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Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was 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. In 2005, Cook was ranked at number one in the ''Comedians' Comedian'', a poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world. ==Early life== Cook was born at his parents' house, "Shearbridge", in Middle Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon. He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward "Alec" Cook (1906–1984), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, ''née'' Mayo (1908–1994). He was educated at Radley College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied French and German. As a student, Cook initially intended to become a career diplomat like his father, but Britain "had run out of colonies", as he put it. Although politically largely apathetic, particularly in later life when he displayed a deep distrust of politicians of all hues, he did join the Cambridge University Liberal Club.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About us " Keynes Society )〕 It was at Pembroke that Cook performed and wrote comedy sketches as a member of the Cambridge Footlights Club, of which he became president in 1960. His hero was fellow Footlights writer and Cambridge magazine writer David Nobbs.〔I Didn't Get Where I am Today by David Nobbs 9780099421641〕 Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, providing several sketches for Williams' West End comedy revue ''Pieces of Eight'' and much of the follow-up, ''One Over the Eight'', before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, ''Beyond the Fringe'', with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore. ''Beyond the Fringe'' became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the prime minister, Harold Macmillan. This was one of the first occasions satirical political mimicry had been attempted in live theatre and it shocked audiences. During one performance, Macmillan was in the theatre and Cook departed from his script and attacked him verbally.〔Cook as Macmillan: "there's nothing I like better than to wander over to a theatre and sit there listening to a group of sappy, urgent, vibrant young satirists with a stupid great grin spread all over my silly face", ''Tragically I Was an Only Twin'', p. 51.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter Cook」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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