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[fuckyeahpetercook]

ive been checking out peter cook's works recently and it's such a treat to read your posts. thank you very much 🙏

@orange77588517748 Aw yay!! I'm so glad you're having a good time getting into Peter Cook's work, and if this Tumblr adds to the fun, that's awesome! :) Thank you so much for this very kind message!! :)

[fuckyeahpetercook]

This isn't an ask but there isn't a reply function on the post. My older sister was too scared to go backstage so she waited for me at the train station. I told them I was "an incipient actress" which made them both laugh! There was a couple there but they left by the time Peter came downstairs. Dudley was so acrobatic. There's a post on my blog of Stephen Fry angrily refuting that Peter "didn't reach his potential" after Peter's death. They were good friends.

This story got even better - how neat that you made them laugh!! :) Thank you so much, @cuddyclothes, for this addition to your memory - what an exciting thing!! (I'm sorry the reply function isn't showing up - not sure why!!)

That's always been such a cool thing that Stephen Fry defended Cook against claims of Cook not reaching his potential! To have been a fly on the wall of that friendship - I bet Fry and Cook had some big laughs together! :)

[fuckyeahpetercook]

hi- i was wondering if there is any pic/gif/etc of Not Only But Always that i can reblog. also, if i may ask, what's your opinion about the movie? i heard that alan bennett didn't like it.

Thanks so much for the ask, @rnurder-one! :) Great questions!! But unfortunately - I only have unhelpful answers to give you, I'm afraid!

Somehow, I have purported this Tumblr to be dedicated to Peter Cook, yet in eleven dang years I haven't posted any Not Only But Always stuff. So sadly, nothing to reblog on that front...

And, here's more bad-fannishness from me - I haven't actually seen NOBAlways! :O I am ashamed to say it and will work on fixing that!!

But! There's gotta be someone out there who can weigh in (with a reblog/added comment, etc.) on Not Only But Always, the 2004 Channel 4 TV movie about Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Bonus points if ya got pics and gifs! :)

[fuckyeahpetercook]

I love that your blog is better than mine at tagging my own goddamn content 😂 Also your blog is the thing I go to when I need a pick-me-up. Thank you for all the good work you do

Wow!! That's so kind of you - you just made my day! Thank you!!! 😄

Your stuff is always awesome!! I just love me some tags, lol.

Thanks again! ❤️

[fuckyeahpetercook]

Hello! Thanks for providing the link to the torrent "Success Story". But I have tried downloading this again and because there are not any seeders or leechers the download won't start or it's going to be extremely slow. I hope I can find it somewhere else =)

It’s available on this official DVD, and otherwise there’s this torrent, which has it as one of its files, although it might also be slow. You can also try to see if it’s on —, although you need to join them.

(Edit: Removed torrent links, sorry!)

[fuckyeahpetercook]

Re: disdainfullyyours' query - mystery solved!

So sayeth -pseudo:

Hey, it’s from “Success Story: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, a 1974 BBC documentary that catches up with the pair in New York as they star in their sketch review Good Evening’”. It’s just Peter and Dudley chatting together after one of their shows. It also shows some of their sketches from Not Only…But Also. It’s great just listening to them converse and move in and out of different characters and personas while they do :]

Thanks a bunch for the info! :D

(After a quick Google search, I discovered I must be out of the loop, or living under a rock or something - I didn't realize that the DVD version of The Best Of What's Left Of had this doc as a special feature. If you're like me and still only have the VHS version, you'll be happy to learn that Netflix has the DVD! Good news, that.)

[fuckyeahpetercook]

Hey, those photos of Peter Cook and Dudley, and then the subsequent Interview snapshots, what're they from?

You know, I actually don’t know! I was wondering the same thing. I’ll hit up -pseudo’s “ask” thing (as I reblogged the stuff from them) and see what they say. :)