A comedy stage revue called "Beyond The Fringe" debuted at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival. It featured Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and was a smash hit, touring Britain and then coming to Broadway in New York City. It followed in the footsteps of earlier British radio comedy shows such as The Goon Show and Hancock's Half Hour, and predated later shows such as Monty Python and I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again.
The sketches in Beyond The Fringe are often very funny, in a warped, twisted British humor sort of way. I grew up on that sort of humor, so I enjoy them very much. I thought I'd inflict a few of them on you this week, so that you could share my suffering enjoyment.
Here's Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in their classic sketch "One Leg Too Few".
Gigglesnort!
Peter
Definitely different...LOL
ReplyDeleteGood stuff! I grew up with this humor also... Peter Cook and Dudley Moore could get quite Bawdy. And now I have the "Ying-tong song" from the Goon Show stuck in my head! LOL.
ReplyDeleteI remember that sketch from when they hosted SNL. After, of course, speaking at length about "subtle English humor".
ReplyDeleteMy favorite English Humoe show is "Fawlty Towers".
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