Monday, January 03, 2005
Did you watch it? Did you see it? That abomination on Channel 4 the other night, the countdown of the greatest comedians ever? Of course these things are always wrong, that I didn't compile it myself ensures as much, but Peter Cook? Peter fucking Cook? We must be careful, there are trying times ahead. A sludgy consensus is congealing that this man was the best. The best ever. Yet more evidence that having a posh voice, some ability to throw a couple of incongruous images together and the nous to realise that your talent has been spread so marmite-thin that your only hope to achieve renown is to act like a flawed genius and allow a grovelling public with their misguided notions of the romantic to do the rest. Has he ever made you laugh? I mean actually laugh? Oh, he does that funny strangled voice of comedy-middle-Englander well enough, sure: the hilarious officious lower-middle class and their idiotic concerns. And Derek and Clive: saying "bum" in church. Well done, you genius, you. Let's hear no more about it; that the tapes were released after begging from Led Zepplin should be warning enough.
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