Peter Cook & Barry Humphries interview - The Late Clive James (1987)
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- Peter Cook and Barry Humphries interviewed by Clive James on The Late Clive James. 23rd May 1987
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:12 - Peter Cook
11:53 - Barry Humphries
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RIP Barry Humphries (February 17, 1934 - April 22, 2023), aged 89
RIP Peter Cook (November 17, 1937 - January 9, 1995), aged 57
RIP Clive James (October 7, 1939 - November 24, 2019), aged 80
You will be remembered as legends.
DEFINATELY!
Peter was great in the American film, Supergirl.
Rare to see Peter being so quiet.
You can see the respect between all three of these men.
Wonderful interview.
Very true. Peter just looks like he is enjoying it so much. Very good point by Barry, John Cleese can make a comedy about poor British hotel service with rapture, yet when Barry makes comment on Australian's quirks with Bazza he gets admonished. Luckily Bazza is a legend.
What a gem. The three of them. Priceless.
And Peter sober.
A quiet tear this day after Barry's passing.
They’re all dead and gone damn it.
Such a lovely funny man, Barry. Peter Cook equally brilliant. Rip to them both
Certainly, the world is a much sadder place now and it hurts. You want these legends to live forever.
Glad you said that. I thought people might think me silly because I had a few tears as well. Something’s missing now 😢
An absolute genius 😢
The late Barry Humphreys, Clive James & Peter cook! Irreplaceable greats ❤
@@moaningpheromones Autospell keep your farkin hair on.
Lovely to see them all together, so entertaining
Barry Humphris came into my cafe one day I worked in , I made him a cappuccino and he was so very very polite and such a gentleman . Even tho I was a young 20s alt punk musician , I had such respect and admiration for barry Humphries . Made my year .
Liar
@@carlhughes9584 no truth , he was on tour and had been out shopping . My cafe was in the middle of the expensive shopping district called Newmarket .
Whenever he toured Adelaide he was a frequent visitor to a couple of leading bookshops - and always polite and courteous to everyone in there - including me.
@@andrewholliday251 And why shouldn't he have been?? Do think famius people deserve having a medal for being polite in public?? Most normal human beings are nice and polite when they go into a book shop.........🙄
@@carlhughes9584 You must be fun to hang out with. lol
I had NO idea that Cook gave Humphries his start in the UK...wonderful...
I was going to rite the same comment.
Peter was extremely talented and recognised the same talent with Barry.
Willy rushton, Dudley Moore..
I have very vague memories of the steep steps in Greek St my mum worked there and I was many times stuck there against my will..I did meet all of them though memories are vague even when your 6 and a half
Of course they weren't so famous then so no I have no selfies
@@Christian-tn5wo that's great.
Barry Humphries is, if not the best, at least one of the best deliverers of a joke I've ever heard.
Groucho was pretty good. He was a depressive. He used the comedy as a mask
Rest in peace Barry, Peter and Clive. No one parodied Australian small mindedness better than Barry.
Barry fouled up trying to parody the Lindy Chamberlain tragedy about the dingo . He quipped that a koala took his baby ,, that's Edna's baby ,, . They were in grief but the media never showed their moments of visible grief .
@@ChucklesMcGurk That is so true..... Paul O'Grady as Lily Savage said some pretty outrageous stuff...but was never admonished by anyone:
Yet a "Straight" comedian making the same joke is pilloried from all quarters....it is indeed a strange world.
Chris Lilley.
Thank god for TH-cam so that the memory of these wonderful artists can live on for as long as possible.
It’s quite something to see Peter Cook, happily take a backseat and listen devotedly
So that`s where Graham Norton got the ejecting red chair! R.I.P. to these 3 legends.
Thank you for uploading absolutely brilliant
Shame he never used it on himself
@@chipbuttytime3396...leave poor Graham alone...
Peter Cook was a very funny man, I always admired Barry Humphries' command of english, which was impeccable having the ability to turn on a dime while ad-libbing
Three brilliant comedians, entertainers, performers and intellects together. Incredible.
Yes and Peter chain smoking, wonderful FREE times! Thank you so much for posting these geniuses at work! 🙏👍😎
@@jakeg1421 Great interview, but I don't miss the smoking I have to say. I used to sing in a band and would constantly lose my voice because of the smoke in venues. I had a doctor tell me that I was allergic to cigarette smoke. I'd never heard of such a thing, but yeah, passive smoking really affected me. And every house I was ever in was filled with smokers. I let people smoke to their hearts content in my own flat 'cos it would've been rude to tell them to go outside. I can't even take a whiff of passing smoke from a cigarette today. It's the one thing from the past that I'm glad is well and truly gone.
And they are all gone-and no substitute in sight. This kind of "letter-intellect", quick thinking and formulating your thoughts isn't en vogue today anymore.
@@stranraerwal I disagree. I think there are people more than capable of holding their own like this. It is more that the media networks don't want this format these days.
@@NewFalconerRecordsYou appear, NFR, to be that rarest of characters; the reasonable non smoker!...
I had the good fortune to encounter Mr Humphries in Machiavelli's restaurant in the Sydney CBD about 12 years or so ago. Thanked him for the many, many laughs I had enjoyed watching him with my father; he was very gracious about it.
BOTH these comedic geniuses gave so many so much joy and mirth.
Sad to see them gone, privileged to have seen them while they were here.
He could talk for hours and hold one's attention for every minute. A brilliant bunch of guys.
Couldn't agree more
Which one? Cook I agree
Louis CK is more to my taste than either of these men.
Who cares. This ideo has nothing to do with him, however good or bad he is. @@matthewbartsh9167
Peter Cook chain-smoking on TV. Those were the days.
Benson & Hedges
Classic Peter Cook and the recently deceased Barry Humphries!!! Both sadly missed!
The twinkle in Barry Humphries's eye, just golden.
The respect shown by Peter Cook to BH is something to see.
Spot on.... that's why he was quieter than usual.
Three rare and precious talents. All three were a great loss to the world when they died.
Their collective experiences and intellect puts pretty much all modern entertainers to shame.
It was really great watching this slow-paced, relaxed interview and as others have pointed out, the respect between them is so good to see. There is something so warming about seeing someone you respect laughing genuinely at someone else you respect.
May all three RIP.
So you've seen ALL modern entertainers to be able to make that claim? Or are you just an old man who can't express love for something old without shitting on something new?
You can just say you like something and leave it at that.
Three real legends sadly missed but never forgotten.
Peter Cook was probably the most naturally and effortlessly funny man ever to walk the Earth......if you have a British sense of humour that is.
I loved the gentleness of this interview and the astute humour of these iconic men.
3 IQ's of this level sitting around a table....leads to great outcomes
I love the understated pace of these two interviews, Bubbling under Barry's Razor sharp satirical wit, throw away one liners, and a dazzling display of eloquent mastery of the English vocab, Peter and Clive sit in awe of Barry's mischievous smile. He rides so close to the wind on topics that no others could navigate with such ease and confidence. A dangerous man/ woman. I have to wonder if Graham Norton saw this interview and some plagiarism exists with the ejection chair concept incorporated into his own show. RIP Mr BH, Clive and Peter, may all three of you have a good old chuckle up in heaven, that's if they let you in of course. LoL Quietly "taking the piss" out of things, as we say down here at the arse end of the South Pacific Ocean, Three of the greatest minds in comedy.
Well summarised Kris. I miss the 3 of them - all razor sharp. All we are left with here is the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and on principle I won't attend any more. Thankfully I can see Kitty Flannagan outside the comedy show dates. so no loss.
I’m only 28 but I have inherited from my much older brother the love of older television, when famous people were talking about their craft and their genius rather than pretending to be celebrities.
I will miss the brilliant and dapper Barry Humphries tremendously. His comedy is savagely funny as he spit roasts famous names, and deservedly, so.
Clive James was also brilliant. I enjoy reading some of his poetry and watching his travel programs. Peter Cook, another lost genius, sadly long departed…
Wonderfully said
It makes me indescribably happy how people way younger than I still recognise the brilliance of these performers.
This whole episode was a master-class in improv. Even Clive knew when to just roll with it, given that his questions etc. were the most scripted bits.
And, overall (despite occasional moments) the subtlety let innuendo pass by without need for censorship. Now THAT'S an art.
100% correct. Don’t really watch chat shows anymore as mainly promoting something and not particularly interesting ‘chat’. Been watching a lot of Orson Wells clips on TH-cam recently, pure genius.
Peter Cook was absolutely correct. The platypus tank was a long tank, and the one inhabitant lurked down one end. Stood there for ages, until the poor animal did one brief lap of said tank, and resumed lurking. I think it was the first public exhibition of a live platypus. This was in the 1960’s. When the Melbourne Zoo also had elephant rides. So his description of a long, darkened room, with the lone tank and the hushed silence was spot on.
I love how the audience's toned down response gives space for the quiet intelligence and respect the 3 have for each other.
So glad this interview was posted. Two geniuses of comedy who clearly crack each other up. In England only John Cleese comes close to the brilliance of Peter Cook, and I know that John would certainly agree. This interview is almost a kind of "passing of the tourch" from Cook to the great Barry Humphries. There are very few individuals capable of making me laugh uncontrollably. Two of them are shown here 'in fine fettle' indeed...
You must be too young to remember Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, or Tommy Cooper…
You know John would agree?
You mean Three great geniuses .
John Cleese once commented that where as it would take a whole day for him to come up with one worthy sketch, Peter Cook could knock one off in less than an hour or maybe even less than that. I think Barry was much the same. Very quick off the mark. Hope he, Pete and Dud and Spike too are having a wonderful reunion up there. What a loss,..the world is getting sadder by the week with these passings.
@@tileux Tommy Cooper does not belong on that list. However funny he may have been, he was a comedy craftsman of the old school, but certainly no genius. Unlike the others you mention, as well as Cleese, Humphries, and Cook, most of his humour was completely unoriginal.
An interesting note is that Barry Humphries was actually three years older than Peter Cook, even though they're all treating Cook as the elder statesman here. The difference was that Peter Cook hit his comic peak very early, in his early twenties, while Barry Humphries honed his craft slowly and was well into his sixties when he reached his peak. Interesting also that they say Bamber Gascoigne, another of the good guys, was the first in the audience to spot Humphries had something.
Bamber was there as a reviewer/critic for a newspaper, so was obliged to stay for the whole performance.
Three magnificent people. Will we ever see anyone as brilliant again?
No.
Yes. Just different.
@@daniellamcgee4251 Honey! Shoulda known I'd find you here!
Must contact presently (sorry this sounds like a a telegram - should be writing STOP in caps in between every sentence). It's been far too long.
XOXO
Absolute joy to watch. Saddens me that their like are never to be seen again. Thank you for the post 👏👏👏
So privileged to be in this time of history to know of them, gold lasts forever
Comic geniuses, all three. Was privileged to see Humphries live twice in my life. He'll be missed. An Australian icon writ large.
Vale Barry Humphries.
I saw him only once: I think it was the Theatre Royal in Sydney: he had the audience in stitches from the get to. Even the poor couple who came in late (or were they part of the act?) seemed to enjoy the roasting throughout the show.
Icons are religious symbols
@@dagwouldi saw his farewell tour several years ago. Very funny. Also went to the literary luncheon where the biography was launched. Funny guy
@glamdolly20 icons literally means religious symbols FFS
@glamdolly20 very funny.
Three geniuses...
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@@stephenbaldwin8963 which one isn’t a genius
@@phillipcarter8045 Clive
Only two.
@@stephenbaldwin8963 you clearly have no idea ... Clive is a massive genius ... Go look him up and be open cos he's so quick and so we'll read and educated ... Hell run rings thru your mind and mash it up good
I recorded this on VHS back when it was first aired and watched it over and over. Hard to believe that all three are now gone. It also goes to show that Barry Humphries was "cancelled" in Australia decades before it was even a thing. In the early 1970s, if anyone had anything slightly negative to say about Australia they were absolutely lambasted. Billy Connolly said, on his first tour of Australia, that Australians were well balanced, they had a chip on each shoulder. Things changed by the end of that decade though. Films like The Adventures of Barry Mackenzie, Don's Party... people like Paul Hogan, bands like Skyhooks... we started to realise that Barry Humphries was right all along with his spot-on satire. My favourite character of his is Sandy Stone. Not as high profile as Edna or Sir Les, but a beautiful character nonetheless. And Peter Cook. Well, none of this could have happened without him. Arguably the greatest comic genius of them all, who pretty much pissed away his talent over time, but as you can see here, he was still super funny. This is humour we will never see again.
Barry was cancelled for being on the left back then but the left cancelled him recently for not being woke..
@@petesmitt ok
Was pretty common for talented Australians to leave the country to be fully appreciated. Clive was one of those too.
Australia was pretty conservative in the 70's. Still the old guard and institutions running the joint.
could it be peters drink problem enhanced his talent,ie allowed him too let it out.
@@petesmitt that's hardly believable
Barry Humphries is a Legend and Genius of Comedy and a One off R.I.P
wow! what a great find. Cook comes off so well here. And did anyone else notice how Humphries basically described Graham Norton? Chair and all?
yes I did. I was like "so this is where GN got the idea from"
@@RhythmicEye Dame Edna was doing it on her chat show long before GN so she stole off Barry first
@@npc3po301 He he he!!! 😂
What a marvelous moment in time. Great seeing Baz and Pete together, especially hosted by Clive! Great stuff!
How good it is to watch this. Barry recently passed away to join Peter and Clive. Thank you for sharing this excellent interview with true stars. Rest in peace gentlemen.
Three absolute legends!
The more I watch Peter and Barry in interviews from the past, the more I get them, both are masters at their craft.
Delighted that this came up… he was one of my closest friends. A wonderful clever and very sensitive man
Back when popular entertainers were entertaining
And they could smoke without some woke twat getting upset.
Back in my day, comedians were funnier..!!... Blah, whinger
Im born before the seventies & I come across plenty of decent comedy, music, film, television everywhere..
Since you figured out how to use a computer, type in Are You being served or the Benny Hill show.. roll about laughing all day then moan about how nobody is as funny as they were back in the good old day's
Oh, man. As much as part of me shouts out in support of the “back in my day” mindset, the problem is it’s all confirmation bias. Cook and Humphries were world-class acts, so naturally we watch their stuff decades later. And we don’t watch the crap acts, or even average acts, so some of us start thinking the past was 100% amazing.
God no. Ever watched the earliest stuff from Kenny Everett? As hilarious as it is to imply I think he was crap, it’s not him I’m aiming at, he’s great, it’s his guest content. TH-cam has several of his late-‘70s shows: 50/50 sketches, and pop-song performances by artists of the time. I started watching one, thrilled to witness a slice of ‘70s music … and it was crap! Most were! Utter dirges for the most part.
It’s not the dirges we replay today. We replay the best. It’s like viewing Roman structures millennia after construction, still-operating aqueducts, and marveling at the Romans’ 100% expert design. Nah. All their non-expert stuff crumbled and disappeared centuries past. Same here.
Celebrities used to be interesting characters.
@@arthurcharlesharrison1361 Throw-away remark, a generalisation that largely holds true in step with any other observation that can be be made concerning the undeniable decline in our culture and civilisation. Don’t hurt yourself over-thinking it
An interview this sumptuous is deserved of many views...it truly is a gift that simply keeps on giving ...superb!!! God bless them all...I picture the three of them all meeting up at the pearly gates and the fun ensuring all over again 🇦🇺👏❤️
RIP Barry & Peter. Two brilliant actors, writers and comedians. Thanks for the memories. 🙏🙏🙏 Thanks Clive. RIP. At Peace.
Magic. I didn’t want it to end. R.I.P. fellas. 😢
Can you imagine these three at a dinner party
And they're all gone! Nobody told me that the second half of life is filled with having to watch family, friends and loved ones die, and looking on as your comedy heros and other inspiring people leave the stage. I loved these guys - and I'm very sad that they're not still around.
Take comfort in the fact of the gaping void that would have been had they never existed in the first place, during your life.
Small blessings.
Pure gold, 3 brilliant people.
After watching this I went to sleep and had a very pleasant dream in which I directed a low budget version of Three Men in a Boat for Thames television with these three legends playing the leads but dressed up as Ratty, Mole and Badger. I hope I dream it again.
Sounds like heaven!
What an interview! Wonderful entertainers.
🤣 What a great interview. Clive James did a fab job feeding lines. When you get Peter Cook cracking up you know you're truly funny. What a couple of legends. It always strikes me that they both have handsome smiles. RIP both, sorely missed but never forgotten.
Commenting on the 'iceberg' Aids commercial I loved Peter's observation that they may as well have had Kenny Williams saying "No, Stop Messing About !". Brilliant.
Peter Cook, Clive James & Barry Humphries, absolutely ripping the piss….😂😂😂
We will miss him. A true icon we Aussies hold close to our hearts.
Took you bloody long enough mate! You invented 'cancelling' people!
Humphries. I find quite sexy in this interview. Peter Cook has that mad gleam in his eye. God, they were marvelous!
Really great seeing these 3 geniuses of comedy who clearly enjoyed each other's company - sad they are all gone now. Thank you for posting this in full!
His most memorable line, playing the devil telling Dudley Moore, saying “ Trust Me”. Probably one the top ten classic lines uttered in movies. Thanks.
So strange to even see someone light a cigarette on a tv interview. How times change
Clive James and Barry Humphries, great comedy timing, what a vacuum they have left.
Peter Cook you were always unique, and Humphries delightful.
Yes, I also met him. A very lovely, down to earth man.
A sad day when he died
Barry Humphrey's is absolutely brilliant!
3 legends. much missed.
Simply sublime. Thank you for the upload
absolute hoot from the past
So wonderful to see my favourite humorists once more.
Superb. Erudite, funny and rather charming.
Great TV with genuinely talented people.
Notice how none of them are flogging anything, they’re just there to talk and entertain.
Hear hear! Those were the days. Notice, too, how there was no interrupting each other and each clearly enjoyed the other so much.
Peter cook was a comedy genius❤
I once sold Barry a plastic dinosaur in The Australian Museum sadly unaware that he would have liked my job
What a great interview! Three beautifully matched wits, all much missed.
Amazing to see the respect Peter Cook has for Barry Humphries
I grew up watching all three of these comic geniuses, I find the world much more depressing as talent like this leaves us...
What a treat to discover this , 3 geniouses of comedy , sadly now all gone and all irreplaceable .
This was wonderful! I've missed so much over the years. Christmas greetings to you all from Stockholm.
Absolutely brilliant!! Great to know that good humour lives for ever.
Marsupial inhalation. 😂😂 Great to see Barry entertaining Clive and Peter. Remember seeing this when It originally, aired, hard to believe they are all gone. RIP fellas
My goodness. What a collection of minds there. And the space they all leave each other......a complete understanding and appreciation of each others talent and ability. So different now, when it's mainly a load of talentless nobody's all tryng to shout crap louder than the others. Far better days, and unbelievably sad all 3 are gone, and we will never see their likes again.
Pure joy. I remember seeing this when it was first broadcast. Wonderful to see it again.
👏All brilliant
I wish Clive James could have been with us for another hundred years.
I loved the skit with pater and Dudley on Beyond the Fringe about a married couple with gunfight going on in the background.I wish I could find it.Baŕry Humphries was a genius and so quick witted
Thank you so much for this. I've seen it many times, but not is such a high quality HD video. What a treat!
Unbelievable gentlemen and a host that let them gently relax into there stride magnificent
Three great comedy brains in the same room at the same time.
It was Clive James that said "the problem with Australia is that we didn't just send them out our prisoners, but we sent out the prison gaurds too". Being from the UK, I didn't quite understand what CJ meant, but seeing what was happening in Australia when the covid hit, I can now see what he meant. Love all three of these guys, and there's something whimsicle and slightly meloncholy about Barry Humphries (as if he knew he was before his time). Peter Cook is always great and with no real ego either. You can clearly tell that all three of them had a tremendous respect for each other. This is not just a master class of comedy, it is also a masterclass on how to socialise and be an adult. There is just as much to learn here than Jorden Peterson video's. It is just alot more subtle is all.
It wasn’t CJ who first said that. It was Peter Ustinov.
@@johnenglish929 Wow, CJ didn't quote P.U. in an interview that I saw. Loved Peter Ustinov too.
@@louisgreen3915 PU used to do it as a part of his one man show which I saw in London in, I think, the 80s. He was brilliant. He did it in the context of an Australian saying to him that he didn’t like Australians because they are descended from convicts to which PU replied he was more worried about the fact that ten per cent of them were descended from warders ! I really enjoyed this re-run of CJ, PC and BH. I saw a show which CJ wrote and performed with Pamela Stephenson called Charles Charming’s Challenges. It was panned by the critics so I wrote to CJ saying how much we had enjoyed it, and got a really nice hand written letter back from him !
@@johnenglish929 This is why I always say that they don't make stars like this anymore.
@@louisgreen3915 Absolutely. The genuine comedic talent - both writers and performers - around in that era was in credible. I am so glad to have lived through it.
_"Without the moustache, MacMillan couldn't have done anything"_ the stuff Peter Cook comes out with is pure comedy gold. 🤣
22:51 lmao
Dream dinner party guests. All three of them. Wherever they are now, I just hope the are appearing on an endless chat show
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What a wonderful interview. I always loved Clive James wit and laid back style.
Ive never watched an interview with Barry Humphries, but he was so quick and sharp. Great chemistry between them all. I could have listened to them for hours
Clive James 🙏 His books made me laugh out loud.
A brilliant interview. Subtle, spontaneous humour, beautifully executed, timing and delivery perfect and space for the guests to speak and to blurt out a series of trite one-liners. Three masters of the art all gone now, but not forgotten. RIP all three and lucky us to have these interludes to laugh at from deep within when we need a perk-up.
peter cook predicting QR codes and Alexa.
Hilarious and Clever !!!
Wonderful chat - couldn’t help but notice Peter Cook’s chain smoking - I think it took him off in the end.
That and the brandy.
Awesome to see the three together
....Maggie is a triumph of the depilators art!' - top line from Peter Cook!
English and Aussie humour at its finest, brilliant
Lovely to see these legends, intelligent, witty & hilarious the likes of which we rarely see today. RIP beautiful minds- forever remembered with a smile 💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏
that advertising spiel was a gem
3 legends. Thank you for sharing. ❤