Why Bother? - Eels, Love & Guns

Five interviews as heard on BBC Radio 3.

[@markthemovieman]

Finally, the official funniest man who ever lived gets an interviewer worthy of his talents. This is the comedy version of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee jamming together in Sun Studios - two absolute titans of comedy bouncing off each other. Utterly timeless.

[@duncabbin]

The old guard passing the baton on to the new in my opinion. 2 of the finest Englishmen I think I will ever have the pleasure of listening too.

[@MrAristaeus]

duncabbin *to which I will ever have the pleasure of listening*. I’m ‘that’ guy. Send flowers.

[@urmumsbaps]

@@MrAristaeus shut up nerd

[@Retrostar619]

"I've had a long life and I've had a varied life, and I've had just about enough of it"

[@NormanArches]

A mate gave me a tape of this about 10 or 12 years ago (I was a huge fan of both of them but had no idea they´d done this, so I was over the moon to discover it) and lawks, does it live up to expectations. As Harry Thompson said in his biog of Cook, Morris was one of the few comedians of the time disrespectful enough to have pulled it off. This is genuine comedic genius. I´ve listened to these same recordings for almost 15 years now and they never get any less funny. How did Peter Cook do it??

[@jdHaworth]

One hates to see los angeles go up in flames unless ones got a camera running

[@jeitoots]

He thought he saw Betty Gable walking in, in fact she was walking out!

[@brenvillus]

@ 5.03 "as a result of this grave disappointment I believe you dived headlong into a life of eel-advised abandon"

[@IOYC]

this is the best of the whole series, it's so god damn amazing.

[@willjamesb]

"Yes, I'm off any minute"

[@ysgol3]

Bloody bloody eels.

[@thecasualfront7432]

This is the funniest thing iv ever heard

[@Google_Does_Evil_Now]

5:52 L A Riots, L A cops and Rodney King "which side were you on?" 5:23 Eric Clapton

[@SamLambert]

Bloody, Bloody, Bloody Eels.

[@mspratz]

well spotted! its a classic line of all time

[@Pinskip2]

1994. Roughly a year before Cook died.

[@gedrooney9305]

Fucking fantastic

[@jackreed7287]

7:00 Genius.

[@NormanArches]

´...& also hear Sven from Swiss Cottage. I used to listen to LBC´s problem phone-ins at night (we all did as schoolkids in the 80s) and there were so many nutters calling in that although I remember Sven, the lovelorn Scandinavian fisherman standed in Swiss Cottage, it was only years later when I read Cook´s biog that I realised it was him. True. The funniest Cook story has to be his breaking into Robert Maxwell´s office. It is a stunner. It´s in the late Harry Thompson´s biog. Check it out.

[@jjmmcc1949]

That there are only some nine thousand comments is amazing. Cooke's satire should spread. See, in instance, his exchanges with Luodivc Kennedy - pure brilliance in MHOI & also hear Sven from Swiss Cottage.

[@TR0LL2R0CKS]

i didnt even know about this, the two absolute best improvisers ever, brilliant. this is supposed to be like cook and moore records i guess. of which ive never heard but am aware of there greatness. thanks uploader, chris morris is my hero

[@tomstickland]

00:45. ha ha ha, that got me.

[@KaitainCPS]

I like using that line with my partner.

[@TR0LL2R0CKS]

i think i will thanks for leting me know =)

[@tomstickland]

This makes me want to listen to Blue Jaaaaam..

[@MrDachshund99]

3:01 Pilote - Fairplay, Sample

[@ThunderChunky101]

It's crazy how Morris handles this "interview"! He manages somehow to best Cook at his own game! Not that Cook wobbles or comes in second, but Morris somehow manages to bully the bully.

[@philharrison9893]

Sal sean You're right. Morris's confidence is extraordinary given how established Cook was. He knew he was the coming man, I guess.

[@MrAristaeus]

I don’t think ‘best Cook’ is the right way of putting it. Morris’ questions here allow Cook absolute freedom to riff and automatic-thought-speak in his inimitable way. Morris is the perfect foil to Cook’s 10th Dan comedic genius, in evidence here at the very end of his life. Like Yoda and Luke but with more booze (and a lot more funny hah hah).

[@Retrostar619]

@@MrAristaeus Well put.

[@Glozboy22]

@@MrAristaeus Excellent summing up :)

[@Pinskip2]

I've just this minute figured out how to trim the track. I'll do it soon. He was a bit of a pisshead and a recluse but I think, relatively speaking, he wasn't as down and out as perhaps these interviews might suggest. Amazing that he was still so funny though eh?

[@markthemovieman]

@farleigh17 He was aware, I believe, that his own death was near. You can hear this later on when he falters slightly after Morris chuckles and says "I've just had a vision of your death".

[@FillerGallery]

Erm, sorry I wasn't listening to that. Are you ready to go? Yes, I'm a-, I'm off any minute.

[@simonsomatic]

@kez1979 can someone explain that joke to me, never understood it. Cheers

[@66Nico]

@billyshitcheese Genius Genius Genius

[@Pinskip2]

I've got a fair few Derek & Clive videos uploaded mate. Have a look on my page.

[@nigelclack5004]

Serve the ant on a fish plate.x

[@emgee6026]

How scripted was this and how much was ad libbed - anyone know?

[@anomynous7747]

100% ad-libbed, although edited down from hours of tape. Although apparently Morris had had the fossilised-infant-Christ thing up his sleeve for a while

[@petermorningsnow]

Oprah's lost a lot of weight, one minute bulimic, one minute anorexic, and in between regressing to child abuse.