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Although a friendship between the two had long been known, it is thought to be the first time a member of Cook's circle has gone on record to suggest there was anything further.

As a student many years ago, I wrote a Finals paper in what I hoped was the style of the political correspondent of the Spectator Alan Watkins, whose lightly worn authority I greatly admired.

Since they first teamed up in the early 1960s, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore created magic.

Jonathan Ross is organising a remake of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's classic 1960s laughalongs Not Only... But Also with his celebrity mates.

Premiering 40 years and 13 days ago, Monty Python's Flying Circus ran only 39 episodes, the equivalent of less than two seasons of a contemporary American sitcom, as it changed the course of English-speaking comedy.

Paperbacks That Was Satire That Was by Humphrey Carpenter That Was Satire That Was by Humphrey Carpenter The Sixties satire boom is well-ploughed terrain, but Carpenter tells the interlinked stories of Beyond the Fringe, TW3 and Private Eye with his customary energy and readability.

OK, the headline above this item doesn't make much sense, but I'm shameless and will seize any opportunity, no matter how tangential, to refer to the classic British comedy revue that gave us Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller .

The BBC is archiving online some of the great TV shows in their history. But what about the ones they wiped and the ones they should have wiped? Andrew Roberts reports Getty Golden years: Gerald Harper and Juliet Harmer in Adam Adamant Lives.

On the extremes of eminent reasonableness: I've just come across a brilliant 1966 sketch about a psychiatrist from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's classic comedy series Not Only... But Also .

You may recall the Beyond the Fringe sketch in which Squadron Leader Peter Cook tells Jonathan Miller, the doleful pilot, that he must set out on a doomed mission because "we need a futile gesture at this stage.

Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides to find anything worth tuning into this week.

Back to the Future "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?" Thurs., July 9, 8:15pm. Free.

"I saw The Secret Policeman's Ball and it became a part of me. It sowed a seed." - Bono "I think everyone is in for a grave disappointment." - John Cleese NEW YORK , June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Film Society of Lincoln Center is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Amnesty International's stellar and anarchic comedy and rock extravaganza ...

June 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of the pioneering Secret Policeman's Ball series of benefit shows for Amnesty International.

With the reputation of a resounding flop and a tightly pinched level of availability in the four decades since its release in cinemas, Richard Lester's 1969 post-nuclear holocaust film The Bed Sitting Room may benefit from an increased audience assured by the BFI's simultaneous release of both DVD and Blu-ray editions.

How many people have you met whose conversation is instantly publishable? There can never be more than a handful of such people living at any given time.

Barely a stone will remain unturned when one of the worlda TMs most eminent directors of theatre, opera and film appears on stage at the Torch Theatre tonight, inviting his audience to join him on a journey Beyond the Fringe.