Come Again

Come Again Artist: Derek & Clive
Label: EMI Records [All429]
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724352861224
EAN: 0724352861224
ASIN: B00004WEUJ


Release Date: 2001-05-08

Come Again


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Tracks:

  1. You Stupid C**t
  2. Coughin' Contest
  3. Cancer
  4. Non Stop Dancer/My Mum Song
  5. Joan Crawford
  6. Norman The Carpet
  7. How's Your Mother
  8. Back Of The Cab
  9. Alfie Noakes
  10. Nurse
  11. In The Cubicles
  12. Ross McPharter
  13. Hello Colin
  14. Having A W**k
  15. I Saw This Bloke
  16. Parking Offence
  17. Members Only
  18. Valerie's Hymen
  19. Mother
  20. Young Dudley Moore Performs 'Jump'

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  4. Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook
  5. Beyond the Fringe

Album Description

Featuring the classic UK comedy team of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore. 20 tracks including, 'You Stupid C**t' and 'Valerie's Hymen'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

One of the Most Hilarious and Filthiest Recordings Ever Made. Legend Has it that the Late Peter Cook (Clive) and Dudley Moore (Derek) Simply Progressed Down Several Bottles of an Alcoholic Beverage While Pontificating Into their Mics as their Witty Alter-egos. If Offensive Language is Not Your Cup of Tea, Then Take a Pass. If Sheer Hilarity and Intelligent Comedy Are, Don't Pass it Up!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bizarre, obscene, not fit for consumption...essential.......2005-09-13

I think it's a bold thing to start off your album with a verbal abuse-fest against your listeners for buying the thing, so right away you know you're in for something completely different than what you normally think of as "British comedy" when you put on the first track of "Derek and Clive Come Again".

The alter-egos of legendary duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, "Derek and Clive" came about as a way for the two to relieve stress over Moore's Hollywood success and Cook's lack of it. What followed was an exercise in gutter-minded improv. Forget "Whose Line is It, Anyway?", nothing is off-limits to these two over the course of twenty obscene and obscenely funny tracks.

I've only had this album for a day or so, but I can feel safe in saying this is probably the crudest and funniest comedy vinyl ever laid down. "Non Stop Dancer/My Mum Song", "Joan Crawford", "Mother", "Having a W--K", "Back of The Cab", "In The Cubicles", these are not fit for family listening. But they'll have you in hysterics late at night, when no one else can overhear it.

I've been looking to get some Cook-and-Moore material on album since I first started reading about British comedy, but this is my first. I plan eventually to get my hands on the "Beyond the Fringe" material that led them to fame, fortune, and lifelong boozing (boozing which contributes to the alcohol-sourced improvisations that make this such a hoot), but for now this is a nice introduction. It may not be the high-water mark of intelligent, urbane, measured British satire. But it's pretty damn funny all the same.

So jump, you f--ker, jump. And buy this record asap. If you like good, clean filth, this is right up your alley.

1 out of 5 stars It's not funny.......2004-02-01

I really liked "Bedazzled" and "Beyond the Fringe", but this CD is beyond the pale. I would recommend you avoid it. After the first track, I tossed it. I was so disgusted I also tossed my copies of Bedazzled and Beyond the Fringe.

4 out of 5 stars "Shoot him, Kurt!".......2003-11-21

"You stupid c**t," berates Peter Cook at the top of this disc to the unsuspecting listener. "You just bought this record... expecting comedy and a few dirty words." "But what you don't know," adds Dudley Moore, "is there's f**k all on this side." "So what you're going to get now is a long f**king pause, you stupid c**t," retorts Cook. Then silence.

That's how "Come Again" begins, and the rest of the disc maintains this in-your-face improvised humor for nearly 80 minutes. Spurred on by Dudley Moore's tendency to break up laughing, Peter Cook lays down some brilliantly decadent (or decadently brilliant) riffs on everything from cancer ("I wouldn't have thought of [cancer] if I was the Supreme Being... I would have left that out") to cabs ("I had Pablo Picasso in my cab... I said, I'm going to call you Pablo Picass'ole"), mostly delivered in the thickest Cockney accent.

As comedy routines, the material does not fly really and would not translate well outside of this medium. But as improvisations, the material is brilliant and completely live (which is not something you can say about either Cook or Moore now), the duo displaying an amazing contrast to their work in `Not Only But Also', `Bedazzled' and `Beyond the Fringe'. This is a feat not achieved by any other solo or group comedy acts before or since and the Derek & Clive discs remain a stunningly original compliment to those works.

This is not to say I think Moore and Cook do no wrong. 'Coughing Match' is silly. 'Members Only' is woefully too long. And a few others drift. The team only made three Derek & Clive discs, which is more than enough of THIS kind of thing. But, taken for what it is - two lads having a blast, often while blasted - `Come Again' is a great disc.

Technically speaking, the disc suffers from the producer occasionally putting Cook in one speaker and Moore in the other, and since Cook bellows louder, Moore's observations are sometimes obliterated. However, this is a minor criticism, as the freshness and rough quality of the `text' was the point in the first place.

1 out of 5 stars I AM openminded - and this was still a waste of money.......2003-10-07

Having read the reviews included on this page, I have to comment on my own reactions to this. I agree that you have to be openminded, I agree that Peter Cook is a master of the improvisational comedic form, and I agree that they are absolutely fall-down drunk for each skit. I am not offended by foul language, nor am I any stranger to British comedy. I delight in Monty Python, Douglas Adams, Beyond the Fringe, etc., yet I am dismayed that I bought this piece of "work" as well as "Ad Nauseum" - another piece of "work" (though less drunk and more structured than "Come Again")...

I must also, however, agree with Miles that this is a waste of time and money, and a totally unnecessary exercise (at least for me - obviously this is popular with others - I mean no insult or slight to them) in trying to be open minded enough to listen to two drunken comics flail wildly about trying to follow a semblance of plot or line...I have heard these two comics demonstrate their brilliance. Their work in Beyond the Fringe was stellar -also sober (at least it seems that way - though BTF is pretty way out, too) and with a "stick-to-it-ness" regarding scripting. They have the potential for masterful genius which, in my humble opinion, is not demonstrated here. With all that being said, I will say that I really enjoyed the "Jump" song - sick and twisted as it is, it shows a clear understanding of why something is funny, even while it's being offensive and tasteless.

Others may like this cd...more power to you...I found myself very put off by it.

5 out of 5 stars An Absolute Waste of Any Rational Person's Time and Money.......2003-07-10

Two drunken comedians babbling insanely about masturbation, cancer, flatulence, and how stupid you must be to have spent hard-earned money on this ... piece of work. I had to listen to it a couple times to get past some of the heavliy intoxicated British accents. A lot of the sketches sound like they were plotted out with some sort of structure, but then rapidly deteriorate as Cook and Moore go into ad-libbing crossfire mode.

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