Peter Cook

:This article is about the British comedian Peter Cook. For other people called Peter Cook, see Peter Cook (disambiguation).

Revival

In 1989 Cook married Lin Chong. This marriage brought a change in the direction of his life, as he reduced his drinking and for a time was teetotal. Cook returned as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with Ludovic Kennedy in A Life In Pieces. The series of twelve ten minute interviews saw Sir Arthur recounting snippets of his life loosely based on The Twelve Days of Christmas. Another set of interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist Chris Morris were recorded in the fall of 1993 and broadcast as Why Bother on BBC Radio 3, less than a year before Cook's death. The interviews were unscripted. In a later interview http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/spiggott/morris.htm, Morris described them as follows:

Related Topics:
Teetotal - Ludovic Kennedy - Chris Morris

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"It was a very different style of improvisation from what I'd been used to, working with people like Steve Coogan, Doon MacKichan and Rebecca Front, because those On The Hour and The Day Today things were about trying to establish a character within a situation, and Peter Cook was really doing 'knight's move' and 'double knight's move' thinking to construct jokes or ridiculous scenes flipping back on themselves, and it was amazing. I mean, I held out no great hopes that he wouldn't be a boozy old sack of lard with his hair falling out and scarcely able to get a sentence out, because he hadn't given much evidence that that wouldn't be the case. But, in fact, he stumbled in with a Safeways bag full of Kestrel lager and loads of fags and then proceeded to skip about mentally with the agility of a grasshopper. Really quite extraordinary."

Related Topics:
Steve Coogan - Doon MacKichan - Rebecca Front - On The Hour - The Day Today

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In 1994, Cook appeared with Clive Anderson showcasing four completely new characters. Many hoped this marked the beginning of a revival for Cook; but before the end of the year his mother died, and his own death in 1995 at the age of 57 was officially reported as resulting from internal haemorrhaging.

Related Topics:
Clive Anderson - Haemorrhaging

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