Beyond the Fringe on Oxford Philosophy
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Uploaded by bitterspetey on Oct 9, 2008
Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller spoof "Oxford philosophy" in a sketch from the popular West End show they did with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Not exactly hilarious - even for philosophers - but a bit of history, and remarkable that it should make a popular comedy revue.
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By "not exactly hilarious" do you mean "for all intents and purposes absolutely hilarious?"
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The most humourous thing is that most of what they say is entirely accurate and valid philosophical discourse.
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You can tell that Bennett and Miller where the most unconcerned about the whole show biz thing...they just went on and did what they wanted rather than having some regard for catering to the audiance like Cook and Moore. I am always surprised, given his notorious and much vaunted shy demeanor, how good Alan Bennett actually is on stage. Brilliant pseudo verbiage and non-sequiteuring digression. Most people talk like that...but they just use smaller words
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Yes, yes, yes (not in the affirmative sense). This puts a lot of pseudo-philosophical comedy of recent times to shame. Bravo!
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You seem very fond of real life.
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lmao slab i just started reading wittgenstein earnestly
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Jonathan Miller is amazing in this. My first year tutors took on exactly this sort of ridiculous tone of voice and attitude. I love this sketch.
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@socratus1 That's some definite para-philosophy there...
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@cookmoore brilliant
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Well, yeah, of course. Every comedian who was ever in the Cambridge Footlights has stolen from this.
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You can see that Fry and Laurie stole something from this.
WineStainedTeeth89 3 years ago 30
there's too much tuesday in my beetroot salad! hehe
tituscaesar 2 years ago 12