Michael Parkinson: The Tommy Cooper Interview 2/2

[okee9]

lol, the french version is priceless

[indydaisy1]

The second part to the horse joke that tommy sometimes said was " it came in so late it had to tiptoe back to the stables" hahaha

[bappek]

@Levzi Cocksplash...? Good one, buddy, a smart and witty reply indeed... Nice to see even retarded people can enjoy YouTube.

[bappek]

This was a man who used to get drunk and beat his wife up in front of his small children. He also went on tour just to be able to be with his mistress. No, Tommy Cooper wasn´t just a lovely man, as most people here seems to think.

[TheT33g]

@bappek how do you know did you live in the same house as him or do you pay attention to the orwellian named "news" lol

[feckyoo2]

Tommy Cooper is dead but Parkinson is still here flogging rip off policies to old ladies NO JUSTICE!

[IanRM]

He beat his wife almost daily . . twat . . I was a friend of his step son in weston super mare, UK.

[firefly5339]

Tommy you were and still are fantastic

[IanRM]

@firefly5339 He was an asshole

[kevlength]

@IanRM your an even bigger asshole, ASSHOLE!!

[HARON08]

The French numbers got me busting up pretty good. :-)

[dozytubaplayer]

Such a simple trick but the smoothness of the slight-of-hand is phenomenal. What a legend. And unbelievably funny too

[BluBerryCrush]

I have a weakness for the humour of Tommy Cooper. Stupid but in some strange way brilliant.

[GordonMorrice]

Apparently, Tommy was like this in real life (whatever that is) in as much as he gormed about and played practical jokes, wound uppity people up and generally larked about. He also drank like a Pope. He died a paradoxical death yet he remains dear to the hearts of all eccentrics. An archetypal Englishman.

[oldskoolmacboy]

@GordonMorrice He's actually an archetypal Welshman.

[Nickthegreek123]

Some1 I know said when he went to see him he just stood infront of a little gate on the stage telling jokes and everybody was wondering what the gate was for cos he never mentioned it all way through the performance and at the end he just walked through the gate and off the stage laughing! Absolutley different class!

[Eye2EyeIIIV]

I'm VERY familiar with the ball trick ;)

[Hocus94Pocus]

@Eye2EyeIIIV how did he do it? Im gobsmacked

[Eye2EyeIIIV]

@Hocus94Pocus

2:16

ex. First, u secretly already have a ball in 1 hand (you're squeezing it very hard - nobody notices), u take 2 balls in the same hand (becomes 3), squeeze them, put them in your friends hand, & tell them to hold it tight.

Then u take the ball on the table and u make it LOOK as if you're putting it in your left, but you're not. It's still in your right. Then u pretend to do some magic, the other guy opens his hand, and it looks like the ball "magically" got there.

[pipeandslippersman]

parkinson asks him to do a straight trick and he gets about hundred jokes too! this is one of my fave bits of TC coz it is really classy close-up magic (although not too difficult that anybody couldn't have done it, with a little practise.)done as straight as the funniest man in the world could do...

"have you got one of my balls?" - he even gets in a rare blue joke! on national TV! in the 70's!

so what if he's getting slow, getting old, getting drunk. i love it. there will never be another!!

[pitielbasani1]

I heard that he was doing a live show. The lights went down and a voice announced, 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Tommy Cooper.' Then they heard Tommy sighing and making various noises. Then steps could be heard coming down stairs. By now the audience was in hysterics, and he hadn't even appeared on the stage. The word genius doesn't cover this great man.

[AnglOsAxOn2]

A great man who has sinced past, so pleased you tube exists because many more generations can enjoy true comedy.

[Suprahampton]

Great slight of hand

[tcb76]

just the best



[Spinkatron]

i dont think there will ever be another comedian who could just look at an audienece and have them in stiches, what a ledgend.........

[jakeage121]

Tommy cooper.............. fantastic



[fingers691]

bloody great showman i'm so glad i missed his final performance that way i can remember him at his best. I do wish there more Tommy Coopers in this world

[TheMethod12345]

Best Magician ever :-)

Always has me in tears....Legend

[spartacusvikinga]

A bloody legend.

[bovargh]

He was such a wonderfully funny man!

[Escargency2008]

wonderful,and a Younger Parkinson...

[Gwyll2501]

The man just tries on various hats and he's funny. Only Tommy Cooper could get away with that.

[kenfig]

Completely BRILLIANT ; irreplacable

[Sharkpc100]

have you got one of my balls? lololololololololololol

[HEV29]

Tommy Cooper - this interview is why I like him so much, a brilliant magician and yet so crazy. The Parkinson show is where you go to be "yourself", so Tommy took his fez off and carried on being the same - that was as close to himself as he would go on tv...

[vaslav030547]

A true comic genius. A star among a comedy breed so missed today.

Over twenty years the counrty has lost genuine funny people. Thank God they survive on youtube. Thanks fior posting. An interview with Keneth Williams is fantastic.

[MisAnnThorpe]

@vaslav030547 Thank God we've still got Russell Howard!

[Scunnyskater]

at 4:45 tommy does the shocker

[addz91]

What a comic!!

[yawroc]

A Genius a legend and the master of magic and comedy a total legend i agree.

Brilliant stuff.

[weareleeds28]

THE BEST

[SilentBlade72]

Tommy Cooper will always be a legend

[emeraldelvis]

There was only one, a friend of mine was at the fatefull show where he died, he knew him, Tommy gave him a gift one Christmas, a box of matches.. on the outside it had a fez, a cane and top hat etc, on the inside of the box it said STOLEN FROM TOMMY COOPER. even a box of his matches could make us laugh.

now he makes us cry, because he is gone, gone but never forgotten.

Rest with the Angels oh King of Laughter.

ah hahhahahaaaa

[poppasmurfinbewdley]

What a great man! Once went to see him at The Golden Garter in Manchester. He stood behind the stage curtain laughing, and by the time he first appeared the whole audience was laughing - and he hadn't even said a word.

[sceanable]

thks for clearin that up

[davidcutting]

Parkinson is so dull. He had great guests on his show. Anyone would of been better than him.

[sceanable]

whats up with the sound?

[warndonboy]

sounds great to me1

[hansenb1]

thanks for this.

[redredreds100]

no wonder us brits us so F&^%$# up, being brought up on tommy cooper and morcambe and wise, what an honour.

[bob1031]

what a legend sadly missed

[redredreds100]

i don't think in all my life I've ever met anyone who didn't love Tommy Cooper, he was the only man ever who could tell the most stupid jokes and make you laugh, my favourite TC joke, "I walked into a bar last night, knocked me flat on my back, it was an iron one" so stupid, but at the same time, so funny

[leoaltus]

@redredreds100 He has the best delivery ever!!! Timing and that baffled look on his face, priceless....

[Wizzydoofer]

What a great comic, brilliant! Ahhhggg hhagggghhhagggg ahahhhh :)

[higgia]

this man was a genius