Richard III

[kiya161]

an absoluet genius...sacha baron-chen can only DREAM of being half as good as the great Peter Sellers.

[dropway9]

Well the laughter may be due to the facial expressions and the fact the audience realized they were in on the joke too. He turns an innocent pop ballad into a somewhat lascivious solliquoy by his delivery but also certainly by his facial expressions too! He was acting, and doing a ripping good job.

[DrCHUD666]

Peter Sellers was and for all times pure comic genius.

[SuperNevile]

Yes, and making the lyrics even more suggestive than the fabs intended by the way the words are spokem. Wonderful Shakesperean hyberbole. It's an english thing hence the laughter.

[hugh0221]

Peter Sellers is a genius, I admire him greatly! But I simply can't get the joke. Is it funny just because he's doing an Olivier impression?

I mean, why are the clearest laughters heard after the words like "all right", "OK" or "feeling you"?

[ProfetaParanoia]

@hugh0221 those are the end of the sentences, so people wait till he finishes to laugh. It's a Beatles song "it's been a hard day's night", and he's saying the lyrics like Olivier doing Richard III. ;)

[glorfindello]

When Peter sounds more like Olivier than Olivier you know it's because these words are from the gods!

[SubRider618]

What an extraordinary performance (short as it is) by an extraordinary talent. Peter Sellers will be remembered, appreciated, and sorely missed by many, many generations to come.

[SubRider618]

Does anyone recall Steve Allen doing something somewhat similar? He was dressed as if giving a formal lecture, reading from a book on the lectern. His "lecture" was a straight, professor-like, cadenced reading of the lyrics of the then-popular song, "Who put the 'bop' in the 'bop-she-bop-she-bop? Who put the 'rang' in the rang-a-lang-a-ding-dock'?" Hilarious!

[eyoutuby]

Classic!!  Good job!

[lb40713]

I love king Richard's nose!!!

[CyberDalek69]

If you liked this, check out "A Bard Day's Night", for an Australian Shakespeare comedy. Cheers.

[PrincesaPrimavera]

Ahahhahaha this is simply BRILLIANT!

[iamimmi]

What's the name of the song that beatles sing in the end of this movie ?! thanks !

[rockathlete2]

We Can Work It Out

[iamimmi]

Thanks a lot ...

[francezkaw]

the name of the song is: We can work it out

[Bullettube]

What a great clip! Thanks for posting!

Brings to mind:

Orson Wells did the Dean Martin Roast where he recited the lyrics to Dean's hit song "Amore". You can find it on Youtube, it's hilarious!~

[katzherc]

Class!!

[bradominus]

I MISS YOU PETER!!!

[JoeVialFilms]

BRILLIANT! Thank you for posting this!

[CrazyChickenDK]

10/10!

i wonder if he got the starting idea - but he surely does it 100 percent - bloody piece of art

[annedotcom]

LOL! WHAT A GENIUS!

[farflungfloyd]

Peter Sellers, what a friggin genius!

[kralle7611]

lol

[joe99f1]

this is great, sooooooo funny. thanks

[HCShannon]

I'm taking a Shakespeare in film class, I told my teacher about this and he said that he used to do Olivier as Othello reading the phone book!

[Bullettube]

That idea was popular in many English Lit classes back in the "old" days. One way was to imitate Richard Burton reading a nursery rhyme as King Richard. Another way was imitating Liberace or Joan Rivers. Idea: "The greatest hits of Metallica sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir". Or Paris Hilton sings the best of Bob Dylan!

[oppokaze]

Genius.

[Marilyn22Beatle]

I love this video the first time I saw this I was lmao

[W3BBY001]

amazing!!!

[ladytron72]

This is SO good.

Thank you for posting.

[edoboleyn]

Love this. Cx Thanks for posting!!

[Eurynomad]

I was at art college in yorkshire in the sixties. One of the senior students did this on stage just before Christmas. We were all as pissed as farts and the local Mayor attended.  An idea was to tear bits of paper up in a bucket and then some student would throw this over the mayor--- harmless -- but fun. Unfortunately I was desperate to pee ---saw the bucket and didnt know what it was for!!!!! Stand up one Mayor, warm wet wad of paper on bonce.

Not admitted til now!!

[zimnaya]

Wonderful Sellers...I can remember him doing this!

[momominnosh]

Wonderful, wonderful!  Thanks so much for posting this!

[gandersourcefilms]

classic sellers. love it.

[PhunkyNun]

I'm old enough to remember seeing this when it was first broadcast. How lucky I am!

[pumtin]

This makes me wish I was born 40 years earlier.

[SlinkyVern]

This is awesome. Funny and lovely.

[mrmistoffelees]

rofl, that´s cool

[beatlesfan4evr]

this is sooooo hilarious!!!! lmao!

[AlekTricity]

That is so fantastic! I almost died laughing!

How did he get the idea to parody HIM!?

[constanzavictrix]

I don't know why I cry and laugh at the same time at this.

[frenchmusic1]

WOW good things never age !

[HowardBrazee]

The Beatles were huge fans of The Goonies - which made it easy for them to accept the director (Richard Lester) for the movie. The DVD of It's A Hard Day's Night includes a short Peter Sellers piece.

[laservampire]

I believe you meant "The Goons"

[shakmooll]

i love the Goonies though

[Snitfit]

It was called "The Goon Show"...not The Goonies.

[Miracle67]

amazing!

[meladorimagpie]

LMAO! this is awesome

[stelos485]

I think the story goes that Peter Sellers was at a party once when he overheard one of his best friends Graham Stark doing an impression of Lawrence Olivier as Richard III singing a Beatle's song . Seller's roars with laughter files it away in his memory & ressurrects it later to brilliant effect.

Genius.

[residentofboxfive]

Aww, John Lennon must have been excited to meet Peter Sellers! Their comedic nature is very alike.

[gazeff]

So that's where The Beatles stole their songs from ! Next thing people will say the Stones took their music from Bo Diddley ! Unbelievable !!!

[maisonneuve]

so amazing!

[tattypatty]

brilliant

[Dystopiaman]

Thanks! Peter is just fantastic

[creamofcardstv]

I like your vid clip and I've rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some old cigarette cards of 1930's celebrities, including: Laurence Olivier,Shirley Temple, Joan Crawford, Gracie Fields,Kay Francis,Clark Gable,, Greta Garbo, Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers,Norma Shearer.

[Skip676]

I remember seeing this on "Top of the Pops" in the Sixties

[spirtw72]

This is priceless. John Paul and Peter. Sublime!

[drmoonrat]

This was a very John Cleese performance...Of course John Cleese was a Goon show fan back before Monty Python came around.

[robmaxsam]

I don't think John Cleese and Peter Sellers are much alike.

[simpsone4]

Fantastic! Peter Sellers is my favorite comic actor ever!

[kineel]

Thanks - I've been looking for this for years.

[cathy168]

OMG this is brilliant! One of my most faourite actors doing an impression of my other favoutrite actor! It's genius! (Oh and dont forget the beatles too!) Thanx for putting this up!

[UncleChuckleddd]

Genius! Sellers is a comedy legend!

[ddanila]

Awesome! Peter Sellers is brilliant actor :)

[glenponder]

Brilliant!!!!always wanted to see this!