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Peter Cook. 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.
A. G. Cook. 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 the Queen for his services to architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French ...
One Leg Too Few. " 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 ...
Christie Lee Brinkley (née Hudson; born February 2, 1954) is an American model. [ 2] Brinkley appeared on an unprecedented three consecutive covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues in 1979, 1980, and 1981. She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl; [ 3] has appeared on over 500 magazine covers; and has signed contracts with major brands ...
Pete and Dud. Peter Cook ('Pete') and Dudley Moore ('Dud') in 1974. Pete and Dud were characters played by the comedians and entertainers Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. The dialogue format originated in 1964 when Dudley Moore invited Peter Cook to appear in a television performance. Cook scripted a conversation between two men from Dagenham ...
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 show was originally intended as a solo project for Moore, called Not Only Dudley Moore, But Also His Guests.However, unsure about going it alone, Moore invited his partner from Beyond the Fringe, Peter Cook, to guest in the pilot (along with Diahann Carroll and John Lennon, who was to make two more appearances during the course of the series).
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 Peter Cook, in the Princeton Architectural Press study Archigram (1999). Neofuturistic, anti-heroic, and pro-consumerist, the group drew inspiration from ...