Biography Of Peter Cook
13. Nicholas Luard, ‘The Man Who Lit a Bonfire’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
14. Roger Wilmut, Fom Fringe to Flying Circus.
15. Observer, 14 January 1962.
16. Ronald Bergan, Beyond The Fringe . . . And Beyond.
17. Person to Person, BBC TV, 1979.
18. Friday Night Saturday Morning, BBC TV 16 November 1979.
19. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 2 January 1996.
20. Ibid.
21. Elisabeth Luard, ‘To Pin A Butterfly’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
22. Daily Mail, 2 March 1962.
23. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
Chapter 6 Heaving Thighs Across Manhattan: America 1962–64
1. Manchester Guardian, 30 October 1962.
2. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
3. Alan Bennett, ‘Thoughts and Afterthoughts’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Barry Humphries, ‘A Recollection’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
7. Gavin Young, Observer, 27 January 1963.
8. Christopher Hitchens and Joseph Heller, ‘Heller’s Version’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
9. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995.
10. Vanity Fair, December 1995.
11. Sunday Times, 19 July 1964.
12. Varsity, 12 October 19ont>
13. John Bird, ‘Impresario’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
14. Varsity, 12 October 1963.
15. Nicholas Luard, ‘The Man Who Lit a bonfire’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
16. Sunday Times, 6 July 1969.
17. Daily Mail, 24 September 1963.
18. John Bird, ‘Impresario’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
19. Person to Person, BBC TV, 1979.
20. The Times, 3 November 1973.
21. Parkinson, BBC TV, 1972.
22. Ronald Bergan, Beyond The Fringe . . . And Beyond.
23. Patrick Marnham, The Private Eye Story.
24. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
25. Evening News, 16 April 1964.
26. Varsity, 12 October 1963.
27. Parkinson, BBC TV, 1977.
28. Sunday Mirror, 22 August 1965.
29. Daily Mail, 20 April 1964.
30. Sunday Times, 31 October 1965.
31. Decca promotional material, July 1965.
32. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
Chapter 7 The Seductive Brethren: Private Eye, 1964–70
1. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
2. Victor Lownes, ‘Waiting in Line’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
3. In part from the Guardian, 10 January 1995.
4. Nicholas Luard, ‘The Man Who Lit a Bonfire’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
5. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
6. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
7. Person to Person, BBC TV, 1979.
8. Auberon Waugh, Will This Do?
9. Richard Ingrams, The Life and Times of Private Eye.
10. Woman’s Own, 1967.
11. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
12. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
13. Ibid.
14. Evening News, 6 February 1969.
15. Observer, 21 March 1965.
16. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
17. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
18. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
Chapter 8 We’re Always Ready to be Jolted Out: Pete and Dud, 1964–67
1. Daily Express, 7 February 1967; Radio Times, 1977.
2. Daily Express, 7 February 1967.
3. Ibid.
4. Sun, 1 March 1965.
5. Roge Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
6. Daily Mail, 6 April 1965.
7. Time Out, 30 January 1991.
8. Channel 4 News, 9 January 1995.
9. Christopher Hitchens and Dudley Moore, ‘The Other Half of the Sketch’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
10. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
11. Daily Express, 10 January 95.
12. Joseph McGrath, ‘Not only Dudley Moore but also Peter Cook’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
13. Daily Mail, 6 April 1965.
14. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
15. Wogan, BBC TV 29 October 1990.
16. Sunday Times, 31 October 1965.
17. Funny Business, BBC TV, 6 December 1992.
18. Daily Express, 10 January 1995.
19. John Hind, Comic Inquisition; Radio Times, 1977.
20. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
21. TV Times, February 1967.
22. Evening Standard, 10 January 1995.
23. Junkin’s Jokers, BBC Radio 2, 19 October 1993.
24. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
25. TV Times, 18 November 1989.
26. Daily Mail, 6 April 1965.
27. The >, 13 March 1965.
28. Sun, 1 March 1965.
29. Daily Mail, 28 February 1966.
30. Sunday Times, 31 October 1965.
31. Daily Mirror, 14 December 1970.
32. News of the World, 10 September 1967.
33. Sun, 1 March 1965.
34. Sunday Times, 31 October 1965.
35. Paul Donovan, Dudley Moore.
36. Ibid.
37. Sunday Times, 31 October 1965.
38. Sun, 29 September 1965.
39. Paul Donovan, Dudley Moore.
40. Daily Express, 10 January 1995.
41. News of the World, 29 May 1966.
42. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
43. Daily Express, 25 November 1967.
44. Daily Mail, 12 July 1966.
45. Funny Business, BBC TV, 6 December 1992.
46. Daily Mail, 21 December 1967.
47. Christopher Hitchens and Dudley Moore, ‘The Other Half of the Sketch’ in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
48. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
49. Eleanor Bron, ‘Peter’, in Something like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
50. Funny Business
51. Blitz, March 1987.
Chapter 9 Nice Though This Be I Seek Yet Further Kicks:
Family Life, 1964–71
1. Unidentified press cutting, 1993.
2. Evening News, 2 February 1967.
3. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
4. Nicholas Luard, ‘The Man Who Lit A Bonfire’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
5. Jay Landesman, Jaywalking.
6. Elisabeth Luard, ‘To Pin A Butterfly’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
7. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
8. Sun, 29 September 1965.
9. In part from Jay Landesman, Jaywalking.
10. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
11. Eleanor Bron, ‘Peter’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
12. Daily Mail, 28 September 1996.
13. Graham Lord, Just The One – The Wives and Times of Jeffrey Bernard.
14. Sunday Express, 14 January 1968.
15. Daily Mail, 24 November 1977.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Daily Mail, 28 September 1996.
22. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
23. News of the World, 13 November 1970.
24. Evening Standard, 31 October 1970.
Chapter 10 Learning to Fly Underwater: Pete and Dud, 1968–71
1. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
2. News of the World, 10 September 1967.
3. Daily Express, 25 November 1967.
4. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
5. Daily Mirror, 22 August 1980.
6. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
7. Success Story, BBC TV, 27 May 1974.
8. Daily Mail, 26 August 1968.
9. Daily Sketch, 19 August 1968.
10. Evening Standard, 31 October 1970.
11. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
12. Unidentified press cutting, 1970.
13. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
14. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
15. Christopher Hitchens and Dudley Moore, ‘The Other Half of the Sketch’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
16. The Times, 3 November 1973.
17. Daily Mail, 19 February 1970.
18. The Times, 18 November 1972.
19. The New Yorkeri>Daily, 23 January 1995.
20. Ibid.
21. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
22. Daily Mail, 10 November 1970.
23. Liverpool Echo, 14 November 1970.
24. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
25. Radio Times, 13 February 1971.
26. Russell Harty, LWT, 9 October 1975.
27. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
28. Evening Standard, 31 October 1970.
29. Publish and Bedazzled, No. 6.
30. The Times, 20 February 1971.
31. Daily Telegraph, 14 March 1971.
32. Daily Mail, 8 March 1971.
33. Daily Telegraph, 14 March 1971.
34. Russell Harty, 9 October 1975.
35. Friday Night Saturday Morning, BBC TV, 16 November 1979.
36. Illustrated London News, 1988.
37. Publish and Bedazzled, No. 6.
38. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
Chapter 11 3-D Lobster: The Humour of Peter Cook
1. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
2. Sun, 4 April 1970.
3. Evening Standard, 9 May 1968.
4. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
5. Daily Mail, 10 January 1995.
6. Christopher Hitchens and Dudley Moore, ‘The Other Half of the Sketch’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
7. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
8. Omnibus, BBC TV, 19 December 1995.
9. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 26 December 1995.
10. Harpers & Queen, December 1989.
11. Independent, 2 October 1995.
12. Publish and Bedazzled, No. 8.
13. Nicholas Luard, ‘The Man Who Lit A Bonfire’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
14. John Hind, Comic Inquisition.
15. Adrian Slade, ‘Peter Cook: Thirty Seven Years a Very Rare Friend’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
16. In part from the Guardian, 10 January 1995.
17. London Review of Books, 25 May 1995.
18. Morning Star, 4 June 1966.
19. Independent, 10 January 1995.
20. Guardian, 10 January 1995.
21. Alan Bennett, ‘Thoughts and Afterthoughts’ in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
22. Illustrated London News, December 1988.
23. Sun, 29 September 1965.
24. Sun, 4 April 1970.
25. Dougl Thompson, Dudley Moore.
26. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
27. Person to Person, BBC TV, 1979.
28. Friday Night Saturday Morning, BBC TV 16 December 1979.
29. Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind.
30. Oliver Sacks, Excesses.
Chapter 12 I Can’t Talk Now, ’Cos He’s Here:
Behind the Fringe, 1971–75
1. The Times, 18 November 1972.
2. Shane Maloney, ‘Hanging out at Hanging Rock’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
3. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
4. Lewis Morley, ‘The Wings of Change’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
5. Sun, 7 July 1988.
6. Evening Standard, 25 February 1972.
7. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
8. Sunday Express, 15 January 1995.
9. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
10. The Times, 18 November 1972.
11. Ibid.
12. Sunday Times, 8 October 1972.
13. In part from Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
14. Ibid.
15. Daily Mail, 20 November 1973.
16. Christopher Hitchens and Joseph Heller, ‘Heller’s Version’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
17. Ibid.
18. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
19. Ibid.
20. New York Times, 1973.
21. Russell Harty, LWT, 9 October 1975.
22. The Radleian, 1995.
23. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
24. Penthouse, Vol. 11, No. 9.
25. Parkinson, BBC 1, 1975.
26. Penthouse, Vol. 11, No. 9.
27. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
28. Sunday Express, 17 August 1975.
29. Mavis Catches Up With . . . Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, ITV, 22 November 1989.
30. Daily Mail, 15 March 1976.
31. John Hind, Comic Inquisition.
32. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
33. Daily Mail, 28 September 1996.
Chapter 13 I Don’t Want to See Plays About Rape:
Derek and Clive, 1973–79
1. Christopher Hitchens and Dudley Moore, ‘The Other Half of the Sketch’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
2. Penthouse, Vol. 11, No. 9.
3. Guardian, 20 August 1976.
4. Ibid.
5. Penthouse, Vol. 11, No. 9.
6. Evening Standard, 9 January 1995.
7. Time Out, 1987.
8. Daily Mail, 11 April 1977.
9. The South Bank Show, LWT, 8 April 1978.
10. Ibid.
11. Daily Mail, 27 June 1977.
12. Roger Wilmut, From Fringe to Flying Circus.
13. Ronald Bergan, Beyond The Fringe . . . And Beyond.
14. Sunday Express, 15 January 1995.
15. Ibid.
16. Daily Mail, 24 November 1977.
17. Ibid.
18. Evening Standard, 2 December 1977.
19. Sun, 24 June 1978.
20. Daily Express, 20 May 1978.
21. Sunday Times, October 1978.
22. Time Out, 30 January 1991.
23. In part from Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 9 January 1996.
24. Today, 1993.
25. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
26. Melody Maker, 2 December 1978.
27. Ibid.
28. You Magazine, 30 March 1997.
29. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
30. Barry Humphris, ‘A Recollection’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
31. Melody Maker, 2 October 1993.
32. Cook’s Tour, BBC Radio 4, 2 January 1996.
33. In part from Sunday Express, 15 January 1995.
Chapter 14 You Are to Be a Stud, Dud:
Dudley’s Hollywood Success, 1979–83
1. News of the World, 2 December 1979.
2. Daily Mirror, 29 June 1979.
3. Michael Palin, ‘I Had That Peter Cook in the Back of My Car’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
4. Sun, 8 December 1979.
5. Sunday Telegraph, 12 June 1983.
6. Observer, 22 December 1996.
7. Daily Express, 13 September 1980.
8. Unidentified press cutting, February 1979.
9. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
10. Stephen Fry, ‘Peter Cook’, In Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
11. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
12. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore.
13. Ibid.
14. Daily Mail, 28 February 1980.
15. Daily Express, 10 March 1981.
16. Barbra Paskin, Dudley Moore. r />
17. Unidentified press cutting quoted in Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
18. Daily Mirr, 22 August 1980.
19. Guardian, 22 August 1980.
20. TV Times, 11 September 1980.
21. Daily Express, 2 September 1980.
22. Daily Mail, 13 September 1980 & 9 December 1981.
23. Daily Mirror, 26 October 1981.
24. Daily Mail, 11 March 1982.
25. Sun, 17 March 1982.
26. Sunday Express, 12 September 1982.
27. Sunday Telegraph, 15 March 1987.
28. Sunday Express, 12 September 1982.
29. Ronald Bergan, Beyond the Fringe . . . And Beyond.
30. Sunday Express, 12 September 1982.
31. Sun, 17 March 1982.
32. Sun, 20 November 1984.
33. Douglas Thompson, Dudley Moore.
34. Channel Four News, 9 January 1995.
35. Sunday Express, 12 September 1982.
36. Daily Mail, 12 November 1994.
37. Eric Idle, ‘The Funniest Man in the World’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
38. Blitz, March 1987.
39. Evening Standard, 9 January 1995.
Chapter 15 Whereupon I Immediately Did Nothing:
The Single Life, 1983–89
1. Independent on Sunay, 30 July 1995.
2. Daily Mail, 17 February 1996.
3. Independent on Sunday, 30 July 1995.
4. Independent, 10 January 1995.
5. Independent on Sunday, 30 July 1995.
6. Today, 1993.
7. Saturday Live, LWT 15 March 1986.
8. Time Out, March 1987.
9. Daily Mail, 17 September 1979.
10. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
11. Sunday Times, 5 August 1984.
12. After Midnight, 19 November 1983, Melody Maker, 2 October 1993.
13. The New Yorker, 23 January 1995.
14. John Wells, ‘The Mystic Spube’, in Something Like Fire, ed. Lin Cook.
15. Melody Maker, 2 October 1993.
16. Independent, 14 December 1993.
17. Independent, 10 January 1995.
18. Stephen Fry, ‘Peter Cook’, in Something Like Fire, ed Lin Cook.
19. Independent on Sunday, 30 July 1995.
20. Newsnight, 9 January 1995.
21. BBC 6 O’Clock News, 9 January 1995.
22. Pembroke College Annual Gazette, 1995.