N I U S......!!!! SADLY MISSED

[jullia11]

Great clip, Great man - thanks for sharing it.