You might think Peter Cook's widow was indolent in putting together this memoir, for she simply asked all her husband's friends to write a short essay about him - but when you look down the list of friends, you have to change "indolent" to "inspired". John Cleese, Eric Idle, Stephen Fry, Clive Anderson, Barry Humphries, Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett - the man they called the funniest man in the world worked with some of the cleverest writers around, and they conspire to paint an affectionate, and beautifully skewed, portrait of their anarchic subject, serving up generous helpings of Cook humour in the process.
Even the titles are pure Cook: Peter Bellwood's The Seven Wild Strawberries Are Flying, John Wells's The Mystic Spube and Michael Palin's wonderful I Had That Peter Cook in the Back of My Car.
