Interesting Facts by Peter Cook

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This is Peter Cook's famous Interesting Facts sketch, the character he plays is Mr. Arthur Grole/E.L. Wisty. Cook's charter was based on a real person, Mr. Boylett, a table butler at Radley College- Cook's old secondary school. On one particularly eccentric occasion Mr. Boylett attempted to sell an ordinary looking stone because, "I thought I saw it move".

Peter Cook seems to be accurately portraying Asperger’s, in my opinion it is so accurate (up till a few years ago half my sentences started with “did you know?”), I wonder if Mr. Boylett was an Aspie.

When Jonathan Miller first saw the sketch in the late 1950's, he said that Mr. Boylett was very similar to the schizophrenic patients he had met. Miller was intrigued to hear that Mr Boylett worked at Cook’s old secondarily school, he was clearly able to function and this unusual for a schizophrenic. However, I contend that Mr. Boylett was an Aspie. Jonathan Miller Bio

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w3SZvmk-pA[/youtube]

The thing keeps stoping in between.

For those with a slow connection, the clip may pause and start again. Press play and then pause it, the clip will download, the progress bar will gradually turn red, press play when the clip has fully downloaded. It should then play without interruption.

The other problem could be CPU utilisation. I have a 450 MHz PIII and it just about copes with YouTube clips. They are FLV files, flash video. They can pause if the webpage contains other flash content besides the video such e.g. addverts. So to prevent this, I use Flashblock with Firefox to blocks all the Flash adverts.

You can download from Youtube before playing, I just ckecked.

It played fine for me.....very funny,but I dont know about the "aspie theory".A lot of his information was wrong and not about a topic but all over the place.Maybe an aspie with a bad memory.However the person listening to him and his response to him was certainly NT as was the speakers lakc of ability to "read" that the other person was not interested in him or his "facts".He seems more aspie then schizophrinsic,however,because he has a desire to interact with the other person,just doesnt know how other then spouting "facts"....I guess the "wrong facts" could just be to bring out the uhmor of the skit...it worked,very funny.

I have that sketch (w/ John Cleese) as part of "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball". It is great!

I have pulled that on a few people. They have not appreciated my Cookish comedic effort. Indeed. . .

. . .I posted as a random fact thatg no one needs to know the giraffe: That if a giraffe could leap, pound for pound, as high as a grasshopper; it would avoid a lot of trouble. No great reaction, until. . .

. . .One poster added that it would avoid a lot of trouble ONCE, until it comes down.