{"id":544,"date":"2013-07-23T19:59:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2013-07-23T19:59:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:59:29","slug":"its-my-wifes-name-isnt-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my wife&#8217;s name isn&#8217;t it&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the best British comedians to ever grace the stage are<br \/>\nno longer with us, and that is a shame!<br \/>\nLet me rephrase that&#8230;two of the best comedians EVER, regardless<br \/>\nof origin.<br \/>\nPeter Cook and Dudley Moore were one of a kind, I could write an entire<br \/>\nnovel on what they have done to enable comedy to be what it is today.<br \/>\nThey started to work together in the 1950s in a satirical stage show<br \/>\ncalled Beyond the Fringe and kept at it with &#8220;Not Only&#8230;But Also&#8221; a<br \/>\nBritish television show that really showed what they could do.<br \/>\nThey created and acted in the original &#8220;Bedazzled&#8221; movie, a classic<br \/>\npiece of comedy genius in the late 1960&#8217;s.<br \/>\nThey toured together in Australia and New York and won Tony and Grammy<br \/>\nawards when their show hit its stride here in the states.<br \/>\nTheir comedy sketches are the stuff of legend, One Leg Too Few,<br \/>\nTramp-o-nuns, The Frog and Peach, Six of the Best and many more.<br \/>\nThis piece is one of my favorites of theirs, I cannot find a video of<br \/>\nit but will gladly settle for second best, a tribute upload with great<br \/>\naudio and some nice pictures of the two of them in their prime.<br \/>\nThis is from their 1960s television show and it&#8217;s called&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Psychiatrist!<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yk-5Ft4GNm8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More to come from them in the near future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the best British comedians to ever grace the stage are no longer with us, and that is a shame! Let me rephrase that&#8230;two of the best comedians EVER, regardless of origin. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were one of a kind, I could write an entire novel on what they have done to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}