Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - "Busty Substances". London Palladium Show 1965.mp4

[@shughy1]

Their genius will never be repeated, nothing compares today

[@jonnybrowne]

Brilliant sketch. I've always loved the idea that Peter Cook devoted so much time to making Dudley Moore "corpse".

[@meriadocbrandebouc]

+jonnybrowne What ?

[@jonnybrowne]

meriadocbrandebouc Corpsing is a theatrical term for an actor suffering a fit of the giggles in the middle of a scene.

[@julielevinge266]

He was brilliant at it!!

[@Ptpop]

Was a kid in 1977 when I discovered Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. A local TV station played The Bed Sitting Room on the Late, Late, Late Show. Been a fan ever since.

[@raybroadhurst4128]

Both sadly missed. Utterly superb, thanks for uploading.

[@robg71]

Duds Ticks and Facial expressions are Hysterical

[@Rufinoman]

The magnetism between Pete and Dud is electric.

[@alexm-m4151]

oooh! I really needed that this morning... one of their best ❤

[@mysterycrumble]

too young to have seen them live and absolutely furious about it! thanks for the uploads i can't get enough of these guys!

[@grahamkeithtodd]

my dad worked at the London Palladium during the years "Sunday night at the London Palladium" was aired(odd thing was , it was taped on a Thursday afternoon!)1959-1975

[@JulianGlass]

Because the audience wouldn’t come out on a Sunday night because Sunday Night at the London Palladium was on.

[@madnessbydesignVria]

One of the most brilliant duos ever...

[@tarnopol]

It really doesn't get much better than this. Cook was obviously a genius, but let's not forget Moore, who was "merely" massively talented!

[@captpicard100]

One of (if not the best?) the great double-acts of all time, brilliant natural timing and fantastic chemistry between the two of them. You can tell they get much more enjoyment from getting each other to lose it on stage rather than getting laughs from the crowd:-)))))))))))£

[@dickydoes]

Perfectly formed appearance. Started well, had midular substance, and finished with their theme song. Execrafted beautifully.

[@stevehughes1510]

Good witty fun from these two, comedy at its best, God bless 'em both.

[@ForceFreeTrainergirl06]

Such amazing men, and they've never been bested. I saw them once doing a sketch ad lib and they just bounced off each other so easily.

[@vvoodee]

I used to so love this show. If you look when Dud says cognoscenti Pete stifles a smile. Priceless.....

[@TheBelegur]

Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore where absolutely brilliant together. This gem is hilarious and thank you for posting it. I hope you find more of same and post them also. I loved it, and it's a shame no one in the entertainment industry is anyone near the caliber of these two. To work clean and be this funny is truly a tribute to the genius of these two. I am a sucker for British humor, and this is a great example of it. We need more of this kind of humor in these crazy times in which we live. :)

[@michaelfitzsimmons785]

7 is 7 p0

[@simonellis2847]

​@@michaelfitzsimmons785 😊

[@simonellis2847]

​ 😅😅

[@simonellis2847]

😅😅

[@terryspurr1563]

Busty substances has just entered my vocabulary. 😂

[@andythomas706]

Great title for an album.

[@rickrose5377]

Without Sabu, you've got nothing.

[@stevecollier4741]

Just entered mine too ...funny I thought funny !

[@rickrose5377]

@@stevecollier4741 Just saw another of their bits in which it's used to great comic effect: Pete & Dud visit the zoo. They're in the reptile house, and Cook explains to Dud that a viper and an 'asp' are the same thing. He explains that 'asp' was a word coined by Shakespeare when he was writing Antony & Cleopatra, because he needed a one-syllable word for the meter -- 'viper' wouldn't scan. Evidently, the asp bit Cleopatra in her 'busty substances'.

[@andrewclayton4181]

It became ' a thing' at the time, as did ' Funny....' You can here it in the audiences reaction. It cropped up in a number if their sketches.

[@patrickhicks9880]

I LOVE THE BARGO SKETCH

[@Debunker246]

thanks for uploading this..enormously funny stuff...nearly fell off my seat

[@michaelyoung8864]

Irresistible, irreplaceable ...

[@willfinn7243]

Just priceless. Had not seen this one. I think the fact their Pete & Dud characters are too dim to be rude (as in their obscenity-drenched Derek & Clive routines) makes them somehow funnier. This seems at least 50% improvised and totally alive because of it. Thanks for uploading.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

The greatest comedy duo of all time. Bar none.

[@kevinmunday5782]

Laurel and Hardy, Morecambe and Wise, and pete and Dud all Gold

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

@@kevinmunday5782 Agreed

[@christiansfortruth5953]

Your kidding 😅😅😅😅😅

[@gailhill5734]

Utterly brilliant

[@karenmcginley3529]

Utter utter Genius x

[@sandrapereira5896]

Two great comedians

[@andrewbarton-willson495]

Timeless joy to cheer anyone up!

[@timweatherill3738]

Wonderful stuff! Thanks for sharing this.

[@tarnopol]

Nuclear hollyhocks? The toadstool of death? Genius.

[@Geraint3000]

Wonderful

[@enigmarabbi4761]

Can’t believe goodbye got cut

[@alanhaywood2971]

Fantastic!

[@andydixon2980]

"nearly fell off your seat didn't you?'.......took Dud by surprise and almost brings gets them both laughing. I admire Peter Cooks instincts to throw a spanner in the works and see what happens.

[@johnpbh]

Fabulous.... Peter Cook was not stupid when he realised that with Dudley Moore he was more than twice the man. And Dudley could play the piano you know. Not many people know that... That's what they whisper on Malibu Beach in Hollywood Circles you know.

[@kevinmunday5782]

Legends ☺☺

[@virghammer1]

“ nipped down there for a pint of goats’ foam-“. 🤣 🤣 ❤

[@eahannan]

So good. Wish they'd simply carry on and on and on .

[@SleutherStrode]

Miss you both

[@andrewcutts7416]

I loved their TV shows. This type of comedy together with Do Not Adjust Your Set and Not The 1948 Show set the scene for Monty Python.

[@andythomas706]

Lets not forget The Frost Report and Twice A Fortnight!

[@SleutherStrode]

Frost nicked most of his material from Cook I think you will find Andy

[@jamesbuckingham.2935]

Sarah Barber When at university David Frost had acne. He pinched so much stuff off Cook that he referred to him as the bubonic plagiarist.

[@natashajacobs7685]

brilliant!

[@briodyjohnsean]

Thanks, it"s been so long, you gotta laugh

[@waynesullivan3734]

Derrick and clive

[@GaryLASQ]

Gee thanks guys 1:58 Now I'll never be able to hear the song "I'm In the Mood for Love" without hearing the word Nude instead of Mood.

[@reetpeet]

Dud could give as good as he got, but was more of a giggler. Even Peter corpsed sometimes.

[@janicescott6713]

Are there more appropriate words than genius or brilliant?

[@LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

Must be good. Everybody else has copied them. Two Ronnies to Smith and Jones. Just two blokes talking rubbish,,,,,,.comedy gold.

[@gavinkilty108]

brilliant

[@PaulZink]

One wonders if Douglas Adams saw this routine, and adapted "the answer to the question is 42" from "the answer is McWhirter's Raspberry-Style Ice Lollies"…

[@kevinmunday5782]

Comedy Gold

[@JonGUK]

Marvellous

[@MrJungle123]

Was the computer a super young Jimmy Tarbuck?

[@jonnybottle]

Actually, it comes from the musical My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan J. Lerner (lyrics), first staged in 1956 - but obviously written earlier. The Goon Show episode was 28th Feb. 57.

[@derekcotton28]

Sublime comedy

[@mrkimble2618]

This video was disliked by 37 domestic fungi, or musty substances.

[@Silberdachs]

Genius

[@pressureworks]

Proceeds with 16 sugars

[@Headwind-1]

the precariously placed tea pot

[@deniswilliams2212]

Bugger!!! The end cut off!😢

[@voraciousreader3341]

Dang! The end was lost!

[@jonnybrowne]

+Denis MacEoin - Derek & Clive being so dirty is a very good reason why one SHOULD listen to it. It's extremely funny.

[@nsrlegaltech]

Strawberry jam for all..

[@dhss333]

What was comic about Jimmy Tarbuck?

[@jazzhuman]

Nuclear hollyhocks.... lol!

[@ashleymartin4512]

surely there must be and must of been more footage of this performance as 12 minutes is not the sum total..........

[@RobertSeviour1]

Cookie forever!

[@soppdrake]

"Nuclear Hollyhock" 😭

[@pinksin103]

What's going on with the time at the bottom! Very good though

[@ameagher2]

Sad but true - hang on, I feel I've just lost a point there - where's my attourney when I need her ... P'haps Dud's cringing is part of their comedic routine - if so,I'm going to call them to offer advice. Pete and Dud walked into a bar ...

[@Richard-db2ss]

You'd think the props department could have supplied a bigger table...…. still funny tho, Pete.

[@garymorgan1597]

They dont make them like that anymore .

[@tarnopol]

You can't be that funny and not be cruel. It's a form of hostility, humor. Not an original thought, of course!

[@WWAWHTR]

Audience missing a few of Pete’s jokes at the start.

[@spacemunky53]

you mite thinķ they never rehearsed this sketch the truth is they never

[@ameagher2]

Yep,quality boys. A problem though - Pete didn't stay with the script ... Dud went into convolsions - yes,funny ... but some think that Pete was cruel.Lots of love,Derek.

[@yidarmylad666]

What is the song at the end? :L

[@andrewclayton4181]

When they did their sketch show on TV ( called not only....but also...) they always finished with the song 'Goodbye, goodbye, we're leaving you, goodbye. Sung in a faintly old fashioned way. In one of the episodes the piano, with Dud still playing was lowered by a crane into a harbour. Think it might have been released. It'll be on YT somewhere.

[@Bondek1996]

Poor Dud, ha

[@bloodcell9]

BO is the term for Hollywood appeal for BOX OFFICE..........that's what they whisper to another on Malibu beach.... and the rest is history.........notions that's all am hit by is human notions that could have been...........man I love these old fucks.....peace skins...........

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

I would think long and hard about such a bizarre misconception before I posted such nonsense. HINT: Think Bob Dylan.

[@christiansfortruth5953]

Today they wouldn't get past the floor manager. Sorry. 😅😅😅😅

[@limmoblack]

Today, they have someone to manage the floor??? What has the world come to?

[@julielevinge266]

Mike & Bernie Winters being compared to Pete & Dud?😳

[@davolente]

Great sketch. Shame about the time stamp!

[@julielevinge266]

What a terrible shame the bbc cleared many of their tapes!! Probably to keep Mike & Bernie Winters! Most unfunny duo ever!!!

[@dml601]

Ha! 11:35 - "..he's got it, by George, I think he's got it" - a reference to an episode of The Goon Show, where Peter Sellers remarks the same while teaching a penguin to play piano...

[@tanjaglavovic3606]

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[@PaulZink]

Do try to be polite, won’t you? And please realize that many of us post bizarre misconceptions with hardly a second thought, let alone a long and hard one. As for Bob Dylan: I try to think of him as little as possible.

[@shaolinfingajab]

i doubt he has the recourse...;)

[@MacEoin]

I wouldn't listen to their Derek and Clive recordings if I were you, since they are as dirty as the inside of my chimney.

[@julielevinge266]

But hilarious all the same!!!

[@tufty7026]

NURSE!

[@Hannible100]

Cant!

[@synchrohub]

What's with that fucking clock?

[@nettsinthewoods3029]

Simon Hurst the BBC destroyed recordings, this is probably something from another recording not meant for public viewing. Just a guess.

[@virgiltibbs9906]

Simon Hurst The clock is burnt in timecode on a 2" videotape. That was probably the the professional broadcasting format of the day.

[@limmoblack]

What is the clock 'fucking'? or are you dead now?

[@nintendy]

I saw the Palladium Show these starred on, and they were absolutely dreadful... They weren’t funny at all - and to ‘Top the Bill!?? All of the other Acts that week were far, far better!

[@rottenheavenly6245]

The art of just talking nonsense made into a comedy masterclass