Peter Cook & Dudley Moore On The 'Real England' | The Dick Cavett Show

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore let Dick know what the REAL England is like!
Date aired - 5/10/1971 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@enigmarabbi4761]

The 2 most beautiful men to grace this earth I miss them both dearly

[@js2749]

I know who you are... You're Jesus aren't you?

[@Happyheart146]

Here in England, generally, poor people who are quirky are called 'mad'. Rich people who are quirky are called 'eccentric'

[@joseph-zoramcbride4029]

lol I was wondering about that. I thought, "Is he just fucking with them good-naturedly?" But he seemed to really enjoy and appreciate their work. Not like Letterman repeatedly and unironically asking Christopher Walken, "Hey, you're kinda nuts, right?"Cavett strikes me as a study in class/grace. This clip was truly fantastic.

[@davidsanderson5918]

So great to see Peter throw his head back after Dud's bypass gag. It has to be that good to make the genius stop and laugh....and it was!

[@johnt7630]

A unique double act. Years ahead of their time.

[@cintiabraucks3553]

Thanks for posting it. Today is the anniversary of Dudley's death...

[@jamesdrynan]

Nice of the band to play " Cuckoo Song ", signature theme of Laurel & Hardy. A brilliant duo of improvisational comedy.

[@oldskoolfool141]

At a slight angle to the world, perfect description of Cook

[@bertspivey3214]

"There is indeed nothing more romantic than to kiss someone up the Neasden byepass"...Words to live by.

[@jimmythemadostrich8947]

Dudley's outfit is quite simply stunning! He certainly knew his onions when it came to fashion, which of course is nowt to do with onions, unless you're a Frenchman..selling 'em on a street corner somewhere in the less upmarket districts of Paris.

[@mjkrbjcw]

Jesus Crikey! He certainly put the layers on

[@markywellsboy2182]

As I read that my inner voice started to sound like Pete and Dud. Good work, sir 😁😁

[@StevenSclafani]

"I subscribe to the magazine, not only the theory"

[@sarahhay3696]

Thank you for uploading! There has been nothing in this world more electric than their chemistry.

[@kenhunt278]

We do have Nichols and May. And Brooks and Reiner.

[@heathstjohn267]

​​@@kenhunt278 And Nikola Tesla. He was quite electrifying.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Very strange that I’ve never mention cook and Dudley ever before but today when talking to my dad about them for a good minute I get this in the recommended videos

[@davidwhite4874]

Your telephone is listening to you......

[@diskgrinder]

@@davidwhite4874it’d be a crap telephone if it wasn’t

[@Bondek1996]

Brilliant. Didn't realise Cavett did shows over here though.

[@victoriasaper1625]

Love that Peter is wearing chucks💕😂

[@louiso.4325]

I've looked all over the internet for clips from this episode!! thanks!

[@slimblu1]

Subtle, polite anarchy at it's British best. Never mind the Sex Pistols, this is the greatest anti-establishment duo ever.😂😂😂

[@JohnSmith-su3ze]

Belson was a nasty placeeeeeeeee!

[@gandalfshakur8235]

Never mind the buttocks, here's the Next Pistols

[@sandpiper9288]

Gives me the bleedin horn.

[@krisscanlon4051]

It epitomizes everything that's wonderful no I mean ghastly LOL

[@andymcgregor1136]

There is indeed nothing more romantic than to kiss someone up the Neasden byepass

[@harryknackers7892]

At 5 o'clock in the morning!

[@tomitstube]

this needed to go on for a half hour, they were just getting warmed up. the same year of peter cook's first divorce, wondering if his hand was the victim of one of his binges.

[@tomitstube]

@Bob Jones sounds plausible.

[@sianwarwick633]

It's a silent question, that bandaged wrist

[@-______-______-]

It was probably just from a bizarre mid afternoon wanking incident.

[@Nobadbees]

Man I miss those days

[@markwaldron8954]

If the Hobbit films had been made a few decades earlier, Sir Dudley would have made a fantastic Bilbo.

[@geenadasilva9287]

Mark Waldron not sure about this but jackson’s hobbits do all look exactly like Dudley...😉

[@cookmoore3736]

Wow! This is new!

[@comanchio1976]

It's nineteen seventy fahcking one, mate. Nothing remotely new about it

[@territaylor8082]

Pete & Dud!

[@robbiesaunders9602]

Couple of good ole boys...

[@stevehotspur]

I was brought up in Neasden and worked in Borehamwood

[@mangasky7]

more please

[@nickdoughty518]

Oh dear. So much more anarchic than boring Graham Norton. And well done for Dick Cavett going along with it.

[@bigcheeezzz7135]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@darrenjones3784]

Genius.

[@christineayres5339]

Smoking indoors ? what is this wonderful time ?

[@hazbutler]

Lung cancer ignorance

[@trefwoordpunk2225]

The time when everyone fucking STUNK and kids got cancer. Yeah wonderful time.

[@DaftSwank]

I want Peter's Adidases and Multi-Ringer Tee ...

[@artemiszeus9735]

I would have so fancied Peter.

[@jeffstone2136]

This bloke comes up to me, and he says "You Cavett".

[@markant9534]

Wow these two are funny.

[@sallydickson6193]

So funny 🤣🤣🤣

[@dougie1968]

Been to Neasden a couple of times with the wife to visit the branch of Ikea. It's a very forgettable place with litter everywhere. Only redeeming features are you can see Wembley stadium in the distance and the famous school that rivals Eton for exclusive poshness, Harrow, is further up the road. 😁

[@richardgere9365]

0.50 ROFL! Cavett must have thought 'this is the shortest in my show's history.'

[@BenjaminGessel]

There's always that "ye olde England" vs. "newer, tongue-in-cheek, edgier England" thing... 😁 Of course, you see the same thing in Jewish culture, but I suppose most folks see that thing in a somewhat different light, but it still is rather similar in so many ways...

[@heathstjohn267]

It's how ' rock ', and ' roll ' ing them into position began, actually.

[@stevehotspur]

It’s not a bypass in Neasden it’s an underpass

[@michaelt8682]

well i didnt expect borehamwood to be mentioned on this show.

[@phillipecook3227]

Ha, ha!

[@mrc5653]

Pete wearing boxing boots cool!

[@sianwarwick633]

Finally. Someone got it

[@emilyharwood89]

Their accents change from really posh to working class and I can't tell which is their real accents?!

[@markywellsboy2182]

Pete's accent is pretty natural 1:32 - 2:36. There is a hint of Dud's natural accent at 2:36, but he moves around "working class cockney" for most of this. From what I hear, that would have been close to his working class upbringing, but it probably changed as he progressed through education to Oxford University and developed a more neutral/classic accent.

[@markywellsboy2182]

Pete's accent is pretty natural 1:32 - 2:36. There is a hint of Dud's natural accent at 2:36, but he moves around "working class cockney" for most of this. From what I hear, that would have been close to his working class upbringing, but it probably changed as he progressed through education to Oxford University and developed a more neutral/classic accent.

[@joseph-zoramcbride4029]

Yeah. Apparently Cook's dad was a diplomat? Just learned this today. lol So I imagine there's some competition between the two dispositions within him.

[@-______-______-]

Both absolute legends. And also, a lot of people don't realise that Dudley Moore really is one of the finest musicians to ever Grace this earth! His piano playing is absolutely phenomenal!

[@petermaxwell2965]

Anyone that dosent throw pies it seems is eccentric ..

[@Gannooch]

do have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like all the other Dick Cavett shows.

[@stevehotspur]

Was this done in BBC Elstree or the film studios

[@mjkrbjcw]

British comedy doesn’t translate to America & vice Versa , these 2 are legends in the UK

[@JudgeJulieLit]

True. Comedy is predicated on certain shared societal assumptions.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Some such assumptions are shared, such as an insistence on basic logic; as Lewis Carroll's March Hare in his below debate with Alice: "“Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!”"

[@JudgeJulieLit]

As an American who majored in English Literature and loves British classical drama as meticulously produced, enacted and televised 1980 forward, it has surprised me that I have rarely found funny such British sitcoms shown in US as Keeping Up Appearances and As Time Goes By. Their humor seems based on an English cultural emphasis on conformity that entails 24/7/365 maintaining proper appearances and protocol and fear of others' opinions, especially of ruffling higher ups, which Americans live less by. And so its characters' obsessions and relatively repressed behavior that underlie their comic situations seem to us less necessary, and its wit insipid. It is not fun to watch people stiff upper lip gratuitous captivity.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

That said, America found Dudley Moore hilariously comic in the film Arthur, where he plays a Brit in NYC who, per the title song, "does as he pleases." And his bold, at first fumbling, yet finally successful try to win the girl of his dreams we applauded. And Shakespeare across USA is a perennial favorite, e.g., as he treated universal themes with brilliant poetry.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Too the Monty Python tv series was here popular.

[@raymondbonington9355]

Wouldn't believe dud came from Dagenham , you don't here an accent like his there .

[@actontreadway1168]

and so was born the "scripted talk show" the following day.

[@dazg5342]

Lol the yanks x

[@daijones101]

Go Julian

[@Gannooch]

I am not against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason?

[@Gannooch]

How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities.

[@prisonersforprofit]

i forget how peter did it, but i think the hand injury was something he did after a show while very drunk.

[@iancrombie8862]

Not sure Dick really got their irony!!!

[@brianrussel6012]

(guest) Why did they play the Laurel & Hardy tune when Pete & Dud came in?

[@bennyhillschineseblokechar3689]

More than prob'ly just to emphasise that , much like L & H... Cookie and Dudders were a classic double act , and descendants of the ancient Druids who built Stonehenge!

[@Arthur_McGowan]

One tall, one short.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

...Come Again?

[@davidwhite4874]

Hello Colin.....

[@petermorningsnow]

They cut it, Dick Caveat Show, right where the rich get raw. And in parentheses: (Dudley Moore, perfect as a guard dog. Peter Cook, a bit off his game, but making up for it swellingly.)

[@Twirlyhead]

They always did think they were far too important and witty to answer a straight question.

[@antoniusblock1994]

It would be boring to just reply to the question straightforwardly and honestly it's much more interesting and entertaining to spin the question on its head and weave it into a funny gag.

[@antoniusblock1994]

However with that said replying very bluntly and honestly in combination with hyperbole can also be used to comedic effect.

[@anonUK]

It's called an "act".

[@MrZORROish]

Dud was pretty funny, Pete off form

[@googleisgay3289]

"If you want me to be Stan Laurel, I'll have to lose a leg first. I'm afraid I'm well versed n Tarzan."

[@martinsowerby6562]

Brussel sprouts

[@jean-marieboucherit4716]

Ok. It’s difficult to comment about those two great people who were at the origins of Monty Python but were not Monty Python. In some way they were outdated. It hurts me to say this because I respect people and do not want to hurt anybody but I guess they belonged to another age. Bless them.

[@cintiabraucks3553]

What do mean exactly? Of course they belong to another age...that's what so great about them.

[@notsure6187]

Do you mean they were the Monty python of the early 60s ?

[@cintiabraucks3553]

@@notsure6187 Monty Python came along as a group towards the end of the 60s. The first season of the show dates back to 69. Peter and Dudley were part of the group Beyond the Fringe, which was in the early 60s, but it was a theater play, not on TV. Both of them continued on television later in the show Not Only But Also, which dates back to 1966.

[@darrenjones3784]

I beg to differ.

[@blackmore4]

The Goons and Beyond the Fringe were definitely key influences on Monty Python. I'd add the TV shows, 'The Strange World of Gurney Slade' and 'That Was the Week That Was' as others.

[@Sam-qj2hu]

Just England? Not the whole of the UK?

[@davidwhite4874]

They are in England. Why not?

[@JackoJ15]

Yeah just England. Many things are different in Wales and Scotland :)

[@joshkkg1519]

anyone else from ohio

[@vantheman12welshman66]

Americans just don’t get it. But hey we do and we love it ❤️

[@guitarmatricide4834]

Well I’m American and I’d like to think I get it. There must be a reason why I’ve watched this at least 10 times…

[@davidcawrowl3865]

Let's see : who's taller, Dudley or Dick?

[@notsure6187]

David cawrowl surprisingly Dick.

[@mcbastard_tv6927]

Drop your due daws.

[@uberbabeINC]

“Say the magic words; JULIE ANDREWS!”

[@laurapearson3370]

Derek and Clive......

[@jean-marieboucherit4716]

Yes but not as important and seminal

[@cintiabraucks3553]

What is your problem? Go watch some Adam Sandler or Will Ferrel films then...those are 'real' comedy classics.

[@jean-marieboucherit4716]

Cintia Braucks don’t insult me! Because I give my opinion you feel personally attacked????? It’s ok to differ you know, it’s even healthy.. I know very well who they are. think that compared to the Goons for example they are old fashioned. I don’t watch the people you mention, I don’t even know who they are, obviously you do, you must have watched them.

[@jonnysupreme]

I'm a proud Englishman dyyying to one day go to California and show all these fucking absolute beautiful yank women my lovely accent lol. I've heard they get wetter than a fishes forrid 😃😃😃

[@ColtraneTaylor]

This one wasn't really funny, especially the first half. The audience are laughing because it's Pete and Dud.

[@JD-eq4dp]

Try as I might I never found these 2 funny.

[@louduva9849]

Was this really meant to be funny? Damn.

[@johnt7630]

@Lou Duva, I thought the bit about "a roundabout of English origin" was quite funny. Maybe it's just me! Their humor was different.

[@tomitstube]

well i guess if your thing is the three stooges and jerry lewis, this might not be your cup of coffee.

[@brianrussel6012]

Lou duva, Well, the audience laughed a lot ! Their particular brand of English humour might be difficult to Americans, if so : sorry ! Please try to understand the quirky way they put things! It must seem a bit odd, but we English " get it " ! xx 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@Muzikman127]

I mean you might be missing a few 1970s English cultural cues and references mate

[@acchaladka]

Brian Russel Hell, even us Canadians get it. It’s a bit 1970s but / and, lovely. Stonehenge, American friends, really is just a model after all of the UK space programme.

[@Arthur_McGowan]

Cavett's voice is ANNOYING.

[@dodibenabba1378]

Not to their usual standard...

[@yawnguy94]

Jews

[@ladyoflimerick519]

Eh?

[@MrZORROish]

idiot

[@ChauNguyen-yx3ll]

People laugh at nothing, how do they get paid for this trash,