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Informationen zum Autor William Cook is the author of Ha Bloody Ha - Comedians Talking (Fourth Estate) and The Comedy Store - The Club That Changed British Comedy (Little, Brown). He has worked for the BBC and written for the Guardian, the Mail on Sunday and the New Statesman. William Cook’s most recent book is One Leg Too Few - The Adventures of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore , published by Preface. He is also the author of Ha Bloody Ha (Fourth Estate), The Comedy Store (Little, Brown), Morecambe & Wise Untold (HarperCollins) and 25 Years of Viz (Macmillan). He edited Kiss Me, Chudleigh - The World According to Auberon Waugh (Hodder), Eric Morecambe Unseen (HarperCollins), and Tragically, I Was An Only Twin and Goodbye Again , two biographical anthologies of the work of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, both published by Century. He has worked for the BBC and has written for the Guardian , the New Statesman and the Mail on Sunday . He currently contributes to the Independent , the Spectator and Conde Nast Traveller . He has won several awards for his travel writing, including the Johann Strauss Gold Medal for his writing about Vienna. Klappentext Collection of the best writings of comedy genius, Peter Cook. 50,000 copies sold in hardback. Covers Cook's work from his schooldays to his TV scripts and journalism. Illustrated with previously unpublished drawings by Cook. "If only his jokes had been less funny, Peter Cook might have been rated the equal of Pinter and Beckett, perhaps even their superior" "Mail On Sunday". Zusammenfassung Despite his reputation for idleness, Peter Cook was a great comedy writer, who created countless outrageous sketches and articles and was famed for his prolific role in the satire boom of the 1960s. This book deals with his life and work.
