Peter Cook - the Original Python?

  • Mar

    15

    2012

    thumblethumble
    Just finding the famous "End of the World" sketch (for the last thread I just posted to) from the 1962 Beyond the Fringe Review brought back a rush of memories, but I'd never seen the clip linked below, where Eric and John both identify Peter Cook as the founding father....






  • Mar

    15

    2012

    thumblethumble
    "Children Under 10: 12 and 6 (twelve shillings and sixpence)" 

  • Mar

    15

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    "I wonder how they prepare them?

    Oh, I expect they don't--they just spring it on them."

  • Mar

    15

    2012

    thumblethumble
    Hilarious!!  It sounded ad-libbed too, so he's either a brilliant actor or a brilliant comedian.

    Come to think of it, he was both.  RIP Peter Cook (and Dud Moore too, of course, but Pete was the genius)

  • Mar

    15

    2012

    msfannytwinklebuttmsfannytwinklebutt
    :)

  • Mar

    15

    2012

    thumblethumble
    More vignettes from (much younger, but earnest) Pythons...in their 50's by then.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHssf_nyWac&feature=related

  • Mar

    16

    2012

    InquisitorInquisitor
    Fascinating clip. Thanks for posting that.

  • Mar

    17

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    It's one of 6 parts. I'll have to listen later. John looks like he has a fake chin on, but I think that's just the dodgy quality of the video.

  • Mar

    17

    2012

    chris14chris14
    Great vid, Thumble! Thanks for sharing it.

  • Mar

    17

    2012

    thumblethumble
    Malcolm

  • Mar

    17

    2012

    thumblethumble
    By way of explanation, the term "you're welcome" was never used in my neighborhood growing up in East Grinstead, so when my younger brother came to Canada (20 years after I did), he thought people were saying "Malcolm" when he thanked them for something.  He has now been using it for 20-odd years, and it always make me chuckle.

  • Mar

    17

    2012

    chris14chris14
    East Grinstead...? Are you John Wood from FB, Thumble?

  • Mar

    18

    2012

    msfannytwinklebuttmsfannytwinklebutt
    No. He's John Grinstead from Eastwood, Crumble.

  • Mar

    18

    2012

    chris14chris14
    Oh, I see. Thanks for the explanation, Fanny. :-)

  • Mar

    19

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    thumble a Scientologist? (That sounds naughty!) I can't imagine that. Are you a scientologist, thumble? John Wood is.

  • Mar

    19

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    I think the only conclusion is that there's more than one man in East Grinstead, Chris.

  • Mar

    21

    2012

    thumblethumble
    One day I'll tell you about my encounter with the scientologists.  I was 10, and they put the trainees onto us young 'uns.  The one that lured me into a "session" had me listen to a potato screaming.  Despite where we are, you can't make this stuff up.

  • Mar

    22

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    Was the potato screaming as it was being ripped out of the ground? Being boiled to death? Or just because it was tired of being used and misunderstood by Scientologists?

  • Mar

    22

    2012

    thumblethumble
    I think the potato was kept captive, and was just appealing to me to either set it free or fry it. 

    Actually I'm sure the Scientology equipment would have made the same noise whatever you stuck it into, especially L. Ron's bum.

    We all thought it was quite a hoot - their evil influence hadn't yet been appreciated for what it really is/was, and they were seen as just just a bunch of hippies floating around town, serving their evil master  Sort of like the Hare Krishna a decade later.  East Grinstead was an interesting place to be back then.  Now it seems to just a bedroom community with no real downtown, like so many. 

  • Mar

    22

    2012

    thumblethumble
    As was noted on the old site, EG was also then the home of Patrick Moore, of The Sky at Night fame, and I used to play chess with him at the EG Chess Club in my early teens.

  • Mar

    22

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    Then it's certain you're not John Wood from Facebook, because he's a diehard Scientologist. I had a long discussion with him about antidepressants. It was a good discussion, but we ultimately decided to disagree.

  • Mar

    22

    2012

    thumblethumble
    They were all a bit bonkers, and probably still are.  Lost souls who searched the world and found ............ !!!!! TA DAHHHHHH!!!!!

    .........

    .........

    Mad Ron


    8-X

  • Mar

    24

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    Mad Ron?

  • Mar

    24

    2012

    thumblethumble
    L. Ron Hubbard

  • Apr

    15

    2012

    chris14chris14
    Oh, I always thought there is only one person in E-Grinstead. And that is John Wood. Shame on me! :-D

  • Apr

    16

    2012

    thumblethumble
    We are all John Wood.  Grinstead Wives.

    Do not deny the power of Scientology!  We suck the life from otherwise normal people!  Potatoes talk to us!!! 

    I met him on a Sunday and my bowels stood still.....

    Da L.Ron Ron Ron Ron, da L. Ron Ron. 

    Somebody told me that his name was Phil,

    Da L.Ron Ron Ron Ron, da L. Ron Ron. 

    Yeahh - his name was Phil
    Yeeahh he made me ill
    Yeahh, when he walked me home

    Are you wrong wrong wrong
    Are you wrong wrong...


  • Apr

    19

    2012

    chris14chris14
    Yeah, we are all John Wood.

  • Apr

    19

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    I'm not.

  • Apr

    19

    2012

    mrsthingmrsthing
    SHH!

  • Apr

    19

    2012

    chris14chris14
    We are all different.
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