Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The Best of Goodbye Again

Starring: Dudley Moore, Peter Cook Dvd Release: 14th March, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Urg. So finally Goodbye Again in a format I can watch in the U.S. only to get a very expensive 90 minutes of sketches frequently cropped at beginning & end Worse still is the sketches are interspersed with pointless little snippets of interviews with Shaun O'Riordan, Bob Brydon, & Richard Ingrams that first appear seemingly out of nowhere since there is no introduction before the sketches begin. These snippets apparently are meant to provide some kind of introduction or insight into the following sketch but they are just a huge annoyance. Otherwise the full interviews with O'Riordan & Ingrams also included on the DVD are quite good to have. I'm not certain I see much point in the interview with Brydon. Do I really need to say much about how brilliant many of these sketches are? So, five stars are for Pete & Dud. DVD is only about three stars.

Dudley Moore, was a British actor & comedian who became a star after making the film 10 with Bo Derek. He came from a working-class background in Dagenham & was notably short, at 5 foot 2 1/2 inches. He was born with a deformed left foot which required extensive hospital treatment & made him the butt of jokes by other children. Seeking refuge from his problems, he became a choirboy at the age of six & took up piano & violin. He rapidly developed into a talented pianist & organist & was playing the organ at church weddings by age 14. While studying music at Oxford University, Moore was noticed by Alan Bennett & he recommended him to the the producer putting together Beyond the Fringe, a comedy revue which many see as a forerunner to Monty Pythons Flying Circus. Arguably, Beyond the Fringe launched the 1960s Satire Boom. After enormous success in Britain, it transferred to the USA, where it was also a hit. After following the Establishment Club to New York Moore returned to the UK & was offered his own series on the BBC. It is mostly forgotten Not Only. Posters Of Dudley Moore

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Peter Edward Cook was a British satirist, writer & comedian who is widely regarded as the father of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He is closely associated with an anti-establishment style of comedy that emerged in the late 1950s in the depths of the Cold War. Cook was himself establishment educated, at Radley & Pembroke College, Cambridge where he read French & German & it was at the latter that he first performed & wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights. On graduation, he wrote professionally for, amongst others, Kenneth Williams for whom he created the famous One legged Tarzan sketch, before finding fame in his own right as a star of the satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett & Dudley Moore. With his star firmly in the ascendant he opened The Establishment Club in Soho which allowed him to associate with the big stars of the day. Posters Of Peter Cook

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