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From: parry@perfectmail.com (Parry)
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Subject: Re: 14 July 1789
Date: 8 Sep 2003 03:26:56 -0700
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Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3F4CED31.9EEE38E4@blueyonder.co.uk>...
> Parry wrote:
> >
> > Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3F27A50B.36F6DAE9@blueyonder.co.uk>...
> > > > > > > I'm just finishing a book
> > > > > > > of Peter Cook's sketches and comic articles)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I haven't seen much of him except a bit in Blackadder. He has a swell
> > > > > > website though.
> > > > >
> > > > > well, he's kind of dead.
> >
> > Still funny though.
>
> :O) A very dry sense of humour. Like Python some of it works and some
> falls flat on its face.
His humour was dry even if he wasn't. But I like it dry, and though
I'm familiar with only a small portion of Cook's work I think I saw
brilliance there (and I easily forget the terrible movies in which he
appeared). Some of the humour's so dry that to see it written on a
page it's sometimes hard to recognize a joke there. Fortunately, he
had a wonderful delivery. In what may be the best known Cook & Moore
routine, he's a restaurateur describing his restaurant's specialties:
"The Spawn Cocktail. One of the most revolting dishes known to man.
Then there's only two other dishes really. There's frog a la peche,
which is a frog done in Cointreau and with a peach stuffed in its
mouth And, ah, then, of course, there's peche a la frog, which is
really not much to write home about. A waiter comes to your table.
He's got this huge peach on it, which is covered in boiling liqueur,
you see, and he slices it open to reveal about two thousand little
black tadpoles squiggling about. It's one of the most disgusting
sights I've ever seen. God, it turns me over to think of it. Squiggle,
squiggle, they go." Reads okay, but much funnier when heard out of
Cook's mouth.
-- Parry
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