In the early Eighties when he was maudlin Cook used to liven up the airwaves on LBC, the shite London commercial station, by calling the phone-in shows in all sorts of surreal guises - Sven the love-lorn Norwegian mariner was a regular.
I used to tune in sometimes, just on the off-chance of hearing him.

*sigh* (cue 'nostalgia ain't what it used to be' mode...) None of the current crop of English comics seems to have the way with words that Cook and the rest of the Beyond the Fringe team had in spades. Even the four-letter ones.