Editing One Leg Too Few (section)

==Sketch==
The sketch takes place in the office of a [[casting agent]]. Cook plays the agent and Moore the prospective actor, a Mr Spiggott (this name was a favourite of Cook's, and was re-used as the earthly identity of [[the Devil]] in ''[[Bedazzled (1967 movie)|Bedazzled]]''). Cook begins the sketch by calling for his secretary to show the next auditioner into the office. Moore, a one-legged man, enters, hopping on his right foot. Moore's left leg is tied up behind him and obscured beneath an overcoat during the sketch (Moore did actually have a slightly deformed left leg in real life as the result of a [[club foot]]).<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Ronald Bergen|date=28 March 2002|accessdate=2 March 2014|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/28/guardianobituaries.media|title=Dudley Moore (obituary)}}</ref> Eventually, Moore comes to a stop, balanced on one leg. He is required to hold this position for most of the sketch, his difficulty in doing so occasioning much amusement from the audience (though in most performances, he has a chair to hold on to for balance). The premise of the sketch is then laid out thus:

:'''Cook''': Mr Spiggott – you are, I believe, auditioning for the part of [[Tarzan]].
:'''Moore''': Right.
:'''Cook''': Now Mr Spiggott, I couldn't help noticing – almost at once – that you are a one-legged person.
:'''Moore''': You noticed that?
:'''Cook''': I noticed that, Mr Spiggott. When you have been in the business as long as I have, you come to notice these little things almost instinctively.

The agent goes on to point out that Tarzan is "a role which traditionally involves the use of a two-legged actor" and that it would be unusual for the part to be taken by a "unidexter", but Spiggott's enthusiasm is undimmed. Cook keeps a straight face as he explains exactly why Spiggott is unsuitable for the role.

:'''Cook''': Need I say with over much emphasis that it is in the leg division that you are deficient.
:'''Moore''': The leg division?
:'''Cook''': Yes, the leg division, Mr Spiggott. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I ''like'' your right leg. A lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw you come in. I said, "A lovely leg for the role." I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is &ndash; neither have you.

Cook would often add the line 'you fall down on your left' in other versions of the sketch.

The sketch continues in a similar vein with the agent observing that at least Spiggott scores over a man with no legs at all (in the later versions, Spiggot enthusiastically agrees that he has "twice as many" as a man with none) and that there is always a chance that no two-legged actor will apply for the role "in, say, the next eighteen months," in which case Spiggott, as a "unidexter," is "just the sort of person we shall be attempting to contact telephonically." Spiggott, clearly an eternal optimist, leaves the office happy with these reassurances.

In some early versions of the sketch (including the one recorded by [[Kenneth Williams]]), a further punchline follows after Moore has left. A two-legged actor walks in normally:

:'''Cook''': Ah, good morning Mr. Stanger. Now I believe you are applying for the role of [[Long John Silver]].