Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and John Cleese 'Interesting Facts'

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    In this clip: Peter Cook winds John Cleese up something chronic, from the 1979 Ball.
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  • @petejones879
    @petejones879 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love Peters deadpan delivery on every comment he makes

  • @TheGoldennach
    @TheGoldennach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The guy telling all the interesting facts is like TH-cam with all the recommended videos

  • @rosanneshinkle4133
    @rosanneshinkle4133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Hysterical. Never tire of these skits.

  • @Serai3
    @Serai3 11 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Two geniuses. So brilliant.

    • @christosvoskresye
      @christosvoskresye 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I would double the number of thumbs up, if I could.

  • @dannymccune1888
    @dannymccune1888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    If elephants could leap, pound for pound, as high as crickets, it would be a good idea to avoid startling them.

  • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
    @golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Peter Cook would have made a fantastic Doctor Who.

    • @joandar1
      @joandar1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can just imagine what the Dr would be able to do.
      I am A fan of both,. John Australia.

  • @Baribrotzer
    @Baribrotzer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    There aren't very many people who John Cleese would honor by playing the straight man to.
    Peter Cook was one of them.

  • @Realbillball
    @Realbillball 11 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    That is just so f***ing brilliantly funny.

  • @josephloehr9617
    @josephloehr9617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    John starts laughing and Peter sticks him a bit more

  • @jeanmyers1787
    @jeanmyers1787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Peter Cook was amazing, I’m not dissing John Cleese, also very funny but Peter Cook absolute genius

    • @troystaunton254
      @troystaunton254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well John Cleese is playing the straight man to Pete’s jokester.

    • @terrythekittieful
      @terrythekittieful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      JC made a comment that he (and sometimes with Graham Chapman) would take a whole day to write a sketch whereas Peter Cook could knock one off in an hour. High praise.

    • @Arareemote
      @Arareemote 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@terrythekittieful"a 3-minute sketch in 3 minutes." Was Cleese's comment if I recall

    • @terrythekittieful
      @terrythekittieful 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Arareemote I wonder if 'Squatter and the Ant' was one of those ready made sketches? I love that one.

  • @victorriceroni8455
    @victorriceroni8455 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh damn, that is hysterical.

  • @ikmarchini
    @ikmarchini ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Such a plethora of talents John Cleese can play straight man.

  • @Diamonddavej
    @Diamonddavej 10 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    All these facts are true according to legend.

    • @markglass9123
      @markglass9123 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. They absotively, posilutely must be true. Otherwise, they wouldn't be allowed to remain on the internet.

  • @krisbrants9461
    @krisbrants9461 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When Peter Cook started talking, somehow I felt he shouldve been cast as Dolorous Edd in Game of Thrones

    • @MrLambertinho
      @MrLambertinho 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      just dig him up first

  • @cautionTosser
    @cautionTosser 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seems no one could work with Cook without some sort of prop to cover the inevitable break (newspaper, sandwich, etc...)
    he was a formidable foe/partner :)

  • @clayz1
    @clayz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The guy who wants to read the paper vs the guy who has no clue. The rock and a hard place.

  • @azapro911
    @azapro911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think of this every time Jeremy Clarkson does his adenoids gags.

  • @user-px3oh1fk6b
    @user-px3oh1fk6b ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Peter Cook is a Genius!

  • @colinbaker3916
    @colinbaker3916 10 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Two different comedic styles. Cleese was versed in thoroughly rehearsed material, whereas Cook loved going off script and could ad lib magnificently like this. All the other performer could do is try to keep up, only coming in where necessary with ad libs of his own.

    • @colinbaker3916
      @colinbaker3916 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      True. Part of the reason why he was such a genius.
      Cleese would sometimes go off script in performances of The Parrot Sketch to make Michael Palin corpse. It makes the whole thing even funnier.

    • @chriselyr2484
      @chriselyr2484 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@colinbaker3916 Mr Palin corpsing just makes those performances funnier though :) Especially when he tries to make Mr Cleese laugh in return by over exaggerating his facial expressions and pronunciations. There is a genuine sense of warmth in the performances of this generation of comics

    • @ikmarchini
      @ikmarchini ปีที่แล้ว

      That's why Cleese has a newspaper- to hide his giggles.

  • @JillHayling
    @JillHayling 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I was there. Fab night with them. I worked a BBC World Service and we got in for this great production . So Funny 😆✔️

    • @fatty_owls
      @fatty_owls ปีที่แล้ว

      you're so lucky 😭a lot of my favourite comedians died before I was born 😭😭

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The ironic thing is Peter Cook died from his intestine bursting.

  • @tdsims1963
    @tdsims1963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    OMG, I have actually met someone like this!!
    Comedy gold.

  • @davereeves454
    @davereeves454 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Love seeing cleese trying to keep it together. Lol

  • @Groucho-tg1tx
    @Groucho-tg1tx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All I have to do is look at john Cleese, and I roll over..

  • @thereisbeautyinthisworld7251
    @thereisbeautyinthisworld7251 ปีที่แล้ว

    These always crack me up.

  • @fuzzballzz36
    @fuzzballzz36 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Long live E. L. Wisty!

  • @kt9166
    @kt9166 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank God Cleese had the newspaper just in case he couldn't keep a straight face!

  • @juliangarner56
    @juliangarner56 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A couple of people here forgot to activate their funny bone.

  • @opensourceintelligence
    @opensourceintelligence 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow!

  • @Powerneck
    @Powerneck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Comedy Genius 😎

  • @maxpower789z
    @maxpower789z 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Mawwaige!

  • @markturner3893
    @markturner3893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Peter Cooke reminds me of Johnny Rotten

    • @kevindoran9389
      @kevindoran9389 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was just about to say it, he actually looks a bit like him too.

    • @MrLeglamp
      @MrLeglamp ปีที่แล้ว

      That's because they're both dead.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'd never noticed it before, but YES! The smile as he goes in for the kill...

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MrLeglamp Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon is very much alive and kicking.

  • @kevinogracia1615
    @kevinogracia1615 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cook and Cleese boils down to Classic.

  • @davebentley4829
    @davebentley4829 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    yes you do,he was right about that one.

  • @donaldmcdaniel1773
    @donaldmcdaniel1773 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is John Cleese (one of the great figures of post-war British comedy) appearing alongside one of his inspirations; a man who could apparently write a 6 minute sketch - this is shorter - in 6 minutes. No British male should be able to do this without giving up masturbation.

    • @dukecraig2402
      @dukecraig2402 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The ironic thing is Peter Cook died from his intestine bursting.

  • @robertmoreland6156
    @robertmoreland6156 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The BBC or comedy clubs would never recognise their talents in today’s world. I’m so lucky to be old enough, when these genius’s were allowed to preform. 😂😂😷👍

    • @joandar1
      @joandar1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well Said as they did perform well, John, Australia.

    • @oxymoxym7371
      @oxymoxym7371 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're sending up those institutions. Which retroactively brought about the conditions you describe in today's reality..
      Lying with absurd explanations about factual things with a straight face.

    • @fatty_owls
      @fatty_owls ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I'm so lucky to have parents who showed me Monty Python when I was 8. Otherwise I would be watching Mean Girls and Twilight like the rest of my miserable year group (I'm 14). My parents never knew about Peter Cook, so I'm so glad he did stuff with Monty Python or I would have never discovered him. (He's now my favourite comedian along with John Cleese)

    • @voiskumbeaver3285
      @voiskumbeaver3285 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Allowed"

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In the alleged Good Old Days of the 70s, Pete and Dud actually did nearly get banned when they did their show 'Behind the Fridge' on Australian television.
      When will someone do a satire on the whinging 'You couldn't say that today with all this wokeness gone mad!' TH-cam commenters?

  • @Theodoric93
    @Theodoric93 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    But what of the Holiday Bombs Fear?!

  • @markschroeder5559
    @markschroeder5559 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tell us a story daddy Night Night

  • @catherinelynnfraser2001
    @catherinelynnfraser2001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is that a fact?

  • @rottenapple6109
    @rottenapple6109 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tes-TY- nawl Mawd- ling.

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cook vs Cleese is too funny and too tall chaps...uptight vs absurd 😂

  • @gruff824
    @gruff824 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The penguins made me do it, sorry
    ,?

  • @Confused_Philosopher
    @Confused_Philosopher 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For one thing the intestines are after the stomach. So it doesn't take 4 hrs to get to your stomach. once you swallow it's in your stomach.

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are assuming the direction of travel.

  • @atulbhatt7386
    @atulbhatt7386 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If a doctor had to market himself.

  • @irenemax3574
    @irenemax3574 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Arable land... it's tilled by Arabs." 😅

  • @hitsnooze771
    @hitsnooze771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Cleese saying "fornicating" instead of "fucking" is interesting.

    • @seansmith3058
      @seansmith3058 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a better insult

    • @sureshot8399
      @sureshot8399 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@seansmith3058 It is.

  • @frankmurphyburr3598
    @frankmurphyburr3598 ปีที่แล้ว

    Intestinal modeling 😅

  • @soulpanther9
    @soulpanther9 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That explains why humans should never eat food left out for more than a few hours. If fresh food reaches your stomach in four hours......well.....yeah.

  • @Kwippy
    @Kwippy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He's wrong about the whale. It's a mammal, and that IS a fact.

    • @jimbeckwith5949
      @jimbeckwith5949 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      ThewayICit are you some kind of idiot? It's a well established fact that whales are actually REPTILES and originated on Mars..... and you are an absolutely humourless pedantic got.

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You mean git!

    • @yan24to
      @yan24to 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You are the most boring, cloth eared,flatulent

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That was a joke.

  • @baldbollocks
    @baldbollocks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Not the slitest bit funny.

  • @Wilkins_Micawber
    @Wilkins_Micawber 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This humour wasn't funny the first time I saw it originally on TV. Do you know? It still isn't funny.

    • @jane---489
      @jane---489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *_No one "Knows," and "know" one cares what you think ..._*

  • @ginskimpivot753
    @ginskimpivot753 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Never took to this and Python. Utter rubbish.

    • @shadowlandstudios86
      @shadowlandstudios86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So sad.

    • @gaylasmith5279
      @gaylasmith5279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You've absolutely no sense of humour. Sorry for you. These gentlemen are beyond brilliant.