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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2009
  • Here are two pieces of business from The Maestro of Magical Mirth. My favourite Tommy Cooper story concerns his habit of carrying a pocket full of tea-bags. Not for drinking, but rather for pressing into the palms of those who opened doors for him - along with a murmered, "'Ere you are - 'ave a drink on me."
    He wasn't mean - he just loved to make people laugh. And as the doorman would open his hand, expecting to see a folded pound note, when he saw the tea-bag, 99 times out of 100, he would burst out laughing. Tommy LIVED for that. And of course, the tea-bag was worth INFINITELY more than a pound. The doorman would have a story he could tell EVERYBODY - and a memory beyond price.
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  • @StonyRC
    @StonyRC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    People used to love watching Tommy Cooper for the hilarious, timeless comedy, often completely overlooking the BEAUTY of his magic tricks. The way he would fumble and mess up even the most simple of illusions and then "accidentally" make something work. Sublimely clever - he really was a Master of his Craft.

    • @AngelEmfrbl
      @AngelEmfrbl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The hoop trick, the thing is if you pay attention, when they hit the deck they did "fall apart in front of your eyes" as you can see one rolling.

  • @siliquaesid703
    @siliquaesid703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The ONLY person who could walk on stage, do NOTHING and get a laugh. GENIUS!

    • @scotty193
      @scotty193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So true...............we all know about his bad habits but dont most of us have them............He makes my belly ache Classic comedy

  • @frankburton7104
    @frankburton7104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    He was absolutely brilliant. A master at comedy and tricks that went wrong. Nobody can match him today. I miss him. such a nice guy too.

  • @eddiekingham
    @eddiekingham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    For those who dont know him he was brilliant. Very underrated because he answered to no one. True comic genius.

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Underrated ? By who ?

    • @eddiekingham
      @eddiekingham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I read an article in the sunday times that critics hated his act because there was no magic in them. Go figure, because he was actually a member of the magic circle for life.

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eddiekingham Random critics sharing their personal opinion on a professional entertainer (and getting paid for it). No wonder we'll never know who they are

    • @eddiekingham
      @eddiekingham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ElvarMasson agreed elvar. Cooper is one of my favorites.

    • @daynasmum529
      @daynasmum529 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Grossly overrated. Hes not 1 bit funny

  • @jennifermiller6597
    @jennifermiller6597 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    No matter how bad of a day I've had he always cheers me. I love his laugh and his beautiful soul

  • @paulwitveendaal3381
    @paulwitveendaal3381 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    tears in my eyes we miss him dearly

  • @dennisjeffs4239
    @dennisjeffs4239 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Tommy could go on stage and say nothing, but the audience would be in stitches, his fooling around, his patter etc was impeccable, gone but not forgotten, RIP Tommy!

    • @daynasmum529
      @daynasmum529 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just shows that his audience is easy pleased - they would laugh at anything. "Comedy" void of any real talent or foundation.

  • @sitarnut
    @sitarnut 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The way he throws the rings on the floor at the end has me in stitches and I've watched it three times in a row and still laughing.... irreplaceable master comic.

  • @grahamkenan
    @grahamkenan 13 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    it's sad but beautiful, he died doing what he loved

  • @aaronbroyles9082
    @aaronbroyles9082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's sad that I first found out about him through his infamous death, but I'm new to his material, and I'm every bit as entertained by him as I would be by Penn and Teller or Amazing Jonathan. RIP kind sir. I'm glad I found out about you.

  • @stuarttanner3682
    @stuarttanner3682 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    it takes a master to get the trick supposedly wrong and entertain the audience and at other times throw in a sudden twist to the trick at the end. No outlandish gimmicks and dim lights but a good front of curtain stand-up routine. He must have had something for he was enjoyed by millions for decades

  • @Kiki-yw9kc
    @Kiki-yw9kc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Comedy genius, the late great and amazing Tommy Cooper ♥️

  • @emilywhitfield2780
    @emilywhitfield2780 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My favorite British comedian!!! A comic genius! Sad the way he died but he died doing what he loved!!! RIP TOMMY I KNOW YOURE IN HEAVEN MAKING THE ANGELS LAUGH---

  • @puddingpudding9579
    @puddingpudding9579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember watching this when I was younger made laugh so much still makes me laugh...Love ❤

  • @alanlane3670
    @alanlane3670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    No smut........just great talent.....

  • @robjones2408
    @robjones2408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    TC was a one-off. Nobody before or since has matched his comic timing.
    At the peak of his powers, no comic could touch him. Even when he had
    that tragic fatal heart attack onstage in 1984, he made it look like a comedy skit.
    My favourite TC joke - "I went to see the doctor the other day. He said
    lie on the couch, I want to sweep up!"
    Tommy Cooper was a true immortal.

  • @ciaranmccormack5146
    @ciaranmccormack5146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Loved him never again will we see genius like this

    • @ciaran6309
      @ciaran6309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We might

    • @ciaranmccormack5146
      @ciaranmccormack5146 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Never my friend

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You loved him never again ?

    • @ciaranmccormack5146
      @ciaranmccormack5146 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ElvarMasson what are you trying to say

    • @ElvarMasson
      @ElvarMasson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ciaranmccormack5146 Say ? What do you mean ? I haven't said anything

  • @Brittunculi
    @Brittunculi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That woman's laugh is epic funny Genuinely destroyed with laughter.😘

  • @RaimoJackson
    @RaimoJackson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This man was brilliant!

  • @user-pk3dk2ju7c
    @user-pk3dk2ju7c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A True Wizard of Magic and Comedy... Both Paul Daniels and Ali Bongo both remarked that it took exceptional skill to make a trick go wrong the way He did.

  • @pipeandslippersman
    @pipeandslippersman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    the first trick shows everything that was great about the man. milking it for every laugh he could find. all he's doing is ripping up bits of crepe paper ffs! and, then, at the end, he brings the house down simply by getting it right...
    genius - not just of comedy but of ALL aspects of front-of-curtain performance. the timing, the looks, the interaction with the audience, the looks into the wings... everything about him was special. there will never be another!

    • @WalterJoergLangbein
      @WalterJoergLangbein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He was one of the true giants. And no other magician brought a great happy smile to our faces and our hearts. I am not sure, whether there is a heaven, but if there is, I am sure Tommy Cooper will male angels laugh, maybe even him, you know who...

    • @eddiekingham
      @eddiekingham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You are bang on point. He was a genius.

    • @pipeandslippersman
      @pipeandslippersman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@WalterJoergLangbein i am absolutely certain that tommy is keeping the almighty very well entertained! well said, sir!

    • @Kiki-yw9kc
      @Kiki-yw9kc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      100 % agree., he was and still is one of a kind

  • @blackvulcan100
    @blackvulcan100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Unique, nobody like him, still so much funnier than some of todays "comedians"

  • @rw8733
    @rw8733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Genius.

  • @topsecretmagictvwithmalnor6699
    @topsecretmagictvwithmalnor6699 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pure Genius

  • @robertmilne4304
    @robertmilne4304 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The word genius doesn't come close to describe him.

  • @johnnyhattershow
    @johnnyhattershow 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just like that!

  • @dwhitty5558
    @dwhitty5558 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    stunning

  • @archiebald4717
    @archiebald4717 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I really miss the days when comedians were funny.

  • @HLimmen
    @HLimmen 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never looked at it that way. I didn't focus on it at all, until you pointed it out. Great info.

  • @johnferguson8993
    @johnferguson8993 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    What a funny guy, you don't know what's coming next.

    • @dennisburgess8986
      @dennisburgess8986 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      John Ferguson then you watch it again and STILL laugh

  • @robertmiller3750
    @robertmiller3750 ปีที่แล้ว

    Genius is so apt for this guy ! 👍😀😀😀😀😀

  • @SixStringSteve
    @SixStringSteve 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Legend.

  • @davidhall5873
    @davidhall5873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    PEACE JOY LOVE KINDNESS FORGIVENESS CARE TOGETHERNESS TO ALL MY EARTH BROTHERS AND SISTERS 🕊💚🕊

  • @Han_van_Bakel
    @Han_van_Bakel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    and his adhoc reaction on the laughing ( wichy-sounding ) woman is also hilarious (!) and sooo professional to have even 5 different reactions on her laughing by also(!) adhoc create a builsing up to a climax-joke ( a you're sitting, in stead of flying) and narrowing down the influence of her laughing eg just by a short look at her...
    top professional
    top quality
    top engineered
    top adhoc reactions
    and 😂😂😂😂😂 the LIVING duck 😂😂
    i even laughed in my sleep this night several times, so me woman/wife/girl hardly could get enough sleep 😂😂😂😂 ...
    🤫🤫 Han 🤫🤫🤫!! 🤪🤭😂😂😂🤣😂😂🧐

  • @williefinn4932
    @williefinn4932 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    the point was that HE was funny, not the jokes or routines. one of the few occurrences when a comic was funnier than the gags.

    • @malahammer
      @malahammer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tommy and Eric Morecambe only had to walk onto the stage and people were laughing already :)

  • @peterbrorsson
    @peterbrorsson 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤😂😂😂

  • @synthonaplinth5980
    @synthonaplinth5980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I must have been born in the wrong country, being American and finding this utterly hilarious. Would someone be kind enough to explain the Oliver Hardy running gag to me, though?

    • @emilywhitfield2780
      @emilywhitfield2780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were Tommy's biggest influences along with Bob Hope

  • @davidwrightatloppers
    @davidwrightatloppers  14 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    @markhorneyuk - Yes. There was a woman who kept laughing louder and out of time with the audience.
    In the business, it's a worse problem than HECKLERS - at least you can put them DOWN. But if you put down someone whose laughs are GENUINELY just out of sync with the main audience - said audience will think you cruel.
    So you just have to try and RIDE it - as Tommy did!

    • @Uftonwood2
      @Uftonwood2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      davidwrightatloppers : I don’t think he rode it, he embraced it, used it to add to the act.

  • @rikspring
    @rikspring 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lmao 😂😂😂😂

  • @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho
    @PeterOHalloran-hf2ho ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tommy all he had to do walk on stage and that would get you going that was enough

  • @einarvindenes9509
    @einarvindenes9509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    får latterkrampe av han der.

  • @Steve27775
    @Steve27775 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very impressive 3D hologram of Oliver Hardy. Decades before Tupac at Coachella! LOL

  • @bustedfender
    @bustedfender 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Verily funnybold.

  • @sophiegregson
    @sophiegregson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why did you have to die Tommy why.. why you?

  • @Ritermann
    @Ritermann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I watched two Videos of this guy and already can see the punchline of his jokes coming :/

    • @gdj6298
      @gdj6298 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Most of the time, that was the whole point ! :-)

    • @Kiki-yw9kc
      @Kiki-yw9kc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The whole point of his act, it takes skill to get things wrong and still bring the house down. Tommy Cooper is the only comedian to date who's presence alone had people cry with laughter. That was the beauty of TC. A skill that cannot be practiced or taught but Tommy was born with it amd that is why he was and still is so loved by many

  • @soniamarazzini5627
    @soniamarazzini5627 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dear all,
    I'm looking for DVD of Tommy Cooper with Italian subtitles.
    Could you help me to find them ?
    Thank you and best regards.
    Sonia

  • @gorillaattack
    @gorillaattack 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    can someone tell me what the name of the bird is at 1:49?

    • @11Kralle
      @11Kralle 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      A bow finch ;)

    • @neillawton7630
      @neillawton7630 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No need to be rude

  • @TNT-km2eg
    @TNT-km2eg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Master of disaster

  • @ossianhaddod9065
    @ossianhaddod9065 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is he still aliv???????

    • @emilywhitfield2780
      @emilywhitfield2780 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No he died on April 15 1984 live on stage from a massive heart attack!

    • @ossianhaddod9065
      @ossianhaddod9065 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emilywhitfield2780 🍎🍎🍎

  • @demidevil666
    @demidevil666 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't get what's funny about this. Just confusing random sentence and weird magic tricks.

    • @Thecrazyvaclav
      @Thecrazyvaclav 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      {return -1;} it's a British thing,you wouldn't understand

    • @mouldymelons6383
      @mouldymelons6383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Return1. If anyone other than Tommy Cooper did this it wouldnt be funny. TC was great.

  • @robertheinrichvonseyfenste267
    @robertheinrichvonseyfenste267 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    never liked this guy

  •  4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Canned laughter explains U.K. irredeemable debacle .🍾🥂💩 take the BBC.💩💩💩💩💩

  • @theoneandonlykctcb6366
    @theoneandonlykctcb6366 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Tommy, great stuff.