Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were two of Britain's finest comedians. Peter had a natural talent for writing hilarious material. I love it when they're trying not to burst out laughing. Enjoy this sketch!
What follows is an extract from an article on British comedians. It contains some of the dialogues you can see on the video clip. You can read the rest at http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/BRITCOMEDY/britcomedy.digest.1-07
"Not Only...But Also..." featured Cook and Moore's most enduring characters: the fumbling cloth-capped idiots Dud and Pete. Cook: "Pete is the informed idiot, and Dud is the uninformed idiot. They're both idiots, but Pete is always slightly superior. In fact, he knows nothing either." They appeared in numerous sketches, ruminating about life in general. The sketches were surprisingly long for the period, often running to eight or ten minutes, and have an improvised feel. Peter Cook: "We didn't have scripts as such, we had a lot of headings--we'd rehearsed a lot, and we knew roughly what we were going to say, but not word-for-word." In one sketch, Dud and Pete meet in an art gallery:
Dud: Here, have a sandwich. My feet are killing me. Pete: What's that got to do with the sandwich? Dud: Nothing, I just said it afterwards, that's all. Pete: Well, you shouldn't say things like that together, it could confuse a stupid person.
They go on to discuss famous duck paintings:
Pete: If you look at his ducks, you see the eyes follow you around the room. Dud: You noticed that? Pete: Yer, when you see sixteen of his ducks, you see thirty-two little eyes follow you round the room. Dud: No, you only see sixteen because they're flying sideways and you can't see the other eye on the other side. He never does a frontal duck. Pete: No, but you get the impression, Dud, that the other eye is craning round the beak to look at you, don't you. That's a sign of a good painting, Dud.
This leads to an examination of Cezanne's "Les Grandes Baigneuses":
Pete: The sign of a good painting when its people's backs towards you is if the bottoms follow you around the room. Dud: If it's a good painting the bottoms will follow you around the room? Pete: Right. Dud: Shall I test it then? Pete: They won't bloody budge, I'll tell you that much. Dud: I can't look directly at the painting or else they'll know I'm looking and get all cagey. Pete: Are they moving, Dud? Dud: I think they're following me, Pete. Pete: I don't think they are, Dud. Dud: I reckon they are, Pete. Pete: No, those bottoms aren't following you around the room, your eyes are following the bottoms around the room. Dud: The same thing, isn't it? Pete: Course it isn't. There's a world of difference between being followed by a bottom and you following a bottom.
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ResponderEliminarWhat follows is an extract from an article on British comedians. It contains some of the dialogues you can see on the video clip. You can read the rest at http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/BRITCOMEDY/britcomedy.digest.1-07
ResponderEliminar"Not Only...But Also..." featured Cook and Moore's most enduring characters: the fumbling cloth-capped idiots Dud and Pete. Cook: "Pete is the informed idiot, and Dud is the uninformed idiot. They're both idiots, but Pete is always slightly superior. In fact, he knows nothing either." They appeared in numerous sketches, ruminating about life in general. The sketches were surprisingly long for the period, often running to eight or ten minutes, and have an improvised feel. Peter Cook: "We didn't have scripts as such, we had a lot of headings--we'd rehearsed a lot, and we knew roughly what we were going to say, but not word-for-word." In one sketch, Dud and Pete meet in an art gallery:
Dud: Here, have a sandwich. My feet are killing me.
Pete: What's that got to do with the sandwich?
Dud: Nothing, I just said it afterwards, that's all.
Pete: Well, you shouldn't say things like that together, it could confuse a stupid person.
They go on to discuss famous duck paintings:
Pete: If you look at his ducks, you see the eyes follow you around the room.
Dud: You noticed that?
Pete: Yer, when you see sixteen of his ducks, you see thirty-two little eyes follow you round the room.
Dud: No, you only see sixteen because they're flying sideways and you can't see the other eye on the other side. He never does a frontal duck.
Pete: No, but you get the impression, Dud, that the other eye is craning round the beak to look at you, don't you. That's a sign of a good painting, Dud.
This leads to an examination of Cezanne's "Les Grandes Baigneuses":
Pete: The sign of a good painting when its people's backs towards you is if the bottoms follow you around the room.
Dud: If it's a good painting the bottoms will follow you around the room?
Pete: Right.
Dud: Shall I test it then?
Pete: They won't bloody budge, I'll tell you that much.
Dud: I can't look directly at the painting or else they'll know I'm looking and get all cagey.
Pete: Are they moving, Dud?
Dud: I think they're following me, Pete.
Pete: I don't think they are, Dud.
Dud: I reckon they are, Pete.
Pete: No, those bottoms aren't following you around the room, your eyes are following the bottoms around the room.
Dud: The same thing, isn't it?
Pete: Course it isn't. There's a world of difference between being followed by a bottom and you following a bottom.