The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also...
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Actor: Dudley Moore, Peter CookBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 173 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were a major part of the new comedy era in the '60s and '70s. When the pair wrote and conceived Not Only. But Also, a great partnership developed. They would talk into a microphone, and then record and review their impromptu speech, developing parts that had promise and discarding the rest. The scripts were not written in stone, and half of the charm of the show is the
DVD Reviews of The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also...
DVD Review: Long time fan finds happiness and disappointment
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been watching Pete and Dud (including their stop on Broadway, where I enjoyed myself more than should be legal) for a long time, and have purchased most of what has been available. I have the VHS "Best of.." and now this. I realize a "best of" is not comprehensive, and while acknowledging that many fine moments are captured here, no reviewer has mentioned the painful omission of "The Glidd of Glood", my second favorite bit from the VHS. One can only hope that this is successful enough to goad the BBC into releasing another hunk of what they have.
So, no need to repeat what others here say. There are several screamingly funny sketches that will make anyone's all time top 100, much to enjoy, an overabundance of the Dudley Moore Trio, and a few bombs that just don't work. (And I wish that idiotic laugh track had been deleted. Ouch..... it is painful.) Overall though, way more good than bad. If you don't get fourteen bucks worth of entertainment from Superthunderstingcar you are comatose. Buy this to help satisfy my selfish desire to get the remainder unleashed some day....
DVD Review: Early work of two comedic geniuses
Summary: 5 Stars
"Beyond The Fringe" gave Peter Cook and Dudley Moore their first notoriety, and their early television show "Not Only....But Also" was an excellent venue for their semi-improvised comic routines. Several shows survived on film and now, unexpectedly, on DVD. Each program includes several of their comic routines ("trampo-nuns", "A Bit of a Chat") and one or two songs performed by Moore's trio (piano, bass, drums) and a guest vocalist. The comedy is hilarious, the music affecting, mostly for the obvious love Dudley Moore brought to his performances. Wonderful!DVD Review: Fantastic! But...
Summary: 4 Stars
You really can't go wrong with this DVD. "Not Only...But Also" is one of those beautiful moments in time with pure comedy genius. Cook and Moore are just as perfect together as Martin and Lewis or Laurel and Hardy. My only complaint is that there is so much footage out there that is NOT on the DVD. I know that most of the series was recorded over, which was the BBC's policy at the time, however, I know that John Lennon was on the show several times. They do have ONE of his scenes on this DVD (the classic "Deaf Ted, Danoota and Me"), but "Dan the doorman" is nowhere to be found, nor is "Good Dog Nigel" and several other poems of Johns that I believe were even on the same show that they featured him on the DVD. I know the footage wasn't recorded over because it's on YouTube, so why isn't it on this DVD? I think it's time to put together a new package. Other than that, this DVD rocks!DVD Review: Please find more tape of these guys
Summary: 4 Stars
What can one say about Cook and Moore? They were supremely funny. The only reason I didn't give this dvd the additional star is, they cut off C&M's most famous skit. One Leg Too Few (which appears in the short doc about the two of them). Would have liked to see the entre sketch. That's a quibble though in this age of You Tube. Enjoy this disc. It's marvelous to see these boys again and to see Dud play the piano! Man, he swung. Great disc all around.DVD Review: Do we trust the BBC to have searched THOROUGHLY for the tapes?
Summary: 5 Stars
No-one seems to have mentioned that the previous BBC "Best of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore" clocked in at 98 minutes, while this one runs for 173 minutes.
Deduct about 27 minutes for the 'DVD extra' (a short film about them) and you have more than 45 minutes NOT released by the BBC until now. This includes a sketch with John Lennon. There are also sketches with Barry Humphries here. Why weren't these on the previous DVD release? Ask the BBC, who as ever have no idea what they're doing ...
But it begs the question: is there more in the vaults that was NOT in fact destroyed all those years ago?
The BBC has gone to great lengths to search out obscure Doctor Who material worldwide. It's possible that "Not Only But Also" was recorded by fans on audio tape (as were the early episodes of Doctor Who).
Anyway, this is a must for fans of Dud and Pete.
Description of The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also...
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were a major part of the new comedy era in the '60s and '70s. When the pair wrote and conceived Not Only... But Also a great partnership developed. They would talk into a microphone and then record and review their impromptu speech developing parts that had promise and discarding the rest. The scripts were not written in stone and half of the charm of the show is the pair's ad-libs and the laughter they were trying to hold back. Six episodes have been compiled from what remains in the BBC Archive of this classic comedy. Guests include John Lennon and Barry Humphries.System Requirements:Running Time: 170 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/BBC UPC:?883929024131 Manufacturer No:?1000039478Fans of Monty Python or Frye & Laurie should run to get The Best of... What's Left of... Not Only... But Also..., the godfather of an entire branch of British comedy. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore revel in freewheeling conversations that range from whimsical to downright surreal, as well as visual lunacy like playing a piano underwater or a flabbergasting parody of Thunderbirds-style marionette shows. Most of their most famous sketches are here: Cook as Mother Superior of an order of leaping nuns; Moore as soul man Bo Dudley; and the Dagenham Dialogues, in which Cook unrolls preposterous verbal flights while Moore tries, usually unsuccessfully, to keep a straight face. (Eddie Izzard would sell his best frock to have come up with some of Cook's freewheeling ideas.) Other memorable sketches include a domestic squabble between a leprechaun and a fairy; a stuffy father explaining sex to his uncomfortable son; and a retrospective of a Garbo-esque movie star (played by Cook), with Moore narrating in a fetching blonde wig. Cook and Moore laid the groundwork for all that came after them, but their comedy isn't musty or primitive; the best of Not Only... But Also... is more fresh and vital than 99% of what's being churned out today. This is essential viewing; along with six episodes of the show, there's a half-hour retrospective that includes a bit of their classic sketch about a one-legged man auditioning to play Tarzan. --Bret Fetzer
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