"I was terribly moved by the Moules!" I always love it when Dudley Moore nearly breaks out smirking out of character.. I'm certain that often Peter Cook and Peter Sellars targeted him 😆

@stephfoxwell4620

5 күн бұрын

Peter Cook and Peter Sellers.

It's a long while since I've cried with laughter at comedy. This is before my time, and still quite brilliant.

@PetroicaRodinogaster264

14 күн бұрын

@jhj6636 how gracious of you to think that good clever comedy could possibly have happened ‘before your time’ ….what a prig you must be!

Shear brilliance! Three legends of supreme talent!

@arthurrytis6010

15 күн бұрын

@nathanwhite. We have been extremely lucky to have had so much comedic talent in this country. Sadly I think we have seen the best. Not much to look forward to now.

@stephfoxwell4620

14 күн бұрын

Sheer. Shear brilliance is the excellent removal of wool from a sheep

@nathanwhite7831

14 күн бұрын

@@stephfoxwell4620 . . and that's why I spelt it the correct way! 'Shear'.

@stephfoxwell4620

14 күн бұрын

@@nathanwhite7831 Was Dudley Moore a good sheep shearer? I now Peter Cook came from Devon.

@CeiliogWaspflake

5 күн бұрын

@@stephfoxwell4620 Dud was from the village of Sheap-Sheering so, no, he wasn't.

Cook and Moore giving Peter Sellers a master class in comedy as if he needed it but he got it anyway.

@xzox

15 күн бұрын

Absolutely, Dudley was second to none.

@manekdubash5022

13 күн бұрын

Sellers was a master mimic. He was not an improviser.

@martinhampson8856

12 күн бұрын

@@manekdubash5022 You can see he struggled to start with but they pulled him back.

Dud is absolutely brilliant here....

@lobstermash

15 күн бұрын

But he cracks up ... and Peter makes him do it because he (Peter) is the greatest deadpan.

Sellers is biting his lip trying not to crack up laughing at Dudley ! Three geniuses of comedy and how to deliver it in a way not seen nowadays.

Peter Cook was brilliant. Peter Sellers covering his face trying to compose himself.

I was terribly excited.

@FoodFestTelevision

4 күн бұрын

Yes, I saw you being terribly excited 😂

My parents used to let us stay up late to watch this programme. We all loved Pete and Dud. I miss them.

@stephfoxwell4620

5 күн бұрын

Peter Cook . Torquay's finest export since Agatha Christie.

Absolute genious, proper comedy. Brilliant writing and acting.

@Tinker1950

12 күн бұрын

Absolute what?

First time I have ever seen Peter Sellers outclassed, 3 legends!

@MrDaiseymay

5 жыл бұрын

true, but it was like coming between a married couple, P & D understood every nuance. I doubt it was in any way, scripted.

@terryhancockroc6560

Ай бұрын

While he wasn't performing, sellers visiting the Beatles during the Let It Be sessions to see Ringo about the time Magic Christian was being filmed, Lennon, might have been because he was with his group and they were doing well, CLEARLY was sharper and quicker than Sellers who looked/acted his age and just seemed like he wanted to get out of there especially when he realized the cameras were rolling. Jackson caught this exchange and included it in his recent three part doc.

@iancurtis1152

19 күн бұрын

Sellers is a completely different animal than Pete & Dud, it’s apples & oranges

@bruceevans3476

17 күн бұрын

I think he was just enjoying the show.😊

Have just been taken back to my teenage years.

So grateful that these classics are put up on You Tube.

These three were comedy geniuses. Utter joy watching this.

Just loved the interaction between Peter Sellers and Dud, priceless!

@wassum100

19 күн бұрын

It was classic!

Adventurous and infectious humour. They created laughs with their chemistry and wit. I miss them so much.

This is of that rarity called "timeless humor."

Moore was brilliant. I have one of his records; wonderful jazz pianist. Really miss him.

@adrianlang6550

17 күн бұрын

Get the biography about his life. One of the best books of that type, and written with much love and respect for Dudley.

Thank you for uploading this brilliant sketch! It was terribly!! Marvellous 😅

Only Peter Sellers could relay the story of a retinal fizz.. What a trio of genius.

This little skit is an acquired... taste. The first ten or twelve times I watched it, I didn't quite "get it." With a few dozen more viewings it suddenly began to explode with flavor. Now I can't get it off of my tongue.

@DeadlyKiss000

23 күн бұрын

I just didn't get it at all. I have watched it 3 times now and just can't find anything to laugh at. Just putting on a posh accent doesn't really cut it for me.

@realityboost4405

19 күн бұрын

@@DeadlyKiss000 It's about the pretentiousness of food critics…And the fact that magazines that had NOTHING to do with restaurants would still have restaurant reviewers. Also, Dudley's description of such a mundane dish in terms of a musical analysis is just wonderfully, err pretentious again…The audio isn't the best quality but try and. listen to the words…The accents are ancilliary.

@MsMounen

14 күн бұрын

And the subtle but intense interaction between Dudleys character and Peter Sellers.

@Rustyfin1958

11 күн бұрын

It's about the modules marineres

It doesn't get better than Moore describing the eggs benedict ! I nearly wet myself !

"I ate my way to freedom". The mind boggles. I wish i could buy a copy to find out how!

Pete and Dud were priceless. This brings back fond memories of the late sixties, when sitting at work, we'd all be in stitches recalling what had been on the latest episode of 'Not Only But Also'.

I was also tebbly excited by those eggs.

Somebody needs to restore that soundtrack.

Hysterical, and in 1965 I don't think we had seen this kind of thing before.

A masterclass of comedy TV memories 👏 three legends of comedy when these three mighty icons of comedy meet. Peter Cook Dudly Moore and Peter Sellers a collision of different styles The result is pure comic genious🥰

@realityboost4405

19 күн бұрын

#VerdiInTheSauce 🤣

I think these people are(were) responsible for my turning out not quite normal...thank you...much love to you wherever you are now .

For me, unarguably the finest comedy sketch of all time.

@offrampt

Ай бұрын

I think you are a nutcase.

Wonderful. Made me have a good giggle.

Lovely too see all three of then at their best ❤️

Excellent . Sellers and Moore are particularly good with their parody of military voices...

@AbelMcTalisker

19 күн бұрын

I think Sellers is channeling Major Bloodnock a bit, not that it's bad but its a part he played a lot.

This is amazing to watch together Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore, fifty-two years ago...

@chriswatson7965

7 жыл бұрын

Fifty-two years ago! Now I'm feeling old.

@alabastermontague6841

6 жыл бұрын

Even more remarkable to watch Cook with Sellars, because they had enough in common (though very different career trajectories) that they couldn't help but one-up each other.

Utterly brilliant and just as valid today

How on earth the nurse kept a straight face is beyond me !

@xzox

15 күн бұрын

She must have been deaf,dumb and blind.

I watch this again and again. It is certainly the finest comedy I have seen.

Brilliant. I wouldn't have been allowed to watch it when first broadcast, nor any of the repeats, I suppose. Very glad I've seen it now.

Epic.

What an amazing sketch this is. As has been said by others, they don't do this kind of thing anymore. They were just so funny together, the sound of their voices, the way they looked at each, just hysterical stuff.

@MsMounen

14 күн бұрын

I think everything's been dumbed down.

This is Dudley Moore's finest hour. He is the funniest person in the sketch. Sellers does not seem to be operating on the same level as Cook and Moore. I love how Moore says "terribly."

@iancurtis1152

19 күн бұрын

I think Dudley’s finest hour was “The fire side chat” with Daddy😁

@halwasserman7905

19 күн бұрын

@@iancurtis1152 I'm not sure I know that one. Was it with Cook? Was that where dirty Uncle Bertie was discussed?

@iancurtis1152

19 күн бұрын

@@halwasserman7905 yes, poor Uncle Bertie.

@halwasserman7905

19 күн бұрын

@@iancurtis1152 Yes that's a good one but I don't see how it's Moore's finest hour. Do you agree that Cook typically outshines Moore?

@iancurtis1152

19 күн бұрын

@@halwasserman7905 yes, especially with such a dead pan delivery. He was magnificent playing Richard III in Blackadder also.

Extremely witty and clever. I suspect much of the subtlety went over viewers' heads at the time. Dud's drawn out words are so blissfully a reflection of the pomposity of talking heads in programmes such as this in those days (and, regrettably, still today).

@GudieveNing

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. A few glasses of Brandy and pomps away…

@SuperMikado282

11 күн бұрын

The subtlety would be even more lost on people today. No one understands satire. They take everything so literally.

You can't get any better than that.

Priceless

Badly needed in this age of, pretentious Chefs and master chef gourmets. Wonderful stuff.

Thank you for posting two of my favorite comics in the world.

Peter Sellers doing a subdued Bloodnok there - when he wasn't corpsing, lol! 3 comedy greats, all sadly missed.

@Redrosewitch

17 күн бұрын

Yes! I thought it was like Bloodnok's ever so slightly more subtle brother. 😁

Many thanx 4 this. 1 of my all time fave TV shows and I can't remember this. Its rare to find anything from this show they were I think live and BBC didn't seem to record much of it great shame.

So happy this exists

I love the way Peter Sellers really tried his best to provoke Dudley Moore!. I think I would have cracked for sure :) but somehow he kept it together!. Classic!.

@beagle7622

3 жыл бұрын

If you listen to the “Goons”. Sellers spent the whole time trying to get the other 2 (Spike Milligan & Harry Secomb ) to laugh, once that happened to it got really crazy. . That show was just nuts, but it always made me laugh. Sellers was in his element here.

@Thursdaym2

2 жыл бұрын

Think those two were very much on the same wavelength.

@thomaselliott573

2 жыл бұрын

@@beagle7622 actually the consummate feigned pretentiousness of Dudley was what ended up overwhelming Sellers, which was when he had to cover his face to stop laughing. Dudley could be the perfect f......g idiot. A master of comedy in his element here. The whole sketch is a masterpiece.

@beagle7622

2 жыл бұрын

There was an over the top Chef on TV at the time . The Galloping Goumet . I think that and similar programs were the basis of this . I suspect it was largely unscripted. So funny , just Brilliant .

I ate my way to freedom...

@CuddlyGayBear

8 жыл бұрын

+Marco C Yes! That is such classic Cook. A little throw-away line, which nobody else could have thought of.

@lloydpenfold486

Ай бұрын

@@CuddlyGayBear Conjures up thoughts of a play on the "soil drizzling down his trouser legs" in a tunnelling out of a PoW camp story!

@rosemaryclarke2348

17 күн бұрын

What did he eat, the guards?😂

Superb.

What a winsome person Dudley Moore was...

@ifeelafool

Ай бұрын

terribly!!

The way peter is riveted on Dud. You can-see he-admires his talent. I laughed and laughed.

@FoodFestTelevision

4 күн бұрын

I thought he was staring at him to make him laugh

Peter Cook was a genuis

@kevinmunday5782

3 жыл бұрын

They all were

Great stuff - never seen this before.

Brilliant as always.

Thanks for posting this classic! Those guys could make hilarity out of the most banal subjects.

Oh wow! What a bonus - Peter Sellers.

My God, all 3 of these comedy geniuses are dead! What is the world coming to?... Moore was on fire here! Very firmly the best of the three characters and sauciest dialogue!

@thomaselliott573

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. he was so perfect for the part that the others had to counter him. I believe it is the best comedy I have ever seen. He is enjoying the part so much that he is actually winding the other two up, particularly by using that stupid grin at Sellers. Sellers at one point finds it difficult to control himself which, given his enormous experience, really says something about Moore's rendition of the utterly pretentious fool that he plays.

@EasyTiger.01343

19 күн бұрын

Yes, I was just doing the ironing the other day and reflected on something quite similar. Similar but significantly less memorable.

Superb, all comedy geniuses for me.

very good! peter sellers is great here.

Devastatingly funny! Thanks for posting.

Cook, Moore and Sellers, 💝💝💝💝💝 pure class. Paul Bacchus esq

This is eggcellent!

Three national treasures. They all made us laugh, a great service to the country. We all need to laugh

Intelligent articulate comedy by educated thinkers.

From 1.30 to 2.30 Peter Selers trying to unsettle Dudley was hilarious

The great days of early British Humour TV. These blokes are irreplaceable. Sad endings for all three of them.

"Eating Correspondent" - I love that. I can't read restaurant reviews anymore, even for the LOL's ("a chunky slab of cod marinated in the earthy tones of turmeric before being roasted in a thick lake of a butter emulsion, mined with sea vegetables"), when people are using food banks and critics pay £250 (on expenses) for one meal.

What a trio...

I totally agree with ProjectFlashlight612. BBC Enterprises believed they could never sell anything from the archive because of legal reasons. I know this, I worked there - when I heard that, I left. Shaming. - 'deliberately destroying their own archive?' - well yes, but they were only following - blindly - bits of paper saying the recordings were not needed. There are often multiple copies and these are expensive to store. Staff never know why they are told to do things and far less can they know when a recording is the last one. A list of stuff that had been wiped was made at one point, but it was used as a check to see if it was OK for a another copy to also be wiped - NOT as evidence of something to be saved. Much of the stuff that's left got saved by staff who - at risk of their jobs - did not follow orders.

@hugolindum7728

6 жыл бұрын

Simon Anthony What I never understood too is why do the bbc block access to the iPlayer from abroad, instead of charging? I get the impression that a private company would exploit their archive much better than the bbc do - who are fat on license fees.

@thoughtcriminal3843

5 жыл бұрын

Not just the license fee, they also the millions they get every year in subsidies from the EU (while claiming to be unbiased) and the hundreds of millions in profit from BBC worldwide (which they openly admit to spending abroad to destabilize countries like Syria) Not that I care about the license fee as you couldn't pay me to watch those pederast propagandist lying filth at the Baby Buggering Corporation.

@ronlipsius

13 күн бұрын

Thank you for some interesting info. I wonder about such things.

These guys were just superb

Moores characterisation is hilarious with Sellers simply becoming Dennis Bloodnok. Cook cleverly holds the comedic anarchy together.

The bloody BBC and their copyright logo across the screen don't they realise that it was the public that funded this entertainment, it should be freely released to the public without their logo across the middle. otherwise very good .

@tomkent4656

6 жыл бұрын

The same BBC who wiped most of the tapes of this great comedy series!

@arthurharrison1345

6 жыл бұрын

My sentiment, exactly.

@marmite400

6 жыл бұрын

Dickie Fry The licence is only for live performances and live sport. Such a rip off.

@984francis

5 жыл бұрын

oojimmyflip. Oh go fuck yourself. Why not just enjoy it and stop bleating.

@metafis2490

5 жыл бұрын

no..fuck you...why dont YOU stop bleating !!!

Brilliant, brilliant talent.

MAD AS......O,I LOVE IT XXX

This is fricken hilarious

Brilliant.

Sellers seems fascinated by Dudley's performance...

The two Peters!!!! And to think it was originally broadcast on my third birthday!

I still remember the 'corpse-ing' Pete and Dud used to do, utterly taken with their mutual hilariousness. All a bit dated now, sadly, but it was 55 years ago, after all. Much of it still makes great viewing.

Comedy so good, most today couldn't follow it!

"used to shoot them at Ilfracombe" hilarious

what a trio!

Three comedy greats.

Sean Kenny was the set designer for Beyond the Fringe and Peter's club The Establishment. He was also the first husband of Peter's second wife, Judy Huxtable.

Three of the best British comedians served up on the Menu.....what a culinary treat. Peter Sellers, somewhat out of his depth, with the comedic genius of Peter & Dud.

@sookymbo179

5 жыл бұрын

Dudley Moore put up with a lot. Never knew him but loved him.

Sellers had recorded a similar sketch on one of his 1950s Lps, "Songs for Swinging Sellers", entitled "The Critics" and this is similar to the earlier material. The funnier Sellers + Pete + Dud sketch is the boxing painter interview, which is surreal. Sellers and Milligan inspired Coook's flights of surrealism; for example, the "Teaching Ravens to Fly Underwater" sketch.

I reckon just having Sellers there elevated Dud to one of his finest performances, and Pete finished the wheel-bound soldier quite orf... terribly.

Wonderful how close tto the wind they sail, trying to bait one another into corpsing. Almost a trade mark.

Monstros da comedia!

peter sellers, oh my loverly man!

All 'gone' ~~~~~& never called me mother....as I should have done coz she'd have loved this. Nurse!! The screens!!!

I agree - Sellers was decidedly on the outer of the action.

EGGSELENT,!

Major, you've put your tongue around most things. What do you think it is?

Pete absolutely delighted in making others corpse and, to be fair, he succeeded more than he failed.

Dudley Moore just cracking up Peter Sellers

Hilarious. Nothing like this anymore. Just to see each of them trying to outdo one another, and make them laugh to ruin the sketch is inspired. It's hysterical. But having said that - I think this has gone right over most people's heads.

@lyrachle

5 жыл бұрын

I hope they are all laughing about things with Anthony Bourdain wherever that may be

@johntechwriter

5 жыл бұрын

lyrachle Yes, Bourdain would have loved this.