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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) [2] was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
Jul 2, 2024 · Peter Cook was a British entertainer who gained international fame in the 1960s in the hit satirical revue Beyond the Fringe (with Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore) and for his longtime comedy partnership with Moore on stage, screen, television, and comedy records. He also founded.
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Jan 9, 2015 · It was originally to be a vehicle for jazz pianist Dudley Moore, Cook’s partner in Beyond The Fringe – the 1960 student satire that dared to parody the Prime Minister (a first back then) and which a young Cook had taken from the Cambridge Footlights onto the West End stage, Broadway and world tours.
May 11, 2019 · Many years ago, when “alternative comedy ” was all the rage, Peter Cook made one of his – then increasingly rare – television appearances, in a show done before a studio audience who thought...
Jan 9, 2015 · My very first foray into the strange world of Peter Cook was at age 14, when, on a family holiday, we listened to a tape of him and Dudley Moore performing six sketches.
Peter Cook. Actor: The Princess Bride. One of four stars of the London and New York revues Beyond the Fringe and Beyond the Fringe (with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, and Dudley Moore). Later created scatological comedy routine "Derek & Clive" with Moore.
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Peter Edward Cook was an English satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s.
