Sitting on the bench December 12, 2007
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Peter Cook, from the 1964 farewell performance of the original cast of Beyond The Fringe.
The Frog and Peach November 27, 2007
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There are at least three restaurants in the U.S. named The Frog and Peach. They are located in:
One wonders if franchising was really what Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling had in mind. After all …
Little Miss Britten September 10, 2007
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From the video of the final West End performance of Beyond The Fringe, Dudley Moore performs his interpretations of songs by Benjamin Britten and Kurt Weill. Introduced by Jonathan Miller.
Beyond The Fringe: part 2 of 2 September 9, 2007
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(Continued from yesterday’s post, excerpts from Beyond The Fringe’s final 1964 performance):
In “So That’s The Way You Like It”, the troupe performs a satire of Shakespeare performance, specifically the Peter Hall speakitallveryveryfast style.
Beyond The Fringe: part 1 of 2 September 8, 2007
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Before Derek and Clive … before Monty Python or SCTV or Saturday Night Live … there were four Cambridge undergraduates: Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore.
Their college satirical sketches caught the eye of a producer who booked them into an obscure Edinburgh theater during the annual Arts Festival and its simultaneous sidebar celebration, the Fringe … thus, Beyond The Fringe.
“Beyond The Fringe” March 10, 2007
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Before Derek and Clive … before Monty Python or SCTV or Saturday Night Live … there were four Cambridge undergraduates: Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore.
“The Bridge Over the River Wye” March 9, 2007
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From 1962, Beyond The Fringe’s Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook (but not Dudley Moore) meet Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan of The Goon Show, in a Milligan-scripted takeoff of the David Lean movie.
Derek and Clive: Celebrity suicide March 8, 2007
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In which Clive (Peter Cook) explains to Derek (Dudley Moore) why he walked away from his ball-bearing business.
Like all the other Derek and Clive cuts, this is most definitely R-rated.
Derek and Clive: The fireman song (rated R) March 7, 2007
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Goodbye, Pete and Dud March 6, 2007
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In 1993, Peter Cook appeared on a BBC talk show hosted by Clive Anderson (best known in the US as the host of the original UK version of “Whose Line Is it Anyway?”) Here’s Cook as Eric Daley, lead singer of Ye Gods, who has recently checked out of the Henry Ford Clinic.
The great train robbery March 5, 2007
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Starting last August through the end of December, I posted various YouTubes and sound files from the prodigious works of the team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which have proven to be the most popular items on this non-blog (over 1,900 hits as of this writing). For the next week, the seven most popular posts from that series.
In seventh place …
Goodbye, Pete and Dud December 28, 2006
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The Comedian’s Comedian December 19, 2006
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A 2005 British documentary revealed the results of a poll of (mostly British) comedians to determine the “Comedian’s Comedian.” The winner, not surprisingly …
Cook and Moore in unaccustomed roles … December 12, 2006
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… as themselves.
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