Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
In 2005, Cook was ranked at number one in the Comedians' Comedian, a poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world.
Early life
Cook was born at his parents' house, "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.
Peter Cook was named press secretary to U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in July 2015. He previously served as Washington Anchor for Bloomberg Television.
Peter Cook joined Bloomberg Television in October 2003. As Washington Anchor and Correspondent, Peter co-anchors Bloomberg’s morning programming and reports on the intersection of business and government. In recent months, Peter has covered every angle of the financial crisis, regularly breaking news on the government's unprecedented response. He has interviewed key Washington players including Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, former Secretary Henry Paulson, White House economic adviser Larry Summers, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plus business leaders such as JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.
Before his shift to the morning, Peter hosted Bloomberg's "Money & Politics" program and spearheaded BLOOMBERG TELEVISION'S coverage of the Presidential race. He anchored the network's primary season and election night coverage, interviewing the major candidates including Barack Obama and John McCain. Peter routinely covers the Fed, Treasury, White House and Congress. Previously he did extensive reporting on the Gulf Coast's recovery from Hurricane Katrina and traveled to Beijing with Secretary Paulson for a closer look at the economic relationship between the U.S. and China.
Dudley (i/ˈdʌdli/) is a large town in the West Midlands of England, 6 miles (9.7km) south-east of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13km) north-west of Birmingham. The town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley and in 2011 had a population of 83,727. The Metropolitan Borough, which includes the towns of Stourbridge and Halesowen, had a population of 312,900. Dudley is sometimes called the capital of the Black Country.
Dudley has a history dating back to Anglo-Saxon times, its name deriving from the Old EnglishDuddan Leah, meaning Dudda's clearing, and one of its churches being named in honour of the Anglo-Saxon King and Saint, Edmund.
A great interview. Good old Spurs-supporting Peter :)
published: 16 Sep 2006
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Football Hooligan
published: 18 Aug 2010
Comedy legend Peter Cook explains how to dodge the army
published: 12 Apr 2021
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - the "One-Legged Tarzan" sketch - '89
A reprise of their classic Sixties routine (I'm surprised the audience didn't shout out as one - "...neither have you!" - at the requisite point) from one of the Secret Policeman's Balls.
published: 10 Jul 2010
Architect Peter Cook on the Benefits of Drawing by Hand | Louisiana Channel
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“Screw you; it can be built." Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian.
“By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.”
Peter Cook (b. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war...
published: 26 Jan 2022
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on English and American Accents | The Dick Cavett Show
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy i...
published: 10 Apr 2020
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Jesus' Life
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
published: 24 Dec 2016
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on "Parkinson"
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in a very funny interview with Michael Parkinson.
published: 16 Sep 2006
Funeral Service For Stephen Cook - Tue 10 Dec 2024
Please join the family for Stephen's service at St Peters Tues 10th Dec at 11am.
published: 10 Dec 2024
Secret Policeman's Ball: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore 'Frog and Peach'
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Dudley Moore interviews Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling over his disastrous restaurant, the Frog and Peach.
A reprise of their classic Sixties routine (I'm surprised the audience didn't shout out as one - "...neither have you!" - at the requisite point) from one of th...
A reprise of their classic Sixties routine (I'm surprised the audience didn't shout out as one - "...neither have you!" - at the requisite point) from one of the Secret Policeman's Balls.
A reprise of their classic Sixties routine (I'm surprised the audience didn't shout out as one - "...neither have you!" - at the requisite point) from one of the Secret Policeman's Balls.
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“Screw you; it can be built." Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian.
“By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.”
Peter Cook (b. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war. The town had a lot of cultural activities, and he accompanied his mother, a frustrated artist, to galleries, operas, and symphony concerts from a very young age. Around the age of eleven, he started reading books about architecture and was already fascinated by the modern by then. When he began studying architecture at art school, he was both intrigued and challenged by the practice of drawing.
“Because I was not a natural drawer, I realised that I was determined to communicate ideas. I was arrogant enough to say: ‘I’m sorry, I’m not just going to sit at the back of the process and specify door handles; I’m going to be a creative architect.’ And so, you just bloody well had to do it like an artisan.”
As a founding member of the avant-garde neo-futuristic group Archigram in the early 1960s, Cook helped project radically new architecture possibilities. He has been a pivotal figure in the global architectural world for over half a century. One of the most significant works from his time with Archigram, The Plug-In City, still holds the potential to invoke debates on technology and society to this day. His more recent works, including the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, has brought his ideas to a broader audience.
Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Peter Cook at his studio in London in January 2022, just before the opening of Peter Cook’s exhibition City Landscapes at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
Camera: Kyle Stevenson
Edited by Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021
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“Screw you; it can be built." Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian.
“By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.”
Peter Cook (b. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war. The town had a lot of cultural activities, and he accompanied his mother, a frustrated artist, to galleries, operas, and symphony concerts from a very young age. Around the age of eleven, he started reading books about architecture and was already fascinated by the modern by then. When he began studying architecture at art school, he was both intrigued and challenged by the practice of drawing.
“Because I was not a natural drawer, I realised that I was determined to communicate ideas. I was arrogant enough to say: ‘I’m sorry, I’m not just going to sit at the back of the process and specify door handles; I’m going to be a creative architect.’ And so, you just bloody well had to do it like an artisan.”
As a founding member of the avant-garde neo-futuristic group Archigram in the early 1960s, Cook helped project radically new architecture possibilities. He has been a pivotal figure in the global architectural world for over half a century. One of the most significant works from his time with Archigram, The Plug-In City, still holds the potential to invoke debates on technology and society to this day. His more recent works, including the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, has brought his ideas to a broader audience.
Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Peter Cook at his studio in London in January 2022, just before the opening of Peter Cook’s exhibition City Landscapes at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
Camera: Kyle Stevenson
Edited by Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021
Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, C.L. Davids Fond og Samling and Fritz Hansen.
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Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
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Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-show
Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-show
Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the ...
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
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Dudley Moore interviews Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling over his disastrous restaurant, the Frog and Peach.
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Dudley Moore interviews Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling over his disastrous restaurant, the Frog and Peach.
Sketch entitled 'The Aftermyth of War', from 'Beyond The Fringe'.
published: 26 Jun 2021
Beyond the Fringe - from the 'Aftermyth of War' sketch.
Part of a much longer sketch, 'The Aftermyth of War', which consisted of several scenes, although this is all I have.
From 'Beyond the Fringe' which began its run in 1961.
I discovered recently that a complete visual recording exists of a performance of Beyond the Fringe and is now available on DVD (Region One format).
published: 02 Oct 2008
Derek and Clive Live: "This Bloke Came Up To Me" (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore) 2/13
Track 2 of 13. Yes, this is the "f*cking c*nt" one.
1/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Lobsters up bum)
3/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Churchill's bogies)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore present Derek and Clive (Live) - a comedy sketch entitled 'This Bloke Came Up To Me' from 1976. Explicit cuntent. I didn't do much animating in this one like I did for Tracks 1 and 3, just some images of the boys in their prime.
Track Titles:
Track 1: "Worst Job I Ever Had" (Lobsters up Jayne Mansfield's bum one)
Track 2: "This Bloke Came Up To Me" (Fucking cunt one)
Track 3: "Worst Job He Ever Had" (Winston Churchill's bogey one)
published: 06 Oct 2011
David Bowie’s HYSTERICAL Impersonation of Paul Whitehouse | The Graham Norton Show
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore on English and American Accents | The Dick Cavett Show
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy i...
published: 10 Apr 2020
Peter Cook - Experiences Down The Mine
Peter Cook at Beyond The Fringe
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published: 10 Oct 2008
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Jesus' Life
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
published: 24 Dec 2016
A BBC sketch was right about Jimmy Savile
but for the wrong reason..... Interesting clip from Scotch & Wry with Rikki Fulton
published: 29 Dec 2016
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Not Only But Also - The Violinist
Taken from the "The Best Of What's Left Of - Not Only But Also" compilation. Courtesy of the BBC, who incidentally junked half of the original sketches.
Part of a much longer sketch, 'The Aftermyth of War', which consisted of several scenes, although this is all I have.
From 'Beyond the Fringe' which began it...
Part of a much longer sketch, 'The Aftermyth of War', which consisted of several scenes, although this is all I have.
From 'Beyond the Fringe' which began its run in 1961.
I discovered recently that a complete visual recording exists of a performance of Beyond the Fringe and is now available on DVD (Region One format).
Part of a much longer sketch, 'The Aftermyth of War', which consisted of several scenes, although this is all I have.
From 'Beyond the Fringe' which began its run in 1961.
I discovered recently that a complete visual recording exists of a performance of Beyond the Fringe and is now available on DVD (Region One format).
Track 2 of 13. Yes, this is the "f*cking c*nt" one.
1/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Lobsters up bum)
3/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC6...
Track 2 of 13. Yes, this is the "f*cking c*nt" one.
1/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Lobsters up bum)
3/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Churchill's bogies)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore present Derek and Clive (Live) - a comedy sketch entitled 'This Bloke Came Up To Me' from 1976. Explicit cuntent. I didn't do much animating in this one like I did for Tracks 1 and 3, just some images of the boys in their prime.
Track Titles:
Track 1: "Worst Job I Ever Had" (Lobsters up Jayne Mansfield's bum one)
Track 2: "This Bloke Came Up To Me" (Fucking cunt one)
Track 3: "Worst Job He Ever Had" (Winston Churchill's bogey one)
Track 2 of 13. Yes, this is the "f*cking c*nt" one.
1/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Lobsters up bum)
3/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Churchill's bogies)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore present Derek and Clive (Live) - a comedy sketch entitled 'This Bloke Came Up To Me' from 1976. Explicit cuntent. I didn't do much animating in this one like I did for Tracks 1 and 3, just some images of the boys in their prime.
Track Titles:
Track 1: "Worst Job I Ever Had" (Lobsters up Jayne Mansfield's bum one)
Track 2: "This Bloke Came Up To Me" (Fucking cunt one)
Track 3: "Worst Job He Ever Had" (Winston Churchill's bogey one)
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-...
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-show
Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-show
Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the ...
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
Taken from the "The Best Of What's Left Of - Not Only But Also" compilation. Courtesy of the BBC, who incidentally junked half of the original sketches.
Taken from the "The Best Of What's Left Of - Not Only But Also" compilation. Courtesy of the BBC, who incidentally junked half of the original sketches.
Taken from the "The Best Of What's Left Of - Not Only But Also" compilation. Courtesy of the BBC, who incidentally junked half of the original sketches.
A reprise of their classic Sixties routine (I'm surprised the audience didn't shout out as one - "...neither have you!" - at the requisite point) from one of the Secret Policeman's Balls.
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“Screw you; it can be built." Meet British architect Sir Peter Cook who talks about the possible benefits of drawing by hand and explains why he disagrees with critics calling his architectural ideas utopian.
“By the critics and the regular people saying it’s utopian, you put it into a pigeonhole that says: ‘Oh, those sorts of architects are utopian, but we are normal architects.’ So, the delight I get out of doing buildings is to say: Screw you, it can be built.”
Peter Cook (b. 1936) grew up in the city of Lester in the latter part of the second world war. The town had a lot of cultural activities, and he accompanied his mother, a frustrated artist, to galleries, operas, and symphony concerts from a very young age. Around the age of eleven, he started reading books about architecture and was already fascinated by the modern by then. When he began studying architecture at art school, he was both intrigued and challenged by the practice of drawing.
“Because I was not a natural drawer, I realised that I was determined to communicate ideas. I was arrogant enough to say: ‘I’m sorry, I’m not just going to sit at the back of the process and specify door handles; I’m going to be a creative architect.’ And so, you just bloody well had to do it like an artisan.”
As a founding member of the avant-garde neo-futuristic group Archigram in the early 1960s, Cook helped project radically new architecture possibilities. He has been a pivotal figure in the global architectural world for over half a century. One of the most significant works from his time with Archigram, The Plug-In City, still holds the potential to invoke debates on technology and society to this day. His more recent works, including the Kunsthaus in Graz, Austria, has brought his ideas to a broader audience.
Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Peter Cook at his studio in London in January 2022, just before the opening of Peter Cook’s exhibition City Landscapes at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark.
Camera: Kyle Stevenson
Edited by Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021
Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, C.L. Davids Fond og Samling and Fritz Hansen.
Dreyers Fond supports Louisiana Channel’s videos on architecture.
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Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-dick-cavett-show
Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
#thedickcavettshow
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
The Ball is back for 2012!
Follow us at http://www.facebook.com/secretpoliceman for exclusive comedy, behind the scenes gossip and prizes that money can't buy.
Dudley Moore interviews Peter Cook as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling over his disastrous restaurant, the Frog and Peach.
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.
In 2005, Cook was ranked at number one in the Comedians' Comedian, a poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world.
Early life
Cook was born at his parents' house, "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.
Part of a much longer sketch, 'The Aftermyth of War', which consisted of several scenes, although this is all I have.
From 'Beyond the Fringe' which began its run in 1961.
I discovered recently that a complete visual recording exists of a performance of Beyond the Fringe and is now available on DVD (Region One format).
Track 2 of 13. Yes, this is the "f*cking c*nt" one.
1/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Lobsters up bum)
3/13: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pC61VSyKiA (Churchill's bogies)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore present Derek and Clive (Live) - a comedy sketch entitled 'This Bloke Came Up To Me' from 1976. Explicit cuntent. I didn't do much animating in this one like I did for Tracks 1 and 3, just some images of the boys in their prime.
Track Titles:
Track 1: "Worst Job I Ever Had" (Lobsters up Jayne Mansfield's bum one)
Track 2: "This Bloke Came Up To Me" (Fucking cunt one)
Track 3: "Worst Job He Ever Had" (Winston Churchill's bogey one)
Date aired - 10/4/1973 - Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Kirk Douglas
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Peter Cook & Dudley Moore discussing the Nativity and Life of B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ Jesus. Filmed during the duo's "Behind The Fridge" tour in Australia in 1971 at the GTV9 studios.
Taken from the "The Best Of What's Left Of - Not Only But Also" compilation. Courtesy of the BBC, who incidentally junked half of the original sketches.