Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and John Cleese 'Interesting Facts'

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  • Опубліковано 26 січ 2012
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    In this clip: Peter Cook winds John Cleese up something chronic, from the 1979 Ball.
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  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 2 роки тому +18

    I love Peters deadpan delivery on every comment he makes

  • @dannymccune1888
    @dannymccune1888 4 роки тому +30

    If elephants could leap, pound for pound, as high as crickets, it would be a good idea to avoid startling them.

  • @Baribrotzer
    @Baribrotzer 3 роки тому +46

    There aren't very many people who John Cleese would honor by playing the straight man to.
    Peter Cook was one of them.

  • @TheGoldennach
    @TheGoldennach 3 роки тому +25

    The guy telling all the interesting facts is like UA-cam with all the recommended videos

  • @rosanneshinkle4133
    @rosanneshinkle4133 2 роки тому +24

    Hysterical. Never tire of these skits.

  • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
    @golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 роки тому +16

    Peter Cook would have made a fantastic Doctor Who.

    • @joandar1
      @joandar1 2 роки тому

      I can just imagine what the Dr would be able to do.
      I am A fan of both,. John Australia.

  • @Serai3
    @Serai3 11 років тому +32

    Two geniuses. So brilliant.

    • @christosvoskresye
      @christosvoskresye 3 роки тому +4

      I would double the number of thumbs up, if I could.

  • @Realbillball
    @Realbillball 11 років тому +27

    That is just so f***ing brilliantly funny.

  • @victorriceroni8455
    @victorriceroni8455 2 роки тому +4

    Oh damn, that is hysterical.

  • @ikmarchini
    @ikmarchini Рік тому +4

    Such a plethora of talents John Cleese can play straight man.

  • @JillHayling
    @JillHayling 4 роки тому +28

    I was there. Fab night with them. I worked a BBC World Service and we got in for this great production . So Funny 😆✔️

    • @fatty_owls
      @fatty_owls Рік тому

      you're so lucky 😭a lot of my favourite comedians died before I was born 😭😭

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 3 місяці тому

      The ironic thing is Peter Cook died from his intestine bursting.

  • @jeanmyers1787
    @jeanmyers1787 4 роки тому +44

    Peter Cook was amazing, I’m not dissing John Cleese, also very funny but Peter Cook absolute genius

    • @troystaunton254
      @troystaunton254 2 роки тому +2

      Well John Cleese is playing the straight man to Pete’s jokester.

    • @terrythekittieful
      @terrythekittieful 2 роки тому +3

      JC made a comment that he (and sometimes with Graham Chapman) would take a whole day to write a sketch whereas Peter Cook could knock one off in an hour. High praise.

    • @Arareemote
      @Arareemote Рік тому +1

      ​​@@terrythekittieful"a 3-minute sketch in 3 minutes." Was Cleese's comment if I recall

    • @terrythekittieful
      @terrythekittieful Рік тому

      @@Arareemote I wonder if 'Squatter and the Ant' was one of those ready made sketches? I love that one.

  • @cautionTosser
    @cautionTosser Рік тому +2

    Seems no one could work with Cook without some sort of prop to cover the inevitable break (newspaper, sandwich, etc...)
    he was a formidable foe/partner :)

  • @josephloehr9617
    @josephloehr9617 5 років тому +36

    John starts laughing and Peter sticks him a bit more

  • @clayz1
    @clayz1 2 роки тому +2

    The guy who wants to read the paper vs the guy who has no clue. The rock and a hard place.

  • @davereeves454
    @davereeves454 7 років тому +55

    Love seeing cleese trying to keep it together. Lol

  • @tdsims1963
    @tdsims1963 2 роки тому +8

    OMG, I have actually met someone like this!!
    Comedy gold.

  • @Diamonddavej
    @Diamonddavej 10 років тому +25

    All these facts are true according to legend.

    • @markglass9123
      @markglass9123 Рік тому

      Yeah. They absotively, posilutely must be true. Otherwise, they wouldn't be allowed to remain on the internet.

  • @azapro911
    @azapro911 2 роки тому +5

    I think of this every time Jeremy Clarkson does his adenoids gags.

  • @user-px3oh1fk6b
    @user-px3oh1fk6b Рік тому +1

    Peter Cook is a Genius!

  • @krisbrants9461
    @krisbrants9461 10 років тому +7

    When Peter Cook started talking, somehow I felt he shouldve been cast as Dolorous Edd in Game of Thrones

  • @kt9166
    @kt9166 Місяць тому

    Thank God Cleese had the newspaper just in case he couldn't keep a straight face!

  • @Groucho-tg1tx
    @Groucho-tg1tx Рік тому +1

    All I have to do is look at john Cleese, and I roll over..

  • @robertmoreland6156
    @robertmoreland6156 2 роки тому +59

    The BBC or comedy clubs would never recognise their talents in today’s world. I’m so lucky to be old enough, when these genius’s were allowed to preform. 😂😂😷👍

    • @joandar1
      @joandar1 2 роки тому +2

      Well Said as they did perform well, John, Australia.

    • @oxymoxym7371
      @oxymoxym7371 2 роки тому

      They're sending up those institutions. Which retroactively brought about the conditions you describe in today's reality..
      Lying with absurd explanations about factual things with a straight face.

    • @fatty_owls
      @fatty_owls Рік тому +4

      I'm so lucky to have parents who showed me Monty Python when I was 8. Otherwise I would be watching Mean Girls and Twilight like the rest of my miserable year group (I'm 14). My parents never knew about Peter Cook, so I'm so glad he did stuff with Monty Python or I would have never discovered him. (He's now my favourite comedian along with John Cleese)

    • @voiskumbeaver3285
      @voiskumbeaver3285 Рік тому

      "Allowed"

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 місяці тому

      In the alleged Good Old Days of the 70s, Pete and Dud actually did nearly get banned when they did their show 'Behind the Fridge' on Australian television.
      When will someone do a satire on the whinging 'You couldn't say that today with all this wokeness gone mad!' UA-cam commenters?

  • @juliangarner56
    @juliangarner56 2 роки тому +2

    A couple of people here forgot to activate their funny bone.

  • @Fandangtastic
    @Fandangtastic Рік тому

    These always crack me up.

  • @fuzzballzz36
    @fuzzballzz36 4 роки тому +4

    Long live E. L. Wisty!

  • @colinbaker3916
    @colinbaker3916 10 років тому +44

    Two different comedic styles. Cleese was versed in thoroughly rehearsed material, whereas Cook loved going off script and could ad lib magnificently like this. All the other performer could do is try to keep up, only coming in where necessary with ad libs of his own.

    • @colinbaker3916
      @colinbaker3916 7 років тому +12

      True. Part of the reason why he was such a genius.
      Cleese would sometimes go off script in performances of The Parrot Sketch to make Michael Palin corpse. It makes the whole thing even funnier.

    • @chriselyr2484
      @chriselyr2484 3 роки тому +8

      @@colinbaker3916 Mr Palin corpsing just makes those performances funnier though :) Especially when he tries to make Mr Cleese laugh in return by over exaggerating his facial expressions and pronunciations. There is a genuine sense of warmth in the performances of this generation of comics

    • @ikmarchini
      @ikmarchini Рік тому

      That's why Cleese has a newspaper- to hide his giggles.

  • @Powerneck
    @Powerneck 2 роки тому +1

    Comedy Genius 😎

  • @kevinogracia1615
    @kevinogracia1615 9 місяців тому

    Cook and Cleese boils down to Classic.

  • @maxpower789z
    @maxpower789z 10 років тому +4

    Mawwaige!

  • @markturner3893
    @markturner3893 2 роки тому +3

    Peter Cooke reminds me of Johnny Rotten

    • @kevindoran9389
      @kevindoran9389 Рік тому

      I was just about to say it, he actually looks a bit like him too.

    • @MrLeglamp
      @MrLeglamp Рік тому

      That's because they're both dead.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 місяці тому

      I'd never noticed it before, but YES! The smile as he goes in for the kill...

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 Місяць тому

      @@MrLeglamp Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon is very much alive and kicking.

  • @opensourceintelligence
    @opensourceintelligence 7 років тому

    wow!

  • @davebentley4829
    @davebentley4829 7 років тому +1

    yes you do,he was right about that one.

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 Місяць тому

    Cook vs Cleese is too funny and too tall chaps...uptight vs absurd 😂

  • @donaldmcdaniel1773
    @donaldmcdaniel1773 2 роки тому

    Interesting

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 6 місяців тому

    This is John Cleese (one of the great figures of post-war British comedy) appearing alongside one of his inspirations; a man who could apparently write a 6 minute sketch - this is shorter - in 6 minutes. No British male should be able to do this without giving up masturbation.

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 3 місяці тому

      The ironic thing is Peter Cook died from his intestine bursting.

  • @Theodoric93
    @Theodoric93 2 роки тому

    But what of the Holiday Bombs Fear?!

  • @Confused_Philosopher
    @Confused_Philosopher 9 місяців тому

    For one thing the intestines are after the stomach. So it doesn't take 4 hrs to get to your stomach. once you swallow it's in your stomach.

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 Місяць тому

      You are assuming the direction of travel.

  • @rottenapple6109
    @rottenapple6109 2 роки тому

    Tes-TY- nawl Mawd- ling.

  • @markschroeder5559
    @markschroeder5559 8 років тому

    Tell us a story daddy Night Night

  • @atulbhatt7386
    @atulbhatt7386 2 роки тому

    If a doctor had to market himself.

  • @gruff824
    @gruff824 3 роки тому

    The penguins made me do it, sorry
    ,?

  • @catherinelynnfraser2001
    @catherinelynnfraser2001 6 років тому +4

    Is that a fact?

  • @irenemax3574
    @irenemax3574 Рік тому +1

    "Arable land... it's tilled by Arabs." 😅

  • @hitsnooze771
    @hitsnooze771 3 роки тому +6

    Cleese saying "fornicating" instead of "fucking" is interesting.

  • @soulpanther9
    @soulpanther9 9 років тому +3

    That explains why humans should never eat food left out for more than a few hours. If fresh food reaches your stomach in four hours......well.....yeah.

  • @frankmurphyburr3598
    @frankmurphyburr3598 Рік тому

    Intestinal modeling 😅

  • @Kwippy
    @Kwippy 8 років тому +3

    He's wrong about the whale. It's a mammal, and that IS a fact.

    • @jimbeckwith5949
      @jimbeckwith5949 7 років тому +12

      ThewayICit are you some kind of idiot? It's a well established fact that whales are actually REPTILES and originated on Mars..... and you are an absolutely humourless pedantic got.

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 4 роки тому +5

      You mean git!

    • @yan24to
      @yan24to 4 роки тому +4

      You are the most boring, cloth eared,flatulent

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 місяці тому

      That was a joke.

  • @baldbollocks
    @baldbollocks 2 роки тому +2

    Not the slitest bit funny.

  • @Wilkins_Micawber
    @Wilkins_Micawber 2 роки тому +2

    This humour wasn't funny the first time I saw it originally on TV. Do you know? It still isn't funny.

    • @jane---489
      @jane---489 2 роки тому +4

      *_No one "Knows," and "know" one cares what you think ..._*

  • @ginskimpivot753
    @ginskimpivot753 2 роки тому +1

    Never took to this and Python. Utter rubbish.

    • @shadowlandstudios86
      @shadowlandstudios86 2 роки тому +1

      So sad.

    • @gaylasmith5279
      @gaylasmith5279 2 роки тому +1

      You've absolutely no sense of humour. Sorry for you. These gentlemen are beyond brilliant.