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00:29 24th Mayo 2012

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Guys. Peter Cook was hot.

Especially in Bedazzled.

Even when he dresses as the pope.

I always thought he looked a little bit like George Harrison

15:51 16th Abr 2012

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itsthenewsexy:

This is perfect.

#benedict’s like jesus motherfucking-! #and robert’s looking up just like, dude, what the fuck?

15:40

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sammykknight:

Mr. Luke Fitzwilliam and Miss Jane Marple.

Qué precioso

00:14

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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Superstitions

PETE: If you ask me, there must be something in this occult business. You remember my Uncle Bert?
DUD: Very vaguely.
PETE: That's how people remember him, very vaguely, my Uncle Bert. Well, one day he was in the kitchen. He'd just finished having tea, you know, like you or me, and he was just about to place the milk in the fridge when suddenly this black cat ran in front of him. Of course, what he should have done is stood on his head, thrown the milk backwards and crossed himself to avoid evil spirits. Well, he was very late for the pictures so he didn't take any precautions and sure enough seven years, four months, and three days later he was run down by a bus.
DUD: That shows you, Pete, you can't ignore the omens.
PETE: You mustn't ignore the omens, no. Of course, Uncle Bert, he used to dabble in the occult, especially during the warm weather. I remember once, it must have been the summer of 1953, a blazing hot afternoon, I just come down the stairs and I went into the sitting room and there was Uncle Bert, sitting there, with all the heavy velvet curtains drawn. You remember those heavy velvet curtains they used to have?
DUD: Very vaguely.
PETE: Well they were drawn, fairly distinctively, and he was sitting there in the dark. So I said, 'I'm sorry to disturb you, Uncle Burt', and he said, 'Oh no, come on in, Pete. I'm looking into the secrets of the future'. So I sat down. He had these amazing tarot cards, you know the tarot cards. He was taking one tarot out after the other, throwing it on the table and predicting the future, it was quite incredible, Dud. He said, 'During the next ten years an amazingly important event will occur.' Sure enough four years later, World War II broke out. And that wasn't the only thing. You want to know what he said as well?
DUD: Yer.
PETE: He said, 'The weather is going to be unpredictable'. He predicted that years before it happened.

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inwhichidigress:

An article by Helen Lewis in the New Statesman pays a very brief tribute to Peter Cook and notes his influence on British comedy. It also mentions a key difference between Cook and a lot of contemporary political satirists:

Richard Ingrams once described Peter Cook as a “conservative anarchist” - he had the rare ability to mock the powerful without alienating them: both Harold Macmillan and the Queen came to see Beyond the Fringe, for all that it was supposed to be a scandalous youth phenomenon. Cook never subscribed to the idea that comedy could change the world, either, comparing the opening of the Establishment club in 1961 to “those wonderful Berlin cabarets … which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler”.