“Harm can come to a young lad like that !”

. Dudley Moore - Amalgam

. Lee Morgan - Gary’s Notebook

. Miles Davis - So What

. Errol Garner - Misty

. Esperanza Spalding - I Know You Know

. Wes Montgomery - Impressions

. Alice Coltrane - Blue Nile

. John Coltrane - Giant Steps

. Monica Zetterlund - Mister Kelly

. Sun Ra - Space Lonliness

. Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

. Ella Fitzgerald - Caravan

. Chic Corea - Fingerprints

. Mose Allison - The Seventh Son

Get the point? PETER COOK backstage in London, circa 1972

John Cleese calls out to Peter Cook backstage after the criminal court sketch (questioning a witness in a coffin) in the middle of the “A Poke In The Eye With A Sharp Stick”/“Pleasure at Her Majesty’s” show (I think you can hear Peter reply "Sir?" like he's a little Radley schoolboy again, which is so stinkin' cute). He asks for advice on improving the sketch. This clip is so brilliant because Peter is so sharp and John clearly wants to take advantage of his brilliant mind!

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."