How Hampstead influenced our great comic, Peter Cook
Nearly 20 years since his untimely death from a gastro-intestinal haemorrhage, aged just 57, Peter Cook remains, to paraphrase Stephen Fry, one of the funniest men who ever drew breath. And although his comic career reached its premature peak way back in the early 1970s, his posthumorous fame shows no sign of fading. His partnership with Dudley Moore remains the benchmark against which all the best double acts are measured.
