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 2 жыл бұрын

I love Peters deadpan delivery on every comment he makes

@TheGoldennach 3 жыл бұрын

The guy telling all the interesting facts is like KZfaq with all the recommended videos

@Baribrotzer 3 жыл бұрын

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

@rosanneshinkle4133 2 жыл бұрын

Hysterical. Never tire of these skits.

@dannymccune1888 4 жыл бұрын

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

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 жыл бұрын

Peter Cook would have made a fantastic Doctor Who.

@joandar1 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Serai3 10 жыл бұрын

Two geniuses. So brilliant.

@christosvoskresye 3 жыл бұрын

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

@jeanmyers1787 4 жыл бұрын

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

@troystaunton254 2 жыл бұрын

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

@terrythekittieful 2 жыл бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@terrythekittieful 11 ай бұрын

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

@Realbillball 11 жыл бұрын

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

@JillHayling 4 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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

@dukecraig2402 2 ай бұрын

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

@ikmarchini Жыл бұрын

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

@josephloehr9617 5 жыл бұрын

John starts laughing and Peter sticks him a bit more

@cautionTosser 11 ай бұрын

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 :)

@davereeves454 6 жыл бұрын

Love seeing cleese trying to keep it together. Lol

@victorriceroni8455 2 жыл бұрын

Oh damn, that is hysterical.

@Diamonddavej 10 жыл бұрын

All these facts are true according to legend.

@markglass9123 Жыл бұрын

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

@tdsims1963 2 жыл бұрын

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

@azapro911 2 жыл бұрын

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

@clayz1 2 жыл бұрын

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

@krisbrants9461 10 жыл бұрын

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

@MrLambertinho 10 жыл бұрын

just dig him up first

@user-px3oh1fk6b Жыл бұрын

Peter Cook is a Genius!

@robertmoreland6156 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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

@oxymoxym7371 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

"Allowed"

@Elitist20 2 ай бұрын

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!' KZfaq commenters?

@thereisbeautyinthisworld7251 Жыл бұрын

These always crack me up.

@colinbaker3916 10 жыл бұрын

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 7 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 Жыл бұрын

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

@Groucho-tg1tx Жыл бұрын

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

@kt9166 15 күн бұрын

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

@fuzzballzz36 4 жыл бұрын

Long live E. L. Wisty!

@juliangarner56 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Powerneck 2 жыл бұрын

Comedy Genius 😎

@opensourceintelligence 7 жыл бұрын

wow!

@kevinogracia1615 9 ай бұрын

Cook and Cleese boils down to Classic.

@markturner3893 2 жыл бұрын

Peter Cooke reminds me of Johnny Rotten

@kevindoran9389 Жыл бұрын

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

@MrLeglamp Жыл бұрын

That's because they're both dead.

@Elitist20 2 ай бұрын

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

@sureshot8399 12 күн бұрын

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

@maxpower789z 10 жыл бұрын

Mawwaige!

@davebentley4829 7 жыл бұрын

yes you do,he was right about that one.

@donaldmcdaniel1773 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@markschroeder5559 8 жыл бұрын

Tell us a story daddy Night Night

@Confused_Philosopher 8 ай бұрын

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 12 күн бұрын

You are assuming the direction of travel.

@Theodoric93 2 жыл бұрын

But what of the Holiday Bombs Fear?!

@rottenapple6109 2 жыл бұрын

Tes-TY- nawl Mawd- ling.

@alexfletcher5192 5 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@krisscanlon4051 18 күн бұрын

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

@catherinelynnfraser2001 6 жыл бұрын

Is that a fact?

@atulbhatt7386 2 жыл бұрын

If a doctor had to market himself.

@gruff824 3 жыл бұрын

The penguins made me do it, sorry ,?

@hitsnooze771 3 жыл бұрын

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

@seansmith3058 Жыл бұрын

It's a better insult

@sureshot8399 12 күн бұрын

@@seansmith3058 It is.

@irenemax3574 11 ай бұрын

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

@soulpanther9 9 жыл бұрын

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.

@frankmurphyburr3598 Жыл бұрын

Intestinal modeling 😅

@Kwippy 7 жыл бұрын

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

@jimbeckwith5949 6 жыл бұрын

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 4 жыл бұрын

You mean git!

@yan24to 3 жыл бұрын

You are the most boring, cloth eared,flatulent

@Elitist20 2 ай бұрын

That was a joke.