Top Posts Tagged with #british comedy groups

Comedy partners in bed

Laurel and Hardy - the OGs

Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers - sweetness itself

Morecambe and Wise - the marrieds

Lee and Herring - years after they split up, The Guardian asked them to do this. Stew had ironic fun with it, Rich is showing what he's really thinking

The Mighty Boosh - one of the least gay things Julian & Noel did was the short film Sweet. Look at that pride flag duvet.

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith - Inside No 9: Simon Says

Shot:

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The way Peter Cook looks at Dudley Moore

He's trying to pin him in place like a butterfly or something.

In the art gallery sketch it's relentless. Once or twice Peter looks away to save Dudley from corpsing, but much of the time he's daring Dud to keep going. What a double act.

It worked both ways though...

"I’m happy to say that, after fourteen years of working with him, Dudley still makes me laugh a great deal. During the two hours of the show I’m constantly on the verge of hysteria."

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Beyond the Fringe in The Crown

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that Mac going to Beyond the Fringe was actually portrayed in The Crown (s2ep10). The programme makers did a terrific job of conveying how shocking it was at the time that the PM was being satirised onstage. Anton Lesser actually made me feel sympathetic to the old Tory for a bit.

There's foreshadowing in s2ep4 when Margaret goes to a party where Dudley's band is playing. That gave me hope we'd see her friendship with Peter Sellers but that never happened.

The person enjoying it the most seems to be Jonathan, and from what I've heard elsewhere he was the most iconoclastic of the group. I doubt that Alan was so into it on the night though.

Over 60 years since Peter Cook started impacting the culture and the reverberations have never stopped. Gwan Cookie!

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British comedy groups and that one Welsh member

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The Goons - Harry Secombe, b. St Thomas, Swansea “Wales has produced princes, poets, bards, scholars, and more recently a very memorable Goon.” - Charles Windsor’s investiture speech, Caernarfon Castle, 1969.

Monty Python - Terry Jones, b. Colwyn Bay A patron of Theatr Colwyn, Jones was awarded with a commemorative blue plaque to go up on the front of the house he grew up in.

“All of which was very nice, but I was told they can’t put it up until after I’m dead." - Walesonline interview, 2016

Not the Nine O'Clock News - Griff Rhys Jones, b. Cardiff Mel: “It’s because you’re Welsh, isn’t it?” Griff: “Oh don’t be ridiculous! The Welsh are a very tactile nation.”

The Comic Strip - Keith Allen, b. Llanelli, Carmarthenshire Keith's brother Kevin, also sometime Comic Strip player, made a mad film during the pandemic set in Wales with seemingly every Welsh actor in it. La Cha Cha.

The Fast Show - Paul Whitehouse, b. Stanleytown, Glamorgan The son of a Coal Board worker and an opera singer, as a toddler Whitehouse was voted Baby Smile of Rhondda Valley.

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That one time Peter Cook didn't look at Dudley Moore

Sequel to this post.

Now here's a thing, in 1972 Michael Parkinson reunited Beyond the Fringe on his show. Pete & Dud were sat next to each other and facing Alan and Jonathan on Parky's other side. Was Pete feeling a united front between him and Dud against the other two? Parky gets Pete & Dud talking about wanting to carry on working together when the other two broke away. Peter never looks at Dudley, rarely looks at Parkinson, but directs his attention at Alan and Jonathan. Here Peter is giving Jonathan a piercing look while admitting, in Parky's words, that he has "a tremendous lust for power". One can imagine the battle of wills between those two back in the day.

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British comedy groups and that one gay member

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Beyond the Fringe - Alan Bennett

“Ian McKellen asked me, ‘Are you a homosexual?’ I answered, 'That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.'" (1987)

Monty Python - Graham Chapman "I would like you all to meet the man I love." - how Graham Chapman came out to the other Pythons in 1967. He co-founded and financed the publication Gay News in 1972.

The League of Gentlemen - Mark Gatiss "I remember buying [Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography] because I was a massive Monty Python fan when I was about 13. Again, there was this forbidden thing. Nobody asked what it was about, they just assumed it was about Python. And yes, it is very funny. But within it is the story of him coming out. I remember going through those things in my head as I read it, thinking, I will have to do this one day. What is this going to be like?"