Parry wrote:
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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
:O) Pete's stuff was definitely in the delivery. Even the Blackadder
bits were all about him, anyone else couldn't have quite got away with
it.
--
Paul. (I wish I had the wings to fly away from here)
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