Pete and Dud were characters played by the comedians and entertainers Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The dialogue format originated in 1964 when Dudley Moore...
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Not Only... But Also (category Black-and-white British television shows)
and Dud - Diseases' and 'Pete and Dud – Sex'. One remaining recovered clip, lasting one minute and 25 seconds, of 'Pete and Dud – Music' remains unscreened...
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Pete and Dud: Come Again is a stage play about British Beyond the Fringe comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which was written by Chris Bartlett and...
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Tom Goodman-Hill (section Early life and education)
needed] He has since appeared in productions such as Pete and Dud: Come Again as Peter Cook and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved...
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love to him. Dud's story reminds Pete of the time Greta Garbo scaled his drainpipe and tried to get into his bedroom via the window but Pete rejected her...
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to Britain and in 1973, married the actress and model Judy Huxtable.[clarification needed] Later, the more risqué humour of Pete and Dud went further...
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One Leg Too Few (category Pete and Dud sketches)
Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising...
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Dudley Moore (category Actors from the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
Cook and Moore are most remembered for their sketches as two working-class men, Pete and Dud, in macs and cloth caps, commenting on politics and the arts...
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Double act (section U.S. and Canada)
height between the two, and the speed of Cook's mind, which meant that he could ad lib and force Moore to corpse in a Pete and Dud dialogue, leaving him...
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Cook references Otto Titzling as the inventor of the brassiere during a Pete and Dud skit with Dudley Moore, in their West End stage show Beyond the Fringe...
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The Best of Derek and Clive, was released in 2011. The characters are foul-mouthed extensions of the earlier characters Pete and Dud. Considered highly...
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Time. Theatre work includes the portrayal of Dudley Moore in the show, Pete and Dud: Come Again that successfully toured United Kingdom in 2007, alongside...
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Footlights (category Clubs and societies of the University of Cambridge)
archivist and several other posts to form the committee. Notable past presidents have included the following: Peter Cook (of Beyond the Fringe, Pete and Dud and...
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Cameron and Mayor of London Boris Johnson first met. He also appeared alongside Alistair McGowan, Adrian Edmondson and Hugh Dennis in Pete and Dud: The Lost...
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Kevin Bishop (section Life and career)
Hawkins. In 2005, he portrayed the late comedian Dudley Moore onstage in Pete and Dud: Come Again, a drama charting Moore's turbulent relationship with Peter...
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The Guardian (UK). "My Comedy Hero: Adam Riches on Pete and Dud, Only Fools and Horses, Cheers and Jack Lemmon" – The List, 16 April 2019 "Devine Encounters:...
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Clive Hale and Pace The Hollow Men Idiots of Ants Not the Nine O'Clock News Monty Python Morecambe and Wise Pappy's Pete and Dud Mitchell and Webb Studio...
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Fringe feature prominently as characters in the play Pete and Dud: Come Again, by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde. Appropriately, that comedy-drama had a sellout...
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Russian journalist and YouTuber Dud, played by Dudley Moore - see Pete and Dud Dudley A. "Dud" Wash, one of The Darlings, recurring characters in the TV series...
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nominated for Best Single Drama, with Rhys Ifans winning the Best Actor for his portrayal of Peter Cook. Pete and Dud: Come Again Not Only But Always at IMDb...
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Nick Mohammed in Bits, and Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters (BBC Radio 4, 2013). His theatre credits include Pete and Dud: Come Again (Edinburgh Festival...
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Alan Bennett (category 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
and Dudley Moore, Bennett is portrayed by Alan Cox. Along with the other members of Beyond the Fringe, Bennett is portrayed in the play Pete and Dud:...
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the room" trope has long been a stand-by in British comedy, used by Pete and Dud in The Art Gallery, among many others, sometimes in the form of a portrait...
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Welsh, Cheshire-based playwright and arts journalist. Along with Nick Awde, he co-wrote the stage play Pete and Dud: Come Again, a hit at the Assembly...
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head-to-head sketches were very much in the Pete and Dud mould, with Smith playing the idiot who knew everything and Jones the idiot who knew nothing. The format...
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Jonathan Miller (section Life and career)
members of Beyond the Fringe, he is portrayed in the play Pete and Dud: Come Again by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde. In the BBC Radio Four series The Burkiss...
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Dagenham (category Districts of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
Musician and comedian Dudley Moore was brought up in Dagenham, which was the home of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's famous comic alter-egos Pete and Dud. Sandie...
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The Oxford Revue (category Clubs and societies of the University of Oxford)
include: Michael Palin and Terry Jones (who later became members of Monty Python) Dudley Moore (later of Beyond the Fringe, Pete and Dud and Not Only... But...
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Fergus Craig (category Comedians from Tyne and Wear)
& Fergus 2 '05 and Rutherford Lodge '06. In 2006 Craig played Alan Bennett in Pete and Dud: Come Again, a play by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde on the...
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Nick Awde (section Plays and fiction)
became a journalist. With Chris Bartlett he co-wrote the comedy drama Pete and Dud: Come Again, a hit at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival in...
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