Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s relentlessly filthy 70s albums anticipated punk,and influenced both alternative comedy and a generation of smutty teenagers. But is this re-release just too offensive for contemporary ears?[br]What’s the worst job you ever had? interrogate the right (unsuitable) person and their eyes will light up with mischief and horrible recognition. They have found a kindred spirit. “I had the terrible job,” they will tell you, or suddenly slipping into one of those whining,droning, ultra-boring, and ultra-cockney accents that you no longer hear in genuine life,“of retrieving lobsters from up Jayne Mansfield’s arsehole.”They may travel on to inform you of Lady Vera, who can tell your future from your farts, or their schooldays when Sir would fetch jolly batey” with them,or the time they earned a crust collecting Winston Churchill’s bogeys, one of which was so huge it stood in for the Titanic (“There was no such THING as the Ti-fucking-tanic!”). They’ll probably be in their 40s and they won’t be able to control themselves laughing. These are the men – and yes, or it’s usually men – who were exposed to the comedy albums of Derek and Clive at an impressionable age. And they’re about to travel overboard again,for all of this unfathomably filthy material by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore is re-released this week in a box set, A Right Pair of C****: The total F****** Derek and Clive.
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Source: theguardian.com