American Reacts - TOMMY COOPER - Jokes
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* Oops, I didn't realize this was so old... May his soul continue to rest in peace
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A true comedy genius, He suffered a massive heart attack and died on stage in 1984.
The audience were in hysterics as they thought it was part of the act.
Very sad, but he died doing what he loved, legend.
Yea i have seen that video, Sad, he tried to grab her assistance as he was collapsing,
but she thought this was part of the show and just brushed it off & walked off,
Yeah they all thought him dying of a heart attack was hilarious
I saw it as broadcast.
Same, very sad.@@PaulMcCaffreyfmac
My family and I (like so many) were watching at the time it was broadcast. I will never forget it.
Apparently whenever he used to take a taxi, he would slip something into the driver's shirt pocket and say "Have a drink on me"
It was a teabag
He took them for a mug😁
@@alangould1465 🤣🤣
Tommy Cooper, one of my comic heroes. He had natural funny bones. He literally died in front of an audience crying with laughter.
That's true coz I was watching when it happened.
The sound at 6:45 reminds me of it a bit.
@@bazf2443yes, unfortunately so we're me and my wife. Obviously many others too. So sad that should happen to such a great man. You gave us laughter but we respected you. R.I.P Tommy.
@@bazf244340 years ago on Sunday 15th April 1984. Around 8.30, 8.45 ish. I know that because my wife was in labour and gave birth to our daughter in the early hours of the following morning.
Tommy could just walk on stage and people would start laughing before he'd done anything. A comedy genius.
That always confused him, as he couldn't understand why they were laughing when he hadn't even done anything yet. Tommy was just naturally funny, it was a gift he had.
@@Rocket1377 I understand, cause it always confused ME, too, when people laughed when nothing happened.
A friend of mine was the musical director at the Palladuim and he told me about Tommy 20 minutes in without saying a word. Not only the audience, but the band were in stitches. Special talent
He was a very good magician but he learned it was funnier to his audience when the tricks fail or are revealed. A true comic genius. R.I.P. Tommy
A member of the magic circle, which isn't that easy to get into.
Tommy was one of the best.
Not a swear word to be had, corny jokes, his magic always going wrong....Great comedy that gave you a "All is well in the World l" feeling.
Love this guy. He knows his jokes are so dumb and silly but doesn't care. He even laughs with the audience.
✌️
A comedian of his time, he was one of those rare comedians capable of reducing a room to hysterics without saying a single word.
Love those!
Mandy, as others have said, Tommy Cooper died on stage, and on live TV. He had a heart attack, and for a while the audience thought it was a joke, because it's exactly the sort of thing he would do. It was a while before those backstage realised it was serious. They went to an emergency commercial break, brought the curtain down, and tried to revive him just the other side.
Here are some interesting extra facts though: Jimmy Tarbuck (father of Liza Tarbuck, from Extras and Taskmaster) was one of those backstage. I believe he was the host that night, and was passing Tommy props through the curtain throughout his act.
Les Dennis was there too (you saw him on Extras too) with his comedy partner Dustin Gee (you heard Karl mention this double act as he was hiking up Mt Fuji, took him a while to remember Dustin Gee). They were the act on next, waiting in the wings, and had to perform in front of the curtain as efforts were made to save Tommy.
In a tragic coincidence, less than two years later, Dustin Gee would also suffer a massive heart attack on stage and in front of an audience, collapsing backstage and dying just 36 hours later.
A tragic story, sorry to lower the mood. But it's interesting how you've seen so much British TV now that you have encountered so many of the people involved.
I watching it as it was broadcast, we laughed along with everyone else. I suspect that is the way he would have liked it.
I believe Leonard Rossiter and Eric Morecambe both died on stage too, and only a few weeks after Cooper.
i grew up watching him in the 60's/70's/80's pure genius and other viewers have probably filled you in on his death etc. sadly missed👍😢
I was one of those who suggested Tommy Cooper - he started off as a stage magician and discovered he could make people laugh by doing tricks badly. I recommended him because you love Tim Vine - Tommy was a big influence on Tim. Sadly Tommy died in the 1980s, going out in the true troupers way, in the middle of his act. The last sound he would have heard was his audience laughing - he would have loved that.
I’m so glad you found him funny, Tommy apparently had trouble in America with audiences not understanding the mistakes were an intentional part of the routine. After the first time you know what to expect and the jokes, even the weaker ones, are made funny because of TC’s delivery. I’m surprised the ‘hurts when I do that / don’t do it then’ joke wasn’t included in this routine. It’ll be in most of them.
The Fez hat was his trademark and was a popular traditional hat in many countries for decades. Supposedly Tommy was performing in Egypt in the 1970s and realised he’d lost his Fez, he went to a local shop in search of one and when he described it the shopkeeper said, “oh, you want a Tommy Cooper hat!”
Because Americans are dense.
Oh, the GPO he phoned was the General Post Office who used to be in charge of all the phones back then.
The joke about the monkey being on fire is reference to the barrel organ players from many years ago. It was played by turning a wheel on the side and they often had a monkey that would sit on top of the organ.
Tommy Cooper was a very funny man. I was watching him on TV when he sadly Collapsed live on stage.
Me also. A tragic loss.
Me too.
Me too.
Me too. It was a Sunday night on a show called "Live From Her Majesties" hosted by Jimmy Tarbuck.
Just for your information he did a film in the 1960's, with another legend Eric Sykes. Called The Plank, a silent film that is just daft, check it out if you would like that.
The title character gave a wooden performance😁
Tommy Cooper made me laugh, and Mandy laughing made me laugh even more.
Tommy Cooper got in a taxi. The driver is tickled pink and chatting to him on the way to his destination. When they arrived, Tommy pays the fair and stick something in the drivers top shirt pocket saying “There’s a drink for you “. Thinking it’s a £10 or £20 pound note, he reaches in to find...a Teabag.
he was also a world class magician and member of the magic circle
Sir Antony Hopkins does a superb impression of Tommy Cooper.
Anthony Hopkins and Tommy Cooper are both from South Wales.
An absolute legend… You can see where Tim Vine gets a lot of his material from. He was also a world-class magician… You have to be brilliant to make magic look bad.
Ideas maybe but not his material.
What are you accusing Tim Vine of exactly?
@@jeffrey44 bad grammar from me, I’m referring to his ‘style’ oh delivery.
As mentioned, Tommy did die, giving the audience a laugh. He always had terrible nerves whilst on stage, and yes he was a big bloke. His character started when he was 16 or 17. He was working for a big serious company, but it was Christmas and every member of staff had to do a fifteen minute standup act. He did magic, but he was so nervous he could hardly speak and every act went wrong. The other staff/audience loved it, and he won with a stand-up applause. His act was born and he never looked back. He was apparently a brilliant magician, but kept the theme of his act the same. He never lost his nerves though, and always drank before, during and after his act. He was and still is the greatest stand-up in the world. He died on stage whilst the audience laughed as they thought it was a part of the act. God bless Tommy.
Up until a few years ago, I lived in that village near Southampton where Tommy did his company party act. It was more or less the same boatyard where Laurence of Arabia had worked as a test driver a few years earlier, although I'm not sure if Tommy also worked for the British Power Boat Company or whether it was a different company along the same shorefront.
When he was invited to play in Las Vegas he did a number of performances when the management called him to say none of your tricks actually works that to me proves the void between British and American comedy your videos prove me wrong ❤❤😂😂
"Doctor, I think I'm a pair of curtains!" "Pull yourself together man!"
Sadly, dear Tommy died of a heart attack during a live performance.
Yep , live on TV. He seemed to radially fall until he was lying flat out on his back. Such was the nature of Tommy's (brilliant comedy), most people in the theatre and watching on TV thought for quite a while that he was larking around. Sadly not. R.I.P Tommy, a British comedy legend. One of the few comedians who set you off laughing before he'd even started speaking.
Best way to go…!
Tommy had a couple of famous tricks he used for years. One was conjuring bottles and glasses from a single bottle on a tab;e until he had a whole table full of them. The other was telling a story whilst playing all the characters and getting hats corresponding to the characters from a big box, often making mistakes. They were funny and the bottle one was pure magic. The best thing of all was that I've seen videos side by side of him doing the same tricks over thirty odd years apart with exactly the same "mistakes" and timing - a true mark of a truly honed joke....
A comic genius who was a member of the magic circle but made it look like it was going wrong just for laughs. RIP a true legend
In the streets in the UK there used to a be wheeled musical instrument called a barrel organ, something like a giant music box, that a man would wind and it would produce music and he would sing. Such a man would commonly have a monkey too. I suppose it was a form of begging.
Cooper was a good magician but his act was often about tricks going wrong. He died on stage during a performance in 1984.
Was very well liked in the UK, and still is by many.
There is a story that Tommy was once in his car which broke down in traffic. There was a chap behind him beeping his horn. Tommy got out of his car, all 6 foot 4 of him and went over the the man beeping and said "I tell you what, you go and sit in my car and I'll sit in yours honking the horn" proper Welshman.
Mandy, thank you for your lovely reaction to the late great Tommy Cooper. Sadly, he is indeed no longer with us. He is remembered not only for being a great comedian and a comic magician, but also tragically for dying on live TV in the middle of his act. He was so loved by his audience that many thought his collapse was part of the act and the audience in front of him just kept on laughing, unaware that his death had just occurred.
Tommy was an incredible comic and magician,, perhaps a little chaotic for those who never knew of him, but he was well known for being a very talented magician, who just wanted to make people laugh. Therefore he veered more and more into comedy and gags and to messing up his tricks, though sometimes he would surprise his audience when one of his tricks worked unexpectedly. He hid the facty that he was in fact a very talented and gifted magician, who couuld just as easily have played it straight.
He was a boxer when he was young, but he loved making people laugh, he was on stage and live TV when he had a massive heart attack, he was one of the Queens favourite comics, light hearted humour and clean, as kids we loved watching Tommy Cooper, if you want more comedy try THE TWO RONNIES or DAVE ALAN, some of the best comedians there has ever been. 😂
The genius of Tommy Cooper was the magic tricks he did deliberately wrong - that was the funny bit along with the jokes.
GPO = general post office
He was a great British comedian and magician. He would deliberately make mistakes and get lots of laughs, but he was actually a first rate magic man. Much loved by the British public. This is a n old and sadly Tommy passed away many years ago while performing on stage. Left us with many happy memories.
I worked a summer season with him. in the late sixties. He was a gentle man. I still found him funny even after over a hundred performances of the exact same routine.
Tommy Cooper was the TV star of comedy when I was a very small boy (before you were born).
I think his style reflected the era.
The punchline to the barbecue gag was: “A drunk walked by and said: ‘Your singing’s ok, but your monkey’s on fire!’” (Suggesting the drunk had mistaken the barbecue for a hurdy-gurdy.)
"Cooper at sea" is a 50 year old short sketch, but still funnier than most sketches today.
Tommy sadly died live on British TV, he collapsed in a theatre not far from where I was born, a true legend.
No Tommy Copper, he died on stage and everyone thought it was part of the act.
He was a brilliant magician, a member of the magic circle. But he was famous for his comedy act where the tricks would go wrong. A really funny man, I saw him when I was very young on the TV.
Funny how things affect people. this brought a tear to my eye just reminiscing how funny Tommy was and how happy he made me as a child. As you can see by the comments he was dearly loved by the British public.
Tommy did make it to head of the UK magic circle, he could do genuine magic but generally just did silly stuff. A fabulous man, did a few silly films too.
Nice one Mandy 😊😊😊😊😊, glad you enjoyed Tommy ,he was tall and heavy set .The GPO were the organisation that used to operate the the landline telephone system in the Uk up untill the 1980s .It was a division/subsidiary of Uk Post Office, full title General Post Office .❤❤.
He was born in Wales,but,grew up in Exeter, England! Tommy had a thick West Country accent so he may be hard to understand to many Americans ❤❤❤❤ I love Tommy!!!
"I went shopping for camouflage trousers but I couldn't find any."
He died on live television in 1984. He was a drinker and a smoker. He was 63 years old
one of his most famous tricks is "glass bottle bottle glass"
I once saw Tommy in a live show. He did nothing more than walk out on stage, and everyone laughed.
How many comedians can make an audience laugh BEFORE they start their act?
Tommy Cooper was a big star and his catchphrase was '"Just Like That". He is a British comedy legend. You should try Ken Dodd. You would never stop laughing.
Great British comedy. Silly on purpose, and he laughs with you, laughing at him. Tommy Cooper was one of the best ever.
Sadly pass away 40 years ago That's from 70's. Use love watch tommy Cooper when I was kid.
He did get into trouble with the magic circle for exposing how some tricks / elusions were done ,a comic genius 👍,you had to be good to play at the royal variety theater in front of the queen 👑
Loved Tommy Copper. So naturally funny. Genius.
I really loved tommy cooper a good magician and hilarious.
The monkey reference was to do with the organ grinder and the monkey when you would turn the handle of a music box and the monkey would dance.
The GPO were initials for general post office which was the organising company prior to being changed to British telecom
He died live on television while making everyone laugh!He was much loved here in the UK!
The great Tommy Cooper just so many great gags & Props.
Watching you laughing at Tommy Cooper is like having a time machine for me. Thanks, as ever Mandy.
Tommy Cooper was best known for his witty jokes and his obvious talent for failing his magic tricks. But in real life he was actually an admittedly very skilled magician and
also a member of The Magic Circle.
Tommy was an iconic character he died whilst on stage/ on tv many like me actually saw him have an heart attack and die. We all thought it was part of his act. Tommy was a very good Stage Magician but always fooled around. Regarding his size he was an ex Guardsman in the Army, he was a big man. He was loved by many! RIP Tommy Cooper 😢
TC at the bar orders and pays for drinks. Barman takes a note and returns to TC with change. Goes to serve someone else and TC calls him back. 'The change is a penny short'. Barman checks, apologises, gets a penny from the till, gives it to TC, goes to serve someone else. TC calls him back. ‘It’s not the principle, it’s the money.'
what a treat- one of my favourite comedians - bonkers mad - his continual, almost 'psychotic' laughter just cracked you up. He mixed magic into his comedy (he was a member of the magic circle) making purposeful 'mistakes' and then amaze you with a real trick. as mentioned elsewhere he died on stage on 'live' tv - I and a friend happened to be watching at the time and were genuinely confused by what was going on until the curtain was dropped and there was an unscheduled commercial break.
Tommy was born in Caerphilly Wales, although you always see his tricks fk up, the truth was he was a good magician. He realised people laughed when a trick messed up, and therefore decided to make it an act. He died on stage literally. He was loved by the British people but that's the British way Brits are able to laugh at themselves. Much missed and highly regarded to this day as a great comical act.
Maybe he inspired your dad “my arm hurts when I do that”
“Then don’t do that” was one of his classics
He was a one-off - my dad and I would be in stitches, mum just puzzled. He was a real magician.
I remember seeing a video on UA-cam about this comedian died of a heart attack during a performance and everyone that it was part of the act and continued to laugh
This guy was absolutely adored by the Brits. If you look closely at his work you'll notice how much comedians like Peter Kaye were influenced by him. He was actually a very, very good magician/conjuror, it was part of his act to get it all wrong.
Thank you Mandy for appreciating our King of Comedy. Spike Milligan said he was the funniest man he ever knew.
Thanks for Tommy Cooper. Performed his magic clumsily and his comedy effortlessly!
He was silly, and that's what we loved. Nothing should have any meaning. He did it so well. Tommy was actually a skilled magician.
3:48 - Just in case you didn't get the punchline of the BBQ joke, it was "Your singing is alright, but your monkey is on fire."
In reference to street performers who had monkeys who would perform.
When 'Oliver Hardy' went past in the background, the guy looked so like him (apart from the height) that I got stunned for a moment. :)
Yeah I understood what he said but was confused by the Monkey bit 🤣🤪
@@MandyCaneLane Little monkey fella :)
I was waiting for a joke based on Oliver Hardy, maybe it was related to something elsewhere in the show, a mistake or TC being just intentionally surreal?
He was actually an accomplished magician, he was an expert in getting the tricks to fail hopelessly. Usually at the end of the act he would do a trick which would work 100% too. He was a natural comedian.
When he sadly passed away live on stage to howls of laughter, as if it was part of his act, he died..”just like that…or was it like that…ha ha ha”. Only a true fan will get that gag and realise it is not disrespectful at all but a tribute to the ultimate natural comedian with that constant startled look of mixed fear and false stupidity, he really did have “funny bones” as we say here.
A comedians comedian, they knew it was a natural gift. Compare to the late Bob Monkhouse who I respect for his huge repertoire of memorised gags. But his comedy was forced, methodical, mechanical, a complete contrast in style.
Tommy you could just relax watch and enjoy. He offended nobody, there were no risky sexist or racist jokes intended to shock. It was all harmless stupidity.
I even love the fact that there are quite a few don’t get his act, really think he was that bad at his tricks, when his failings were actually super rehearsed. It just goes to prove how well he faked his clumsy incompetence, and a fair bit about the intelligence of those who don’t get it too.
So good was he that no one since has dared try to replicate his style.
Truly a unique and great comedian. We were lucky to see him in our era.
my uncle used to mind him when he'd come to my hometown of liverpool,i believe he was like this in real life
He was also president of the magic circle in the UK for around 15 years. He was an excellent magician but found more fame as a comedian.
My dear old Dad's favourite comic. My Dad was passing the Odean cinema in Birmingham, just as Tommy was coming out after finishing a show when he dropped something, my dad picked it up and gave it back to him and Tommy thanked him and said,' Here you are have a drink on me' When my dad looked in his hand Tommy had given him a Tea bag. He was said to have the biggest feet in showbiz. There is a pub in Cornwall, St Agnes, I think, where they have a pair of his shoes hanging on the wall behind the bar.
Even when he literally died on stage he still killed it.
I saw Tommy Cooper in Torquay when I was about 15. Nearly 3 hours of just him telling jokes and doing magic. He always messed up the tricks at first for comic effect, then just did them properly when you thought he'd failed.
But his best gag was when he said "And now something a bit different: a tap dance. He pulled a tap on a piece of string out of his pocket and shouted "come on tap - dance".
His comedy was surreal at times. A brilliant man.
tap = faucet for the Americans
The GPO was the post office telephone service before both were privatised.
Tommy Cooper was a real magician, but this act is so much more entertaining.
Despite the silliness he was a member of the Magic Circle.
6:44 "Is that the GPO. I want to complain about my phone bill". That's General Post Office, the authority responsible for post, telegrams and telephones at the time.
his laughter is just so epic
for me he was the best along with les dawson.
no he passed away along time ago on stage and on tv it is on you tube but it is distressing to see him have a heart attack. i remember watching it live when it happened very sad🙁
I remember watching Tommy live on tv when he sadly passed away. He was one of a kind.
GPO was general post office in the 1960s and 1970s. Tommy was very famous in those times.
Saw Tommy Cooper live in the 70s he was brilliant the audience didn’t stop laughing for a solid hour, my stomach was hurting by the end of the show.
Tommy was one off the BEST
Tommy Cooper was a comedy genius. He was also a great magician which he often used as part of his act, often making the trick "go wrong" only for him to make it work after.
He actually died of a heart attack on stage and the audience thought it was part of the act. RIP Tommy.
i remember watching him die, even that got a laugh as everyone watching thought it was part of his act. a true one of a kind
One of the biggest stars of British comedy in the seventies and early eighties. He was also a very good magician.
Re: 4:00 - in case you didn't quite get the joke, he was talking about an organ grinder, an old style street performer who would turn the handle on a box to play music while a monkey danced. He was a very silly & random comedian, only problem is he's a little difficult to understand given his accent.
I was watching him when he died live on TV everyone though it was part of his act, watch more and you will get him more
Tommy's sense of humour is almost unheard of these days, I love a comic who can laugh at himself and his own jokes!
Your dad’s joke about your hurt arm when you move it and not doing it then was one of my favourite Tommy Cooper jokes when I was a kid. I don’t if he came up with it or if it was a generic joke on the circuit. Still funny though.
You must watch the plank. Sadly Tommy Cooper died live on stage and tv of a heart attack 1984. But he was genius of comedy the G. P. O. was the General Post Office that ran the uk phone service that is now British Telecom.
I went to the doctor,
he said go to the window and stick your tongue out,
I said will that help?
He said no, I just don't like him opposite.😂
Just one of his many daft little stories. He had a couple of catch lines with his comedy magic act, "not like that, like that" and "just like that", If anyone else had tried his act they'd have failed.
And yes he was a big man, 6'4" and in the Royal Horse Guards during WW2.
Loved him as a child and teenager, along with the whole family, simpler times.
Tommy Cooper a British legend. Sadly missed.
The greatest magician/comedian I've ever seen still to this day. You never knew weather he was going to do the magic trick properly or weather he would make a mess of it. It's what makes him so brilliant because he could always keep the audience guessing. Watching your reaction watching the glass go into the bag them crumbling it up catching you totally off guard, that's how good he was he could make your jaw drop when doing a trick correct. But make you laugh like crazy when he makes the mistakes like the legs not going down on the table for what the normal way he did that joke. You should watch the duck 🦆 trick it's brilliant oh and the bottle trick there totally brilliant. There's so many brilliant British magicians that have Tommy has there inspiration to get into magic in the first place. The greatest thing about Tommy was he was love by people of all age's from the very young to very old just naturally funny and always makes me laugh whenever i watched him then and now. Like others have commented here already sadly he has passed on. But he will always be remember by me as the goat🐐 as they say nowadays, a total one of a kind, a genius.
Tommy's act revolved around magic tricks that didn't work. Then, when a trick did work, he acted as astonished as the audience. His catch phrase when doing something was "Not like that, like that.". He was a heavy smoker but not cigarettes, he smoked up to 40 cigars a day. His heavy drinking brought an end to the TV series that he had.
Loved Tommy Cooper Fellow Welshman who I was actually watching the TV when he died on Stage he was a great Magician too.
Hi,
He was also a great magician,
He did a trick/routine 'Bottle/Glass', its worth watching.
Tommy died laughing I watched it on television everyone thought it was part of his chaotic act what a character 😂😂