From 1963 to 1965 I worked as a boom operator in the BBC's TV studios. 'Not Only But Also' was one of the shows I regularly worked on - these guys were hilarious, and a treat to see them in action.
My parents attended a recording and came home very late! They said that their sides hurt from laughing so much and that the recording took hours because Dudley (especially) kept fooling around and playing the piano. They said that each sketch had to be retaken several times due to outrageous improvisation and 'corpsing'. What a marvellous duo .... we'll not see the like ....
Hi there Rick, yes a very good life then in TVCentre and Lime Grove , yes never regreted joining the BBC back then, it was a lifetime experience working at the Beeb; we were still working on getting Colour working well; and yes working on an audience show was particularly enjoyable, as the Audiences were encouraged to actually be part of the Show, by reacting to the Casts; yes Dud n Pete were really creative artists; yep very good times indeed
It’s great to see more of this missing stuff emerging. The wiping of so many tapes by the BBC was a massive crime. Comedy does not reach this level nowadays and there are no similar talents of this stature.
your right there, today's comedians are woefull, basically they are not funny, and have an obsession slagging off the working class, Michael McIntyre and Russell Howard in particular boil my piss, how the BBC gave Howard his own show is beyond belief,
"I decide to wend my way to my room"; "That's only quarter to", Brilliant! My Dad and I used to talk like them (over a few beers); dead eyes and everything. He was a wordsmith as well. Miss you Dad.
Nothing like a cup of cocoa, Pete, eh? There's hot chocolate, quite like it - and that's just the beginning!!!! These two were terrific together. Thanks for posting this.
eaten alive by ants seems particularly brutal. dud always gets me with, "funny". "i put the switch down for the light... no light... i think, funny... funny... new bulb this morning, no light... that's funny..."
@MyMandaM At the time I put this up 10 minutes and 50 seconds was about the most I was allowed to put up at one time and I had to trim the ending a bit to get it up. If I were putting it up now I wouldn't have any problem because they allow you to go to 13 minutes or more.
I'm not sure Dud manages to when Pete calls the hanged nun a stupid old bag at 7:47. Dud quickly hides his face behind his cup, and as seen from behind for a moment after he moves the cup away, his left cheekbone seems to suggest he might be suppressing a smile. I can't imagine keeping a straight face in the presence of these two in their full glory.
@@alonzogarbanzo I’ve seen Dudley almost lose it more than once. John Cleese could barely hold it together in that Secret Policeman’s Ball sketch (the one where Peter Cook is talking about the intestines). 😂
You can see they riffed on it, eg the "tap tap on the door" is later echoed by Greta Garbo and Derek & Clive stuff. How'd you get all this? I know some episodes have been found but I understood many are still lost. Cheers
I miss those two, just seeing them before they utter a word makes me laugh. They are two cockney characters, but their English is as rich as some upper class don from Cambridge.
@EljayUay are entire shows being recovered now, or just Pete and Dud segments? Recall that the original Not Only But Also had musical guests, a weekly spot by the Moore Trio, filmed bits, all kinds of things...
they are one and the same!!!....Derek and Clive are Pete and dud...unshackled by the bbc....by the way this bloke came up to me and said you c..t!!!! ...I said who you calling a c..t!.....lol
The Monty Python cardboard box sketch is actually known as the 4 yorkshiremen sketch and pre dated the pythons by a couple of years although a couple of them had a hand in writing it. I think it first appeared in "the 1948 show" in 1967 and the Pythons just tweaked it a bit later on. An absolute classic that shares the gritty deadpan humour of Pete and Dud.
From 1963 to 1965 I worked as a boom operator in the BBC's TV studios. 'Not Only But Also' was one of the shows I regularly worked on - these guys were hilarious, and a treat to see them in action.
That's BRILLIANT. What an experience to have had!
you were lucky!
My parents attended a recording and came home very late! They said that their sides hurt from laughing so much and that the recording took hours because Dudley (especially) kept fooling around and playing the piano. They said that each sketch had to be retaken several times due to outrageous improvisation and 'corpsing'. What a marvellous duo .... we'll not see the like ....
Superb....BRAVO
Hi there Rick, yes a very good life then in TVCentre and Lime Grove , yes never regreted joining the BBC back then, it was a lifetime experience working at the Beeb; we were still working on getting Colour working well; and yes working on an audience show was particularly enjoyable, as the Audiences were encouraged to actually be part of the Show, by reacting to the Casts; yes Dud n Pete were really creative artists; yep very good times indeed
I enjoyed this so much. Their use of language was sublime. And of course Pete always tried to make Dud lose it! Wonderful and sorely missed.
I watch these partly hoping to see them 'corpsing' although Pete did his best early on with the cocoa slurping!
🎉
These two were simply brilliand. Still remembered with respect. England, December, 2024.
It’s great to see more of this missing stuff emerging. The wiping of so many tapes by the BBC was a massive crime. Comedy does not reach this level nowadays and there are no similar talents of this stature.
your right there, today's comedians are woefull, basically they are not funny, and have an obsession slagging off the working class, Michael McIntyre and Russell Howard in particular boil my piss, how the BBC gave Howard his own show is beyond belief,
These two were brilliant! What kind of maniac could possibly have destroyed their show?!
oh yes there are - listen to the angelos and barry podcast...
"I decide to wend my way to my room"; "That's only quarter to", Brilliant! My Dad and I used to talk like them (over a few beers); dead eyes and everything. He was a wordsmith as well. Miss you Dad.
They were two of a kind........pure genius
RIP Pete and Dud
Where did utube dig this classik up from... Bloody awesome..... ❤💖🥴💤
Brilliant it's a shame they are not still here.
Comic genius, they bounce off each other so well!
all I can say is if your having a bad day put this on thanks for this
Am stuck in a hospital room and my roommate's got the telly on full volume. I can feel my brain cells scrambling. This is helping!
Sublime simply sublime
Hugely enjoyable. Britain's greatest comic pair by far.
the hairs on me tooth brush stand on end ....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 brilliant
Brilliant every time, as fresh today as the time I saw the original series
This is a thing of beauty :) Please let it stay on UA-cam forever.
A great comment. It sums up their enduring genius.
Brilliant - These two were masters of comedy !
I really miss these two.
"I look down at my hands, and my socks have turned to ice" 🤣🤣🤣🥓
This is so honestly weird that it never dates. They are unique.
That slug frightened me , horrible. 😂
Nothing like a cup of cocoa, Pete, eh? There's hot chocolate, quite like it - and that's just the beginning!!!! These two were terrific together. Thanks for posting this.
Oh how we need these two back - in these grim times we need the humour of these guys - today’s “comedians” are feeble
exactly
They’re feeble because of the EXTREMELY limited subjects they can make fun of.
@@Pete-z6e
Let me guess you are a Bernard Manning fan? 😂
This was really 'off the wall' for 1965; I've never seen it before.
The Best of British Humour
"The hairs of my toothbrush stand on end" (Take two ordinary observations, put them together and hit the floor!)
“Still alive until you’re only about a quarter of an inch.”
Pure class.
That’s a long time ago folks, and funny as hell!
In my great aunts house they would have thought, new mantle on the gas lamp 🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🙏♥️
"there's a strange non-bleeding quality to the eatin that goes on". LOL
eaten alive by ants seems particularly brutal. dud always gets me with, "funny". "i put the switch down for the light... no light... i think, funny... funny... new bulb this morning, no light... that's funny..."
To tomitstube from Nygel Miller. Very Clever!
this reminds me off a cross between the "Greta Garbo" sketch and the "whats the worst job you've ever had?" sketch
brilliant
The precursor or inspiration for the famous Monty Python sketch of the same theme no doubt.
@@stevenholton438 Yes Monty Python have always said they were influenced by Pete & Dud
That was Derek and Clive, brilliant as 😂
"It's a giant, man-eating slug, of a type rarely found"
Those are always the worst kind!
Not seen this before. It seems to be an alternative (early?) version of the Garbo/Mansfield sketch. Thanks for posting.
These guys are the most absurd, ridiculous fellas. Shit slays me!
I've been looking for all the daganham dialogues for ages particularly the one about reincarnation the wardrobe the bus etc.
wonderful!
Top notch!
Naturally funny. This sounds off the cuff and all the better for it
Now we know where the Pythons got their "Four Yorkshiremen" sketch
‘The Four Yorkshiremen’ predates Python.
Thanks soo much :) Favourited and 5 stars
Modern comedians could never ad lib like these masters!
Peter Edward Cook 17 November 1937 - 9 January 1995 Dudley Stuart John Moore 19 April 1935 - 27 March 2002
These sketches were the predecessors of 'Derek and Clive'.
Pete and Dud were a couple of strange blokes if you ask me. Definitely an original team.
Marvellous
@MyMandaM At the time I put this up 10 minutes and 50 seconds was about the most I was allowed to put up at one time and I had to trim the ending a bit to get it up. If I were putting it up now I wouldn't have any problem because they allow you to go to 13 minutes or more.
Doctor death?......nothing compared to the bloody killer ants, Dud.
I wish Pete and Dud were still here.
Nuts, Nuts, Nuts, keep it up, take note.!
Brilliant 😅
How did they keep a straight face? 😂
I'm not sure Dud manages to when Pete calls the hanged nun a stupid old bag at 7:47. Dud quickly hides his face behind his cup, and as seen from behind for a moment after he moves the cup away, his left cheekbone seems to suggest he might be suppressing a smile. I can't imagine keeping a straight face in the presence of these two in their full glory.
@@alonzogarbanzo I’ve seen Dudley almost lose it more than once. John Cleese could barely hold it together in that Secret Policeman’s Ball sketch (the one where Peter Cook is talking about the intestines). 😂
2:35 pop down the kitchen for a slice of Spam....:) :) the days when television gripped us.
Magic..
You can see they riffed on it, eg the "tap tap on the door" is later echoed by Greta Garbo and Derek & Clive stuff. How'd you get all this? I know some episodes have been found but I understood many are still lost. Cheers
Would be great if you could upload the full sketch - or at least the missing bit. Thanks
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wonderful!
I miss those two, just seeing them before they utter a word makes me laugh. They are two cockney characters, but their English is as rich as some upper class don from Cambridge.
Monty Python were influenced to write the Yorkshireman sketch from this I think!!!
touch of poe or lovecraft about this piece
Yes.
groundbreakingly pants shittingly funny
Nazis trained ants to eat very slowly lol 😂
"Sackful of hungry ants that haven't eaten for days"...
I think Pete was in his cups for this one. Something about the watery eyes....
@EljayUay are entire shows being recovered now, or just Pete and Dud segments? Recall that the original Not Only But Also had musical guests, a weekly spot by the Moore Trio, filmed bits, all kinds of things...
This is all ad lib too!
"...and there's a giant mutated covid19 virus sitting on my chaise longue, grinning at me..."
Tap, Tap, Tap on the bloody door.
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Are they using Cockney accents?
They are. Or generalised London accents
Same guys, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. About ten years after this.
“Funny, I thought. Funny..”
That's nothing compared to the ants!
No light... funny...
So that’s where the Derek and Clive sketch came from
Did these two guys create the "Derek & Clive" characters or are they entirely different people?
they are one and the same!!!....Derek and Clive are Pete and dud...unshackled by the bbc....by the way this bloke came up to me and said you c..t!!!! ...I said who you calling a c..t!.....lol
Yes they did.
Same brilliant 2
They got progressively more drunk and foul-mouthed so had to hide behind the pseudonym of Derek and Clive
Comedy genious
They don't make em like this anymore.
We are those people in it
Worse than ants? You'll be lucky...
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny.....funny!
The squatter and the ant.
genius
No, it's not available.
The central organizing principle of the Universe is that there is no such thing as the worst bloody thing that could happen to you.
The BBC tried to erase this series from history
But why for crying out loud?!
The set up kills me...Cook relishes the whole thing
Low resolution gems like this have been replaced by high resolution garbage, probably just to sell new TV sets.
Nothing to match their talent today.
I wonder if this is where the Monty python, cardboard box scene came from!
The Monty Python cardboard box sketch is actually known as the 4 yorkshiremen sketch and pre dated the pythons by a couple of years although a couple of them had a hand in writing it. I think it first appeared in "the 1948 show" in 1967 and the Pythons just tweaked it a bit later on. An absolute classic that shares the gritty deadpan humour of Pete and Dud.
Monty python four yorkshire men was a copy from at last the 1948 show who probably got the idea from this
this follows the same pattern of 'four yorkshire men', in away. Climax exaggeration to beat one another's bigger story...
I was thinking the same thing man.
+Barney Os. Most Pete and Dud sketches are variations on a theme.
Marc C And where do you suppose the Pythons and all other successive English comedians (Atkinson, Fry and Laurie etc.) got the bulk of their material?
Bloody ants.
@giles422 I honestly have no idea. The biography I got the info from was the Harry Thompson one, though.
Wanna sandwich Pete?
"My feet are killing me"
goodbye goodbye we.re leaving you goodbye, goodbye goodbye goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Rolling
Stones
Dud - cum ere dud ive got sumfin for you
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Pete talks like a ventriliquist. His upper lip does not move.
"Funny..."
That was a Dudley Moore catch phrase when he was with Peter Cook and was his first line in "The Wrong Box".
Cracks me up every time. Sheer brilliance.