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Bookmark or Share- Remembering Peter Cook: ‘The Funniest Man Who Ever Drew Breath’ - VICEJanuary 9 marks 20 years since Peter Cook’s death. What remains of his legacy, and what was he about?
- Peter Cook - WikipediaPeter 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.
- Peter Cook, Madcap British Performer, Dies at 57Peter Cook, one of the four creators of the ground-breaking satiric revue "Beyond the Fringe," died on Monday at the Royal Free Hospital in London. He was...
- Peter Cook | Biography, Shows, & Facts | BritannicaPeter 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.
- 20 years on: The satirist's satirist Peter Cook rememberedAfter the success of Beyond – and the Establishment comedy club which Cook started in ’61 and TV’s That Was The Week That Was, the pioneering satire series that he helped write – you wouldn’t have thought that Cook needed a Beatle to help get him back on British TV.
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