David Dimbleby asks some probing questions in an interview with writer and satirist Peter Cook, the leading light of the great British satire boom in the 1960s.

Is the profanity laden 'Derek and Clive' - so different to the material that made him a household name - indicative of a creative lull? Can anything be funny, or are there limits? Has Dudley Moore's success in Hollywood left him high and dry? What is it like to be the comedy idol of a generation?

This clip is from Person to Person. Originally broadcast 2 August, 1979.




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