Heroes of Comedy: Peter Cook 1/6 (1998) With Eric Idle, Michael Palin

Discussion about Peter's talent, his family, and his effect on Cambridge Footlights.

With comments from Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eleanor Bron, Jonathan Miller, Peter Bellwood, Stephen Fry and Adrian Slade.

Also archive photographs and footage with Dudley Moore, Clive Anderson and Eleanor Bron.

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Entertainment

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• Peter
• Cook
• Dudley
• Moore
• Heroes
• of
• Comedy

[gards2]

no audio why?

[frogandpeach1]

@gards2 This upload is in mono due to the amateur way I transferred it from VHS several years ago. I've been told that you can try it with another browser or adjust your audio settings and that might work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[hooverbagfullofstars]

Oh, my gawd! I used to have this on video and was gutted when i lost it. This is the beauty of YOutube. Thankyou!!!

[weikko79]

Thanks for this! Invaluable stuff!

[dutchgoing]

'Heroes of Comedy' is actually a pretty badly conceived programme almost daytime TV, it uses that dated device of inviting people connected to the dead comic to talk, it works well for some comedians, but not for others. It is interesting to watch because a good number of the people appearing have since died which makes the prog even more telling. The production is very amateurish but happens to work because of the calibre of the people appearing & because it is sympathetic.

[vivascargill1]

dear peter john cleese cried for a week after he died

[RepublicOfVietnam]

'they wanted you on the blower father' on the what? 'Oh on the telephone' HAHA

[appositioncatatonic]

i see all my Episodes at TV[.]UsNetxxx[.]com

[66Nico]

Thanks for posting, the genius Cook immortalised!

[trufflesmell]

I love the way that Adrian Slade says that Peter, "was a hit." It's an almost poetic example of our wonderful, tweedy 'Britishness'.

[kavbec87]

this made my sunday. thank you.

[veronicadajani]

we love you, cooky. we do, oh, cooky we love you.