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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) [2] was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter.He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
Peter Cook is an American communications consultant, journalist, and former government official, currently serving as executive vice president and chief communications officer of the American Bankers Association. He served as press secretary to Ash Carter and as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, replacing Maura Sullivan.
Professor Sir Peter Cook RA (born 22 October 1936) is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram , [ 1 ] and was knighted in 2007 by Elizabeth II for his services to architecture and teaching.
Peter Cook was previously married to Christie Brinkley from 1996 until 2008. They divorced after the supermodel found out that Cook was having an affair with his reportedly 19-year-old assistant.
The Two of Us is an American television sitcom starring Peter Cook and Mimi Kennedy that aired on CBS from April 6, 1981, to February 24, 1982. It is a remake of the British LWT sitcom Two's Company (1975–1979).
Why Bother? is a comedy radio series made for BBC Radio 3, consisting of five 10-minute-long spoof interviews between Chris Morris and Peter Cook's character Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling. Recorded in late 1993, the show was originally broadcast from 10–14 January 1994.
Peter Cook presents Archigram's project of “Plug-in City” Archigram was an avant-garde British architectural group whose unbuilt projects and media-savvy provocations "spawned the most influential architectural movement of the 1960's," according to Princeton Architectural Press study Archigram (1999). [1]
"One Leg Too Few" is a comedy sketch written by Peter Cook and most famously performed by Cook and Dudley Moore. It is a classic example of comedy arising from an absurd situation which the participants take entirely seriously (comic irony), and a demonstration of the construction of a sketch in order to draw a laugh from the audience with almost every line.