Peter Cook (II)

Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, comedy review

Friendly joshing was one of the themes of the night and there was more than an echo of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's spontaneous giggles in Enfield and Whitehouse's bantering, says Bruce Dessau.

Are Derek and Clive too much for the 21st century?

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's relentlessly filthy 70s albums anticipated punk, and influenced both alternative comedy and a generation of smutty teenagers. But is this re-release just too offensive for modern ears?

Derek and Clive are as shocking today as they ever were

Derek and Clive, the characters created in a moment of boredom by Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in 1973, ruined a lot of things for me - lobsters (I can't look at them without thinking of Jayne Mansfield's bum), horse-racing (in my head all the runners have lewd names) and anyone called Colin (you'd best look it up). But for this I am eternally grateful.

Andy Parsons on Peter Cook

With his brilliant satirical stand-up, groundbreaking TV sketches and unremitting swearing, Peter Cook set me on the path to a life in comedy.

Comedy Greats appear on Royal Mail stamps

Spike Milligan, The Two Ronnies, Billy Connolly, Morecambe & Wise, Norman Wisdom, Lenny Henry, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Monty Python, French & Saunders and Victoria Wood feature on ten special Royal Mail stamps.

Peter Cook: the most inspiring British comic ever

Peter Cook died 20 years ago today.

Remembering Peter Cook

The self-proclaimed 'funniest man in the world' died 20 years ago.

Peter Cook to be honoured by Torquay

A Torquay-born comedian who was a pioneer of British satire in the 1960s is to have a blue plaque dedicated to his memory in the town tomorrow.

Radio Times review

As part of its 50th birthday celebrations, BBC2 has tiptoed downstairs to the vaults, cleared the dust from the shelves and picked some little-seen and little-remembered comedy treasures from the past half-century.

It has an enviably rich archive to trawl, one full of familiar faces. There are surprises, too, including the unbroadcast pilot of QI. Early BBC2 stalwarts aren't forgotten: there are sketches from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and Spike Milligan, whose thoroughly surreal and bizarre Q series ran for well over ten years.

We also get to see an early Borat work-in-progress from Sacha Baron Cohen, as an Albanian called Christo.