Beyond the Fringe

Beyond the Fringe was a British comedy stage review written and performed by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller. It played in Britain's West End and on New York's Broadway in the early 1960s.

Quotations from the show

• (Said by Army Major to soldier): I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.
• Peter Cook as 'E.L.Wisty' Yes, I could have been a Judge but I never had the Latin.
• Cook as Macmillan recounting a summit meeting with President Kennedy We talked of many things, including Great Britain's position in the world as some kind of honest broker. I agreed with him when he said no nation could be more honest, and he agreed with me when I chaffed him and said no nation could be broker.
• Cook to Moore in 'One Leg Too Few' I've got nothing against your right leg. Unfortunately neither do you.