I'm born and raised in Vancouver, Canada but both my parents were born in Italy as was all my uncles, aunts, godparents, etc. So I know all about the Italian accent and mannerisms. Peter does them to perfection. Bravo!
Fantastic, oh how we miss real comedy such as this, Peter is an absolute master of voices and accents and this is well seen here. Thanks for this, unforgettable and also RIP Peter, very much missed and not forgotten.
I must say I love this story, watch every few days and can’t stop laughing, what a genius he was, fantastic voices etc and the Pink Panther films and Being There just great work by him Died far far too soon. 😥
Thing with Sellers is that he commits every part of him to the voice... The visual mannerisms go with the voice... The Italian accent isn't just the accent, it's the "pigeon" English as well, the muddled up words of someone who has learned to communicate in English, but not someone who has been schooled in English/native speaker. It's all v clever.
Not a nice man , burned his kids … left destroyed lives everywhere……. Is this what Brit’s look up too , explains British landscape in 2024 doesn’t it ….. once great people turned into worshipping fools like this played out well for the country ,
classic sellers thanks for uploading this i looked for it a few years ago but could not find it anywhere great story the italian accent is priceless, the pope he drink this vino everyday from his life
I met Peter Seller's at "Salute to Lou Grade" at The Hilton Hotel. I asked him about his accents. He was so nice to talk about them. What a great nice guy he was.
Sellers was highly uncomfortable as himself, because he felt there was nothing to him as a real person....but by putting on a mask, he became (along with Peter Cook, who drank to hide his own demons) the funniest man who ever walked this Earth.
@@tomppa345 me too. Sometimes to my detriment. I have always made people laugh since I was a boy. The only thing that I find disconcerting about it is sometimes people seemed to hate you for it. Whether it was jealousy because they couldn't do the same I don't know?
He could do so many voices. In the Goon show they clowned around a lot, Sellers seemed to every episode try & succeed in making Harry Secombe & Spike Milligan laugh. It was recorded live for radio, it was crazy anyway but often turned into a complete shambles. Milligan talked in a great interview about phone calls he used to get from Sellers .
If you watch enough interviews with Directors and others who worked with our man here, you notice they compliment his acting/comedic genius and will also convince you that the man was crazy. Real crazy.
Love him! If you really are a fan of Mr. Sellers, you will check out Look there's a girl in my soup with a very young Goldie Hawn, a pseudo love story and I love you Alice B Toklas, inevitably about pot brownies. He is one of a kind, missed very much. Rock on Pete!
This was entertainment, real entertainment, no smut, no f-words, just honest-to-goodness entertainment, if we, in those days fancied a little more of the innuendo, we went to see another great entertainer, Max Wall, the greatest clown whoever trod the boards...
I would be fascinated to hear Gay Byrne speak about his impression of Peter Sellers.. e.g. whether or not they met offscreen and what was said, etc etc. Peter had talent to burn but he was a veeerrry strange bloke, by all accounts. He was actually living in Ireland at this time and apparently going through one of his more eccentric phases.. ;)
whats funny is the people in the audience around him snickeering and laughing so heartily. they know its so funny just waiting for the punch line to come...
@jessie james...seems to me they were over-awed just to have an opportunity to see one of their film-star idols and were severely lacking in critical discernment ?
Peter Sellers. I know nothing but Peter and Spoke Milligna (well known spelling mistake) along with the Blessed Harold Secombe and some original input from M.I. Chael-Bentine Paved the way for the 1960s peace and love revolution
thyere good friends , he and michael caine. he ws the one who started the 'not many people know that '' and caine got the reward for it. :) here he said this joke was from michael caine. I would love to hear michael caine tell it too...he told lots of jokes on parkinson..laughed till my sides split, both so funny
i remember the day michael told us about peter and the not many people know that . it was on the pete murray morning show on bbc radio! about 68 or 69 ! peter had been on the week before and said michael allways knew useless facts and woud reply not etc.its amazing to think of huge stars turning up for an interview on the radio today if not plugging! the size of the audience must have been huge because as michael said he was only on last week now people shout it at me in the street!
@@johnangelora4669 He was indeed but a flawed one, an attendee [I will not dignify him by referring to him as a mourner] at Seller's funeral wondered how he died of a heart attack when all who knew him said he was heartless? A connundrum indeed.
Not only that. See, he got the accent down pat. He wasn't comfortable, but he could do it. The problem was when you have an airplane suspended on a rig 15 feet in the air with the bomb doors open and a director who's prone to starting drama and an actor who's borderline histrionic, accidents happen. They got in a row and Peter Sellers slipped right out of the plane and only broke his ankle (surprisingly). But at that point the workload of 4 characters was too much for him and he wasn't able to maneuver around in the plane due to his injury. Bit of a weird fact.
The Italian impersonation was borderline genius. The mannerisms. The English grammatical errors. Perfect.
I'm glad Sellers' real voice is preserved in interviews such as this one!
What more can you say about a genius storyteller, someone who makes life worth living. Thank you.
What a genius! He takes a tired old joke and turns it into a comic epic with his timing and voices. Lovely little snippet.
What a genius!!! I love Peter Sellers. His legacy is priceless. And, as an Italian, I can honeslty say Franco's accent is absolutely spot on.
It is a bit greek in places...
Bullcrap
100%!
Sellers was a genius,...and the finest character actor there's ever been,
What about Marlon Brando?
Without question, Sellers is the greatest of all time
Sellers WAS a genius and funny as shit!! LOL
@@fernetpunker brando wasn't a character actor
@@fernetpunkerComedic character actor. 😊
What a clever man Peter Sellers was,we will never see his like again.
Sadly, absolutely not Del 😢
Clever? He was a genius.
The closest we have now is Rowan Atkinson and Shacha Baron Cohen
Sad, but true!
And our loss is surely the heaven's gain...
I'm born and raised in Vancouver, Canada but both my parents were born in Italy as was all my uncles, aunts, godparents, etc. So I know all about the Italian accent and mannerisms. Peter does them to perfection. Bravo!
When the most gifted comedians tell jokes or stories, the laughter throughout is as rich as any off the back of the punchline.
absolute legend, that Italian accent and Italicised grammar are just hyper-real
Fantastic, oh how we miss real comedy such as this, Peter is an absolute master of voices and accents and this is well seen here. Thanks for this, unforgettable and also RIP Peter, very much missed and not forgotten.
That's top-notch storytelling. Utter genius.
100%.
I must say I love this story, watch every few days and can’t stop laughing, what a genius he was, fantastic voices etc and the Pink Panther films and Being There just great work by him
Died far far too soon. 😥
Thing with Sellers is that he commits every part of him to the voice... The visual mannerisms go with the voice...
The Italian accent isn't just the accent, it's the "pigeon" English as well, the muddled up words of someone who has learned to communicate in English, but not someone who has been schooled in English/native speaker. It's all v clever.
'Drinks 2 bottles the same wine every day from his life', genius. 2:11
He was a genuine treasure. Only 3 public figures deaths have caused a tear in my eye. His is one.
Who were the other 2?
Not a nice man , burned his kids … left destroyed lives everywhere……. Is this what Brit’s look up too , explains British landscape in 2024 doesn’t it ….. once great people turned into worshipping fools like this played out well for the country ,
classic sellers thanks for uploading this i looked for it a few years ago but could not find it anywhere great story the italian accent is priceless, the pope he drink this vino everyday from his life
Back in 1970, your TV licence of £6 got you Peter Sellers, Eamonn Andrews, Matt Busby and Trevor Howard on the late late show
And the newsreaders just read the news instead of twisting it round to fit their own political views...................
Yeah well worth it with all those legends
and a grand total of three tv channels.
@@ShahidKhan-ke8fe only one tv channel in Ireland at the time.
@@ahlads you couldn't watch the UK channels? I thought the signals travelled across the border.
One word Legend & greatly missed
Even though he is now sadly dead and taken too soon he still has the ability to make millions of people howl with laughter.
Genius he was,gone way too soon, R.IP Peter x
I met Peter Seller's at "Salute to Lou Grade" at The Hilton Hotel. I asked him about his accents. He was so nice to talk about them. What a great nice guy he was.
One of the greatest comic talents of anyone's lifetime....His creative instincts were second to none...
All in the details! Genius.
He truly is one of the most great personalities even today.Brillant man in talents and what wit.
This a genius at work!
Mad and brilliant wish he was still here with Harry and Spike
his accents are brilliant
Ok Jessie! So world peace has been achieved? Thank you NOT... PETER SELLERS
This is absolutely the first Peter Sellers thing I'd show people who are unacquainted
Sellers was highly uncomfortable as himself, because he felt there was nothing to him as a real person....but by putting on a mask, he became (along with Peter Cook, who drank to hide his own demons) the funniest man who ever walked this Earth.
Like me. Thank you so much for your help
@@tomppa345 me too. Sometimes to my detriment. I have always made people laugh since I was a boy. The only thing that I find disconcerting about it is sometimes people seemed to hate you for it. Whether it was jealousy because they couldn't do the same I don't know?
@marccas10 It’s not you they hate; it's themselves.
Spot on ! I rate those two as the ultimate in intelligent, well I'll call it comedy for a better word, but that genius whatever it you call it.
All comedians are the same
What a great man , miss him so much .
World class !
Peter was a great star
Peter Sellers is a genius, just lays it all in there with the accent, but delivery is straight charm.
Best comedic mind produced in the Uk since Charlie Chaplin
Formidable guy! RIP!
He could do so many voices. In the Goon show they clowned around a lot, Sellers seemed to every episode try & succeed in making Harry Secombe & Spike Milligan laugh. It was recorded live for radio, it was crazy anyway but often turned into a complete shambles. Milligan talked in a great interview about phone calls he used to get from Sellers .
Mad as a cut snake. Freakishly talented.
Maybe those two characteristics go together.
@@philhersh yes they do.
Every day from his life!
Yes. The perfect little genius touches that some may miss. The perfect non perfect english mis-pronunciation
@@marccas10
Absolutely.
'Not nobody knows this thing'
An absolute talent and a great raconteur.
Raconteur is the word!
He is a master of comedy ❤!
Amazing how his cockney voice, sounds exactly like michael caine.
One would assume, thats who he is thinking off doing the cockney impression.
He mentioned him in the beginning
What a beautiful pure brilliant human being he was
i like the way the audience is laughing even before he finishes with the punch line. ! hes so good!
I greatly miss Peter Sellers, and the rest of the Goons as well. They were terrific together.
He really was an amazing talent. I urge everyone to see Dr. Stranglelove to see this genius of a man in action.
why do u think we're here. all of us have seen it
@@sb-di3of you and your other personalities?
@@ahlads bro you said "i urge everyone to see" stop being weird
whats ur address im pulling up
Check out The Magic Christian (1969), gentle but sharp. Genius
Peter was the very best
HE WAS AMAZING
haha what a legend i cried with laughter
Such an ear for dialect. There was so much greater talent in the 20th Century.
OMG OMG HE IS INCREDIBLE EETRNAL
He was wonderful with his Italien Accent and never forget his French Accent as Inspector Clousesou in The Pinker Movies
Love is all we need....
Wonderful!
If you watch enough interviews with Directors and others who worked with our man here, you notice they compliment his acting/comedic genius and will also convince you that the man was crazy. Real crazy.
'Vieni qui"...Grazie Pedro, I miss you.
One of the best
Ohh I miss him dearly !!
Pure genius and a social disaster. His accents are so accurate he is pitch perfect in accents and mannerisms.
even before he finished the joke, they already cant hold it in...
What a talent.
Love him! If you really are a fan of Mr. Sellers, you will check out Look there's a girl in my soup with a very young Goldie Hawn, a pseudo love story and I love you Alice B Toklas, inevitably about pot brownies. He is one of a kind, missed very much. Rock on Pete!
I Have Both Movies........Mr. Sellers Was A Genius.........🙂👍🏾💯
'Hoffman' - - 1970 - a different kind of Sellers film.. worth a look also. 👀..
👍🏻👍🏻
Franco, vieni qui. Grandioso.
Interesting this - Billy Connolly used the same gag about the two Scotsmen getting drunk in Rome. So this is where he nicked it from!
Best comedian ever
More please!!!
Loved the pink panther.
A master of mimicry, no one to touch him these days.
This was entertainment, real entertainment, no smut, no f-words, just honest-to-goodness entertainment, if we, in those days fancied a little more of the innuendo, we went to see another great entertainer, Max Wall, the greatest clown whoever trod the boards...
CAN I AGREE YOU MORE.
@@georgescuiulian5496 Thank you my friend.
He easily could've played John Lennon and it would've been amazing and hysterical.
I would be fascinated to hear Gay Byrne speak about his impression of Peter Sellers.. e.g. whether or not they met offscreen and what was said, etc etc. Peter had talent to burn but he was a veeerrry strange bloke, by all accounts. He was actually living in Ireland at this time and apparently going through one of his more eccentric phases.. ;)
Clearly taking off Caine here, what a legend
Nearly slipped into Clouseau a couple times, 😃
whats funny is the people in the audience around him snickeering and laughing so heartily. they know its so funny just waiting for the punch line to come...
@jessie james...seems to me they were over-awed just to have an opportunity to see one of their film-star idols and were severely lacking in critical discernment ?
@@Gerard_2024 i would be too.. ")
They like and know good comedy in Ireland.
brilliant actor
Pure legend 😆🤣😂
sellers was the John Lennon of comedy...or perhaps Lennon was the Sellers of rock music...
matt busby
trevor howard
peter sellars
jack mcgawran
eamonn andrews...
stacked show
Pure class
Peter Sellers. I know nothing but Peter and Spoke Milligna (well known spelling mistake) along with the Blessed Harold Secombe and some original input from M.I. Chael-Bentine Paved the way for the 1960s peace and love revolution
thyere good friends , he and michael caine. he ws the one who started the 'not many people know that '' and caine got the reward for it. :) here he said this joke was from michael caine. I would love to hear michael caine tell it too...he told lots of jokes on parkinson..laughed till my sides split, both so funny
i remember the day michael told us about peter and the not many people know that . it was on the pete murray morning show on bbc radio! about 68 or 69 ! peter had been on the week before and said michael allways knew useless facts and woud reply not etc.its amazing to think of huge stars turning up for an interview on the radio today if not plugging! the size of the audience must have been huge because as michael said he was only on last week now people shout it at me in the street!
1:54 Now I picture Michael Caine sharing this and starting the story with "not many people know this..." 🤣
What a spot on accent.
What a talent!! Hilarious.
Damn, Peter Sellers was easily the predecessor of Robin Williams.
Legend!
He said, "The Pope wha?"
Where are they now, these raconteurs? Sellers, Niven, Ustinov, Burton, so sad, I abhor the way standards have slipped, nay fallen...
Uncle Gaybo has joined them now. RIP
Peter sellers was a pure genius.
@@johnangelora4669 He was indeed but a flawed one, an attendee [I will not dignify him by referring to him as a mourner] at Seller's funeral wondered how he died of a heart attack when all who knew him said he was heartless? A connundrum indeed.
@@johnkennethwiseman682 Sorry? Please elaborate...
@@thomashall9182 The presenter of the Late Late Show, Gay Byrne, passed away some time ago. he was a brilliant presenter
I heard he would've done 4 parts in Strangelove, but couldn't get the Texas accent of Major Kong. Sellers one of the funniest of all time.
Not only that. See, he got the accent down pat. He wasn't comfortable, but he could do it. The problem was when you have an airplane suspended on a rig 15 feet in the air with the bomb doors open and a director who's prone to starting drama and an actor who's borderline histrionic, accidents happen. They got in a row and Peter Sellers slipped right out of the plane and only broke his ankle (surprisingly). But at that point the workload of 4 characters was too much for him and he wasn't able to maneuver around in the plane due to his injury. Bit of a weird fact.
@@wrevflatwoods6225 Thanks to you, W. F. Only 55? Shame. What a talent. Panthers, if anything, are more pop now.
@@wrevflatwoods6225 never knew that thanks.
This guys was a genius.
I'm sure that Matt Busby, then manager of Man Utd, was one of the guests. Another was Peter Cook.
Very troubled and monstrously unpleasant towards his children but, God, what a talent.
I can see Sir Matt Busby and Eamonn Andrews in the clip. Does anyone know who the others are ?
Trevor Howard and I think another actor, Jack McGowran.The bird is apparently somebody called Barbara Kelly but have no other info- actress?
@@dnhy7951 McGowran played Burke Dennings in The Exorcist. His last film
Brilliant.......
Charming
He sounds just like Michael Caine in this 😁
Classic Sellers!
Did he win an Oscar for Dr. Strangeglove? If he didn't, he did in MY MEMORY.!
Now the Pope has a designated driver, the Holy Uber.
genial.
Ahhh great find!!! Thanks for sharing! :D Is the whole interview available anywhere?
Hilarious, isnt it? I might be able to get more of the interview.
Whoa, really??? I half expected you to say it was wiped or something!