Peter Sellers full interview on NBC's Today Show (1980)

Full 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC’s Today show, from the Criterion "Being There" Blu-Ray.

[@kentgoodall3254]

Amazing interview enjoying it so much then it ended i wish it could gone on much longer
What a talent
Being there is a masterpiece

[@myguitar5724]

Great interview. Peter Seller's was popular with an American audience. You could see that in the interview. Great British actor. Cheers RIP

[@williamchristie2921]

host looks like one of clouseaus ridiculous disguises haha

[@jeelsvealnerve1163]

Thanks for posting this Josip.

[@Mr2u2me]

One of The Best Ever !

[@beercrazy8492]

Very talented man indeed.

[@Camop-iz9kt]

He's 54 here, but looks 70. So sad.

[@fadikhoory5350]

Sid James, another British actor, was similar.

[@epaddon]

6:15. Unless there's another interview where he did it later, that's the last time we ever hear the Clouseau voice.

[@JaxenRossisback]

ruclips.net/video/4kAqLe1bYOs/видео.html - only at the end.

[@happyhammer1]

I wonder if Peter Sellers was sick and tired of people asking him to do impressions towards the end of his life.

[@seaningram3285]

At 5:11 one of them was sounding like "Chief Inspector Dreyfus". 😂

[@KingKenny.]

Such a shame that despite being trim nearly his entire life he was not blessed with a strong heart !

[@Romulan2469]

Taking cocaine didn't help his heart.

[@KingKenny.]

@@Romulan2469 was he still taking it in his later years ?

[@Romulan2469]

@@KingKenny. I don't know the specifics of what he took in his later life but it has been suggested he was taking illegal drugs (cannabis and cocaine) and alcohol when he was married to his 4th wife Lynne Frederick (1977 - 1980).

[@happyhammer1]

Neither was his son, who also died of a heart attack in his early 50s, 26 years later to the day after Peter died.

[@someoneelse.2252]

@@Romulan2469 : Neither did cheeseburgers with extra mayo.

[@progKansas]

I forgot about Gene Shalit. I remember Tom Brokaw and Jane Pauley on the Today show in 1980.

[@Modernjazz1]

He really sounds like Chance the Gardner at times

[@vicaldama9314]

Watch "The Party" ..yr welcome..

[@maggieshangammer6399]

Wow Eugene Levy and Peter Sellers.

[@stevegordon5689]

Peter was a good sport but the interviewer might have just said "dance monkey dance"

[@WalterJoergLangbein]

A true genius, maybe the only actor, who deserved the OSCAR, which sadly did not find the way to him... He died decades too early. Bad timing, God, very bad timing!

[@embunchofnumbers]

0:17 “the legendary Go On show” OMG GENE YOU ROTTEN SWINE YOU

[@garyengler165]

Gene Shalit = Jiminy Glick ("Time magazine said that there's no one inside...who am I talking to now....I want to hear an accent....speak like a Londoner.....") Massive Talent meets Moustached Mediocrity.

[@foodbank2391]

The Pink Panther movie all late middle age and oldest cast !! where were the 18 and 19 year old girls not one was 15 or 13

[@ruly8153]

Love this interviewer

[@StephenDedalus74]

Yeah me too ! He could be a character in one Peter Sellers movie LOL

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Almost the last interview

[@richardclark6858]

Must have been very near the end this..

[@JoeRivermanSongwriter]

The Gong Show? 0:17

[@joemeyer6876]

HughieDixon goon show

[@barefootbeachrunner9498]

Unforgivable that an interviewer would get it wrong
Especially as peter sellers has been quoted many times as saying his happiest time professionally was when he was doing the Goon shows

[@greggtaylor4849]

Yeahhh... that was cringeworthy

[@semajttam]

I think you'll find that Gene said Go-on show like the BeebBeebCeeb did. Gene knew his stuff, did what he could to make Sellers feel comfortable and Peter looked so relaxed albeit ill.

[@embunchofnumbers]

Gene should have had a batter-pudding hurled at him for that

[@foodbank2391]

Is it true that actress Sue Lyon is a manic depressive sense are teenage years till now

[@angelinacarranza8251]

Yes, very much so, and went from up at 16 to down down down

[@VousEtre]

Gene Shalit is so aggressively offensive

[@monicaacinom9412]

Yes, agreed. Gene Shalitt is obnoxious and seems incapable of actually listening to Sellers. He wastes time demanding Sellers assess various audiences in different parts of the world.
What a waste! Sellers just finished “Being There” and is not allowed to simply talk about his movie.

[@petermaxwell2965]

i want a girl with a sick mind and a beautiful body..

[@foodbank2391]

Actress Sue Lyon Lolita

[@truthteller339]

He looks so dreadfully ill here. Just a couple of years previously he looked well. Obvious what the reason was.

[@neilsun2521]

Truth Teller What was the raeason? Sorry I'm not familiar with Sellers' story,

[@thewomble1509]

@@neilsun2521 He had severe cardiac problems. he was actually dead for a few minutes due to a massive heart atatck he had in LA.

[@luislopes2494]

@@neilsun2521 he was also a heavy drinker and suffered from depression..

[@johnmc3862]

He died that year.

[@nicksim1602]

Just who is the silly looking interviewer?

[@alastairbeaton5245]

He's Gene Shalit. He was a film critic and Today Show regular for 40 years. He's still on the go - 91 this year.

[@Waltiswicked]

He looks silly but has more culture and personality than EVERY American TV host today put together. What happened?

[@reaganwiles_art]

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