Late Night Saturday: History & Commentary for SNL S1E11

In this installment, British comedy institutions Peter Cook and Dudley Moore host the show. Music Guest Neil Sedaka may or may not be human. It's an uneven but enjoyable outing. Next week's host is Dick Cavett - Stay Tuned!
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[@jamesdrynan]

Dudley and Peter were comic gold in England. Despite their breakup, the material they did in the early sixties still resonates today.

[@robsonstroud1871]

As an English comedy obsessive (I've even run a comedy club for the last 7 years) I've watched Pete and Dud almost all my life, read the biographies, watched the movies, cried when they died. You pretty much get it spot on in my opinion. I was OBSESSED with Derek and Clive at university and forced it upon all visitors to my room. Dudley is well known for 10, Arthur and many other Hollywood appearances. If you want to find out more about Pete then the biography I Was An Only Twin is excellent. There's loads of great chatshow appeaances by Cook on his own but I draw your attention to his last hurrah before his untimely death. If you can find him on the Clive Anderson Talks Back where he appears as three characters including the unforgettable Alan Latchley then you may well be in for a treat. Great YT and subscribed

[@latenightsaturday7142]

Thanks so much for the kind words and the great information! The project remains on hiatus while I try to retool the format to sidestep NBCU's (incredibly arbitrary) objections, but it's comments like this that give me desire to keep things going. Thanks again!

[@JoeDatorCartoonist]

Thank you for this. The episode was also my first time seeing Cook & Moore, except that it happened in 1976 when it aired live. I've been a huge fan ever since.

[@dashfatbastard]

“I think we've found our Gigi." A quintessential moment for both comics, and a demonstration that Belushi could swing and hit with the world's best.

[@scottburton9701]

In 1967,Cook & Moore released a novelty record called "L.S.Bumblebee" which has recieved a few spins on "The Dr.Demento Show".

[@scottburton9701]

This was three years before Dudley Moore became a household name with the movie "10"-I remember this episode quite well.

[@dashfatbastard]

Saw it on the day, west coast feed. They were in fine form. I miss them.

[@thezenitsufan1249]

There was a part at the beginning of the scene with Scred and Gilda he told her the reason he was dressed as a bee was because he was hoping to play Aunt Bee in a bees version of The Andy Griffith Show and the audience groaned loudly

[@heidifedor]

The prison sketch was one of the few times Garret Morris made me laugh.

[@trainer1158]

Re the focus needed for the biblical skit, a good portion of the studio and home audiences were high when watching SNL (my friends and I certainly were), so focus was not anyone’s strong suit. This is why the bee skits and other inane stuff was so popular. Ah, the ‘70s.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

I love "Not Only But Always", though I felt it was maybe a little too sentimental and dramatized like everything on TV, ever.

[@latenightsaturday7142]

As a movie it was C+ at best, but as a primer on the duo I think it worked pretty well.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

11:37 - 11:47/ Ahhhhhh, youth. Wasted on the young. Well, bub, I guess you never heard of an American actor by the name of Mel Blanc! He practically spent 60 years of his life doing just that at the drop of a hat. And the title ACTOR is no fluke. I know what field of entertainment he's famous for. But he was, is, and always will be THE GREATEST AMERICAN ACTOR! Phew! Did I get my point across, or what?!

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

The music is quite loud and overloads the commentary.

[@latenightsaturday7142]

This is the most common criticism I've gotten, and I've addressed it in newer videos and will continue to keep it in mind when I get the channel started back up in a month or two. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@heidifedor]

LOL I live in Bethlehem, PA which has a free paper called The Bethlehem Star.

[@CusterFlux]

Thanks for doing this - but the music is way too loud, you mixed the music already knowing what you said, so you weren’t hearing so much as you were recalling … but for us, we have to hear the text to understand it …

[@latenightsaturday7142]

This is the most common criticism I've received; rest assured I've addressed it in the newer videos and will continue to keep it in mind when I start the channel back up in a month or two!

[@CusterFlux]

@@latenightsaturday7142 Cool, I liked the content

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Both Cook and Moore did reunite to perform together a few times after the 70s (reuniting publicly on the Joan Rivers show in '86), including an HBO special with Billy Crystal in the late 80s and the Secret Policeman's Ball in 1989. They also did many more interviews together, as well as appearing in an advertisement for the VHS release of "Not Only But Also" somewhere in the late 80s/early 90s (all should be found on KZbin). They definitely did cease being a permanent duo act though so you got that right. I personally found them as eh though I do like them (they're more a hit or miss for me, definitely more of a miss, partly due to 60s TV not aging well in general) and enjoy English comedy in general. I thought they should've let more SNL members be involved in both of their typical duo acts (though SNL, in my opinion, has a tendency to hire too many performers through the course of its history).

[@latenightsaturday7142]

I found out about Secret Policeman's Ball after making this video; thanks for the info on the other performances!