Very good, and you are right. I can remember going to gigs in the early 80s when ‘alternative’ comedy was all the rage, and for so many of the acts, ‘alternative’ just meant using the f word in the first gag and the c word in the next one.
Whereas Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as Derek and Clive were, in the late 70s, shockingly hilarious.
Very good, and you are right. I can remember going to gigs in the early 80s when ‘alternative’ comedy was all the rage, and for so many of the acts, ‘alternative’ just meant using the f word in the first gag and the c word in the next one.
Whereas Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as Derek and Clive were, in the late 70s, shockingly hilarious.
I think the language Derek and Clive used was so baroque and intricate as to be almost beyond the category of 'swearing'. It was musical!
Indeed, though my mother was deeply shocked when she overheard me listening to them.