This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "One Leg Too Few" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
"One Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously (comic irony), and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a laugh from the audience with almost every line. Peter Cook said that this was one of the most perfect sketches he had acted in, and that it amazed him, later in his career, that he could have created it so young, at the age of 17 or 18.
It first appeared in a Pembroke College revue, Something Borrowed, in 1960 (where it was titled Leg Too Few as the show had an alphabetical theme and the sketch appeared under the letter "L") and later the same year in the Footlights revue, Pop Goes Mrs Jessop. It appeared on the West End stage for the first time in 1961 as part of One Over the Eight, a revue starring Kenneth Williams. Its first public performance with Dudley Moore in the role of Spiggot was as part of Beyond the Fringe at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on April 21, 1961. Although it was initially omitted from the London production of Beyond the Fringe (due to One Over The Eight running concurrently at a nearby theatre), it was reinstated for the show's transfer to Broadway. Cook and Moore also performed the sketch in their 1973 stage show Behind the Fridge (retitled Good Evening! in the USA), and also gave standalone performances on various occasions, including the 1965 Royal Variety Performance, a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live, and the 1989 charity show The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball. A version of the sketch, in which Spiggott is applying for a job as a runner, appeared in Cook and Moore's 1978 film The Hound of the Baskervilles.
"OneLegTooFew" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising...
Missing-Episodes.com Archived 2 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine OneLegTooFew, script for one of Cook and Moore's most famous and oft-performed sketches...
They performed a number of their classic stage routines, including "OneLegTooFew" and "Frog and Peach", among others, in addition to participating in...
their later television and stage shows, most famously the two-hander "OneLegTooFew". Miller told the press in March 1960 that the show would "be anti-establishment...
peculiar". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2009. Cook, William (2014). OneLegTooFew: The Adventures of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Random House. pp. 298–302...
Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in cricket. A leg spinner bowls right-arm with a wrist spin action. The leg spinner's normal delivery causes the ball...
The leg is the entire lower limb of the human body, including the foot, thigh or sometimes even the hip or buttock region. The major bones of the leg are...
battle with the white men he saw was the Wagon Box Fight in 1866. Wooden Leg was too young to take part in the battle, but during the fight, his eldest brother...
Graham Island on Day 6. The leg culminated in a race to the first checkpoint, with all teams arriving at Haida House within a few minutes of each other. The...
synonymous with squatting. It is common to squat with oneleg and kneel with the other leg. One or both heels may be up when squatting. Young children...
Marvin (1931, unreleased) "Beer Drinkin' Woman" - Black Ace "Got the Jake LegToo" - The Ray Brothers (1930, Victor V-23508) "Jake Bottle Blues" - Lemuel...
moves back up. A frequent mistake of beginners is to bend the legstoo much or to kick too much out of the water. Ideally, there are 6 kicks per cycle (the...
this method was limited to dislocating a few bones, but the torturer often went too far and rendered the legs or arms (sometimes both) useless. In the...
and second place down to just 12 minutes. The final leg of the race began on day 46, only a few hours after the arrival of Stephen & Viv at the Orient...
skills such as folding forward at the waist with the legs straight, or placing one or both legs behind the neck or shoulders with the knees bent (called...
and Jamiul. No one was eliminated this series but two teams decided to quit; Shuntelle & Michael left after losing half their money in leg 2 of the race...
a resulting deflection could be caught by one of several fielders deliberately placed nearby on the leg side. At the time, no helmets or other upper...
performed using dumbbells, barbells, or kettlebells with one hand or two hands, and with oneleg or two legs. Other variations are the side deadlift or suitcase...
Leg before wicket (lbw) is one of the ways in which a batter can be dismissed in the sport of cricket. Following an appeal by the fielding side, the umpire...
The seventeenth season of the One Piece anime television series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto and Toshinori Fukuzawa...
Jack "Legs" Diamond (possibly born John Thomas Diamond, though disputed; July 10, 1897 – December 18, 1931), also known as John Nolan and Gentleman Jack...
Global Information