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Funny how his accent is almost Australian.

I totally see where he was coming from, I'm 68 now, but in my younger years i was the life & soul of the party, always good for a laugh, but really i was a very shy person & only after alcohol i became a completely different person, sadly i have suffered from depression for the past 35 years, but even when i was that laugh a minute character, when alone i can become so down & depressed. People like me have 2 masks, the one you put on when you walk through the front door & the one you put on when returning.

Mike was a real person but he was an on screen personality who the Cohen brothers would have killed to have written. He was straight out of central casting. And this could be the funniest scene in the movie because Mike was so burned out, laid back and laconic for the rest of the picture that you never expect him to have this raging scream in him.

"Are you a fat man?" Jesus, Hancock, don't let him do this..

This is what is known as a gem

Brutal interview. Just wasn’t necessary. I don’t blame John Freeman, because it was producer Hugh Burnett’s format, but it was a relentless and hounding Interviewing style and while it irked Evelyn Waugh, it was perhaps the catalyst for the scathing self-reflection that ultimately killed Tony Hancock.

You want to reach out and give him a hug. RIP Tony.

Hancock doesn't look too comfortable during the interview. Questions about him as a person, his childhood etc. The loss of his father and brother left Hancock devastated. Happy birthday to a British comedy legend 🥳🍻🎁🎂 Where ever you are Tony, I hope you have found some happiness and fulfillment.

To think 100 years ago, this comic genius was born 😊 I still enjoy your comedy Tony

Happy 100th birthday Tony! You are still one of the greatest British comedians.

Lower Middle his reply. Says everything about His ego.

He Binned himself off. And everyone else who aided his career.

Tony ditched everyone, his writers Galton&Simpson, his Wife, his co-stars. And eventually Himself. 🥺

Beautiful man!

A genius but like many geniuses a troubled soul and tortured by his own self doubt. We miss you Tony.

This should be the new Wilhelm scream

His biggest mistakes was getting rid of Galton and Simson..and then of course discarding Sid James and Hattie Jaques etc..he thought he could do it alone,he couldn't..such a shame,he was an incredible talent,and his memory will live on..R.I.P. Tony.

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Geniuses always are troubled.

What a prick of an an interviewer. At the time he was the biggest thing on the BBC and what he earns was absolutely FA to do with this pompus twat

Tears in his eyes as he spoke. He was a genius

Never found him funny.

I cannot believe my man is dead. This is so sad. I hope you’re in a place as pure as your heart, and good as your soul. 💜💜😭

He was never funny.

He wasn't funny at all.

What a terrible interviewer John Freeman is here! It sounds more like an interrorgation. What a pity he didn't just help Tony relax and gently draw him out.

Can anyone help? Tony's accent is strange. Not quite full-on British. I detect traces of Australian. Now - I know he went to Australia in the last year of his life, but that could be co-incidental to his accent. So - anyone who replies, pls just concentrate on his accent in this vid ...

Wonderful subject and interviewer

What Wonderful drawings of TH! Along with the perfect music!

The interview that led him on a road of savage introspection that ultimately killed him.

what a talent, such a shame we lost him too young. still find his comedy funny after all these years!!!

It's hard for people now to understand just how famous he was in Britain at the time. This was before The Beatles, he was the most famous celebrity in Britain.

This interview was the beginning of the end, he was profoundly shaken by the experience. It sent him on a downward spiral that eventually ended his life.

Great man very sad ending to his life, rest in peace Sir, thank you for what you have left us.

Lovely man, taken advantage of, a master of his craft, god rest his soul.

Tony was part of the original inspiration for Al Stewart’s classic song, “Year Of The Cat”…

Tony bought so much to British comedy, and seeing some of the videos bring back so much laughter that only he can " A Gem of a man , thank you Tony you made life better for us all " Brian Margolis

Gotta watch this film again 🖤💗

I think a part of me always thought that someday I'd get to meet these guys, damn..

"Relaxing" = euphemism for drinking 😞

Does everyone have brown gloves?

Infuriating!! The worst interviewer I've ever seen. It's not an interview, it's an interrogation! Freeman obviously hadn't watched an interview by Michael Parkinson. Disgraceful treatment of a comic genius and Hancock was incredibly patient and tolerant with such a troll.

He should have stopped. It was his life and it ended up killing him helped along the way by booze.

Almost an alternative version of Mastermind

I hope filmmakers sample this scream and use it in movies and it becomes like the new Wilhelm scream

There’s absolutely no way a person would submit themselves to an interrogation like this today

Evelyn Waugh took Freeman apart 😂

He was for years the funniest man on the television and radio But, he had depression, very badly and he ended his own life in a small theatre changing room, in Australia. Please if you have this disability, seek help . I can be cured . You are a precious human life and people do care .

To me he was a funny but sorry he just wasn't as funny as sid james

The lost Hancock"s half hour showd are now on BBC Sounds. Amazing.