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Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2006

Peter Cook relates a Platypus anecdote from a visit to Melbourne Zoo, in the company of Barry Humphries and Clive James.

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  • Is it Aussie broadcast?

  • No. It's UK. Almost certainly 'Saturday Night Clive.'

  • The fucking punchline's missing!

  • Well that's all that was broadcast. As you can see it moves onto the next clip. I have not edited the end of it.

  • I'm not blaming you - sorry to give that impression. The topic was what would be their dream jobs: BH said he'd like to be a guard in a rarely-attended art gallery. PC's platypus tale was a glorious lead-up to the zookeeper who poked the platypus with a stick & shouted 'GET OUT!" PC: 'His job looked a bit too strenuous for me, but I wouldn't mind being his supervisor.'

  • Ah, I see. in which case, the buggers had no rght (or good reason)to meddle with it.

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  • Peter Cook was British Comedy from the 60's to the 90's. I miss the fucker very much he made me laugh.

  • Peter Cook didn't drink himself to death, he died whilst drinking.

    Why is it sad anyway you sanctimonious tart? I can think of no more noble way to go, better to die funny and pissed than never to have been funny at all.

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  • @markadamdavies Well said dear boy!

  • Cool. I pass the Melbourne Zoo every day by the train and been there a few times, pleasant to know i may have walked on the same steps as the great Peter Cook. :) 

  • Best anecdote about the human condition ever ... It would've made Andre Malraux wet his pantalon. CJ & BH are very witty men in their own right, but mere toddlers beside Peter Cook's towering genius. RIP, Last of the Great Jesters!

  • @hoopesk2 ?

  • what a line ,cheers mate!!

  • A great comic,sad he drunk himself to death.

  • Actually this is from Clive's Channel 4 show 'The Late Clive James' - which ran from 1983 to 1987. Like James' next series 'Saturday Night Clive', Peter Cook made many legendary appearances.

  • provocative fucker. what a fucking cunt!

  • class act very funny

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