'One Leg Too Few' - Peter Cook & Dudley Moore 1970s

From a Royal Command Performance in the 1970s, with the usual corpsing from Dudley.

Picture quality is fairly poor but bearable.

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  Comedy

[Procrastina777]

One of the best comedy sketches in the history of man. Period.

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore FTW.

[Britcomsarebest]

I remember this sketch in 1971 when the (Australian) ABC showed a series of 'Not only ..but also'. But considering the number of times this sketch is shown here, I'm amazed that the punchline was omitted. Just as Dud. was leaving the interview, Pete called out words to the effect: 'Please call in the applicant for the part of Long John Silver.'

[MsSlimsunny]

Is it me.or is there really no audio ?

[John Newcombe]

I was a big fan of Pete and Dud from when they first started in "Not only but also" around 1964 on Black and White TV. This is without doubt their funniest sketch and in my view my favourite comedy sketch of all time.

[isabelvalent]

i love to watch it

[BackToTheBlues]

Unidexter is funnier. It's often the rythm of the word that makes it funny, same as in Bedazzled where Peter Cook's Devil explains that the name he is known by in his current embodiment (which just happens to be George Spiggott!) is a "non-de-nym or pseudoplume".

[Mark Lester]

this all make you laf

[vivienclogger]

Many thanks for putting this gem online.....

[steevenfrost]

Unidexter is a funny word and sort of fits in with the theme of the sketch in that uni = 1 and dexter is latin for right. So = one leg on the right.

[virtuallypaul]

Brilliantly executed!

[Naddig74]

Pedant strikes: The term for a one legged person/creature is not 'Unidexter' but 'monopod' XD