Peter Cook

I don't know if you want to talk about Bedazzled now because it's all the way in the year 2000.

But if we do start somewhere with Bedazzled, 1967 is the original Bedazzled with both Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

And it's interesting because I like the original Bedazzled better, but I actually do think that the remake has a better ending because Which unfortunately is sort of that generic, like you said, I wish for somebody to have a better life.

But I think that is a better conclusion because it's more selfless.

He will resume his place amongst heaven.

And it is funny because that's a pretty major subplot to be taken out of the remake.

But it's sort of because when Peter Cook does eventually, like essentially he tells Dudley Moore like, listen, I actually have enough souls.

I can just give you yours back.

They wanted it out of the fucking building, right? Yeah.

I imagine it was like, you know, when they wiped all of Not Only But Also and Peter Cook tried to buy all the tapes.

Do you think David Drell...

They didn't have a

Look, largely you're preaching to the choir or preaching to the converted, but I say the converted have to be reminded every now and then why they converted in the first place.

My favourite comment is Peter Cook, the great satirist.

when he bought the establishment club in London, which was going to be a political satire club.

He said, I hope this can do what the great Weimar cabarets did to stop the rise of Nazism and the outbreak of the Second World War.

I also studied very hard, because I love reading, and it was your escape.

Well, of course, humour is quite subversive, isn't it? Indeed, and the first people I loved would be on the fringe at the Fortune Theatre, watching Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.

A life changing experience for me, because at about 16, we'd always go to London and watch plays, like look back in anger.

One day we went to see this review called Beyond the Fringe and I rolled around the wall for two hours.

I think the hairiest moment was when I thought I was going down to contempt the edit.

Peter said to the doorman, ''Ah, hello, I'm Peter Cook.

Would you like to go through, sir?'' We just went through security.

Peter started drawing, hello, Captain Bob, in crayon on the window.

Which is better than going to prison for two years.

Yes.

Let's talk about Peter Cook and his role in...

Because lots of our listeners will remember Peter Cook fondly and how immediate minds have gone to potentially things that we can't repeat on the radio, is the first thought.