As virtual divinity. But he was manifestly the junior partner.
To Cook devotees I say only this: who would you rather in Monty Python? Cook, fucking everything up? Or Moore, playing the game?
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 22:48, Reply)
But without Dudley Moore I've not really found him funny. Interesting, yes, but not really funny. cf Spike and Secombe. (nah not really, Spike still made me laugh, but I think these straight men who are still funny focused the scattergun minds of the likes of Cook and Milligan)
edit: Ooh, happy candles!
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 22:57, Reply)
But I know whereof you speak. Without a corpsing Moore, he would struggle.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:20, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPJK2zKtAxQ
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 18:29, Reply)
Bring it on Cook fans. Cook was an insecure wreck: Moore held all the real talent, as evinced by his subsequent career. He tried to help PC, but no.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:03, Reply)
I've always found them both to be hugely overrated. Maybe if I'd been around to enjoy it contemporaneously I might have got what all the fuss is about. However, having said all that, the original film of Bedazzled is aces, Cook was just perfect in that, and hugely outshone Moore, but it was the better role.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:32, Reply)
Whichever you favour, they are both extraordinary talents. Who have we now? Bring 'em on boys.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:48, Reply)
Russell Brand. "The remake was a critical and financial failure.". Not my words, Lynn, the words of wikipedia.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:58, Reply)
And great point. Some of the most dated comedy is only so because every fucker copied it removing all of its novelty.
Obvs, sorry.
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:52, Reply)
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 0:58, Reply)
stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/audio/derek_and_clive/Peter_Cook_%2B_Derek_&_Clive_%2B_Worst_Job_He_Ever_Had_%2B_wwwDOTstabbersORG.mp3
(, Sun 20 May 2018, 0:12, Reply)
and Dud was a useful straight man. You just have to listen to the Sven tapes to understand. And watch Arthur...
edit: it's npot just your pants on fire! Candles!
(, Fri 18 May 2018, 23:04, Reply)
Cook would be a second Graham Chapman
Moore would be second Michael Palin
I like both.
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 11:25, Reply)
He tells of lying in bed in a hotel at midnight listening to Chapman walking down the hall shouting musically, 'I'M GOING TO BEEE-EEED! BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE GOING ALOOO-OOONE'. What a champ.
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 17:17, Reply)
Check out Why bother with Cook and Chris Morris, then think twice about Dud being the daddy.
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 7:02, Reply)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqUjbooLeI
(, Sat 19 May 2018, 9:44, Reply)