One thing for sure there will be nobody that can fill victors shoes,he was one of a kind a comedian mixed with classical music,it didn't get any better than that.
My mother, Josephine Emily Phillips, was a genuine lover of the performing arts. She was raised on classical music in the Twenties and Thirties and she, like my dad Joseph J. Phillips, enjoyed music and comedy of all sorts. My parents even paid good money for me to take piano lessons, but two or three teachers later, the attempt was abandoned. LOL My stubby "sausage" fingers simply could not be trained to do what the music in my brain commanded. Nevertheless, I had inherited my parents' deep love for both music and comedy, so the arrival of our first television set (a gigantic twenty-one inch black and white set, no less) brought Ed Sullivan and Victor Borge into our living room. My mom, being a patron of the arts, helped to found, and fund, the Kokomo (Indiana) Community Concerts in the early Sixties. KCC was a new organization dedicated to bringing classical music performances to our small, culturally- challenged blue-collar community in Central Indiana. Suffice to say, Kokomo really embraced and attended the concerts that she brought to our town. In late 1964, after I had returned to Kokomo following a multi-year tour at a military spy base overseas, my first Community Concert attendance with my parents was none other than our family favorite musical comedy act Victor Borge himself. The problem at the time was that Kokomo seriously lacked a sufficiently large concert venue. The only place available for our sold-out audience was the Kokomo High School Memorial Gymnasium! The acoustics were awful, the unpadded wooden bleachers were decidedly uncomfortable for theater goers, and the uncarpeted hard maple floor caused a reverberation that made even Victor's softest notes sound harsh. Nevertheless, like the true professional and good natured trooper that he was, Victor only made one small comment about welcoming his eager and loyal audience to "this gym!" We, and the entire audience of several hundred roared with understanding laughter, and Borge's classical musical comedy went forward, echoes and all, to everyone's delight.
We don't get this kind of entertainment anymore. He was so talented in so many ways. I am glad we have videos of him to enjoy and laugh. Especially now.
Got to watch him perform live in the 1960's, from row-2, and was able to take my terminally-ill mother. One of the best things we ever got to do together. Incredible performer.
Woah! Awesome! You went to a Victor Borge concert? What a wonderful thing! To be around so many happy people just a laughing and a giggling till their sides hurt! Shucks! I just wish their was another guy like him, with good clean sanitary humor as Borge had!
Fantastic so many english speaking people love his humour!!!! As a child I watched Mr Borge on TV at Christmas. Afterwards we would go play in the falling snow. Danes are very proud of his humour still!
Actually, there is only and exactly, ONE like Victor Borge. He was, as they say, simply a one-off. Just be grateful that we have film and video tape so we, and future generations, can enjoy him, again and again! :)
Always, geniouses like this incredible virtuoso pianist and accomplished profound musician, besides obvious standup talent, deserves him to humanity's best creations, in spite of our nowadays poor state of sad things!
thank you so much for uploading this. I used to have a video tape of one of his concerts in Germany, joking in German but not quite as fluently as in English. I used to watch this with my family laughing out loud every time again. The only other tapes we loved that much was Danny Kaye directing a symphony orchestra (also to be found here on youtube) or one of Herman van Veen's concerts. Musical clowns all three of them. Today, Victor would probably explain the sounds of smileys XD
01:04:10 I rewatched this over and over, it's too good. Also, whoever coughed did so in a perfect fifth, so Borge's instrument question is all the more wonderful reaction to it!
One thing for sure there will be nobody that can fill victors shoes,he was one of a kind a comedian mixed with classical music,it didn't get any better than that.
Extremely gifted pianist and comedian 👏 👏 👏 😅 🙌🌏 🎹🎹🎉
What a increible sense of humor.
We love you, Victor Borge. You are the king of piano comedy. No one can do it like you.
My mother, Josephine Emily Phillips, was a genuine lover of the performing arts. She was raised on classical music in the Twenties and Thirties and she, like my dad Joseph J. Phillips, enjoyed music and comedy of all sorts. My parents even paid good money for me to take piano lessons, but two or three teachers later, the attempt was abandoned. LOL My stubby "sausage" fingers simply could not be trained to do what the music in my brain commanded.
Nevertheless, I had inherited my parents' deep love for both music and comedy, so the arrival of our first television set (a gigantic twenty-one inch black and white set, no less) brought Ed Sullivan and Victor Borge into our living room.
My mom, being a patron of the arts, helped to found, and fund, the Kokomo (Indiana) Community Concerts in the early Sixties. KCC was a new organization dedicated to bringing classical music performances to our small, culturally- challenged blue-collar community in Central Indiana. Suffice to say, Kokomo really embraced and attended the concerts that she brought to our town.
In late 1964, after I had returned to Kokomo following a multi-year tour at a military spy base overseas, my first Community Concert attendance with my parents was none other than our family favorite musical comedy act Victor Borge himself.
The problem at the time was that Kokomo seriously lacked a sufficiently large concert venue. The only place available for our sold-out audience was the Kokomo High School Memorial Gymnasium!
The acoustics were awful, the unpadded wooden bleachers were decidedly uncomfortable for theater goers, and the uncarpeted hard maple floor caused a reverberation that made even Victor's softest notes sound harsh. Nevertheless, like the true professional and good natured trooper that he was, Victor only made one small comment about welcoming his eager and loyal audience to "this gym!" We, and the entire audience of several hundred roared with understanding laughter, and Borge's classical musical comedy went forward, echoes and all, to everyone's delight.
We don't get this kind of entertainment anymore. He was so talented in so many ways. I am glad we have videos of him to enjoy and laugh. Especially now.
Amazing talented pianist with a brilliant musical sense of humour...what a. fabulous performance ! 😂❤😅
One of the greatest entertainers of all time! A gift to the human race!
I laughed so hard I was crying. Arguably the best comedy routine with classical music.
LMAO, when he falls off the piano stool and gets the seatbelt, that's absolutely comedy GOLD!
It was a simpler time and an absolute pleasure. Too bad that the world has changed
Even worse two years later.
Got to watch him perform live in the 1960's, from row-2, and was able to take my terminally-ill mother. One of the best things we ever got to do together. Incredible performer.
Woah! Awesome! You went to a Victor Borge concert? What a wonderful thing! To be around so many happy people just a laughing and a giggling till their sides hurt! Shucks! I just wish their was another guy like him, with good clean sanitary humor as Borge had!
That man was one of America's and the world's funniest people. He was on PBS several times, and I love his Phonetic punctuation! It's the bomb!
**** Denmarks****
Fantastic so many english speaking people love his humour!!!!
As a child I watched Mr Borge on TV at Christmas. Afterwards we would go play in the falling snow.
Danes are very proud of his humour still!
Entertainment like this is very rare indeed! Bravo!
that bit of happy birthday is such pure genius .. wow I have looked to see that again for so long..
Outstanding. Victor was a genius. Marilyn was a real sport to do this one.
Brilliant, I second heard him on a vinyl Lp of my dad's nearly 50 years ago, still cry with laughter, RIP VB.
I had forgotten what a wonderful entertainer he was.
music, comedy and showmanship; all wrapped into one amazing package. he was one-of-a-kind. no doubt.
Ain't nobody like Old Victor Borge!
Just the kind of crowd I'd expected to see at a 70s piano comedy show..... truly vaudevillian
Absolutely ADORE Entry of the Gladiators🎵🎪🎶🎶
And ... ... what an absolutely beautiful piano. I have never heard such a beautiful tone.
There aren’t enough Victor Borges in the world.
Actually, there is only and exactly, ONE like Victor Borge. He was, as they say, simply a one-off. Just be grateful that we have film and video tape so we, and future generations, can enjoy him, again and again! :)
Who would downvote this great performance?!?
We will never know, thanks youtube
Salieri.
Lol … “she went all the way to the floor” Lol
Absolutely stunning musician and one the best comics ever.
Pure delight
I only found Borge towards the end of life but what a genius he was!
I had no idea he was so brilliant !
So hilarious, bravo!!! Thank you soooo much, indeed! ❤️💐👏
Thank you. For this show I forgot how funny he really was.
Thank god for this video
Oh mannm , he's a legend 😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Classic. Bravo
Always, geniouses like this incredible virtuoso pianist and accomplished profound musician, besides obvious standup talent, deserves him to humanity's best creations, in spite of our nowadays poor state of sad things!
...'we don't stick out anything unless we're quite certain we can stick it back...' hhahahahhaha, he's funny AND brilliant. This is wonderful!
The Great Dane💖
Absolutely fabulous
thank you so much for uploading this. I used to have a video tape of one
of his concerts in Germany, joking in German but not quite as fluently as in
English. I used to watch this with my family laughing out loud every
time again. The only other tapes we loved that much was Danny Kaye
directing a symphony orchestra (also to be found here on youtube) or one of Herman van Veen's concerts. Musical clowns all three of them. Today, Victor would probably explain the sounds of smileys XD
Absolutely brilliant!!!
Superb!!!
1:21:00 - The best 3 minutes of piano-playing, (four) hands down.
01:04:10
I rewatched this over and over, it's too good. Also, whoever coughed did so in a perfect fifth, so Borge's instrument question is all the more wonderful reaction to it!
pure genius didnt even need a piano
Wonderful entertainment - RIP Victor Borge
Awesome upload !
How in Gods name did she keep a straight face, never mind sing !!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
this is such a fantastic pice
Victor Borge is so funny!
Just love this man ,so talented and so funny Marilyn Mulvey is such a good sport as well as a brilliant singer.
Who are the 14 miserable people who don’t like this?
The people who came in before the other nine idiots who came in after them.
It's at 0 dislikes now ...maybe utube agrees.
Don't be so harsh ! They happen to be deaf and blind.
Miserable people obviosly !!!!
He is SO funny!
Fantastico👍♥️
I think that his greatest attribute is his humility.
😊
Of course a Great Loss. Till we meet again.
One of the only two comics geniuses I would pay money to see the other is Richard Pryor an immensely talented man.
Don't forget Alan Sherman!
Bösendorfer from Germany, the Rolls-Royce of pianos.
Literally. Things cost a house
Austria, not Germany!
❤❤❤⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘
😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃🙃🙃🤣 Merci !!!!!
What's the musical piece he starts playing around 36:20 ??
A genius.♫♪ ॐ¸¸.•*¨*•♫
R.i.p you fucking legend
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