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WOW I first discovered the works of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore on UA-cam some years ago. Very little of the UK alternative comedy movement reached us in the US back then, so it was a revelation . So grateful for the folks who have shared these wonderful videos. A new treasure !

"It was a fake mustache" Cook and Moore knew.....

At 1:20 Dud pulls out a Burmese harp. I have a friend who plays one for real; it surprised me to see it in this sketch. It's a beautiful sounding instrument, but I don't think it's too well known in The West. As this was done only 18 years after Burmese independence from Britain, I guess things like that could be laying around in prop departments.

I was always under the impression there were no surviving copies of this. I've been wanting to see it for about 40 years.

All humor aside, the song is brilliant.

Always good music. The sixties.

Reading Steve Turner’s Beatles ‘66 The Revolutionary Year. I read about this and looked on UA-cam. Incredible. Thank you!

Sounds like what Floyd did after Syd left

This is too bizarre. Wikipedia said the episode aired Dec 26 1966 yet Dudley Moore writes in a letter from December of 1981: “Peter Cook and I recorded that song about the time when there was so much fuss about L.S.D., and when everybody thought that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was a reference to drugs. The exciting alternative offered to the world was L.S.B.!, and I wrote the music to, in some ways, satirize the Beach Boys rather than the Beatles. But I’m grateful if some small part of the world thinks that it may have been them, rather than us!” Yet the Beatles didn't record Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds until March 1967 and released it May 26 of that same year. L.S. Bumble Bee was released as a single on Jan 27 1967. What is going on? This is blowing my mind. This seems exceptionally ahead of it’s time, especially for a comedy song.

With Dud on seagull. This is amazing lol

I have Lennon's In His Own Write and A Spaniard In The Works. Very funny.

Wonderful that this clip is now on YT…It's Jan 2022 as I write this, as I find myself looking after my wonderful 88-y-o mum. As a young, BBC production assistant in 1965 she was blessed to find herself working on this show and later the classic 'Not Only But Also' broadcasts. I feel utterly blessed to be connected (however tangentially) to this immortal comedy.

I like the ITP logo. I drew it last week based on a concept I was having.

This is really great. Way before "I am the Walrus" or "Sgt Pepper". The sketch (and song) never loses a grip of itself. Still ringing fresh and funny. The Lennon cameo at the end is priceless "Are you a Member?". Quality flying in low under the radar.

Very Pink Floydish opening track.

"Actually, sir, there is a £5 waiting list." Priceless.

1. john is downright adorable in this 2. i can’t be the only one seeing an uncanny resemblance between dud and keith moon right?

Pipe smoker. How quaint. Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

3:00 when Pete pokes the baby there's no "baby wail" like on the original audio release. Was/is this controversial? Weird.

3:26 John Lennon part.

The Dennis Wilson in the music credit.. that's not..?

It's a bit fuzzy... but I seem to remember "LS Bumble Bee" being confused for being a Beatles track and put on some obscure bootleg LP back in the early 70's. I think we believed it for a while... I must say that Dudley Moore was a highly talented man!

You can thank Yoko bloody Ono for the fact that this material is not readily available and/or in good quality.

I've always liked Pete & Dud.......but this is bloody freaking weird! They gave John Lennon the "Dan" character. Was this like "Dan Dan the Lavatory Man" that Charles Hawtrey played in "Carry On Screaming"? Just curious.

Did John Lennon sound a little like Sean Bean in this clip?

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Weird but interesting lennon bit

Ha, crazy! And John fit right in!

The song was genius. I can hear the hum bum bum bum

Is that Keith Moon?

drugs are bad!

John Lennon was very keen to meet Peter Cook. He was a great admirer of his comedic method.

Many thank 4 this this is one of my dad and i favourite TV shows

You might notice in the credits at the end that John Lennon played the part of Dan. This is prpbably a reference to an unpublished poem of the time - Dan, Dan, the Lavatory man.

JL 3:25

Fabulous footage. John was excellent. Typical Lennon approach.

Donald Trump? 3:10

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awesome trailer. i love playing this record whilst driving around orange county to the acid beach

Lennon the thug

You dont have to get its just so funny

Did these 2 guys ever work with Eric Idle/Neil Innes?

What a pompous thing to say. You must be a Brit.

Led Zeppelin ripped off Kashmir from this. :)

3:30 John

On what?

Clearly John Lennon liked the humour of Cook and Moore.

I love this damn CD! It's a WINNER.

That's Lennon popping into the picture at about 3:28. I have just seen comment on songfacts site that he had not yet grown a moustache.; however, he is wearing the wire-rim glasses (had started doing so about the time, just after end of touring, he got haircut to play Private Gripweed in "How I Won the War'). As for the Lennon pictures/footage seen here, I recall seeing something earlier but could not place it.

I work right next to this spot :)