BBC2 is screening two programmes tonight,from 9pm-10.30pm(GMT)about a Great comedy hero of mine-Peter Cook.I think he was a comic genius(but as usual,there was a touch of sadness to his life-Peter said that he’d achieved all his ambitions by the time he was 28,so there was really nothing left for him to do,apart from repeat himself.Unsurprisingly,personal and working relationships-as with his partnership with Dudley Moore,were affected) and he ended up an alchoholic,dead at a too early age.BUT.. when he was on form,and he usually was,his humour was wildly and surrealistically improvisational.I am sure that a great many comic performers and writers owe a debt to Peter. He did not play whistle,as far as I know.
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