Peter Cook
Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cookwas an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, Cook is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He was closely associated with the anti-establishment comedy that emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth17 November 1937
flower burgers frozen
All right, You Great Git, You've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even You'll be ashamed of Yourself! No wonder You've so few friends. You're unbelievable!
lying including
Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.
drug awful feels
Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.
surround universe
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
laughing way beaten
One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.
university
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.
jobs stupid tired
All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
team school ignorance
Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.
night men garbage
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.
lying ideas lovely
I've had some wonderful ideas for getting the dominating going. I've got some extremely subtle advertising slogans that should get the public behind us. Things like "Vote for EL Wisty and lovely nude ladies will come and dance with you." It's a complete lie, of course, but you can't afford to be too scrupulous if you're going to dominate the world.
sorry able thanks
I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.
happiness thinking things-in-life
Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
mistake i-have-learned i-can
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
stars night sky
As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.