Crude - Wonderfully Crude
Eric Oliver | Los Angeles, CA USA | 09/06/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"If you don't like raunchy humor, forget this CD.If you DO like raunchy humor, BUY THIS CD. It is tip-top great humor. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook do an amazing job of combining clever improvisation with hilarious drunken banalities. Everyone I've played this CD for is shocked and at the same time cannot resist laughing uproariously - and quoting them relentlessly. My entire circle of friends keeps talking about having "the horn" now...These two men are as funny as everyone THINKS they are when they're drunk -- and that's funny!"
Not for the squeamish, PMRC, churchgoers, small pets.....
L. Wagner | Terra Firma | 10/10/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"OK, this is definitely not your polite, Sinbad-style comedy record. Hell, I don't think even Eddie Griffin comes close to the amount of vulgarity on this disc.Having said that, though, this is one funny as hell record, but let's clear up a few misconceptions. Sure, much of the D&C material comes from drunken improvisation, but a fair amount was also scripted. Don't believe it? Watch "D&C Get The Horn"; you'll see Cook has some definite scripted ideas laid in front of him that he is (badly) trying to conceal. True, maybe there were just "talking points" on it, and he could improv those at will, but still, people, this is not a complete improvisation. maybe Branson will tell us mere mortals if this is true (he was there, after all).....Anyway, enough of that. This is a brilliant concept record, done as much for a laugh as to push a few boundaries around with a golf club suspiciously shaped like a 16lb sledgehammer. Favourite track for me has to be "Racing", an almost dead-on impersonation of a horse race called with the most absurd names imaginalbe for the horses. (Watching the movie version adds to the fun of the bit).Totally absurdist, and, yes, Dud is not as good at improv, but he never really was. He was the conduit for Cook's ramblings and insights, and a damn fine pair they made. And what a kicker of a record. I wish I had bought this when I first saw it, way back in the mid-80s on tape, but thankfully it is still here for me to enjoy.And now, you should enjoy as well. Good luck, my friends, and celebrate two of the greatest, sadly removed from us."
Comedy without a net (includes some falls)
Algernon D'Ammassa | Los Angeles, CA United States | 07/23/2001
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Peter Cook and Dudley Moore would go into a studio, usually fortified with liquor, and improvise as the two cockney gents Derek and Clive. The humor is coarse but enlivened with Peter Cook's whimsical imagination. (One story begins, "The thing I can't stand about Russia is all the dead dissidents in your hotel room!") Moore, for his part, plays along with improvisations driven by his partner, laughing infectiously and, at times, trying to derail or outdo Cook. Unfortunately, as an improvisator, Moore tends to go for jokes which stop any narrative from forming.Derek and Clive sometimes tell stories, and top each other with sillier and sillier stories on a theme, but we don't go on any adventures with them. At best, the improvisations consist of gossip about events that have taken place elsewhere. And, at worst, the improvs disintegrate into two nasty boys trying to crack each other up with a more shocking joke. The novelty of this wears thin, and does not bear additional listenings."
Track Listings (15) - Disc #1