Peter Sellers is one of my all-time favorite actors - so original and no one like him before or since. I know he was troubled and difficult in his personal life, but as an actor, he is a legend.
Just great how he casually drops in the ‘this is my Michael Caine impression’ - usually a giveaway that the impression is going to be rubbish. Then skewers a fantastic caricature complete with mad tweed suit Big Ben joke.
Sellers was an outstanding mimic. In one of his early films he is a Cockney masquerading as a high class Parisian fashion designer. His phone rings, and he answers 'Allo' in a phony French accent. But it's actually one of his dodgy Cockney pals calling him, so he instantly repeats his greeting, switching to impeccable Cockney. Absolutely brilliant!
The tweed suit is the key to all of this.
And 50 years later, Michael Caine still talks like that.
The origin of the "Not many people know that" Michael Caine trope - of course it was a gift from the genius, Peter Sellers.
One of our finest comic actors ! Died much too young.
Best ever impression of Michael Caine by Sellers and his timing is flawless 😂 Sellers was a genius
He didn't even need to say it was an impression of Caine, it was so spot on...
Great orators and raconteurs. People these days are so boring. No individual characters anymore.
That was the most pitch perfect Caine I’ve ever heard. Better than Michael Caine himself.
"In a tweed suit"
36 seconds in before I could understand anything said.
Peter Sellers is one of my all-time favorite actors - so original and no one like him before or since. I know he was troubled and difficult in his personal life, but as an actor, he is a legend.
Just great how he casually drops in the ‘this is my Michael Caine impression’ - usually a giveaway that the impression is going to be rubbish. Then skewers a fantastic caricature complete with mad tweed suit Big Ben joke.
I didn't understand a word until he got to the Michael Caine impression, which is perfect.
Sellers was an outstanding mimic. In one of his early films he is a Cockney masquerading as a high class Parisian fashion designer. His phone rings, and he answers 'Allo' in a phony French accent. But it's actually one of his dodgy Cockney pals calling him, so he instantly repeats his greeting, switching to impeccable Cockney. Absolutely brilliant!
I never tire of listening and laughing at Peter Sellers' stories
The ONE and ONLY Peter Sellers ❤️
it's the subtlety of his pronunciation that makes it so good!
Still one of the funniest things I've ever seen/heard! Peter was one of the funniest human beings EVER.
when he said "not many people know that", i knew he was doing caine
With the death of Sir Michael Parkinson, all three of these legends have now left us. R.I.P.