Author(s): Wendy E. Cook

Biography/Memoir

To his many fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they never met. Over a decade since his untimely death, his reputation as one of Britain's greatest comics shows no sign of shrinking.

Peter Cook was one of the most significant influences on British comedy of the last 50 years.
Caustic, cruel but genuinely and effortlessly witty, Cook was one of the prime architects of the satire boom of the sixties, achieving fame first in the revue "Beyond The Fringe" with Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, then in the television comedy sketch show "Not Only But Also", starring himself and Moore.
The responsibility of being regarded as one of the wittiest men of his generation and the comic guru to the nation could have weighed heavily upon Peter Cook's shoulders.
But the one thing Cook always refused adamantly to do was to take life, himself or his career seriously.

Wendy Cook was a teenage art student when she first met the handsome Cambridge undergraduate in the early sixties. They married soon after and together founded the Establishment clubs in London and New York, and financed the satirical magazine "Private Eye". First published 2006.