The late, great Tommy Cooper came into the world on 19 March 1921. Just like that! All rights to this video belong to Thames Television. All rights belong to Thames Television
He really was a one off, so funny. I used to go to Blackpool with my parents every year and they used to take me to some shows. I don't know how old I was this particular year but I guess maybe 9 or so. Anyway we went to see Tommy, he was in a show on the pier, he was probably top of the bill. He only walked on stage and my Mother burst out laughing at him, we were not too far from the stage and he gave us a look. I don't remember anything else from the show but I never forgot that. It would be easy these days to say his stuff is old hat. But Tommy carried it off so well and he was such a big imposing man made even more so by wearing that fez. Very graceful with his movements I always thought for a big man too. RIP Tommy you were a star.
The thing is as a magician he could make all his tricks work. But there was no humour there. It was actually harder to make them not work then fir him to make them work. Just because they had to not work right in the right way.
Poor old Tommy died on stage performing ... collapsed mid joke .... a truly exceptional entertainer entering heaven with a smile ... delightful being !!!!
fact..no matter how much you watch him tommy cooper is(like don rickles)one comedian you will never ever get tired/fed up with watching ever either through instant laughs or gags that get funnier with every passing second truelly blessed to have so much recorded footage of him because it is something that will never die.......a national treasure....priceless
I just have to see his face, I'm hooked. One of the best comedians that was on stage at that time. He was a natural , loved his sketches. Many thanks for this compilation. 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for putting these wonderful vids on here mate. The funnyest man who's ever lived. When you can stand there and just look at the camera and the audience are in tears of laughter, you have got it! Tommy Cooper, the man with the fezz, who could literally just walk on stage, not open his mouth and people laugh. Never ever ,will there be anouther Tommy Cooper and that's a fact. RIP and your comedic genius will live forever.
Tommy had a great personality,his lines and gags are hilarious , saw him live at a theatre in torquay when I was small . After the show my dad asked him for autograph he offered him a pen and tommy joking said oh I thought you were gonna shoot me lol
After a royal variety performance, Cooper was lined up to see the Queen and when he was introduced he asked, 'Excuse me Ma'am, but do you like football'. The entourage of bigwigs froze. 'Not, really, no,' replied HM. 'Can I have your tickets for the cup final then?'
A brilliant comedian who just wore himself out. He was going to have a break for a while and take a holiday with his wife shortly. He played one show too many. R.I.P. Tommy,you were the Best.
Doctors should prescribe Tommy Cooper. He's the perfect medicine after a hard, depressing day at work. Most comedians today have funny material, but they want to be cool . Tommy had funny material but, more importantly, he himself was funny. Genius.
+jeanperiquito He tapped into the simple and obvious,which is what most people are not aware of,only the subconcious mind,and Tommy new that................All the same,he was just a funny man,i still crease up!
He was also well respected and fondly adored by fellow magician's within The Magic Circle. His act and showmanship was very unique at the time and in my opinion still is to this day!
I’m 15 years of age and I actually did find him funny it’s not very often I watch comedians I only found him a few days ago because of some video about him so I searched him up to find the video of him dyin and I felt unsettled and quite upset how did no one notices??! I only just found out abt him and I love him already gone too soon
Mr. Cooper did have very serious health problems for years, and they got worse and worse... He could hardly walk for some time, was in great pain, but he continued... that was Mr. Cooper's life and death! He was the greatest "commedians" ever, much more than a magician, much more than a clown. He was Tommy Cooper, the one and only. He made me laugh, he made me smile... and after watching one of his tricks, listening to one of his stories... I felt better. He made my soul smile... that is how I see it.
Being on stage is like being on drugs - its how many performers escape the pain they suffer in real life. But by doing so they do make our own pain less and our souls smile by doing so too
I so love Tommy Cooper performances. If anyone tries to emulate him well done to them and if they reach younger audiences and they find the humour funny and uplifting for a few moments in their life then i am happy for us all
I haven't seen that Thames TV intro in over 4 decades. Saw it a million times when I was a kid in England. Tommy Cooper was huge. Everyone knew who he was. Morecambe & Wise too. Benny Hill was on another level though.
I share the same birthday with him, he would have been 100 this year, 1984 was a good year for comedy, I mean a month after Tommy past away eric Morecombe died sad indeed
The best comic ever!, in a class of his own. I freind of mine saw him liverpool a long time ago. He came onto the stage said and done nothing apart from stand in the middlle of the stage and everyone just started laughing! Brillaint!
"I don't care if he comes in, it makes no difference to me!" I love his smile on the third clip though, with the camel hair, you can see he really enjoyed making people laugh (unlike comedians of today who just do it for the fame and money) he will be forever missed.
A genuinely funny dude. I like how he kinda poked fun (albeit warm-heartedly) at the art of magic, where he would take the usual trick or joke and turn it around and make it his own, as if he was in on the joke way before the audience was. One of the true-blue greats.
Dude? Kinda poked fun? Are you for real? Or just too young to know? Tommy was not only a member of the Magic Circle, he was a Member of the Secret Seven!
I think I'm too young to know. I first saw a few clips of Cooper in the Sex Pistols documentary "The Filth and the Fury," but I didn't know his name. Later on I found a video talking about deaths on live TV and he was on it and (now that I had a name to go with the face) I looked up a huge amount of videos where he was performing and I thought he was hysterical. I don't know what the Secret Seven is or the Magic Circle, I just thought he was really funny. I apologize for any misgivings you or I may have had.
@@peterkawe6451 genius doesn’t just mean intelligent. Here’s a small sample of a definition of genius. ‘the most common trait that actually defines a genius may be the extraordinary ability to apply creativity and imaginative thinking to almost any situation.’
The perfect clown - he only had to walk on stage and people would laugh. He mastered the art of telling the simplest jokes accompanied by his facial expressions and bodily antics that very few other comics have mastered. We should all enlighten the soul now and again and indulge in a dose of his pure buffoon tomfoolery. Indeed a true genius of comedy.
Hes not a genius in any way , he is just the definition of funny, he was just born funny and didnt have to do anything ,people just laugh at him and love him
So Tommy Cooper actually said 'just like that". In this sketch. My favourite is his stratav + Rembrant gig. You have to understand this is pre -alternative humour. He is loved a a brilliant act I miss him. Sorely missed. he was the building stone of modern humour..
Unfortunately modern comedy built the wrong way, and is not funny, just swearing and sex. Back in the day you had Tommy Cooper and Ronny Barker, the two funniest comedians ever, and I'm sorry Tommy, but Ronny, by the fact that he did so many characters, was the funniest.
A story goes that there was a cantankerous venue manager where he played for a week. On the last night, in the custom of tipping the venue staff, he stuffed a wad into the guys jacket top pocket and sais "here mate, have a drink on me". The guy checked his pocket later and found a tea bag!
Yeah...what a legend! I could just watch Tommy Cooper for ages! Just so naturally funny...its sad of course, but I don't know many people who could die on stage and still have people laughing! Just something about the man...he didn't even have to say anything and he was funny! I think the only person who could perhaps compare to him in those stakes was possibly Les Dawson and maybe (these days ) Bill Bailey...but you can't touch Tommy...he just is in a league of his own!
i went into a chinese restaurant and had a meal. i asked the waiter if there were any chinese jews, like the jews in USA, russia and elsewhere. he went out to find out. he came back and said sorry,sir, no chinese juice, just apple juice, orange juice and freshly squeezed pear juice!
Big Time Vine fan, starting to realise how much of Tommy's style he basically robbed lol. Mannerisms, delivery, style, body language, almost the whole lot apart from the actual jokes
It's not a steal, Tim Vine is nothing like Tommy Cooper but vine clearly adores Cooper and has learned a lot . It's wonderful to see such a style and man stay In the hearts of people like Tim
Yeah I dont really think Tim Vine nicked a whole lot at all. I suppose you can technically sort of be influenced or guided by a master, but the material is the jokes, so long as they stay original, I think its all good.
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Thank you Nic Nolan for giving us this classic collection of the greatest comedian ever. Brilliant stuff.
Johnny aaa
Very well said
Yes...my dear old gramps just used to crack up at the sight of him.
He really was a one off, so funny. I used to go to Blackpool with my parents every year and they used to take me to some shows. I don't know how old I was this particular year but I guess maybe 9 or so. Anyway we went to see Tommy, he was in a show on the pier, he was probably top of the bill. He only walked on stage and my Mother burst out laughing at him, we were not too far from the stage and he gave us a look. I don't remember anything else from the show but I never forgot that. It would be easy these days to say his stuff is old hat. But Tommy carried it off so well and he was such a big imposing man made even more so by wearing that fez. Very graceful with his movements I always thought for a big man too. RIP Tommy you were a star.
He used to walk on stage and everyone started laughing before he even said anything. That is what you call genius comedy.
The audience must have been on laughing gas before Cooper came on stage.
@@redblade43 ....guess you are one of the 173....?!
@@redblade43 It appears you have lost your sense of humour.
Geoff Cliff I went to see him live and the audience were in fits of laughter for a good five minutes while he was ‘stuck behind the curtain’
The thing is as a magician he could make all his tricks work. But there was no humour there. It was actually harder to make them not work then fir him to make them work. Just because they had to not work right in the right way.
All he had to do was say "Here's a quick joke" and he could have people in stitches. Funniest comedian I've ever seen, by miles.
As someone who is battling depression and anxiety, I can say Tommy Cooper is one of my best medications.
One of the funniest men who’s ever lived.
I second that, and he didn't need to swear or be rude.
Robbie the Robot that’s natural I’m 15 and swear all the time
@@Rottencorpsee69 So did I when I was 15 and thought it made me look more mature,then I matured.
Same here! Tommy Cooper is the best medicine ❤❤❤❤❤
Poor old Tommy died on stage performing ... collapsed mid joke .... a truly exceptional entertainer entering heaven with a smile ... delightful being !!!!
fact..no matter how much you watch him tommy cooper is(like don rickles)one comedian you will never ever get tired/fed up with watching ever either through instant laughs or gags that get funnier with every passing second truelly blessed to have so much recorded footage of him because it is something that will never die.......a national treasure....priceless
I just have to see his face, I'm hooked. One of the best comedians that was on stage at that time.
He was a natural , loved his sketches. Many thanks for this compilation.
👍👍👍👍👍
Whenever I'm having a bad day, I watch this and it completely changes how I feel.
We ( in the Netherlands ) Loved him all !!! Unfortenately : He died to young of age...Unfortunately his latest 'show ' was his and our worcest..
Thank you for putting these wonderful vids on here mate.
The funnyest man who's ever lived.
When you can stand there and just look at the camera and the audience are in tears of laughter, you have got it!
Tommy Cooper, the man with the fezz, who could literally just walk on stage, not open his mouth and people laugh.
Never ever ,will there be anouther Tommy Cooper and that's a fact.
RIP and your comedic genius will live forever.
Every time I see Tommy's work, he makes me laugh and I forget myself.
Tommy had a great personality,his lines and gags are hilarious , saw him live at a theatre in torquay when I was small . After the show my dad asked him for autograph he offered him a pen and tommy joking said oh I thought you were gonna shoot me lol
After a royal variety performance, Cooper was lined up to see the Queen and when he was introduced he asked, 'Excuse me Ma'am, but do you like football'. The entourage of bigwigs froze. 'Not, really, no,' replied HM. 'Can I have your tickets for the cup final then?'
That's a true story. Everyone was in stitches apparently_ I'm sure even her Maj had a little chuckle to herself
I often watch Tommy Cooper videos, and I still laugh after all these years. He definitely had a gift.
A brilliant comedian who just wore himself out. He was going to have a break for a while and take a holiday with his wife shortly. He played one show too many. R.I.P. Tommy,you were the Best.
He was one of a kind.one of the best! Didn't realize just how funny he was.miss the guy.R.I.P Tommy.
Doctors should prescribe Tommy Cooper. He's the perfect medicine after a hard, depressing day at work. Most comedians today have funny material, but they want to be cool . Tommy had funny material but, more importantly, he himself was funny. Genius.
+jeanperiquito He tapped into the simple and obvious,which is what most people are not aware of,only the subconcious mind,and Tommy new that................All the same,he was just a funny man,i still crease up!
he is also dead and not real medicine
He was also well respected and fondly adored by fellow magician's within The Magic Circle. His act and showmanship was very unique at the time and in my opinion still is to this day!
for all of you who think he ain't funny
you'll be back for more later
long live tommy
R.I.P.
Wonderful very well said
I’m 15 years of age and I actually did find him funny it’s not very often I watch comedians I only found him a few days ago because of some video about him so I searched him up to find the video of him dyin and I felt unsettled and quite upset how did no one notices??! I only just found out abt him and I love him already gone too soon
@@harpothehealer 76, seen this and then I come back, and back, ur right mate.
I'm glad I'm in the show, i couldn't afford it in the audience.
Whener i have a bad day all I have to do is watch Tommy Cooper and I laugh and smile!!! RIP Tommy and Thank you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Mr. Cooper did have very serious health problems for years, and they got
worse and worse... He could hardly walk for some time, was in great
pain, but he continued... that was Mr. Cooper's life and death! He was
the greatest "commedians" ever, much more than a magician, much more
than a clown. He was Tommy Cooper, the one and only. He made me laugh,
he made me smile... and after watching one of his tricks, listening to
one of his stories... I felt better. He made my soul smile... that is
how I see it.
Being on stage is like being on drugs - its how many performers escape the pain they suffer in real life. But by doing so they do make our own pain less and our souls smile by doing so too
God I miss this man... If ever I'm pissed at the world, Tommy always will make me laugh...what a legacy..😁
Brilliant, another True Icon, Tommy Cooper, thanks Tommy for making us Laugh in These Un-Certain Times, may You Rest in Peace, Stay Safe Everyone, XX
7:29 how on earth can just saying what to someone behind stage just be so funny 😂😂😂 he's one of a kind
Man was a genius.Never get tired of watching him. Absolutely hilarious.
Even Tommy’s laugh makes me smile
I'd forgotten how funny he was. I had the pleasure of meeting him once and he was a really nice man.
I happen the have him on dvd, will always love him, making everybody laugh without hurting a sul that is great indeed
I so love Tommy Cooper performances. If anyone tries to emulate him well done to them and if they reach younger audiences and they find the humour funny and uplifting for a few moments in their life then i am happy for us all
This man was a comedy legend, just like that.
This guy was just brilliant, rip.
The best comedian ever! Just to hear him laughing, makes my day!!
One of the very best comedians ever. Still loved, missed and enjoyed. England, July, 2024.
Classics, I must have watched this hundreds of times and still makes me laugh!
Please send this to all of your beloved. We all need this theatre in this f***n Corona time
This is sheer classic.
The best of the best.. never failed to make me laugh. Xxx Thank you Tommy 👑 king of comedy.
This beloved gentlemen has, posthuously,, become my most beloved comedianl Heaven must be laughin!
12:45 is the funniest joke I have ever heard . . . . . searched for this for ages!
A true welsh legend, we miss you Tommy RIP
No other comedian told crap jokes and made people laugh like that. A true one off.
Ken Goodwin was another! Just as funny
Tim Vine, Milton Jones, Gary Delaney.
Ken Dodd...still packing them in, at 90!!!
@@Vakito227 Ken Goodwin was very good but no Tommy Cooper
@@Picnicl All these guys must have been inspired by their hero Tommy . There will never be anyone as funny as Tommy though
I haven't seen that Thames TV intro in over 4 decades. Saw it a million times when I was a kid in England. Tommy Cooper was huge. Everyone knew who he was. Morecambe & Wise too. Benny Hill was on another level though.
I share the same birthday with him, he would have been 100 this year, 1984 was a good year for comedy, I mean a month after Tommy past away eric Morecombe died sad indeed
The best comic ever!, in a class of his own. I freind of mine saw him liverpool a long time ago. He came onto the stage said and done nothing apart from stand in the middlle of the stage and everyone just started laughing! Brillaint!
Thank you for this. 12:45 the start of my favourite Tommy Cooper joke.
This is what he wanted. R.i.p Tommy Cooper. True Comedy legend
The comic genius of Cooper is such that you only have to see him in a tuxedo with a violin and a Rembrandt and you have already started laughing...
RIP Tommy Cooper, one of the all time greats :-)
A blinding inspiration to us comedians all over!
One of the greatest just like my friend John Adams from mushwell hill rip both of you ❤❤❤❤❤
It's the bit with the spoon and the jar that set me off XD
SPOON JAR JAR SPOON! I love that bit as well. It's the way that he delivers it and then says "Well pull! PULL!!" soon afterwards.
Marvellous. My old mum loved Tommy C.
the one and only super funny magician 💐 R.I.P my dear friend ♥
Brilliant man. Thank you for posting this.
Man, heaven must be a really funny place. Tommy Cooper, Graham Chapman, John Candy, Chris Farley...
"I don't care if he comes in, it makes no difference to me!"
I love his smile on the third clip though, with the camel hair, you can see he really enjoyed making people laugh (unlike comedians of today who just do it for the fame and money) he will be forever missed.
Tommy certainly had his own unique style
One of the best britt comedians!!
Great selection. He was a unique funny man!
Brilliant. Loved it.
A genuinely funny dude. I like how he kinda poked fun (albeit warm-heartedly) at the art of magic, where he would take the usual trick or joke and turn it around and make it his own, as if he was in on the joke way before the audience was. One of the true-blue greats.
Dude? Kinda poked fun? Are you for real? Or just too young to know? Tommy was not only a member of the Magic Circle, he was a Member of the Secret Seven!
I think I'm too young to know. I first saw a few clips of Cooper in the Sex Pistols documentary "The Filth and the Fury," but I didn't know his name. Later on I found a video talking about deaths on live TV and he was on it and (now that I had a name to go with the face) I looked up a huge amount of videos where he was performing and I thought he was hysterical. I don't know what the Secret Seven is or the Magic Circle, I just thought he was really funny. I apologize for any misgivings you or I may have had.
+Stewart Nicol as BILLY CONNOLLY Yes he didn't even know who the other six were.
+Lucas Davis apologies for any offence mate, I am so old that I forget that there are people who don't remember Tommy. X
It's all good. I'm just glad I know of this man and his work.
This is funny. However if another comedian had the same material it wouldn't be funny, and that is why he was a genius.
It was his personality, dont understand why everybody uses the word genius....
PETER Kåwe because he was he made many laugh
@@peterkawe6451 genius doesn’t just mean intelligent. Here’s a small sample of a definition of genius.
‘the most common trait that actually defines a genius may be the extraordinary ability to apply creativity and imaginative thinking to almost any situation.’
The guy is great. Just looking at his face is enough for me to start laughing.
Geweldige komiek. Al in het allemaal flauwe kul maar een lust om naar te kijken. Jammer dat hij er niet meer is
Julius Tomas også mig
Still missing today!😌
The perfect clown - he only had to walk on stage and people would laugh. He mastered the art of telling the simplest jokes accompanied by his facial expressions and bodily antics that very few other comics have mastered. We should all enlighten the soul now and again and indulge in a dose of his pure buffoon tomfoolery. Indeed a true genius of comedy.
One of the best ever.
miss him ..
Glove! ... Second hand! That's gold
Brilliant .. Thanks
7:36 George Lucas watching: "Hey that's it! Been struggling to name my super duper new CGI character they are all going to love! "
Just his face makes you laugh
I can remember this live onTV
Never fails to make me laugh.
well done Nic for this upload.
Hes not a genius in any way , he is just the definition of funny, he was just born funny and didnt have to do anything ,people just laugh at him and love him
In the words of another great comic of the era, its rucking fidiculous fow hunny he is.
Not an English - Welsh man. He was a proud Welshman one of Wales's best.
Big, daft, funny but clever. Tom was a genius
Just like my other friend we where freinds for years ❤❤❤❤❤
"that didn't work at all." I love that. spoon jar, I could watch that over and over and it's still hilarious.
The Godfather of Comedy..
the man was comedy gold, nowadays we have comedians that just play at it.
So Tommy Cooper actually said 'just like that". In this sketch. My favourite is his stratav + Rembrant gig. You have to understand this is pre -alternative humour. He is loved a a brilliant act I miss him. Sorely missed. he was the building stone of modern humour..
Unfortunately modern comedy built the wrong way, and is not funny, just swearing and sex. Back in the day you had Tommy Cooper and Ronny Barker, the two funniest comedians ever, and I'm sorry Tommy, but Ronny, by the fact that he did so many characters, was the funniest.
A story goes that there was a cantankerous venue manager where he played for a week. On the last night, in the custom of tipping the venue staff, he stuffed a wad into the guys jacket top pocket and sais "here mate, have a drink on me". The guy checked his pocket later and found a tea bag!
Joe Fagan
Joe Fagan that’s Gold
haha that is hilarious!
He was notoriously cheap though...
One of my comedy hero's Legend
Yeah...what a legend! I could just watch Tommy Cooper for ages! Just so naturally funny...its sad of course, but I don't know many people who could die on stage and still have people laughing! Just something about the man...he didn't even have to say anything and he was funny! I think the only person who could perhaps compare to him in those stakes was possibly Les Dawson and maybe (these days ) Bill Bailey...but you can't touch Tommy...he just is in a league of his own!
He still makes my laugh. I don't know why. I do know what's coming.
7:20..." I can always tell if an audience are gonna be good or bad....Goodnight"
He was not an English - Welshman. He was a proud Welshman. One of Wales's best.
Yes. He was born in Caerphilly!
Amazing x
British humor slams!
***** What I means,that it's great.
Bloody well brilliant.
Very funny man! Thank you!
Natural u can not beat natural talent.cooper was class brill
i went into a chinese restaurant and had a meal. i asked the waiter if there were any chinese jews, like the jews in USA, russia and elsewhere. he went out to find out. he came back and said sorry,sir, no chinese juice, just apple juice, orange juice and freshly squeezed pear juice!
Big Time Vine fan, starting to realise how much of Tommy's style he basically robbed lol. Mannerisms, delivery, style, body language, almost the whole lot apart from the actual jokes
It's not a steal, Tim Vine is nothing like Tommy Cooper but vine clearly adores Cooper and has learned a lot . It's wonderful to see such a style and man stay In the hearts of people like Tim
Yeah I dont really think Tim Vine nicked a whole lot at all. I suppose you can technically sort of be influenced or guided by a master, but the material is the jokes, so long as they stay original, I think its all good.
One of the best funny men
The old jokes are the best,and Tommy could deliver them with style .
I just got the Thames television joke!