BTF - Great Train Robbery

one of the best things cook did- brilliant thru and thru

Cook at his best.

PURE GENIUS.

How does Peter Cook keep such a straight face?? XD

Brilliant.

And they BTF guys were in turn heavily influenced by "The Goon Show" and so on back through Wilde and Shaw to Shakespeare at least.

"Who do you think is behind the criminals?"
"We are - considerably."

Classic stuff. The entire show is available on DVD and worth renting for this and the Shakespeare sketch ("So That's the Way You Like It") alone.

Oh, lawdy! I've been in a hassled mood all day, and that had me seriously rolling around squealing.

Two very clever, very funny men.

Shame your sanity couldn't stick around as long as you feebile mind.
Did you ever think it's possibly not the comedy, an just infact you?
It'd be fine if you said you didn't find it funny, but saying it hasn't stood the test of time. It clearly has, read the comments around you, thats not an example of not standing the test of time.

A total comic genius - a talented character actor with a real feel for language, razor-sharp wit, experience of the absurdities of everything, sussed enough to be a brilliant satirist, the imagination of a surrealist and the intelligence to be able to combine it all completely naturally.
Not high-brow, low-brow, alternative, pre- or post- or whatever, just funny.

EXCELLENT!