1982 interview of Peter Cook by Michael Parkinson.

[SethHesio]

01.46.. who are those two old geezers?! They look monstrous!

[frogandpeach1]

@SethHesio They are actor Sir Donald Sinden (born 1923) and writer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) who was perhaps best known as the author of A Clockwork Orange.

[SethHesio]

@frogandpeach1 HoLOLY hHell... I directed clockwork Orange on Stage! I love Anthony Burgess, i feel totally stupid for not recognising him. Woops!



[ap9011]

Smoking in a TV studio on a prime time interview show - unthinkable now.. odd sight to see

[Nautilus1972]

Smoking on TV. Brilliant.

[SoldierofFortune07]

Peter Cook and Anthony Burgess in the same room. Heaven.

[JuanMacready]

I'm glad the fat ugly unfunny fuck died at only 57.

[LuciferMorgan]

@JuanMacready So why are you clicking the link to watch this? Seems rather stupid of you.

[hounf6]

@JuanMacready you fucking prick the man was a genius

[JuanMacready]

@hounf6 He was a talentless fat ugly unfunny alcoholic twat who thankfully drank himself to death at a relatively early age.

[Mazeppa6]

@JuanMacready You are a dumb CUNT and I hope you die early. Preferably in a lot of pain.

[JuanMacready]

@Mazeppa6 Just like Peter Cook eh?

[Mazeppa6]

@JuanMacready Early and in pain, certainly. But there the similarity (and hope)ends. Whereas Peter Cook was touched by the hand of genius, you are evidently a sad, lonely virgin.

[JuanMacready]

@Mazeppa6 Cook was just a sad, lonely, alcoholic, wife beating twat.

[Mazeppa6]

@JuanMacready You are a dumb CUNT and I hope you die early. Preferably in a lot of pain.

[hounf6]

@JuanMacready whats the matter Jealous much cos your not funny your a bitter sad exscuse for a human being if you wish or are happy with some dieing LONNNNNNNNG before there time

[JuanMacready]

@hounf6 Jealous of a bitter, sad, bankrupt alcoholic recluse who died before my second birthday?

Nope.

[hounf6]

@JuanMacready LOL your just a child you know nothing about him hahah what a silly person well know i really dont care what you think of him those who saw him as a performer know how good he was!!!

[anonUK]

@JuanMacready

Find out something about real British comedy and then come back with your witty asides about sad lonely alcoholics like Peter Cook.

[rael1999]

@JuanMacready .....what a fucking embarressment you are to mankind !!

[ipolson]

Love Peter Cook's comment to people who (mistakenly) believe that he did not fulfill his potential. He said 'I cannot think of anything more awful than going through life fulfilling your potential'.

[AlanHolsworth]

Peter Cook was and remains the funniest man to draw breath. 

[Scotchegg85]

Marvellous, what an excellent group of guests.

[toberses11]

smoking indoors tut tut tut

[Pugophile]

@toberses11 Oh Christ! People like you are terrifying.

[shom1981]

@Pugophile Haha, brilliant!

[williamwilson666]

Goodness- this was filmed the year I was born.

It appears that genius is always a thing of the past.

[L0K3]

Donald Sindon!

[opiumlover21]

Parky is a legend!! I would love to have met the people he has in his lifetime. He was loved by many and rightly so!!

[colinsmyth99]

No lover of Parkinson - always thought he had an overinflated opinion of himself, although I don't really think he tried to put Cook down in this interview. I think he respected him too much for that. Thought Peter answered with good grace and came out well in this interview. Didn't seem to think that making it in the States was the be all and end all, and good on him.

[dingbatcharlie1]

peter cook was a bad man

[hounf6]

Oh really how so? cos he was a drinker? cos he had depression?

[ShoeiBoy]

What a twat Parkinson is.

What an absolute gent and an absolute PRO Peter Cook was. Sadly missed. RIP

[laceup1967]

What a pity that Dudley attained the notoriety. It was Cook who held the actual talent.

[monkeycrud]

Calling parky this and that because he had the balls to ask the questions people wanted answers to! get real!

[p3t3tw10]

@monkeycrud Parky is painfully pompous. Sorry

[boychildnew1]

Ha! - does this say C**T at the end?

sounds like it!

[thomasjn15]

Peter loved that fag in his mouth.

[leesawford]

Parkinson is a arse... Britain's most famous interviewer who ironically is awful..continues to alienate his guests to this day

[BRIGSTOCK]

I thought I was the only one who thought this! He is AWFUL: a typical oafish, blunt, rude, charmless Yorkshireman. It is hardly surprising he was friends with Geoffrey Boycott!

[OzClawhammer]

Jeez Parkinson was a nerve with some of his questions!

[sarahnewt]

Rude, I thought.....

[CasparWilson]

kind of funny to think that you could smoke (gasp!) on TV then.

[PrincessSisi87]

@CasparWilson That's exactly what I thought! :) It's funny how it was allowed to smoke in a studio like that at the time. From your *gasp*, though I gather you may reminisce - I, being the non - smoker I am, don't really! :)

P.S If I've indirectly and mistakenly called you a smoker, when in actual truth you're not, I do apologise heh! :)

[eclayton1m3]

:P I know this whole thingymajig about him being a 'tragic figure' is a load of balls.

But from all the clips I have seen of P. Cook, he looks really, much more lively here

Ed

x

[flimpkin4]

According to his biographer, though, Pete was bugged by Dud's success in Hollywood ... and here you can kind of see insincerity on Pete's face when he says he's happy for Dud!

[simonpenum]

What a panel. Peter cook, Anthony burgess and that bloke from never the twain

[trufflesmell]

I don't suppose you've found their interviews somewhere, especially 'that bloke'?

[simonpenum]

I'm sorry what do you mean?

[trufflesmell]

Sorry, was just wondering if you'd found the Burgess and Sinden portions somewhere.

[simonpenum]

Unfortunately no. There is a severe lack of Burgess interviews on this site. Everytime someone puts one up it gets taken off eventually. Always worth looking out for tho

[gambleyourtits]

me too farleigh..

me too..

[farleigh17]

Could listen to him for hours.

[timdanaher]

thanks for this F&P -- your channel makes living in Germany (almost) bearable.

God, I miss all that shit...