Genius. No Python without these guys -- all phenomenal.
@lawsonbob
13 жыл бұрын
Peter Cook was mindermast of comedy.
@WiseOwlOfGallifrey
11 жыл бұрын
Alan Bennett is just superb. A supremely talented man.
@ridge87701
14 жыл бұрын
THIS is why they called Cook, the Comedian's Comedian. The way he made Bennett laugh and keep a damn straight face!!! That whole thing about The Thieves are responsible was pretty much impromptu. I saw another version of BTF and that went quiet differently. This is was funnier, of course.
@kaptainkanada4363
11 жыл бұрын
"Train robbery" does not involve a loss of train... Well that explains my confusion -- and subsequent arrest -- at the garage sale I recently attended.
@anonUK
9 ай бұрын
What was your bid?
@JimSnowden
10 жыл бұрын
"It all points to thieves."
@anonUK
4 жыл бұрын
Are thieves responsible?
@Concetta20
8 жыл бұрын
I love how deadpan they are. Very British! :)
@thedogesl
15 жыл бұрын
"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.
@richardbrown1189
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful wordplay and brilliantly delivered. I think Peter Cooke's character in this must have been the inspiration for Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling in the Not Only But Also sketch about teaching ravens to fly underwater.
@tedwebb7243
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder when he strated investigating the Great Train Robbery.
@weikko79
16 жыл бұрын
Yes, that clearly comes from here. The Pythons got a lot of things from Peter Cook, as well as Fry and Laurie and tons of other British (and not only British) comeadians.
@Dynamitrios
15 жыл бұрын
The blonde guy is about to crack up any minute, while the other one stays cool as hell. Really funny^^
@EnglishmaninPoland
13 жыл бұрын
One of British comedy's great mindermasts.
@paulhagen5645
3 жыл бұрын
I've never seen this sketch before and Cook is brilliant. When he was on form he was excellent. He seemed to be able put on performances like this mainly in the 60s, then it became less and less in later years.
@mrjamescurry
5 жыл бұрын
Makes comedy of today pale into insignificance
@rare6499
10 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, still funny.
@giles422
16 жыл бұрын
great post- please if you anymore original BTF- please post it for me. Cook may have had the least financial success, but he is the most remembered and revered.
@EJP286CRSKW
4 жыл бұрын
giles422 He did OK. Had a West End show running with Kenneth Williams while he was still at school, 3% author royalties every night for months on end, then three or more years in the West End and on Broadway with _BTF,_ also on author royalties as well as acting fees: he also owned _The Establishment_ nightclub and _Private Eye,_ then he had _Monty Python_ and _Not Only but Also_ royalties and residuals for the rest of his life. And a few movie parts . Not too shabby.
@iancurtis1152
2 жыл бұрын
@@EJP286CRSKW he did a great King Richard in an episode of “Black Adder”. A comic genius.
@pigknickers
11 жыл бұрын
So good - wish there was someone so clever and subversive operating today.
@KetOoKa889
12 жыл бұрын
Just found out about these guys, they are hilarious!
@weikko79
16 жыл бұрын
Yes. He was also clearly the most talented of the bunch, the one to whom everything came easiest. John Cleese said that it took Cook three minutes to write a three-minute sketch. I guess that partly explains his (relative) failure. Though looking at their subsequent careers, I wouldn't be so sure that Moore came out better than Cook.
@Claymor621
15 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@theocean1973
13 жыл бұрын
"Good evening" x 3
@thedogesl
15 жыл бұрын
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.
@kelvinlewis4065
4 жыл бұрын
Absolute ,,brilliance ..I,m sure it was all," ad lib "..incredible timing and so young ...and maybe 50 ..60 years ahead of their time ,,where does Bernard Maning fit it here ? ..I,m lost ..I wish It was possible to bring them all back in their pomp !
@halwasserman7905
3 жыл бұрын
No one says good evening quite like Peter Cook.
@lauramalek3128
2 жыл бұрын
And holy cow so MANY Good Evenings in the first 30 seconds. Too funny, but then....it got funnier!😁
@kaptainkanada4363
11 жыл бұрын
From somebody who's rather good at taking shorthand.
@SylentEcho
7 жыл бұрын
This is hilarious!
@pskierst
11 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@shame69
16 жыл бұрын
Good evening!
11 жыл бұрын
Means everything when you are on the top :)
@quigon7
17 жыл бұрын
I love BTF!
@kyawkyawwin1
4 жыл бұрын
Comedy genius.
@lauramalek3128
2 жыл бұрын
Watching a Pawn Stars episode and someone brought in an "Identi-Kit" to sell! Simply HAD to look up this routine, as I has actually heard this routine many many years ago on - get this - an album I checked out from the LIBRARY! Over the years I have always remembered this "kit" as "L'identi-KEE" as the French foppishly call it. Took French in high school that's why I remember that part! LOVE Peter Cook and Dudley Moore!!
@SombrioBeach1983
2 жыл бұрын
The straight man in this sketch is Alan Bennett, NOT Dudley Moore. They were part of a 4 man comedy group called "Beyond the Fringe", (which did include Dudley Moore).
@10kingstreet
14 жыл бұрын
@thedogesl Aaagh I love that sketch... oh, saucy Worcester :)
@tunefultonyjohnson4100
5 жыл бұрын
The Great Train Robbery took place in 1963.... The ruling incumbent Archbishop of Canterbury at that time and from 1961 to 1974 was the Right Reverend Michael Ramsay...... No one knows if he had ever heard (or appreciated?) this Peter Cook satire/spoof....
@TwiddleJones
8 жыл бұрын
Good evening
@prpjustice
2 жыл бұрын
surely the authorities should ensure all this material is kept for posterity. and indeed for everyone
@EdLove
10 жыл бұрын
Hilarious!
@willeminahendriks9897
6 жыл бұрын
Very funny
@rebrodza
13 жыл бұрын
thats peter mandelson
@googleisgay3289
3 жыл бұрын
3 million pounds! That's a lot of towerblocks not getting sustenance to their baby birds.
@Moonlitdarksword
12 жыл бұрын
I like trains.
@frankmurphyburr3598
4 күн бұрын
Good evening 😅
@AlanSalmon
11 жыл бұрын
Peter Cook interviewed by Kevin Rudd?.
@martinamckeown2000
12 жыл бұрын
classic lol
@RugbyManLock
12 жыл бұрын
How does he keep a straight face?! XD
@jackolanternsoup
15 жыл бұрын
Hhahahaah that was lol inspiring
@farleigh17
16 жыл бұрын
Well as your username is 'dinosaur' you definetley have not stood the test of time.
@AndrewGouldingsuburbangeek
12 жыл бұрын
It doesn't make much sense but "en-tête" means "heading" or "headline" - so, lead headline?
@giulia3710
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you, but I meant what does he say between "God" and "them" at 3:34.
@claudrebille178
2 жыл бұрын
L humour britannique est irresistible WOODY ALLEN can mesure up to those guys , in a different way Claude PARIS .MY SURNAME IS NOT PARIS , BY THE WAY PARIS , FRANCE , NATURALLY
@petejones879
2 жыл бұрын
Americans tend to believe that all of us British folk talk in this manner.. With the exception of Ozzy of course
@anonUK
9 ай бұрын
And Cockernees, of course.
@googleisgay3289
3 жыл бұрын
When you see true beauty, you can let it go or swallow it whole, but Jesus My Fuck Christ, way the fuck to do it!
@kwaggavoetpad
11 жыл бұрын
"God rot them"
@beautifulsmall
2 ай бұрын
Alan bennet influenced ?
@7greensheep
11 жыл бұрын
where can i get the written script for the great train robbery?
@oldskoolfool141
5 жыл бұрын
Ingeniously enough you can create one for yourself by simply watching it back and writing down everything they say, it's a cunning little invention called 'transcription'
@AnnabellaRedwood
4 жыл бұрын
You could always get a thief to steal you a copy. 😀😂
@giulia3710
12 жыл бұрын
What does Peter Cook say about the French at 3:33-34? "As the French foppishly call it, God ... them"
@itismeitisi4274
3 жыл бұрын
"God rot them".
@giulia3710
3 жыл бұрын
@@itismeitisi4274 Thanks!
@petikiss7305
3 жыл бұрын
@@giulia3710 after 9 years you got your answer :)
@petermorningsnow
5 жыл бұрын
Might nestle in the navel of a lady, is beyond belief. Where poetry meets its exact opposite. There are leftovers.
@robinwiddows766
Жыл бұрын
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@christoph8053
3 жыл бұрын
No loss of train just 3 million!! If they came for the train it would be gone Muppet
@stuartleishman6366
3 жыл бұрын
More brilliant work from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
@SombrioBeach1983
2 жыл бұрын
The straight man in this sketch is Alan Bennett, NOT Dudley Moore. They were part of a 4 man comedy group called "Beyond the Fringe", (which did include Dudley Moore).
@pauljohnson5190
3 жыл бұрын
Makes today's comedy seem laughable (irony you see..)
@PeteDohertyIsADrug
15 жыл бұрын
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.
@googleisgay3289
3 жыл бұрын
But, be fair, Time's test is standing on one leg and hopping. I got almost 100% on that.
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