Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Complete Peter Cook
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031231891X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the beginning, when he wrote to crack up his classmates, he was brilliant, attesting to the iconoclasm that was the dominant tone of Beyond the Fringe and gave weight to Cook's duo performances with Moore. Jack HelbigCopyright © American Library Association. Even in his declining years, when he was paying the price of a lavish, alcohol-soaked lifestyle, Cook remained an able, gifted comic who tossed off winning punch lines with disarming ease. The anthology samples from all phases of Cook's creative life, and editor Cook, no relation, provides enough biographical material to make one wish he would es
But never before has there been a collection of Cook's own writings.Tragically, I Was an Only Twin gathers the treasures of Cook's comic career, from school and university via Beyond the Fringe alongside Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, to his sureal, satirical journalism for Private Eye. It includes his monologues, the cream of his irreverent essays, and highlights from his much celebrated partnerships with Dudley Moore as Pete & Dud and Derek & Clive. Illustrated with his own drawings, this is the first, the only, and certainly the definitive collection of the transformative genius of comedy that was Peter Cook.. To his many friends as well as his legion of fans, Peter Cook
"Funny, I roared with laughter all the way through this book" according to Wayne A.. Sad to see sort of so-so appraisals of Cook's work. In film he was often a genius too, I think of "The Wrong Box" (where, in fact, it's Peter Sellers that comes off a bit lame) or his brilliant portrayal of the psychotic British PM in "Whoops, Apocalypse!" I remember him explaining to his cabinet--deadpan-- that British industry is suffering because of sabotage by pixies. (Michael Moore should have watched that film be. A Customer said Genius. Peter Cook is beyond description, so genius will have to do. This book, while imperfect and incomplete, is the best argument yet for his canonization. Buy it, read it again and again. My only beef (and it's a small one) is there no Bedazzled script.. Two Cooks don't spoil this broth It's amazing it took as long as 2002 (more than five years after Peter Cook passed on) to collect this wonderful sampler of the Funniest Man in the World. Like a lot of you Boomers in North America, I became aware of Cook thru his collaborations with the Monty Python team in the Secret Policeman's Ball series of stage shows. I was immediately impressed (and still am, these many years later) at what Terry Jones called t