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| Just the other day-I remembered the Peter Sellers interview when he joked about the actor going round with the cheque and then Michael Bentine recalling the jazz music played at his friend Peter's funeral...classics, all of them.
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| There have been so many outstanding interviews, I find it almost impossible to have a particular favourite, but probably the funniest, in my estimation was the Peter Sellers interview and his tale of the fan who was bad at spelling. It went roughly like this; The fan wrote to Peter with the following request. "Dear Peter, please could I have a singed photograph of you", and Peter, being Peter, took the request literally by applying the flame of his cigarette lighter around the photograph and sent it to the fan. The fan, apparantly quite seriously sent a reply; "Dear Peter, thank you for the photograph, but did you know that it has been signed all round the edges." It sounded even funnier when Peter related it with the obvious difference in the intended and the actual words!
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| On the subject of Funny parts of Mikes interviews with the comedians, I suppose top spot has to go to Billy Connelys Parking his bike up the bum gag. I personally, like Eric Morecambe and his account when a driver /passer by, saved him from certain death after suffering a heart attack. Sorry I cant recite ithe tale, but maybe one day it will be repeated on here.
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| Yes, the Eric and Ernie interview was a classic. If I remember rightly, the interview actually replaced their own Christmas show that particular year. I loved when Eric talked about being wheeled into the operating theatre, and this man asked him to sign his autograph "BEFORE YOU GO!" For me, Billy Connolly has always been too crude, and would probably be very funny without the crudity. Eric and Ernie, Les Dawson and most of the great comics managed to be funny without any crudity or foul language, and were all the better for being able to appeal to all the family. Peter Sellers was a tortured genius, but his one-man show with Parky was a classic. Peter always had to hide behind characters, though. If you see that interview, when he has to be himself, there is a very sad, poignant look in his eyes.
Francis
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