What was cool in the sixties was The Beatles and Peter Cook. Peter Cook, though, remains cool today. Peter Cook was the King of the British satire boom, and was named the godfather of the alternative comedy, which only now claims mainstream status. Peter Cook was the greatest comic genius of his generation, possessed of seemingly inexhaustible powers of fantasy and invention. He founded the Establishment Club, and a similar satyrical club in New York, in an era when Lenny Bruce had trouble finding work because he outraged the (then) conservative America, he was the major stakeholder of the satyrical magazine “Private Eye”(http://www.private-eye.co.uk/), he invented brilliant characters like E.L. Wisty, and Arthur Streeb Greebling, gave us Derek and Clive, and Pete and Dud, with his friend and comedy partner Dudley Moore, and he inspired all the anti-establishment comedians after him… John Cleese described him as the “funniest and most original of us all”. His influense is immense. Ten years after his death (1995) Peter Cook was ranked number one, in the Channel 4’s list entitled The Comedian’s Comedian, a poll of more than 300 comics, comedy writers, producers, and directors.