Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore 'Frog and Peach'

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  • @fords_nothere_100
    @fords_nothere_100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    "I thought, at the time, rightly or wrongly, possibly both..." So many great lines here. These guys will always hold up.

  • @commandert5
    @commandert5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    I love Dudley Moore's attempts to keep a straight face.

  • @bazcuda
    @bazcuda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Just for a few delightful minutes we can pretend they're both still with us.

    • @shabbysuzannah3702
      @shabbysuzannah3702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Agreed

    • @billyhodges7194
      @billyhodges7194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The best of the best

    • @thomaspatton3401
      @thomaspatton3401 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Amen

    • @Orphen42O
      @Orphen42O 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whenever I want to describe something that is "six of one, half a dozen of another" I often used the "frog a la pesche or pesche a la frog" analogy. Back in the late Sixties nobody understood what I meant until the "Secret Policeman's Ball" became more well-known. Now every Baby Boomer sees the humor of "frog a la pesche or pesche a la frog".

  • @BenVarkentine
    @BenVarkentine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    More than 25 years since they first worked together, and Peter Cook was still trying to break Dudley Moore onstage.

    • @tommototo
      @tommototo 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Seize it."

  • @dinsy512
    @dinsy512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This has always been one of my favourite pieces of sketch comedy, and it’s still an absolute cackfest! The writing, the comic timing, the corpsing! My tummy hurts from the laughing!

  • @groovygirl23
    @groovygirl23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I once saw them do this live. Peter Cook was a comic genius.

  • @stooben1
    @stooben1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I've learned from my mistakes and I'm sure I could repeat them exactly.

  • @cathryncampbell8555
    @cathryncampbell8555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "The 't' is silent as in 'fox.' " Perfection!

  • @irenemax3574
    @irenemax3574 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Do you feel you have learned from your mistakes?"
    "Certainly. I have learned from my mistakes and I am sure I can repeat them exactly."

  • @InshushaGroupie
    @InshushaGroupie 8 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    Some of the funniest comedy I've ever seen is Peter Cook trying to make Dudley Moore laugh.

    • @revbenf6870
      @revbenf6870 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And he always succeeded!

  • @danmagoo
    @danmagoo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My hometown (and perhaps others) had an actual restaurant with this name, presumably a tribute to the comedy sketch, which you had to admire for the obscurity of the reference. The menu was pretty normal, though - in fact it was a classy place.

  • @jeanmyers1787
    @jeanmyers1787 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I think Dud’s first love was as a pianist. My heart goes out to him when he was unable to do that as his disease progressed

  • @Orphen42O
    @Orphen42O 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I remember when this first came out. At the time, I had trouble explaining these sketches to friends because British comedy was not very popular at the time. The Monty Python Show is a now a classic.

    • @waynemarvin5661
      @waynemarvin5661 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ahem, Monty Python's Flying Circus!

  • @rickrose5377
    @rickrose5377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have reservations for Friday.
    (And I feel sure I shall have those reservations always.)

  • @tigerboy1966
    @tigerboy1966 11 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Dud is so easy to crack up and Pete takes full advantage.

  • @123barriejohn
    @123barriejohn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Such incredible talent. I loved Peter Cook's appearance on the Clive Anderson show, when he portrayed three completely different, lunatic characters!

    • @GoteeDevotee
      @GoteeDevotee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Five, you must have missed the other two

    • @martm216
      @martm216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh yes! The football manager was brilliant. 'Football! She's hard taskmaster and tough mistress. She's in me bloody. She's in me bones. She's in me shoulders . . . Well you see, I'm a Scunny man. And they don't like Scunny men in Hartlepool.'

  • @Kimdino1
    @Kimdino1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Sir Arthur would make a good politician. Learning from his mistakes to the point where he is sure that he could repeat them exactly.

  • @shanewright2772
    @shanewright2772 9 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Peter Cook was the funniest man who ever drew breath.

    • @patavinity7673
      @patavinity7673 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Genius of the first order

    • @anthonybygrave889
      @anthonybygrave889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shane Wright he's my all time comedy hero

    • @whatshisname3304
      @whatshisname3304 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      definitely

    • @ploppysonofploppy6066
      @ploppysonofploppy6066 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The way he used his age, his slowing reflexes, his growing confidence, to hone his comic timing - like a sportsman uses experience to slow their game down really! Masterful.

    • @fuzzballzz36
      @fuzzballzz36 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he was!

  • @sylviavasquez9523
    @sylviavasquez9523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I watch this at least once a month. Perfection.

  • @steinwaygrande3971
    @steinwaygrande3971 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Two wondergul and highly talended men. Gone but no nevert forgotten

  • @123barriejohn
    @123barriejohn 12 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    "I wrote a letter" - hahahahaha!!!!! In some ways, Peter Cook is unsurpassed. His Clive Anderson characterisations were also brilliant.

    • @jayselad
      @jayselad 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those interviews with Clive anderson have been pulled from you tube but I did have the pleasure if seeing them in the past. Brilliant Peter just morphed into character fantastic

    • @josh2Sides2
      @josh2Sides2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He took those from his times ringing into Radio shows in different "characters"

    • @scottdittmer5597
      @scottdittmer5597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "I felt strangely calm, but at the same time Horribly Terrified".... !!

    • @markschildberg1667
      @markschildberg1667 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pete ad libbed after that line at one performance: “Dear Sir: Stop it.”

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Moore relished this straight man role! Cook a master of absurdity and language! Frog and peach 🍑 Seize it! Despite having issues these two could deliver the goods...Moore couldn't stop from laughing 😂 years later.

    • @krisscanlon4051
      @krisscanlon4051 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Still watching it😂😅 Moore corpsing😂

  • @111oooo
    @111oooo 9 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    They did a comedy album called Good Evening, this was one of the sketches. The whole album is hilarious

  • @JonnyRollin
    @JonnyRollin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Cook had a way with words like no other comedian.

  • @derekpink
    @derekpink 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:50 even this bit and especially the groan get a big laugh. Comedic geniuses.

  • @boosh90
    @boosh90 10 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    yes well I wrote a letter

    • @RobJazzful
      @RobJazzful 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Connor Hutcheon but, it took so long to get there...

    • @RobJazzful
      @RobJazzful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Connor Hutcheon Dear sirs, STOP IT!!

  • @Grondiron
    @Grondiron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The writing and performance is outstanding. British comedy is the best in the world, no doubt about it.

    • @Macca-rb5ok
      @Macca-rb5ok 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's a very, very difficult claim to prove. You'd have to travel the world and listen to/ observe the comedy of every other nation for starters...as an example, the Congolese are extremely funny.

    • @alisongilmore9814
      @alisongilmore9814 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@Macca-rb5ok🎉😅

    • @alisongilmore9814
      @alisongilmore9814 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂❤

    • @alisongilmore9814
      @alisongilmore9814 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It hurts2much❤

  • @Gamble661
    @Gamble661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This may very well be a Mandela Effect thing but I distinctly recall seeing this sketch many years ago and Peter Cook talks about lowering his wife into a well to catch the frogs. Something like; his wife hates doing it....and the frogs don't care for it much either. I recall that as the funniest line in the sketch!

    • @thezealouscellist1966
      @thezealouscellist1966 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, this line appeared in a version of the script I uncovered. About 15 years ago, the private school one of my music students went to announced that they were putting together an evening of British comedy and I signed up to perform in this sketch. Sadly, I was unable to reconcile the rehearsal schedule with the rest of my busy life and had to drop it before rehearsals had even begun. I considered it the opportunity of a lifetime sorely missed.

    • @martinclark8162
      @martinclark8162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kevdude you're right, for sure his name was Greeb Streebling before they turned CERN on - world's gone nuts.

    • @BlookbugIV
      @BlookbugIV 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’ve got a version with the wife down the well on my iPod, doesn’t have a live audience.

    • @BlookbugIV
      @BlookbugIV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Here’s a live version includes the wife down the well th-cam.com/video/_I1osNiqcbI/w-d-xo.html
      Smaller venue.

    • @Elitist20
      @Elitist20 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      'Of course, she's not a well woman.'
      'No?'
      'Not a well woman at all, so she very much resents having to go down the well every morning.'

  • @larrymclarnon-pd8xf
    @larrymclarnon-pd8xf 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    A couple of absolute treasures.

  • @michaelhands2189
    @michaelhands2189 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "...rightly or wrongly, possibly both" X)

  • @HugoHackenbush-jq7hl
    @HugoHackenbush-jq7hl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was there. Got hold of 4 tickets from the box office in person, for the grand old price of £20 (that's a mighty £5 a ticket) Myself, girlfriend and kid brother. Sold the spare outside face value, 5 quid, to a long haired bloke into The Who, because he'd heard,
    "Pete Townshend was gonna be there." Great night. Never bettered.

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pete & Dud at their absolute finest here!

  • @MrRolandMichel
    @MrRolandMichel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yup kids, that is Comedy, take note!

  • @123barriejohn
    @123barriejohn 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have a feeling that this is from "The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball" in 1989, when the show returned to its comedic roots, and the two definitely appeared together, but I'm not sure!

    • @BlookbugIV
      @BlookbugIV 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes that’s correct. The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball in 89. They did their One Leg Too Few sketch for it too.

  • @SneakyShark
    @SneakyShark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "The T is silent, as in 'Fox'" - such a daft line delivered in a perfectly deadpan way :)

    • @andersonsmith979
      @andersonsmith979 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Excuse me, the 'T' is silent as in 'Ftox.'

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Still don't get it. Even by absurd standards isn't that silly? Having a T in a word that has no T. Would have sounded better imo if it was a word that resembled Streeb Greebling.

    • @rickrose5377
      @rickrose5377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ColtraneTaylor
      Excuse me, but there are few Ts so silent as the one in 'fox'.

    • @jonathanwhalley8471
      @jonathanwhalley8471 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rickrose5377 ....or the P is silent as in swimming!

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @George Leech It's kind of aggravating because I enjoy almost anything absurd but this one just escapes my grasp. Looks like I have a logical streak.

  • @cathywilson3146
    @cathywilson3146 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolute brilliance.

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the upload. 😊

  • @reded1905
    @reded1905 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the funniest teams of all time, any country, any time, any where.

  • @MaskedMan66
    @MaskedMan66 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "It is so... so, what's the word? Uh... It's down there, isn't it?" LOL

  • @exclusivemaintenancecompan8015
    @exclusivemaintenancecompan8015 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your mum sounds a great character and I will be using “frog a la peshe” and vice versa going forward

  • @mrjw6701
    @mrjw6701 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brilliant double act in someways they were way ahead of their time. Looking at this it’s hard to believe that Dudley was nearly 2 years older than Peter.

    • @vangroover1903
      @vangroover1903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, Peter Cook doesn't look a day under 75 there.

  • @123barriejohn
    @123barriejohn 11 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Capital punishment's been abolished for some time now."
    "Yes it has, Except in my neck of the woods."
    "Who better to take the law into their own hands than a judge?"
    I'm still laughing!

  • @lycian123
    @lycian123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can’t quite believe Cook. No one can be that funny. He seems genuinely very funny but to me it’s impossible. How can a man have that ability?

  • @aldershot5100
    @aldershot5100 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    great they got back together after their rift

  • @azapro911
    @azapro911 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Nearly twenty years apart and Peter can still get Dudley to corpse. 😂

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Que lindo verlo a Dudley
    .Esta emocionado por los aplausos. Y por reencontrarse con Cook. 😆😃

  • @louisethompson8579
    @louisethompson8579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

  • @wgb01001
    @wgb01001 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Seize it!

  • @dielaughing73
    @dielaughing73 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "It's enough to put you off your food, which is a damn good thing considering what the food is like"

  • @barryispuzzled
    @barryispuzzled 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great chemistry between these two.

  • @anthonyvaughan6470
    @anthonyvaughan6470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    BRILLIANT !!!

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gosh....Cook was only 52 here, but he looks 15 years older. His voice sounds that way, too, from smoking so much for so long. He died only 6 years later than this benefit, which puts his health in a better perspective for dying so young.

  • @billmilligan1705
    @billmilligan1705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is an actual restaurant in the states called the frog and peach.

  • @AC-ih7jc
    @AC-ih7jc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    IIRC, there used to be a pub in the Smithtown, NY area called "The Frog and Peach" back in the 1980s or so. I don't know if it had any connection to this routine.
    Can any Long Islanders back me up on this?

  • @macpdm
    @macpdm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pure brilliance

  • @alexfletcher5192
    @alexfletcher5192 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I forget who it was who said Cook had 'funniness' like some people have 'beauty' and it's enough to make Dudley Moore - at this point even a Hollywood attraction - crack up.

  • @TheMorbius1
    @TheMorbius1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are most correct!!

  • @aryehfinklestein9041
    @aryehfinklestein9041 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Brilliant!!!

  • @billmilligan1705
    @billmilligan1705 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    There is an actual restaurant in New Jersey called the frog and peach.

  • @NJTDover
    @NJTDover 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    True and clean comedy unlike today's rubbish.

    • @philiptaylor7902
      @philiptaylor7902 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You never heard Derek & Clive then! Not that I suggest you do - it's only suitable for those with a strong stomach.

  • @jameseddison5356
    @jameseddison5356 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Old school hilarious.

  • @Thursdaym2
    @Thursdaym2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yesteryear...sheer talent. These days....rubbish.

  • @trackdaybob
    @trackdaybob 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Genius.

  • @duncanpearce7499
    @duncanpearce7499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the funniest thing ive ever seen

  • @grahamobrienverynicex9804
    @grahamobrienverynicex9804 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    They were brill xx

  • @LJY08
    @LJY08 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fuck these two are funny. It's that beautiful British tradition of not wanting to offend anyone, even if they are a complete tool box.

  • @raspel31
    @raspel31 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Peter Cook the greatest comic mind of all time- but a sad reminder of how alcohol killed him. Not his best. So sad.

  • @charbelbader1
    @charbelbader1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the waiter ??! very often yes

  • @bbmcrae
    @bbmcrae 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    LOVE this sketch. What year is it from?

  • @soeffingwhat
    @soeffingwhat 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thats correct from September 1989, I have it on CD.

    • @esmeephillips5888
      @esmeephillips5888 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After 'Arthur 2' there was little left for Dudley but to resume his role as Cook's stooge.

  • @ruiseartalcorn
    @ruiseartalcorn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Geniuses! :)

  • @argelbargel7680
    @argelbargel7680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The good old F & P.

  • @reded1905
    @reded1905 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's brilliance, and then there's this. Abbott and Costello's Who's On First and Andy Griffiths What It Was Was Football are it's only competition.

  • @pldinfobox
    @pldinfobox ปีที่แล้ว

    Why.... Why do we lose the ones we love...

  • @scottrooney8954
    @scottrooney8954 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant 🤩

  • @PaulDavies-r5w
    @PaulDavies-r5w 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ello Dud, Ello Pete class above comedy!😂

  • @elicohen6348
    @elicohen6348 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No he wasn’t.
    Stewart Lee told me that

  • @darkelectric2024
    @darkelectric2024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Guess you had to be there !

  • @jimmyd.
    @jimmyd. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Yes well, I wrote a letter”...

  • @MrClingclong
    @MrClingclong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Does anyone think we will be watching videos of Nish Kumar, Josh Widdecombe and Sarah Millican in thirty years time?
    Me neither.

  • @landrightsforgaywhales5766
    @landrightsforgaywhales5766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The body language here is telling - why is Moore leaning away from Cook in that manner?

    • @jamespfitz
      @jamespfitz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If it's telling, why are you asking?

  • @TheAutisticCat
    @TheAutisticCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In what year was this filmed please Sir?

  • @stephaniehand503
    @stephaniehand503 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    great

  • @ozzie-sk9dh
    @ozzie-sk9dh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well I wrote a letter!

  • @UserName-sj8fg
    @UserName-sj8fg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't control the sound volume!

  • @patrikwright2658
    @patrikwright2658 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Classic

  • @dandanz7877
    @dandanz7877 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ethal the frog and super mario peach

  • @deborahgonzalezknight168
    @deborahgonzalezknight168 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dudley was gorgeous.

  • @steenthorse8579
    @steenthorse8579 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    When is this from

  • @hugohackenbush1554
    @hugohackenbush1554 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Pêche a la frog."

  • @marcm4192
    @marcm4192 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “The T is silent as in fox”

  • @frankmurphyburr3598
    @frankmurphyburr3598 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ...well i wrote a letter

  • @RockinAtheist
    @RockinAtheist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A frog with a peach in its mouth - yummy!

  • @terryperring104
    @terryperring104 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When WAS this??

    • @HughTerry69
      @HughTerry69 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1989 - the 'Biggest Ball' I think.

  • @writeract2
    @writeract2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    what year is this?

  • @simmo5071
    @simmo5071 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just a thought frog and peach, yuk, now toad and peach, yummy

  • @theseeker3771
    @theseeker3771 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dudley Moore is amazingly funny.... he never was a straight-man, he just didn't have to speak as much to be funny.

  • @thumbsgherkin8742
    @thumbsgherkin8742 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    At the speed of thought it isn’t minder

  • @UltimaThule1968
    @UltimaThule1968 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did you hear about the well woman? She wouldn't go down the well. She wasn't very well. Well, she wouldn't be, would she? Not being a well woman.

  • @helipeek2736
    @helipeek2736 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yorkshire moors? I can see your problem, the original was on Dartmoor, much better for passing trade.