Peter Cook - A Life In Pieces - A Partridge In A Pear Tree

A Life In Pieces is a series of twelve, five minute shows. Originally broadcast on BBC2 at Christmas 1990. The series features Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling (played by Peter Cook) being interviewed by Ludovic Kennedy, based loosely around The Twelve Days of Christmas.

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Comedy

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• peter
• cook
• dudley
• moore
• comedy

[ColtraneTaylor]

@JeffersonToblerone You think a witty person is a great mind. That is your foolishness talking and you're the arrogant one in telling people your idol (quite literally) has no comparison. So Cook now is more brilliant than all the philosophers we've seen. Fack off ya cant.

[ColtraneTaylor]

@evolegnartsrd Cook is really funny but Fry's opinion really doesn't matter.

[ColtraneTaylor]

@lil902 His comedy was not "too high brow" but it was irreverent and funny. I don't consider him a very intelligent person but compared to many idiots out there, yes he was but that's not saying much.

[DidaDragan]

lol, this is brilliant nonsense

[BarnacleGooseInvalid]

kennedy is a surprisingly excellent foil to cook, but i still think streep-greebling's finest moments were with chris morris in why bother. morris did the right thing in being a sterner, more surreptitious voice as interviewer, and seeing cook respond to those set ups, as well as forging his own is glorious. peter cook never lost his edge.

[ghodium]

@kafi122 do you have the adult sized child's bike please

[billbonesknows]

No-one else has ever even come close to Peter in the comic genius stakes; I'm not sure they ever will either.

[caroleastrid]

We will regret his absence for ever: there a no comics like him any longer, alas. He was really grrrrrrreat !

[Tarantulus666]

genius

[schlemmsy]

A total gem.