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The Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - The Very Best of Goodbye Again DVD features hilarious performances from the comic duo, taken from their "Goodbye Again" series of programmes, first broadcast in 1968. The DVD also contains never-before-seen colour sketches and interviews with, among others, Shaun O’Riordan and Rob Brydon.
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
Urg. So finally Goodbye Again in a format I can watch in the U.S. only to get a very expensive 90 minutes of sketches frequently cropped at beginning and end (I'm reasonably certain some portion of the cropped sketches must exist complete since the intro to one appears on the audio CD of Cook In His Own Words but doesn't appear on this DVD.) Worse still is the sketches are interspersed with pointless little snippets of interviews with Shaun O'Riordan, Bob Brydon, and Richard Ingrams that first appear seemingly out of nowhere since there is no introduction before the sketches begin. These snippets apparently are meant to provide some kind of introduction or insight into the following sketch but they are just a huge annoyance. Otherwise the full interviews with O'Riordan and Ingrams also included on the DVD are quite good to have. I'm not certain I see much point in the interview with Brydon. Do I really need to say much about how brilliant many of these sketches are? So, five stars are for Pete and Dud. DVD is only about three stars.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
This collection is edited like a collage (slamming from black and white to color sequences, giving the endings no room to breathe) and the little snippet interviews are pointless and inane. There is nothing here that reaches the heights of half of "Not Only", almost nothing you'd hold up as their best work (maybe the Swedish interviewer, and Pete and Dud are always on game). A rudimentary Sherlock Holmes sketch was stretched into the rudimentary feature film. And yet, it's still mostly wonderful, with the usual high level of visuals on what was a television budget, and very sharp writing and characterizations. If this was the only Cook/Dudley material to be had, they'd be discussed as the equals of Monty Python, at least. So buy "Bedazzled" and "Not Only" first, but this is essential too. Hope there is more (how about a collection of the rest of the existing "Not Only" shown on the BBC as specials years ago and whatever was left off this - hell, or anything else they did).
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