I get the feeling Peter Sellars was just using this little sketch to show off his talent with a play on languages, but the joke was itself was not particularly funny.
This was from an edition of 'Parkinson' originally shown in 1974, in which Sellers was the only guest. He was also extremely insecure and tried to back out at the last minute. In the show there's a similar rambling anecdote about O'Toole, Guinness and 'Lawrence of Arabia' which also has a weak payoff. I have always thought that Sellers stuck them in simply to kill time and avoid talking about himself. It's only at the end of the interview, when Parkinson asks him about career fulfilment, that Sellers suddenly becomes very nervous, and you do get a glimpse behind the mask. The interview was repeated after Sellers died suddenly on 24 July 1980.
It’s often not the joke that gets the laughs but the performer and whilst this gag is far from the funniest joke ever told Sellers imbues it with so much energy, theatricality and enthusiasm that it becomes something far better than it would be otherwise. His delightful accents and clear love of language only further why the guy was a genius …
Not as funny as the chap who went into a chinese restaurant. He ordered duck. When it arrived he couldn't cut into it with either chopsticks or a knife and fork. He called the waiter and said " This duck is rubbery!" "Ah, fank you velly much, velly kind you say so." replied the waiter.
a Peter Sellers characters, and it is probably my favourite is when he played group, Captain mandrake in Dr Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?
According to narrator this appearance on Parkinson was from the 1970s . It was actually from 1974 and Sellers died in 1980. Wish these voice overs could get their facts right
Interesting. Definitely not the funniest joke in British TV History, probably not even the funniest of that year. Actually, pretty lame. The interesting part is that the biggest laugh came from Sellers doing his comedy chinese person schtick. Don't get me wrong, I like it too, but it is so much a part of bygone days. 50 years ago to be exact.
A very weak joke and light years from the funniest joke etc. It's a subjective thing, humour, but I'd put forward the U-boat captain from Dad's Army. "What is your name" (to Private Pike). Mainwaring : "Don't tell him, Pike." I'm sure people will have their own favourite.
about as finny as a wet Sunday. Brit "humour" is rarely funny, and I am English. I only watched because the idiotic you tube algorithm kept pushing the effing thing.
Fine delivery.
There are not enough superlatives that can adequately describe just how much of a genius Peter Sellers was.
To paraphrase Spike Milligan, "Ah Sellers,how I miss him!" RIP both great comedians.❤❤
‘Warrington Minge’… fitting that word into a television interview was hilarious
It was?
I knew an Indian woman called Minjeeter she had a crew cut hair doo 🙄
I get the feeling Peter Sellars was just using this little sketch to show off his talent with a play on languages, but the joke was itself was not particularly funny.
Loved him ever since The Goon Show,
A bit of a limp joke really, but good to see Sellers in interview.
-limp, indeed -
This was from an edition of 'Parkinson' originally shown in 1974, in which Sellers was the only guest. He was also extremely insecure and tried to back out at the last minute. In the show there's a similar rambling anecdote about O'Toole, Guinness and 'Lawrence of Arabia' which also has a weak payoff. I have always thought that Sellers stuck them in simply to kill time and avoid talking about himself. It's only at the end of the interview, when Parkinson asks him about career fulfilment, that Sellers suddenly becomes very nervous, and you do get a glimpse behind the mask. The interview was repeated after Sellers died suddenly on 24 July 1980.
watch Geoffery Rush as Peter Sellers, totally captures the man.
@ Thanks for that
Thanks also for this
It’s often not the joke that gets the laughs but the performer and whilst this gag is far from the funniest joke ever told Sellers imbues it with so much energy, theatricality and enthusiasm that it becomes something far better than it would be otherwise. His delightful accents and clear love of language only further why the guy was a genius …
Not as funny as the chap who went into a chinese restaurant. He ordered duck. When it arrived he couldn't cut into it with either chopsticks or a knife and fork. He called the waiter and said " This duck is rubbery!" "Ah, fank you velly much, velly kind you say so." replied the waiter.
Heard that one told by Roy Hudd!
a Peter Sellers characters, and it is probably my favourite is when he played group, Captain mandrake in Dr Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb?
Ahh, but, Being There (Chauncey Gardner) was a masterpiece!
@ unfortunately, he knew that was his obituary character, part, Shirley MacLaine speaks very fondly of the process of filming?
0:38 start
Yeah, well, that’s 3:05 of my life I’ve wasted and will never get back ☹️.
Full refund offered, apologies that not even a snigger occurred.
Just be grateful he left out those other 5 shops.
🤣😂but there is more to the pink panther than meets the eye cheers !!!
Nice story!
Clouseau is my model.
According to narrator this appearance on Parkinson was from the 1970s . It was actually from 1974 and Sellers died in 1980. Wish these voice overs could get their facts right
Sorry folks, typo from me there. The narrator said it was from the 1980s. ,
1-31-2025. I did this video from start to finish. No laugh, no smile, zippo.
thanks for saving me time
@@sma7530 I thought it was a crap joke .... but the delivery of it is superb.
@@arthurpewteyyou need to watch doctor strange love, what a tallent
I agree. Crap joke.
Was it a genuine Zippo or one of those Chinese fakes?
I guess mildly humorous wouldn’t get as many clicks 🙄
and Peter's voice isn't AI-generated. 😀
I’ve gotten more laughs out of a war cry in the dentists
Tim ball, I was up to the challenge you're right, nothing
And the comments prove this isn’t Britain anymore.
Are these twins
I think you mean 'quite' not 'quiet'.
"Comic timing" doesn't exist.
I've been to funnier funerals.
Interesting. Definitely not the funniest joke in British TV History, probably not even the funniest of that year. Actually, pretty lame. The interesting part is that the biggest laugh came from Sellers doing his comedy chinese person schtick. Don't get me wrong, I like it too, but it is so much a part of bygone days. 50 years ago to be exact.
British Television has my Sympathies... If THIS is Their "Funniest Joke"... WOW! Pathetic...
Better than anything from American television.
A very weak joke and light years from the funniest joke etc. It's a subjective thing, humour, but I'd put forward the U-boat captain from Dad's Army. "What is your name" (to Private Pike). Mainwaring : "Don't tell him, Pike."
I'm sure people will have their own favourite.
Where’s the funny bit?
Racist, too!
The Brits have this idea that they’re funny…
Not the funniest, but a good one.
A Chinese accent always adds to the appeal.
You would be hammered for that now
It adds, but not to the appeal.
about as finny as a wet Sunday. Brit "humour" is rarely funny, and I am English. I only watched because the idiotic you tube algorithm kept pushing the effing thing.
Nothing funny in here. U wasted my time.
f-ing waste of time
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Not funny at all
I don’t get it