Kid P wrote:This clip, based on the Jeremy Thorpe trial, was allegedly written minutes before this performance
Unrelated but I'd assumed Thorpe had died years ago.
Kid P wrote:This clip, based on the Jeremy Thorpe trial, was allegedly written minutes before this performance
Nikki Gradual wrote:I pondered this for a long time last night, composed a reply with lots of clips, posted, and then it crashed.
Bugger.
So, what I will say is that I can see where you are coming from Toby: Morris is the closest thing to a natural successor that Cook has. Both are the most subversive and caustic humourists of their respective generations, both are the boundary pushers. Both sometimes completely "miss" which makes you realise how good they are when they "hit".
However, Morris pushes boundaries more in terms of method and style while Cook did so more in content. Sure he took absurdist humour to a new level, but in some ways I think he has more in common with Frankie Boyle or Ali G.
Cook also had the ability to switch off, which I don't think Morris has.
The major difference though is I can YouTube any number of Cook interviews, sketches and shows and watch his brain in action, the remarkable way in which it adapts and pushes and works. It is almost tangible.
With Morris, everything is scripted, his processes hidden and discrete (and in this case that is the right spelling) and his persona much more private.
I think each would pick the other as their idol and their successor respectively, but the fact is that, for genius, Cook shits all over Morris through a funnel.
Deebank wrote:I think Cook is like a talented amateur while Morris is a professional.
Everything Morris does is considered, pored over and polished, whereas Cook could be pretty hit and miss - but like a true genius he could deliver when he wasn't even really trying (like those Radio London phone-ins where he pretends to be a Swedish fisherman - although I confess I was irked because many of the fish he reels off to comedic affect are fresh water and of no interest to a trawlerman, but I digress...)
And be honest Derek & Clive would be remembered as the worst kind of crap if it was anyone else involved wouldn't it?