He was great in his day. We would always watch him and his tricks. He was a man who loved props and gags. Died of a heart-attack on stage, with the audience laughing, thinking it was part of the act
@@LADYRAEUK He died doing what he loved doing best,..making people laugh even at such a tragic time. Maybe he wouldn't have wanted it any different, xo.
Who would believe he was 'the queens guard' in the early days. Rather tall chap... always funny with the magic that liked to fail. Will always remember "Spoon jar.... jar spoon..."
Hi Amanda. Tommy was an accomplished magician and a member of the magic circle. When he was in a taxi he would say to the driver "have a drink on me" putting something in their top pocket. It was a tea bag. Comedy genius, sadly missed. 💜
Saw Tommy at a night club in Watford. He was great and did an entertaining performance. He finished and the MC came out to finish the show but he was interrupted by Tommy off stage who kept up a whole series of jokes for 10 to 15 minutes not allowing him to finish. The funniest thing I have seen..
I loved the what I can only describe as organised chaos, the prop table looks completely random but everything was precisely placed and all part of a very well rehearsed act. Lot of material out there, Bottle Glass Glass Bottle is worth seeing.
My favourite is his Royal Variety performance where at the start of his act, he picked up a sword from his prop table, put down on the stage in front of the Royal Box and silently knelt behind it. After at least a minute he sighed deeply picked up the sword and put it back on the prop table and muttered « maybe next year ».
Tommy was a regular at the royal variety show , he was the queen’s favourite. One time, he was being introduced to her after the show and he asked her if he could ask her a question. She said yes and he asked her if she liked football, she said no so he asked her if he could have her cup final tickets. She laughed out loud. I saw Tommy twice and I missed a lot of it as I was laughing too much!
Tommy Cooper will always be one of the funniest men to ever live. He could walk out and have the audience in hysterical laughter just by standing there. Wonderful…just like your channel!
@@B-A-L It isn't me who is stuck in the 'good old days'. Always harking back to how much better it was when in fact it rarely was. I lived through tthose 'good old days' so no one is going to tell me otherwise. Perhaps you should now bring out your mantra about 'woke' and 'cancel culture' and all the other things you think have ruined 'ingerland'.
@@michaelkenny8540 Sorry Q. are you talking about yourself OR is the rest of the world different to you? Think about it, Care in the Community, Not taking the medication?
I saw him live some years ago. The lights went down and nothing happened, few awkward giggles after a while, nothing, then 'Where's the light switch' from Tommy, followed by more silence, then 'I can't find the door'. He kept this routine up for 15 minutes in the dark before even coming on stage; and the audience were laughing fit to cry. He has us in the palm of his hand.
My mum went to see him live in Sheffield in the 1970's on a works 'do.' We both saw him die live on TV the night he sadly died. A wonderfully almost unique comic even to this day.
The whole point was that he was a great magician and meticulous with his preparations, but made himself look a bumbling fool, then show the magic and then made folk laugh by just him standing there. He just took the piss out of everything. You need to watch the documentary I saw about his life. You'd laugh and cry. Bit sad at times, like most of ours
I can attest to that. Saw him at the Theatre on Skegness Pier, late 70's, early 80's maybe. He walked on stage holding a frying pan and just stood there without saying anything. Whole audience was laughing for ages, just he look on his face. Then, after laughter died down, big flash from the frying pan. Surprised everyone and all laughing again. Then, just as laughter dies down he said "Flash in the pan" with that laugh of his - ah ha ha ha.
I wouldn't even say he was ahead of his time personally but more he was a complete PRAT and him just being himself was what made him funny. Certain comedians/people in this world try TOO hard to be funny and it never really works because 9 times out of 10 it ends up working against them. But if you can make people laugh and it comes naturally to you then you really are onto something.
It was often said that the audience was already laughing while queueing to get in. He just had funny bones. He was an accomplished magician but his looks, countenance, presence and style made him born to be a comedian.
Absolutely. I saw Tommy walk on stage, and it was minutes before the laughter died down enough for him to continue. Minutes during which he'd done nothing. But as he glanced around the audience with that 'look' - every person he looked at immediately collapsed into helpless laughter. Don't know what that man had - but if they'd been able to bottle it, I'd have bought it by the crate.
In this wacko world we currently find humanity navigating in, a good laugh is one of the few healing things that we can do to lighten the dreadful negative activities causing so much unhappiness and dread among so many in this wacky world. Thanks Ms. Amanda for bringing some laughter into the times we live in.
I can remember seeing him with my mum and dad up at Blackpool live I think it was the only time I ever saw my dad cry with laughter such a funny man and magician.
@@LADYRAEUK Look closely at the card trick in your clip, he actually makes the Queen of Diamonds disappear and replaces it with a card that says 'STUNG' on one side and 'STUNG AGAIN' on the other. This is really a pretty decent magic trick but because he moves the gags on so quickly he doesn't milk the applause.
Absolutely love Tommy Cooper growing up! - he got huge laughs out of his magic tricks going wrong, but in reality he was an extremely accomplished magician! Another favorite growing up was Les Dawson (famous - among other things - for 'Mother-in-law' jokes!). Like Tommy with his magic, Les was an extremely gifted piano player, making it all the more funny when he'd do many a sketch of him playing the piano & 'obliviously' hitting duff notes!!
Hi Amanda,He was hilarious, a comic genius. A member of the magic circle. Saw him once he walked on stage said and did nothing but the audience laughed non stop for 5 minutes. Sadly missed, nobody has got close to him since
Thank you Amanda for reacting to this comedic genius of my youth. He just used to have to appear on the screen and I would be in stitches at his awkwardness and facial expressions. My recommendation would be to watch anything else of Tommy Cooper and it will be funny. I loved his jokes. Here’s a couple of my favourites: I said to the gym instructor “Can you teach me how to do the splits”. He said “How flexible are you?”. I said “Well I can’t make Tuesdays”. I was getting into my car and this bloke asks me “Can you give me a lift?”. I said “Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it”.
For me only three comedians could make me laugh without words, Tommy of course, Norman Wisdom and the genius Peter Sellers. Stan Laurel was good but I never thought Chaplin was very funny.
Tommy Cooper had 'Funny Bones' - he didn't have to say, or do, anything funny to make you laugh. He was just funny. When he dropped dead on stage, during a performance, the audience laughed - not because they were cruel, but falling down in a funny manner, was the sort of thing he'd do as part of his act.
I was watching him on tv when he collapsed and died on stage. It was tragic. I loved him. He was a comic genius. He had his controversies in his private life, but he made millions of people laugh.
Tommy got so many laughs when jokes seemingly went wrong. But he was actually an accomplished magician, and a fully fledged Magic Circle member..... A genuine family entertainer. No smut, nothing offensive, just damn good laughs...... I once saw him walk onto a stage, with a small card table in front of him. And on the card table were 2 cubes - one red, one blue. He held them both up, asking the audience " I bet you don't know what these are?" You could then hear murmurs in the audience of "no". Tommy quickly replied with "neither do I" and threw them over his shoulder...... What a man.....
Hi Amanda, I've watched Tommy Cooper on TV for decades now huge shambolic seemingly incompetent but a really good magician! Everybody has done a Tommy Cooper impersonation at one time or another, regards, John hartlepool 5
Tommy started by doing magic tricks to entertain troops in WWII. He got more laughs and cheers when things went wrong and so decided to add a comedy routine to his shows. But he became a top class magician as well as comedian.
it is not a skit, but maybe react to "the plank" 1979. it is an almost silent movie staring Tommy Cooper and Erik Sykes. Tommy use to come to Jersey every summer throughout the 70's. I saw him on a number of occasions, as he went to the same restaurant that we went to every Sunday. he also followed me and my mother around Woolworths once. one of Tommy's favourite tricks he like to play was ... when getting out of a taxi, he would pay the fare and then put something in the drivers top pocket and say "have a dink on me". when Tommy had left, the driver would feel the wad in their shirt pocket and think he had given a generous tip. when they pulled it out ..... it was a teabag.
I remember watching this man die on stage when I was young . Im 48 now and at the time everyone thought it was part of the act . M e and my mum were hysterical ; what an amazing way for a comedian to die . long live Tommy Cooper xxx
if he was working today people would still laugh its impossible not to he had that kind of face to be able to do things wrong is harder than proper magic and he was actually a brilliant magician every other magician bowed down to tommy MAGIC | good to see youve gone up nearly 5000 more subscribers Amanda
Tommy was much loved and genuinely funny . He used to just a lot of props and " magic" tricks that went wrong , usually with a little twist at the end that left you puzzled . In those days comedians could never get away with the language and subjects they do now .
So glad you like Tommy Coopee. In many ways he was a vaudeville performer. He's one of the few people who could make people laugh just by walking on stage. His humour was so sweet and goodnatured it made him popular with all age groups.. On one occasion he did a royall Command performance attended by the Queen, When he was presented to her, he asked if she got tickets to the Cup Final. When she said yes he replied if youre not using them can I have them. Only Tommy could have got away with it!
I once saw an auction for some of his props .A battered suitcase a piece of string and a small picture frame. This was a fifteen minute routine. Amazing performer.one of a kind. He was a huge man who had his suits made in Savile Row London.
Absolutely brilliant. To be that bad, you have to be a genius! I love his unpredictability and the fact he's obviously having a ball. It reminds me a bit of Les Dawson's piano playing. To play the piano that badly, you have to be really good. Great fun as always Amanda, thank you so much and I'm glad you enjoyed it ☺👍
Les Dawson was a brilliant pianist but had an act where he played a piece with really bad notes but still kept the tune. It takes real skill to do that.
This man was a superb magician and discovered by deliberately getting the trick wrong he got huge laughs. He was 6’3” and always had that slight “Help Me” manner about him. The chaos in his act was actually Strictly scripted showing how clever the man was. I find him so funny I simply have to pick up one of his DVDs and it reminds me of one of his gags, I then put the dvd back and walk away giggling.
Remember watching him when I was at school.The epitome of classic British comedy. Relied on his timing and comedic skills to make his audience laugh, no need for swearing therefore the whole family could watch. If I remember rightly he actually collapsed and died on stage performing in front of the tv cameras back in 1984.
Hi Amanda, Great video. I['m very pleased you found Tommy Cooper. He was hilarious. He was a great magician and he would pretend his tricks went wrong and then amaze you with his magic.
Tommy cooper was a lovely man, I met him in a magic club based in Hitchin many years ago, he taught me the tourniquet with a coin. I learnt it straight away.
Tommy Cooper was great in his day. He died on stage - literally! 'Just like that!' His famous phrase. As he no doubt would have said if able - 'It was my last performance'! 'HAHAHA! '
Tommy Cooper was awesome, it is very old style english jokes/humour. His timing was awesome! and aparentlty theres a john culshore (impressionist) show starting now
Amanda, Tommy cooper was a stage legend he played the big buffoon persona his 'jar/spoon/spoon/jar is classic, sadly he dropped dead on stage infront of a live TV audience , an for a while people thought it was part of the act it was too late when they realised it wasnt , he remains a much loved British icon .
There’s nobody else quite like Tommy Cooper. He was old school comedy; undeniably one of the greats. Ever since I was a child, he’s been one of my favourite comedians. Cooper was such a talented, energetic and lovable performer, which makes the circumstances of his tragic death all the more heartbreaking. RIP Tommy. Just like that.
I have mentioned Tommy Cooper before.He`s the old time 70s stand up comic who was funny as soon as he walked on stage.You should see the half dressed sketches,hes dressed as one character one side and dressed as another the other side,some of them are mint.The one i remember and ive amazingly seen it on here was the Nazi sketch.Brilliant.
He died onstage at the London Palladium in April 1984. I was born in December that year, so I didn't get a chance to see him perform on stage. But was told fantastic stories about his jokes, and his mannerisms
It's late but had to say - Tommy Cooper said "first time I met my wife, she was sitting on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge dangling her feet in the water!" 😊 it's about a 25 foot drop!
The dad of a friend worked as a hotel porter in the 1960s. Tommy Cooper stayed one night after doing a show at the local theatre. As he was leaving next morning, he shook hands with my friend's dad and "dad" could feel that there was what he thought was a bank note in Tommy's hand. "Thanks for everything " said Tommy "have a drink on me." When Tommy had gone, my friend's dad opened his hand and found........a teabag. 😄😄 xx
Tommy was unique; I've never seen anybody like him with anything like the same style of delivery, anywhere. The story goes that he started out as a straight magician doing magic tricks, but one night his whole act was a disaster with trick after trick going wrong. Tommy stood there and tried to speak but although he could move his mouth, no words would come out. The audience, however, loved it - it brought the house down. From then on he gave up the magic and did comedy instead.
I remember watching Tommy Cooper on TV when he died and me like everyone else thought it was part of his act but he actually tried to be a genuine magician but everything went wrong but people loved it
He was once in a line up after a show I think, or at an award ceremony, and the Queen was going along the line greeting the guests. When she got to Tommy he said, "Good evening your majesty. Do you mind if I ask you something?" The Queen said "No, of course not" Tommy said "Do you like football?" The Queen replied "No, not particularly" Tommy then said, "Can I have you're ticket for the cup final" ( The Queen automatically gets tickets for the FA cup final at Wembley ). The man was a class act. R.I.P Tommy. It's not word for word, but I think you can still find it online.
Tommy Cooper was a magical comedic legend. from Wales this welsh man was quick witted, & loved All types of magic. his act was deliberate to go on stage via magic, fail some tricks in a fool laughed at way... but surprise the audience with a few successful ones too. sadly TC was from the 70's & early 80's. [ in high demand ] when pay was very very little. he would need to work 4 or more times harder than the comics of today. and as a heavy drinker & smoker & workaholic. he sadly died of a heart attack on stage in 1984. in my childhood this man was always my number 1. always smiling always joking.. a Total Legend. he's best bits for you to check out??? well ... The movie - The Plank The Tommy Cooper Show The Hat Sketch The Smashing Plates Sketch The Royal Dinner Speech Or type any interview with Tommy... 🙏R.I.P TC
That's just it, him laughing at himself was half the joke. In the 1970s there were some great comedians but none had the ability to make you laugh before the fact. Tommy cooper had this unique ability to have you in fits of laughter before even starting to tell the joke. Dave Allen, Dick Emery, and the legend that is Benny Hill (who went on to have huge success in America) were as funny as it gets, but they couldn't do that. Just the anticipation as to what Tommy Cooper was going to get up to was enough to get you going. Few if any could have pulled off what he did, largely because he had a demeanor that lent itself to him being able to just stand there, in the middle of the stage with that dumb look on his face and have everyone laugh. This is the first I've watched any of Tommy Cooper in a long time yet the moment I started watching I started laughing just from the anticipation.
Tommy Cooper was a legend! ... I don't think there is anyone from the UK that never liked him, we all loved him, very funny and very clever guy, ... R.I.P. Tommy.
He was a very good magician, a trick went wrong in a performance and got such a laugh from the audience that he carried on with so called 'failed' tricks. He designed most of his own props along with being a member of the Magic Circle. He appeared in many comedy films including 'The Plank' with Eric Sykes. Like many comedians he suffered from Manic Depression, Bi-Polar today.
I was among millions who watched that comedy genius die - live on TV. As he lay on the stage, with the audience laughing (thinking it was another gag) my wife covered her mouth and started to cry. "He just died, didn't he?" I realised she was almost certainly right and switched off immediately. Prurient curiosity not being one of my traits. We waited for a half hour, and switched on the news - to learn the inevitable. Tommy was the stuff of classic comedy. Amanda (and others) - if you've never seen "The Plank" you don't know what you've missed.
I will never forget watching Tommy Cooper sadly pass away on live TV, millions of people watching the show and in the audiencie watching him slowly collapse thought it was part of his act.
The different hats sketch, is xcellent Amanda... I loved Tommy, when I was growing up, as a family... if Tommy was on, only time we were all quiet lol... your views on bein a yank in britland are very good 👍 ❤
If you look hard enough, you may find Tommy's last ever performance on here, but I don't ever want to see it again. Millions of viewers across the UK watched him live on TV in 1984, little realising at the time that he was having a heart attack - his performances were so whacky we all thought it was part of the routine. He left this world to the sound of laughter and clapping of appreciation from people who loved him so much.
Amanda Tommy Cooper was a fantastic comedian. His last ever performance was live on stage at the Apollo theatre in London he was actually going through his act when he had a heart attack. The audience fell about laughing thinking it was a joke but unfortunately it wasn't Tommy Cooper one of the UK's greatest comedians had actually died live on stage to a rapturous audience laughing at what they thought was a joke. Sadly he wasn't around anymore but he died doing what he loved best and that was making people laugh! It was only when Jimmy Tarbuck a fellow comedian said this isn't part of his act that the theatre rolled the curtain and called for a Dr that people realised Tommy Cooper had died
Amanda I remember sitting on floor near TV. When Tommy collapse and died on stage audience thought he was play acting one of royal family favourite people rip Tommy
I was little boy sitting with family always watch Tommy big dude with big heart the best thing was all his tricks he could do perfectly but he realised if got things wrong it was better
Tommy Cooper suffered from severe depression (I think today he'd be diagnosed as bi-polar), and would drink heavily, partly to calm his nerves before going on stage. He never felt the audience appreciated how much he actually put into his act. He was told once "You make people laugh without even saying anything," to which he replied "If only they knew how much work I put in to achieving that." (I don't know if you'll find it, but there was a sketch he did live where he started off not on stage, pretending to be locked in his dressing room - all you could hear was his voice saying "I can't get out!" which had the audience in hysterics). He also felt he was never good enough in spite of all the adulation he received. Originally he never intended for his tricks to go wrong, but when he realised that the failed ones got the biggest laughs, he developed that side of it, but often he would have a least one or two that worked, just to show his real skill (and he often looked as surprised as the audience). As has been mentioned Tommy sadly died on stage during a live television performance, he collapsed and it was several seconds before someone realised it wasn't part of the act, and they then quickly drew the curtains round him. One or two of the performers that were appearing on the same show said they "knew" something was wrong, because when Tommy collapsed he went down "gracefully", and in his act he never did anything graceful (look how the box with the curtain collides with him at the end of this clip). I have my doubts as to how true it is that they knew. But his death was a very sad loss. He died when I was 13, and so I had grown up watching and loving his act.
I didn't know much about Tommy Cooper before moving to the UK, but he had a major problem with stage fright, so he used to self-medicate with too much alcohol and cigars, which probably contributed quite a lot to his fatal heart attack. He was literally stumbling drunk through most performances.
The Spoon-Jar magic trick is a classic, also the wine bottle in a tube. Although he was a member of the Magic Circle, his thing was to deliberately get the trick wrong, or as in this clip, make it appear that it went wrong
He was great in his day. We would always watch him and his tricks. He was a man who loved props and gags. Died of a heart-attack on stage, with the audience laughing, thinking it was part of the act
I remember watching that on TV as it happened. Shocking at the time but ppl unaware what was happening as the curtains were drawn
Aw that’s so awful
Live on TV, wasn't it?
@@LADYRAEUK He died doing what he loved doing best,..making people laugh even at such a tragic time. Maybe he wouldn't have wanted it any different, xo.
Who would believe he was 'the queens guard' in the early days. Rather tall chap... always funny with the magic that liked to fail. Will always remember "Spoon jar.... jar spoon..."
Hi Amanda.
Tommy was an accomplished magician and a member of the magic circle. When he was in a taxi he would say to the driver "have a drink on me" putting something in their top pocket. It was a tea bag. Comedy genius, sadly missed. 💜
I didn’t know he was a magician! ❤️
@@LADYRAEUK A lot of his act is actually Tommy doing magic, although in a comical way. The guy was a genius.
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@@philjones45 No-one’s asking you to read them! We didn’t realise there was a limit!
@@raygun500 not you.
Saw Tommy at a night club in Watford. He was great and did an entertaining performance. He finished and the MC came out to finish the show but he was interrupted by Tommy off stage who kept up a whole series of jokes for 10 to 15 minutes not allowing him to finish. The funniest thing I have seen..
I met him on a train once in the late 60s
I loved the what I can only describe as organised chaos, the prop table looks completely random but everything was precisely placed and all part of a very well rehearsed act. Lot of material out there, Bottle Glass Glass Bottle is worth seeing.
Agreed: Bottle Glass Glass Bottle was legendary! Also "I went to the doctor the other day......."
My favourite is his Royal Variety performance where at the start of his act, he picked up a sword from his prop table, put down on the stage in front of the Royal Box and silently knelt behind it. After at least a minute he sighed deeply picked up the sword and put it back on the prop table and muttered « maybe next year ».
Tommy was a regular at the royal variety show , he was the queen’s favourite. One time, he was being introduced to her after the show and he asked her if he could ask her a question. She said yes and he asked her if she liked football, she said no so he asked her if he could have her cup final tickets. She laughed out loud. I saw Tommy twice and I missed a lot of it as I was laughing too much!
Tommy Cooper will always be one of the funniest men to ever live. He could walk out and have the audience in hysterical laughter just by standing there. Wonderful…just like your channel!
His Telly shows were really dire. Juvenile obvious gas that just were not funny. Some were but the bulk was just childish.
@@michaelkenny8540 I was a child so childish was spot on.
@@michaelkenny8540 You really must have led such a sad life.
@@B-A-L It isn't me who is stuck in the 'good old days'. Always harking back to how much better it was when in fact it rarely was. I lived through tthose 'good old days' so no one is going to tell me otherwise. Perhaps you should now bring out your mantra about 'woke' and 'cancel culture' and all the other things you think have ruined 'ingerland'.
@@michaelkenny8540 Sorry Q. are you talking about yourself OR is the rest of the world different to you? Think about it, Care in the Community, Not taking the medication?
I saw him live some years ago. The lights went down and nothing happened, few awkward giggles after a while, nothing, then 'Where's the light switch' from Tommy, followed by more silence, then 'I can't find the door'. He kept this routine up for 15 minutes in the dark before even coming on stage; and the audience were laughing fit to cry. He has us in the palm of his hand.
My mum went to see him live in Sheffield in the 1970's on a works 'do.' We both saw him die live on TV the night he sadly died. A wonderfully almost unique comic even to this day.
The whole point was that he was a great magician and meticulous with his preparations, but made himself look a bumbling fool, then show the magic and then made folk laugh by just him standing there. He just took the piss out of everything. You need to watch the documentary I saw about his life. You'd laugh and cry. Bit sad at times, like most of ours
Commonly said about this wonderful man was that as soon as he came on stage, the audience would start laughing.
I can attest to that. Saw him at the Theatre on Skegness Pier, late 70's, early 80's maybe. He walked on stage holding a frying pan and just stood there without saying anything. Whole audience was laughing for ages, just he look on his face. Then, after laughter died down, big flash from the frying pan. Surprised everyone and all laughing again. Then, just as laughter dies down he said "Flash in the pan" with that laugh of his - ah ha ha ha.
Also commonly said about this wonderful man was that he was an incredibly stingy drunk wife beater
I wouldn't even say he was ahead of his time personally but more he was a complete PRAT and him just being himself was what made him funny.
Certain comedians/people in this world try TOO hard to be funny and it never really works because 9 times out of 10 it ends up working against them. But if you can make people laugh and it comes naturally to you then you really are onto something.
It was often said that the audience was already laughing while queueing to get in. He just had funny bones. He was an accomplished magician but his looks, countenance, presence and style made him born to be a comedian.
Absolutely. I saw Tommy walk on stage, and it was minutes before the laughter died down enough for him to continue. Minutes during which he'd done nothing. But as he glanced around the audience with that 'look' - every person he looked at immediately collapsed into helpless laughter.
Don't know what that man had - but if they'd been able to bottle it, I'd have bought it by the crate.
In this wacko world we currently find humanity navigating in, a good laugh is one of the few healing things that we can do to lighten the dreadful negative activities causing so much unhappiness and dread among so many in this wacky world.
Thanks Ms. Amanda for bringing some laughter into the times we live in.
You’re so welcome, glad you’re enjoying it 😊😊
Well said!
I can remember seeing him with my mum and dad up at Blackpool live I think it was the only time I ever saw my dad cry with laughter such a funny man and magician.
I didn’t know he was a magician !
@@LADYRAEUK Look closely at the card trick in your clip, he actually makes the Queen of Diamonds disappear and replaces it with a card that says 'STUNG' on one side and 'STUNG AGAIN' on the other. This is really a pretty decent magic trick but because he moves the gags on so quickly he doesn't milk the applause.
Absolutely love Tommy Cooper growing up! - he got huge laughs out of his magic tricks going wrong, but in reality he was an extremely accomplished magician! Another favorite growing up was Les Dawson (famous - among other things - for 'Mother-in-law' jokes!). Like Tommy with his magic, Les was an extremely gifted piano player, making it all the more funny when he'd do many a sketch of him playing the piano & 'obliviously' hitting duff notes!!
It's a lot harder to play "badly" like Les than to play properly.
He sasn't THAT acomplished to be honest.
I love morcobe and wise watch the Andre previne god it's brilliant
Hi Amanda,He was hilarious, a comic genius. A member of the magic circle. Saw him once he walked on stage said and did nothing but the audience laughed non stop for 5 minutes. Sadly missed, nobody has got close to him since
He was the only comedian I'd ever seen who could walk on stage and do nothing or say nothing and the audience would burst out laughing!
Never seen Jack Benny then?! Another genius.
He was so funny , great to see you have found him
Another Tommy Cooper clip that you watch, if you can find it, Amanda, is the one where he's telling a story with a series of hats. It's wonderful.
I’ll have a look 😊
That's a brilliant one. Still has me in stitches
yeah the hats sketch but my fav has to be the split personality one
He's a prop comic! So every other routine can actually be different than the last! But definitely can be hilarious each time
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He didn't need props to make people laugh. He could simply walk on stage and people would dissolve.
Thank you Amanda for reacting to this comedic genius of my youth. He just used to have to appear on the screen and I would be in stitches at his awkwardness and facial expressions. My recommendation would be to watch anything else of Tommy Cooper and it will be funny. I loved his jokes. Here’s a couple of my favourites:
I said to the gym instructor “Can you teach me how to do the splits”. He said “How flexible are you?”. I said “Well I can’t make Tuesdays”.
I was getting into my car and this bloke asks me “Can you give me a lift?”. I said “Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it”.
For me only three comedians could make me laugh without words, Tommy of course, Norman Wisdom and the genius Peter Sellers. Stan Laurel was good but I never thought Chaplin was very funny.
Tommy Cooper had 'Funny Bones' - he didn't have to say, or do, anything funny to make you laugh. He was just funny.
When he dropped dead on stage, during a performance, the audience laughed - not because they were cruel, but falling down in a funny manner, was the sort of thing he'd do as part of his act.
His timing is just perfection...has me in hysterics ...🤣😂
Spoon Jar........Jar Spoon
Absolutely classic and worth watching
The dancing spoon in a jar bit never fails to make me laugh
“Well pull it!”
I was watching him on tv when he collapsed and died on stage. It was tragic. I loved him. He was a comic genius. He had his controversies in his private life, but he made millions of people laugh.
Tommy got so many laughs when jokes seemingly went wrong. But he was actually an accomplished magician, and a fully fledged Magic Circle member..... A genuine family entertainer. No smut, nothing offensive, just damn good laughs...... I once saw him walk onto a stage, with a small card table in front of him. And on the card table were 2 cubes - one red, one blue. He held them both up, asking the audience " I bet you don't know what these are?" You could then hear murmurs in the audience of "no". Tommy quickly replied with "neither do I" and threw them over his shoulder...... What a man.....
Hi Amanda, I've watched Tommy Cooper on TV for decades now huge shambolic seemingly incompetent but a really good magician! Everybody has done a Tommy Cooper impersonation at one time or another, regards, John hartlepool 5
It's his failed tricks that's the best. And then when you expect them to fail they work. He's a legend.
Second only to Eric Morecambe, these guys could make you laugh without saying a word.
Tommy started by doing magic tricks to entertain troops in WWII. He got more laughs and cheers when things went wrong and so decided to add a comedy routine to his shows. But he became a top class magician as well as comedian.
Brilliant! The Duck Card Grabber is one of my favourite moments as he could just make anything immensely funny
it is not a skit, but maybe react to "the plank" 1979. it is an almost silent movie staring Tommy Cooper and Erik Sykes.
Tommy use to come to Jersey every summer throughout the 70's. I saw him on a number of occasions, as he went to the same restaurant that we went to every Sunday. he also followed me and my mother around Woolworths once.
one of Tommy's favourite tricks he like to play was ... when getting out of a taxi, he would pay the fare and then put something in the drivers top pocket and say "have a dink on me". when Tommy had left, the driver would feel the wad in their shirt pocket and think he had given a generous tip. when they pulled it out ..... it was a teabag.
One of my absolute favourite comedians of all time! He always failed is tricks, but was really a member of the magic circle.
I remember watching this man die on stage when I was young . Im 48 now and at the time everyone thought it was part of the act . M e and my mum were hysterical ; what an amazing way for a comedian to die . long live Tommy Cooper xxx
Grew up watching him in Black & White on the "telly". Funniest comedian at the time. Loved the 2 Ronnies also
if he was working today people would still laugh its impossible not to he had that kind of face to be able to do things wrong is harder than proper magic and he was actually a brilliant magician every other magician bowed down to tommy MAGIC | good to see youve gone up nearly 5000 more subscribers Amanda
Bottle, glass ... glass, bottle
just like that.
I cant help it Amanda. but you have the most wonderful voice i heard.. ever
Tommy was much loved and genuinely funny . He used to just a lot of props and " magic" tricks that went wrong , usually with a little twist at the end that left you puzzled . In those days comedians could never get away with the language and subjects they do now .
The glass, bottle sketch
I’m so glad you’ve got round to watching Tommy Cooper he was a genius. He was so funny and clever when he put the blindfold on the duck omg 😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for watching and sharing this very funnyman with us on utube . Actually watched him on TV the night he died saddle missed .
The late great Tommy Cooper was a fave of mine when I was a kid. The world lost a good 'un when he passed away...on stage as I remember.
So glad you like Tommy Coopee. In many ways he was a vaudeville performer. He's one of the few people who could make people laugh just by walking on stage. His humour was so sweet and goodnatured it made him popular with all age groups.. On one occasion he did a royall Command performance attended by the Queen, When he was presented to her, he asked if she got tickets to the Cup Final. When she said yes he replied if youre not using them can I have them. Only Tommy could have got away with it!
I once saw an auction for some of his props .A battered suitcase a piece of string and a small picture frame. This was a fifteen minute routine. Amazing performer.one of a kind. He was a huge man who had his suits made in Savile Row London.
He was such a funny man. If his name was mentioned you know you were going to be entertained!
Absolutely brilliant. To be that bad, you have to be a genius! I love his unpredictability and the fact he's obviously having a ball.
It reminds me a bit of Les Dawson's piano playing. To play the piano that badly, you have to be really good.
Great fun as always Amanda, thank you so much and I'm glad you enjoyed it ☺👍
Les Dawson was a brilliant pianist but had an act where he played a piece with really bad notes but still kept the tune. It takes real skill to do that.
This man was a superb magician and discovered by deliberately getting the trick wrong he got huge laughs. He was 6’3” and always had that slight “Help Me” manner about him. The chaos in his act was actually Strictly scripted showing how clever the man was. I find him so funny I simply have to pick up one of his DVDs and it reminds me of one of his gags, I then put the dvd back and walk away giggling.
Remember watching him when I was at school.The epitome of classic British comedy. Relied on his timing and comedic skills to make his audience laugh, no need for swearing therefore the whole family could watch. If I remember rightly he actually collapsed and died on stage performing in front of the tv cameras back in 1984.
Hi Amanda, Great video. I['m very pleased you found Tommy Cooper. He was hilarious. He was a great magician and he would pretend his tricks went wrong and then amaze you with his magic.
Tommy cooper was a lovely man, I met him in a magic club based in Hitchin many years ago, he taught me the tourniquet with a coin. I learnt it straight away.
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@@LADYRAEUK he was a great friend
I'm really chuffed you've found Tommy Cooper. Reduced me to tears within 2 minutes 🤣
Tommy Cooper was great in his day.
He died on stage - literally! 'Just like that!' His famous phrase.
As he no doubt would have said if able - 'It was my last performance'! 'HAHAHA! '
Tommy Cooper was awesome, it is very old style english jokes/humour.
His timing was awesome! and aparentlty theres a john culshore (impressionist) show starting now
Amanda, Tommy cooper was a stage legend he played the big buffoon persona his 'jar/spoon/spoon/jar is classic, sadly he dropped dead on stage infront of a live TV audience , an for a while people thought it was part of the act it was too late when they realised it wasnt , he remains a much loved British icon .
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There’s nobody else quite like Tommy Cooper. He was old school comedy; undeniably one of the greats. Ever since I was a child, he’s been one of my favourite comedians. Cooper was such a talented, energetic and lovable performer, which makes the circumstances of his tragic death all the more heartbreaking. RIP Tommy. Just like that.
My late dad met Tommy on Blackpool pier on his stag evening with his friends in January 1978. Our family still have the photo. ❤️
Aw that’s lovely
@@LADYRAEUK Did you know Tommy died on national television? Everybody thought it was part of his act.
i'm 34 now and tommy will always be favorite British comedian and there's a lot of good ones too :)
I love ❤ this ladies laugh.
I have mentioned Tommy Cooper before.He`s the old time 70s stand up comic who was funny as soon as he walked on stage.You should see the half dressed sketches,hes dressed as one character one side and dressed as another the other side,some of them are mint.The one i remember and ive amazingly seen it on here was the Nazi sketch.Brilliant.
He died onstage at the London Palladium in April 1984. I was born in December that year, so I didn't get a chance to see him perform on stage. But was told fantastic stories about his jokes, and his mannerisms
It was not the palladium but her majesty theatre
It's late but had to say - Tommy Cooper said "first time I met my wife, she was sitting on the parapet of Waterloo Bridge dangling her feet in the water!" 😊 it's about a 25 foot drop!
The dad of a friend worked as a hotel porter in the 1960s. Tommy Cooper stayed one night after doing a show at the local theatre. As he was leaving next morning, he shook hands with my friend's dad and "dad" could feel that there was what he thought was a bank note in Tommy's hand.
"Thanks for everything " said Tommy "have a drink on me."
When Tommy had gone, my friend's dad opened his hand and found........a teabag. 😄😄 xx
one of my favourite tricks of Tommy's is the one with the disappearing/reappearing bottle
Tommy was unique; I've never seen anybody like him with anything like the same style of delivery, anywhere. The story goes that he started out as a straight magician doing magic tricks, but one night his whole act was a disaster with trick after trick going wrong.
Tommy stood there and tried to speak but although he could move his mouth, no words would come out. The audience, however, loved it - it brought the house down. From then on he gave up the magic and did comedy instead.
Tommy was & still is a legend & an awesome Magician & a fellow Welsh person. 🏴😂👌
Another fun video ! Thanks Amanda !😄
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I remember watching Tommy Cooper on TV when he died and me like everyone else thought it was part of his act but he actually tried to be a genuine magician but everything went wrong but people loved it
Grew up watching tommy Cooper on tv, happy memories 😀
The camera is brilliant the way it follows his movement ___ " Glass bottle , bottle glass " lol
He played in Law Vegas ,the management ,after a few performances suggested he practice his act a bit more !
He was once in a line up after a show I think, or at an award ceremony, and the Queen was going along the line greeting the guests. When she got to Tommy he said, "Good evening your majesty. Do you mind if I ask you something?" The Queen said "No, of course not" Tommy said "Do you like football?" The Queen replied "No, not particularly" Tommy then said, "Can I have you're ticket for the cup final" ( The Queen automatically gets tickets for the FA cup final at Wembley ). The man was a class act. R.I.P Tommy.
It's not word for word, but I think you can still find it online.
My Dad’s favourite 🥰 he didn’t laugh often but…when Tommy Cooper came on tv…..😄😅🤣 they were simpler times 🤗
Nice video Amanda thank you 😊
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Deffinetly top 3 of all time comediennes I loved to watch him
Saw him in the early 70,s i,m still smiling now.
Hello, you definitely need to watch more of this comic genius, also the film The Plank 🤣👍👍
Loved and cherished him.
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Tommy Cooper was a magical comedic legend.
from Wales this welsh man was quick witted,
& loved All types of magic.
his act was deliberate to go on stage via magic,
fail some tricks in a fool laughed at way...
but surprise the audience with a few successful ones too.
sadly TC was from the 70's & early 80's.
[ in high demand ]
when pay was very very little.
he would need to work 4 or more times harder than the comics of today.
and as a heavy drinker & smoker & workaholic.
he sadly died of a heart attack on stage in 1984.
in my childhood this man was always my number 1.
always smiling always joking..
a Total Legend.
he's best bits for you to check out???
well ...
The movie - The Plank
The Tommy Cooper Show
The Hat Sketch
The Smashing Plates Sketch
The Royal Dinner Speech
Or type any interview with Tommy...
🙏R.I.P TC
the classic thing for Tommy Cooper is spoon jar, jar spoon along with his rose trick. i would recommend watching those.
That's just it, him laughing at himself was half the joke. In the 1970s there were some great comedians but none had the ability to make you laugh before the fact. Tommy cooper had this unique ability to have you in fits of laughter before even starting to tell the joke. Dave Allen, Dick Emery, and the legend that is Benny Hill (who went on to have huge success in America) were as funny as it gets, but they couldn't do that. Just the anticipation as to what Tommy Cooper was going to get up to was enough to get you going.
Few if any could have pulled off what he did, largely because he had a demeanor that lent itself to him being able to just stand there, in the middle of the stage with that dumb look on his face and have everyone laugh. This is the first I've watched any of Tommy Cooper in a long time yet the moment I started watching I started laughing just from the anticipation.
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Tommy Cooper was a legend! ... I don't think there is anyone from the UK that never liked him, we all loved him, very funny and very clever guy, ... R.I.P. Tommy.
He was a very good magician, a trick went wrong in a performance and got such a laugh from the audience that he carried on with so called 'failed' tricks. He designed most of his own props along with being a member of the Magic Circle. He appeared in many comedy films including 'The Plank' with Eric Sykes. Like many comedians he suffered from Manic Depression, Bi-Polar today.
I was among millions who watched that comedy genius die - live on TV. As he lay on the stage, with the audience laughing (thinking it was another gag) my wife covered her mouth and started to cry.
"He just died, didn't he?"
I realised she was almost certainly right and switched off immediately. Prurient curiosity not being one of my traits.
We waited for a half hour, and switched on the news - to learn the inevitable.
Tommy was the stuff of classic comedy.
Amanda (and others) - if you've never seen "The Plank" you don't know what you've missed.
Aw that’s so awful.
I will definitely check that out 🙌
One of the funniest ever. Look up Spoon jar jar spoon and glass bottle bottle glass.
I will never forget watching Tommy Cooper sadly pass away on live TV, millions of people watching the show and in the audiencie watching him slowly collapse thought it was part of his act.
That’s so awful
Tommy Coopers interview with his magic red balls! Impossible to not laugh!🤣👌👍🌟
The different hats sketch, is xcellent Amanda... I loved Tommy, when I was growing up, as a family... if Tommy was on, only time we were all quiet lol... your views on bein a yank in britland are very good 👍 ❤
If you look hard enough, you may find Tommy's last ever performance on here, but I don't ever want to see it again.
Millions of viewers across the UK watched him live on TV in 1984, little realising at the time that he was having a heart attack - his performances were so whacky we all thought it was part of the routine.
He left this world to the sound of laughter and clapping of appreciation from people who loved him so much.
loved this :)
Tommy Cooper is brilliant..you wanna watch the hat skit had me in stitches 🤣🤣
Haha I’ll check it out
Amanda Tommy Cooper was a fantastic comedian. His last ever performance was live on stage at the Apollo theatre in London he was actually going through his act when he had a heart attack. The audience fell about laughing thinking it was a joke but unfortunately it wasn't Tommy Cooper one of the UK's greatest comedians had actually died live on stage to a rapturous audience laughing at what they thought was a joke. Sadly he wasn't around anymore but he died doing what he loved best and that was making people laugh! It was only when Jimmy Tarbuck a fellow comedian said this isn't part of his act that the theatre rolled the curtain and called for a Dr that people realised Tommy Cooper had died
Amanda I remember sitting on floor near TV. When Tommy collapse and died on stage audience thought he was play acting one of royal family favourite people rip Tommy
That’s so awful
I was little boy sitting with family always watch Tommy big dude with big heart the best thing was all his tricks he could do perfectly but he realised if got things wrong it was better
Tommy Cooper suffered from severe depression (I think today he'd be diagnosed as bi-polar), and would drink heavily, partly to calm his nerves before going on stage. He never felt the audience appreciated how much he actually put into his act. He was told once "You make people laugh without even saying anything," to which he replied "If only they knew how much work I put in to achieving that." (I don't know if you'll find it, but there was a sketch he did live where he started off not on stage, pretending to be locked in his dressing room - all you could hear was his voice saying "I can't get out!" which had the audience in hysterics). He also felt he was never good enough in spite of all the adulation he received.
Originally he never intended for his tricks to go wrong, but when he realised that the failed ones got the biggest laughs, he developed that side of it, but often he would have a least one or two that worked, just to show his real skill (and he often looked as surprised as the audience).
As has been mentioned Tommy sadly died on stage during a live television performance, he collapsed and it was several seconds before someone realised it wasn't part of the act, and they then quickly drew the curtains round him. One or two of the performers that were appearing on the same show said they "knew" something was wrong, because when Tommy collapsed he went down "gracefully", and in his act he never did anything graceful (look how the box with the curtain collides with him at the end of this clip). I have my doubts as to how true it is that they knew. But his death was a very sad loss. He died when I was 13, and so I had grown up watching and loving his act.
He was a great stage Magician but he was naturally funny. I was actually watching the show on TV when had a heart attack on stage and passed away!
the Split Personality Sketch has to be my fav, Spoon jar, Jar Spoon, the hats sketch, those have to be my favs
Love this channel so much. Would love to see some more reactions to Lee Evans though and also James Acaster On The Absurdity Of The British Empire.
Absolutely a total genius.
Glass bottle bottle glass is one of his best routines, or the one with the spotted handkerchieves.
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I didn't know much about Tommy Cooper before moving to the UK, but he had a major problem with stage fright, so he used to self-medicate with too much alcohol and cigars, which probably contributed quite a lot to his fatal heart attack. He was literally stumbling drunk through most performances.
The Spoon-Jar magic trick is a classic, also the wine bottle in a tube. Although he was a member of the Magic Circle, his thing was to deliberately get the trick wrong, or as in this clip, make it appear that it went wrong
“Botttle glass, glass bottle”
I'm sure someone else would have suggested it, but, the bottle and glass sketch is a classic.