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Books : Why Bother?: Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling in Conversation with Chris Morris (BBC Radio Collection)
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Why Bother?: Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling in Conversation with Chris Morris (BBC Radio Collection) from: BBC Audiobooks Ltd List Price: £8.80 CD-Charts Price: £7.64 You Save: £1.16 (13%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 817 EAN: 9780563558606 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0563558601 Label: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Manufacturer: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Number Of Discs: 1 Publication Date: March 01, 1999 Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Release Date: March 01, 1999 Studio: BBC Audiobooks Ltd Sales Rank: 62081 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Inconceivably hilariousThis is by far the funniest cd I have ever had the pleasure to hear , and certainly the best thing either Morris or Cooke have ever done. It is made up of five ten-minute mock interviews with Morris playing the role of a brusque journalist getting perhaps the last interview with an aging Sir Arthur Street-Greebling. After all Sir Arthur is to "anyone who can see him quite clearly nearing death". Morris is a perfect foil for Cooke, never letting him take the easy route, forcing him to come up with killer one-liner after killer one-liner, and just when Peter is getting comfortable with the way the interview is going, Morris ask's him a question that you are sure is going to make the whole improvisation collapse but Cooke manages ... Read More: Rating:  - Less than the sum of its partsPeter Cook and Chris Morris are two of my favorite performers. So I was delighted at the prospect of their collaboration. Unfortunately it doesn't get close to Derek and Clive or Jam or Brass Eye in the humour stakes. It isn't bad but these are two great satirists who didn't quite have the right chemistry together. Rating: - Definately DO bother.This is a sublime piece of improvisation from two of the greatest talents in modern comedy. Rating: - SublimeI've lent this tape to several people and not a single one realised that Cook improvised the whole thing. That is a mark of genius. Cook's character, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greeblng (not to be confused with his nemesis, Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling), is a comic gold mine, and having aged a lot since his appearances on Not Only ... But Also, has become something not entirely dissimilar to the Fast Show's Rowley Birkin, but far funnier. It's truly wonderful that that the careers of Peter Cook and Chris Morris, in many ways Cook's obvious successor, overlapped enough for us to hear them work together. Morris has a frustrating habit of trying too hard to be contraversial (the awful Brass Eye special springs to mind), but he can be a truly ... Read More: Rating: - A Truly Remarkable MasterpieceCharacter-based comdey wich is subtle, rich, facinating, contemporary, effortless and masturfully executed. I know of nothing else quite like this - but I'd guess that if you enjoy Steve Coogan's approach to comedy, perhaps more for its subtlety, depth and originality than for its obvious storyline, then you will be more than satisified with Peter Cook's creation - Sir Arthur. Complex, dark, ridiculous, plausable, abhorrent and likeable - all at the same time. A very rare treat indeed. |
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