Peter Cook -- Room 101 - Gracie Fields
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@arussianbashy berk
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Er, I like Peter Cook, I like Gracie Fields and I don't mind Nick Hancock. Sorry...
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On the one hand, I do find her quite annoying as an entertainer; her voice cuts through me and I can't really take to her as a whole really. On the other I don't really want to denigrate her as she did entertain a lot of people. To most of the current generation, her popularity is a bafflement. George Formby is far more accessable.
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@Bromley68 sorry that should be Vera LYNN
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Gracie Fields went to live in the Us during the war and left Anne Shelton and Vera Flynn to face the Hun, she got a bad press and then spent the rest of the war annoying British soldiers in Italy to try and attone for it.
And she's a ghastly, awful proffesional Northerner.
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Looks like life sent Cook to room 101. Good riddance!
Gracie lifted the spirits of the British people when they needed it.
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"Oh shuddup!"
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i forgot how annoying and self important hancock was. peter cook is in a totally different league. shut the fuck up u stoke prick. so glad he is not on tv anymore. cook legend rip
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cook was one of the funniest men in the past 100years, he was also a very mean angry alcoholic towards the end
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I'd far sooner put Gracie in than George Formby; some of his films were quite good (for a Sunday afternoon when it's raining and there's nothing else on).
What the fuck are you all on about you joyless idiots - If you can't appreciate that Peter Cook was the most sharply intelligent and ingenious man of the twentieth century then that's your fault. For those of us with some kind of comic vision he was peerless and superior to superlatives. Perhaps if you actually watched some of his shrewd satire you might see why he is so lauded by all modern comedians. And he is far more widely respected and remembered than Dudley Moore. farleigh17 got it in one
Alishhh4 1 year ago 21
He was the father of the 60s satire boom and votest the best comedian in history many times. He was described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath.'
farleigh17 3 years ago 18