Arguably the most important thing he did was be the proprietor of Private Eye and to ensure the strength of Private Eye even to this day. That John Cleese said he's the funniest man he ever met is enough for me. Thst he effectively kept investigative journalism alive in my homeland makes me as happy as any of his comedy did. That is saying something.
Incomparable, just absolutely unreal. A real hell raiser, a massive drinker. A devil may care attitude. I know every word of every Derek and Clive live. It’s just simply genius......for its day it was groundbreaking RIP a Peter, I’d have given anything to meet you x
Christ we need him. I remember when I was 16, seeing him walking down Fleet St with the Private Eye under his arm. I didn’t realise then I was seeing a legend stroll past.
Very very funny. Peter Cook was one of the few people you could say was just effortlessly witty. And Clive Anderson is at his best too. Thank so much for posting.
Peter Cook appeared on talk shows many times between 1985 and 1993. Invariably he seemed effortlessly brilliant. Lack of other work was an issue, but he reminded us of his genius with these appearances.
I have waited literally years for this to appear on UA-cam and I am so pleased to have now found it. The completely Peerless and lovely Peter Cook on top form with Clive Anderson! Enjoy RIP Peter
TV is full of 'clever' improv people, few of them funny, but Peter Cook was the master. I remember watching this and Clive Anderson got him back a few weeks later to do a full show with Peter improvising two characters one of them a football manager. Jaw dropping considering his alcholism and it must be on youtube somewhere
I like Clive Anderson. Very funny, very sarcastic. An excellent show this was because of his skill. Great rapport he had with Cook. Cook clearly enjoyed his comedic company.
He was most certainly one of the handful of our satirical geniuses. But he was tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview and all I can do now when I watch this is remember how it felt when we lost him far too soon in '96. Well, maybe that's my problem, but I still wish he'd found some kind of way of being more than existentially incomplete in his later years. But who could convince a kind-hearted renegade genius of anything, even if he wanted them to?
@@Ingens_Scherz I don't understand what you mean when you say Cook was _"tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview."_ I've seen many a Cook interview and I don't recall any that were more laidback and effortlessly witty than this one.
All comedians are sweethearts. They want to make people either laugh or respect them or feel warm towards them or at least make people know some internal world or viewpoint that many seem to lack. Cook was .. a genius. An adorable , towering intellect , generous , precise yet affable genius the kind of which only Cambridge, and occasionally Oxford, University seems to produce (aside from Ivy Leagues) where showbiz and learnedness are comfortable bedfellows in the body of ever young minds who must understandably struggle with the harshness that the world is not, actually, them.
Well, the world is not, first of all. Secondly, pandering to ivy leagues is kissing up to oxford, which is kissing up to cambridge, a slippery slope in reverse. You haven't got the free verse thing worked out is my point.
christ do we need him now--but, we all know that this kind of forthright smart reposte is considered 'cruel ; AND LACKING CONSIDERATION FOR THE PATHETIC LITTLE DARLINGS TODAY. ALL THANKS TO THE PC MANIACS.
I'm approaching 60 years old and I've listened, watched and read the wonderful Peter Cooke all my life. Every interview, every comedy skit, every editorial. Can't believe there is much in print he has written that I haven't read. Much of it many times. And for the life of me I can't see where the political or social overlap with Ian Hislop is. (!?) How Private Eye survived the change and remained even vaguely "similar" is beyond me. (Much prefer Peter's take on the world by the way. No contest)
Why is the vid of Peter doing his impressions on his last Clive Anderson show (the judge, the nerd, the rockstar) nowhere online? It was the funniest thingI’ve ever seen! Future generations deserve to see it!
I wonder if he really watched german satirical tv - back in those days, there was only one show of that sort and it was really good (because it emulated the black british humour to an extreme and always got the participants in trouble).
I've only known Clive from QI - forgive me ... but now, after viewing Talks Back, I appreciate his full credentials. He's smart, handsome and funny ... who could ask for further? I have heard though that he was once one of them legal cunts ... nobody's perfect I suppose. No offence.
"My boy lollipop" I've only heard the girl version (The compelete uncut unremixed OFFICIAL MOUTHINGS OFF, and thats 'no feat' of forgetfulness) so there you/we have/had it ..........like.
Cliff anounced the end.......it's so funny how we don't talk anymore. and today we play over and over Bowies song, "Where have all the good times gone" cos they just wont tell us anymore.
Stephen Fry take note - 6 minutes in to this interview, Clive Anderson asks Peter if we [Britain] are a part or Europe. Peter's answer - we are an island!. I'm posting at 23.10pm, 7th December 2018 with a few days prior to Parliament voting on Mrs May's deal proposal on Tuesday, 11th December 2018. History - take note of what was said before and what will be! Let comedy reign and all else follow!
He'd have been about 55 at the time. Just 3 more years to live. I wonder what he'd have been like, if he were still alive? Some comedians go right off the boil (such as George Carlin, who was brilliant in the 1960s and 70s but became dark, cynical and politically progressive in later life). I doubt if Peter Cook would have ever been influenced by "groupthink" and probably would have maintained his disrespect for everyone - including Hollywood progressives.
Carlin was great as he aged. I think his very last show was one of his best. He was left-leaning, but said the censorious pc types were just as bad as the killjoys on the religious right, just coming from another direction. In particular Carlin would’ve been against ideologues messing with our language, that was something he was already critical of before he died.
They assumed I was German but I was not. Ha ha ha ha ha! Laugh I did not shat. Did the whole audience have facking autism? I have, but it didn't even make me laugh.
Marmamarquess You have a lot to learn, Marmamarquess. 8:11 'It may have precipitated his downfall...' (with the deadpan look at CA). And shortly after: 'Unless his death was a ruse to upset me'. Typically brilliant Peter Cook.
Interesting to hear Cook's own take on the raid on the Mirror offices, before Hislop took it up and embellished it and told it 100 times and made himself the toast of the Parkinson show (despite Parkinson being listed as a contributor to 'Not Private Eye').
Sure about that? Granted, I only know about the laugh machine applied in the States (It was extensive.), but the audio on this is exaggerated, at least. hmmm
I'm 100% sure about this. I've been to many studio recordings for comedies over the years, and the laughs they record are very real. Even in the states, many sitcoms were and are recorded in front of an audience, and chat shows almost always are. In many shows they'll even occasionally cut to a shot of the audience or (like Have I Got News For You) even open with a wide shot showing the audience. 'Canned' laughter is virtually nonexistent in comedy these days. If you hear laughter, you're hearing an audience watching the show.
In my experience of canned laughter - 4:20 would never happen for the point of it is to illustrate where the jokes are. Subsequently, the line 'there were alot of Germans around' constitutes a setup and therefore doesn't warrant the resulting titter - which to me demonstrates its genuine nature...
@@d7sfblab Positvely live. Anderson's show was recorded in front of a live audience. It's not particularly exaggerated, the sound engineer rides the volume of the audience mics (there are several) so that they don't override the interview, but the little interjections by members of the audience are a dead give away, you never have anything like that on canned audience, plus there would be nothing for Anderson or Cook to respond to as they do several times in the interview.
Arguably the most important thing he did was be the proprietor of Private Eye and to ensure the strength of Private Eye even to this day.
That John Cleese said he's the funniest man he ever met is enough for me. Thst he effectively kept investigative journalism alive in my homeland makes me as happy as any of his comedy did.
That is saying something.
Incomparable, just absolutely unreal. A real hell raiser, a massive drinker. A devil may care attitude. I know every word of every Derek and Clive live. It’s just simply genius......for its day it was groundbreaking RIP a Peter, I’d have given anything to meet you x
Bladdy Gre'a Garbo
Correct. Him and Peter O'Toole who ironically had a double phallic name. Probably had the horn
Mate, your giving me the horn!.
Christ we need him. I remember when I was 16, seeing him walking down Fleet St with the Private Eye under his arm. I didn’t realise then I was seeing a legend stroll past.
"...we need him" Sorry, but no! He would be really miserable in this time. I'm so glad he didn't have to put up with this craziness of the times.
Peter was very happy in this clip. That makes me happy.
I noticed that too!
The older I have got, the more I have realised what a great guy Peter was and such a terribly sad loss he is.
Those mischievous eyes. :-) We miss you Peter.
Cook ,Spike ,Seller's were all just effortlessly hilarious no matter what they were doing ,3 real geniuses that could make anyone laugh.
Extraordinarily talented man, and just so naturally funny without even seeming to try. Always came across as a really good soul too.
peter cook is and always will be a genius...
Very very funny. Peter Cook was one of the few people you could say was just effortlessly witty. And Clive Anderson is at his best too. Thank so much for posting.
Peter Cook appeared on talk shows many times between 1985 and 1993. Invariably he seemed effortlessly brilliant. Lack of other work was an issue, but he reminded us of his genius with these appearances.
At the time he was contributing as Sven the Noreegian fisherman to the great Chris Morris's 'Why Bother?'
I have waited literally years for this to appear on UA-cam and I am so pleased to have now found it.
The completely Peerless and lovely Peter Cook on top form with Clive Anderson! Enjoy RIP Peter
yes I know. shame copyright won't allow the Alan Latchley, football manager. clip.
John Clark The 3 M’s.
Motivation, Motivation, Motivation.
John Clark ua-cam.com/video/EjE7XlYIAIY/v-deo.html
longschlong007+ Even though I'm in the UK, I get a message to say Channel 4 has blocked it in my country?! - WTF?!
Maybe try using a VPN like Windscribe?
TV is full of 'clever' improv people, few of them funny, but Peter Cook was the master. I remember watching this and Clive Anderson got him back a few weeks later to do a full show with Peter improvising two characters one of them a football manager. Jaw dropping considering his alcholism and it must be on youtube somewhere
I like Clive Anderson. Very funny, very sarcastic. An excellent show this was because of his skill. Great rapport he had with Cook. Cook clearly enjoyed his comedic company.
Anderson in one word arsehole
@@Jtuesday51 🤣
Peter Cook; wit, raconteur and god.
What a pleasure to watch
Absolutely brilliant and he was so laid back first time Clive was lost for words
A legend in the house.
Peter Cook just may well be the funniest human ever to have lived.
The funniest, wittiest, truest, most intelligent comedy act in my lifetime.
thankyou but what about peter?
Brilliant fella, God love him.
Peter Cook was the best
He was most certainly one of the handful of our satirical geniuses. But he was tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview and all I can do now when I watch this is remember how it felt when we lost him far too soon in '96. Well, maybe that's my problem, but I still wish he'd found some kind of way of being more than existentially incomplete in his later years. But who could convince a kind-hearted renegade genius of anything, even if he wanted them to?
@@Ingens_Scherz I don't understand what you mean when you say Cook was _"tight and high and a menace to himself in this interview."_ I've seen many a Cook interview and I don't recall any that were more laidback and effortlessly witty than this one.
RAZOR SHARP .....even when he is pissed 😂😂😂😂
The Bob maxwell death ruse is genius comedy. Rip you grew funny legend of a man
i love peter cook!
Sadly such is genius. It borders on madness thankfully
It's a great interview. Don't ruin it.
Jak, the Moron!!!!!🦨
What a guy pure brilliance
All comedians are sweethearts. They want to make people either laugh or respect them or feel warm towards them or at least make people know some internal world or viewpoint that many seem to lack. Cook was .. a genius. An adorable , towering intellect , generous , precise yet affable genius the kind of which only Cambridge, and occasionally Oxford, University seems to produce (aside from Ivy Leagues) where showbiz and learnedness are comfortable bedfellows in the body of ever young minds who must understandably struggle with the harshness that the world is not, actually, them.
Well, the world is not, first of all. Secondly, pandering to ivy leagues is kissing up to oxford, which is kissing up to cambridge, a slippery slope in reverse. You haven't got the free verse thing worked out is my point.
Now I want to throw up
That's kind of pretentious, Bruce.
Peter always had interesting anecdotes to tell.
Effortless Wit.
What a genius
It's when in conversation he fixes someone with his eyes, brain whirring.
Brilliant as ever!!!
What a guy!
"They thought I was German, but...I wasn't!"
I think I'm the only one who actually likes Clive Anderson.
christ do we need him now--but, we all know that this kind of forthright smart reposte is considered 'cruel ; AND LACKING CONSIDERATION FOR THE PATHETIC LITTLE DARLINGS TODAY. ALL THANKS TO THE PC MANIACS.
I like him.
Big fan of Clive. Grew up watching his chat shows.
No 😊
he was very good
I met him years ago when I worked in a hotel served him 2 treble vodka & tomato juices in about 2 minutes !
To quote Alan Partridge: "Lovely stuff"
Not his words, MoleHillFarm, the words of Shakin' Stevens.
Genius ❤❤❤❤❤
Has anybody got the Clive Andeson show with Peter Cook where he plays the 4 different characters.It was one of the funniest things I`ve ever seen.
I put that up, but it was taken down with a copyright strike.
I agree. Probably the best TV moment of the decade
@@vhsvideovault No worries I got it on daily motion.
I'm approaching 60 years old and I've listened, watched and read the wonderful Peter Cooke all my life. Every interview, every comedy skit, every editorial. Can't believe there is much in print he has written that I haven't read. Much of it many times.
And for the life of me I can't see where the political or social overlap with Ian Hislop is. (!?)
How Private Eye survived the change and remained even vaguely "similar" is beyond me.
(Much prefer Peter's take on the world by the way. No contest)
clive anderson is a quick witted funny guy as well
I love him...I mourn him still...Rowland's wife...
so ironic peter cook having the initials P.C how apt
This guy was the #1 Comedian's Comedian?? Astounding.
He did great things with Godley and Crème’s 1977 ‘Consequences’ album
Peter Cook was/is the British supremo comic, as was Rodney Dangerfield in USA and Paul Hogan in Australia. Similar vintage. If I may say so. Sweetie.
Genius.
The late, great Peter Cook
He was a handsome dude
A crack up in drag....
Peter Cook is brilliant
Perfect
Why is the vid of Peter doing his impressions on his last Clive Anderson show (the judge, the nerd, the rockstar) nowhere online? It was the funniest thingI’ve ever seen! Future generations deserve to see it!
I think it usually gets blocked.
He dealt with Clive Anderson well...his comments can anger some...like with The Bee Gees!
Anderson tried to coat him but Cook handled him impeccably while absolutely pished…
Peter Cook in his anecdotage.
Legend
Brilliant
First sighting of spats for many a year
I wonder if he really watched german satirical tv - back in those days, there was only one show of that sort and it was really good (because it emulated the black british humour to an extreme and always got the participants in trouble).
Well, P. Cook graduated from Cambridge U with a double concentration: German Lang/Literature and French Lang/Literature .
"i've probably only got bbc2 come to think of it"
A very very funny man.
Peter cook football manager sketch
great
"I went on holiday and I came back" Hehe..
My hero cookie
Roger Mellie!
COYS
great stuff. any idea where I can find the Alan Latchley, football manager clip. I'm finding it really difficult. thanks. John.
Search on daily motion , John
www.dailymotion.com/video/x23t6x8
Alan Latchley
ua-cam.com/video/EjE7XlYIAIY/v-deo.html
Who’d think the host of England’s whose line would get to meet the great PC.
I've only known Clive from QI - forgive me ... but now, after viewing Talks Back, I appreciate his full credentials. He's smart, handsome and funny ... who could ask for further? I have heard though that he was once one of them legal cunts ... nobody's perfect I suppose. No offence.
Peter Downey Poetic licence Pete, some of my best friends are criminal lawyers. Cheers.
ameagher2 could be worse he could of been one of those Cambridge assholes
ooo, asked you too, op in, mate. 'LEGALIZE IT'.
"My boy lollipop" I've only heard the girl version (The compelete uncut unremixed OFFICIAL MOUTHINGS OFF, and thats 'no feat' of forgetfulness) so there you/we have/had it ..........like.
Cliff anounced the end.......it's so funny how we don't talk anymore. and today we play over and over Bowies song, "Where have all the good times gone" cos they just wont tell us anymore.
The comedians comedian
Steamin here.
Sharp as a new pin all day and probably night long
He's got the fucking horn and er...
I miss CATB generally and some of the briliant guests like this genius.
One minute in.... Fucksocks, few people had the improvisational abilities....
Stephen Fry take note - 6 minutes in to this interview, Clive Anderson asks Peter if we [Britain] are a part or Europe. Peter's answer - we are an island!. I'm posting at 23.10pm, 7th December 2018 with a few days prior to Parliament voting on Mrs May's deal proposal on Tuesday, 11th December 2018. History - take note of what was said before and what will be! Let comedy reign and all else follow!
Well said
Your post is only 2 years old and we are experiencing shortages in supermarkets because of Brexit.
@@another2133 Tory Bullshit
@@another2133 Tory corporate donors are doing well out of this crisis.You not so much
He'd have been about 55 at the time. Just 3 more years to live. I wonder what he'd have been like, if he were still alive? Some comedians go right off the boil (such as George Carlin, who was brilliant in the 1960s and 70s but became dark, cynical and politically progressive in later life). I doubt if Peter Cook would have ever been influenced by "groupthink" and probably would have maintained his disrespect for everyone - including Hollywood progressives.
Carlin was great as he aged. I think his very last show was one of his best. He was left-leaning, but said the censorious pc types were just as bad as the killjoys on the religious right, just coming from another direction. In particular Carlin would’ve been against ideologues messing with our language, that was something he was already critical of before he died.
John Carlos
Like PG Wodehouse, a witty genius.
Spat U Like 😂
My old mans a dustman.
I can't watch it. Pete this fucked up, and everyone giggling.
Clive looks like the prototype for Beavis and Butthead
They assumed I was German but I was not. Ha ha ha ha ha! Laugh I did not shat. Did the whole audience have facking autism? I have, but it didn't even make me laugh.
Marmamarquess You have a lot to learn, Marmamarquess.
8:11 'It may have precipitated his downfall...' (with the deadpan look at CA).
And shortly after: 'Unless his death was a ruse to upset me'.
Typically brilliant Peter Cook.
I don't think that I do. Would you care to enlighten me, not that I need to be.
+Marmamarquess you arrogant little shit, go watch fuckin american pie
Reverand George James Christie III No no you dyslexic blind bugger I little shat, not shit.
Interesting to hear Cook's own take on the raid on the Mirror offices, before Hislop took it up and embellished it and told it 100 times and made himself the toast of the Parkinson show (despite Parkinson being listed as a contributor to 'Not Private Eye').
Clive Anderson unfit for purpose.Bee Gees buster
BeeGees had their moments. I really think this is Clive Anderson's moment, wandering through a highly edited and unsuccessful interview.
Too piddled. Looks and sounds like a bloke you'd meet in your local
Canned audience sounds are reprehensible...
Except that's a live audience, not canned.
Sure about that? Granted, I only know about the laugh machine applied in the States (It was extensive.), but the audio on this is exaggerated, at least. hmmm
I'm 100% sure about this. I've been to many studio recordings for comedies over the years, and the laughs they record are very real. Even in the states, many sitcoms were and are recorded in front of an audience, and chat shows almost always are. In many shows they'll even occasionally cut to a shot of the audience or (like Have I Got News For You) even open with a wide shot showing the audience. 'Canned' laughter is virtually nonexistent in comedy these days. If you hear laughter, you're hearing an audience watching the show.
In my experience of canned laughter - 4:20 would never happen for the point of it is to illustrate where the jokes are. Subsequently, the line 'there were alot of Germans around' constitutes a setup and therefore doesn't warrant the resulting titter - which to me demonstrates its genuine nature...
@@d7sfblab Positvely live. Anderson's show was recorded in front of a live audience. It's not particularly exaggerated, the sound engineer rides the volume of the audience mics (there are several) so that they don't override the interview, but the little interjections by members of the audience are a dead give away, you never have anything like that on canned audience, plus there would be nothing for Anderson or Cook to respond to as they do several times in the interview.
Awfully smashed..sad..
NOT SO FUNNY.
Dont be So critic about yourself