Author Topic: A Couple Chipmunks Startled The Heck Out Of Me Yesterday!  (Read 6984 times)

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Re: A Couple Chipmunks Startled The Heck Out Of Me Yesterday!
« Reply #15 on: October 13, 2015, 10:13:43 PM »
My dad and a 2 of his brothers (9 kids total), were like that. Get them together and it was a comedy routine. Hence my wife's conviction that it's genetic. When I got older it was great fun when they were around.

I am not as familiar with Cook & Moore as I am with The Pythons although I have seen their work on occasion, e.g., "Bedazzled" and some reruns. They weren't as popular here as MPFC, I don't know why, they definitely were good enough.

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Re: A Couple Chipmunks Startled The Heck Out Of Me Yesterday!
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2015, 11:09:21 PM »
Duane,
Peter Cooke was a comedy genius but in a rather british way.  He was a renegade in the 60's, a pioneer of the satire boom of that time.  His monologues as E. L. Wisty and the sketches with Dudley Moore (Pete & Dud) were ground breaking in their time.  Sadly Cook rather faded away in the 80's and never gained the height of success that say Morecambe & Wise or e.g. Joan Rivers did but he has influenced and been revered by the Pythons amongst others and much other comedy talent since then.

Here's a couple of links - hope they work for you
https://youtu.be/ofUZNynYXzM
https://youtu.be/wejNjdPndLI
https://youtu.be/lbnkY1tBvMU

John

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