Peter Cook – Simon Dunn

Tag: Peter Cook

Pete And Dud On Joan Rivers

Here’s a segment from Joan Rivers 1986 British show Can We Talk? Dudley Moore appears as her guest, while Peter Cook was a regular co-host. The show began on BBC Two, on 10th March 1986, with guests Jim Henson. Dame Edna, and Barry Manilow. Moore joined her for the 24th March show, alongside other guests…

January 31, 2022
Moore, Cook, Sellers, Atkinson & Barclays

When I think of Barclaycard adverts, I invariably think of either Alan Whicker, or Rowan Atkinson. But Barclays has a longer history of using comedians in their commercials than I realised. Here’s Dudley Moore in 1981, playing a punk rocker who has run out of cash. And here he is playing a sort of version…

May 20, 2021

Buy My Books

Proctology: A Bottom Examination

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

Follow

Most Read

Re-Casting Keanu

Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…