Peter Sellers 1965 BBC 'LATE NIGHT LINE-UP' Interview

[@Insomnia_c1]

He was so intelligent, charming and cute. I loved the end of the interview but i wish it never ended

[@jessiejames7492]

its a pleasure just listening to him talk...

[@georgeshelton6281]

I do have something to mention to you about Arnold Schwarzenegger; it doesn't surprise me that, his son Joseph Baena has followed in his lead. Sometimes the like father like son deal can be a bad thing. Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone totally the opposite of Stephen King. Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't stay married, to his original wife. He had sons and daughters from a previous marriage. I found this out; just by reading, from the smart news app. Here's a wisecrack worth making; about this, is Bill Deblasio on your side?

[@georgeshelton6281]

Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't reason a thing like Peter Sellers.

[@georgeshelton6281]

It was the journalist Alex Jones and the political cartoonist Gerald Scarf; who told me that Arnold Schwarzenegger's father, was a Nazi SS officer. Back then in WWII.

[@georgeshelton6281]

What's Arnold Schwarzenegger going to when; the children who are born from pornography stars going to do, if/when they screw up? This is what Arnold Schwarzenegger does; he too easily trusts the children, who were born from pornography stars.

[@georgeshelton6281]

David R. Shelton one time told me that; the men and women who are porn stars, aren't having sex with each other for pleasure. You do come to realize that; adult porn is entertainment nudity. Not business nudity or even rest and relaxation nudity.

[@cfchh1905]

PS had a better sense of humor than all modern humorists together. What a man he was !

[@Bootrosgali]

Great to see his gracious absolutely on-board, seemingly no jealous competition in support of Peter and Dudley. Acknowledging their show as a great and original new thing. He didn't exactly say original and new, but it was nice. And really funny end there.

[@rodniki14]

No laughter or audience. Greatly enjoyed it.

[@BomChickyBowWow]

Peter Sellers just exudes intelligence and insanity from every pore in his body.

[@Kubrick36]

Thanks much for posting. Always great to see insight into genius.

[@deanwilletts7428]

Sensitive interviewer. Peter seems relaxed.

[@martinjones5965]

8:47 His low ebb about drumming was when someone asked him if he could play "Sweet Dreamer" and PS said no and the requested replied "Shit face" !

[@CharismaticMegafauna]

Fun fact he really never did go "back to normal." He felt like he came back with a new personality and kept trying to ask his doctors if it was possible that dying for two minutes could incur some sort of brain damage and everyone kept trying to tell him he was fine when he... Really wasn't.

[@LostsTVandRadio]

I'd forgotten just how posh he sounded. Nice interview.

[@felixcat4346]

Sellers is a complete sweetheart.

[@kiethblack3870]

Best comedian ever. EEEVEEERRR!!

[@zaygezunt]

Well don't be depressed because you are writing bollocks. I have talked to his best friends - Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, David Lodge and Graham Stark as well as his wives Anne and Britt. Peter had his troubles, as we all do, but he was also kind, generous and very funny.

[@FlintyCobblestone]

A stone cold genius.

[@NxDoyle]

If anyone knew Peter well on a personal and professional basis it was Spike. One is tempted to say that Anne, his first wife, and his kids, especially Michael, knew him best, but he was infamously horrible to them at times. One of the problems with having someone like Peter as a 'hero' so to speak is acknowledging that there are elements of the man which are far from heroic. He is lauded by actors, impressionists/mimics and improvisational experts as a genius. Spike however, was very clear that Peter was not a genius but a 'freak'. I can't say for sure that I know the difference. Is it perhaps that Spike viewed genius as something more controlled by those possessed of the gift and that freaks are wild? I don't know and Spike is no longer around to clarify. Oh well, ying tong iddle i po!

[@zaygezunt]

Sorry forgot to mention that I have also interviewed his children Micheal and Sarah. The establishment has tried to destroy his memory - don't believe them!!

[@zaygezunt]

No, I am Maxine Ventham who did all the interviews for Michael Sellers' book "Sellers on Sellers" and wrote "Spike Milligan: His Part in our Lives". Check it out on amazon. I apologise for the use of the word bollocks but since Roger Lewis it seems only Peter's negative side is emphasized and he DID have some wonderful qualities. So cheer up your boyhood hero wasn't as flawed as some would have you believe

[@lcamuti7135]

Well hello Maxine! Is it REALLY you? You will know who I am, if so. Would love to chat privately.

[@MrDaiseymay]

And I'm 'Champion the Wonder Horse'. I am in my 70's, and have read AND seen MANY interviews with virtually ALL the people involved in Sellers life/career--and this goes back to the days when he struggled to make the mark. Most people it seems, put his self obcession down to his mother's mania to drive him to the limits. Their weird relationship drove a wedge between his parents. These points and much more have been repeated so many times over the decades. The film of his life was sanitised.

[@giorgiorevolver8527]

G e n i u s

[@defiverr4697]

Imagine the views Seller's would get if he had his own YT and TT channels

[@redshiftexperiment]

8:15 .. reminds me of Andy Kaufman .. playing the record on stage .. well we know he was a true original

[@user-nq7yx7dg1w]

I don't t see insanity. I see genious, eccentricity and he was also snobish ,peculiar. Like so many geniouses but no insanity

[@Vincek88]

So, Pete plays a record onstage as an act, gets canned, and many years later, Andy Kaufman does it and gets all this credit? Love you, Andy, but, BOOO!

[@TaggleElgate]

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's NOT ONLY BUT ALSO (lots of clips on KZbin).

[@defiverr4697]

The greatest after Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy.

[@johnmc3862]

Borat.

[@zaygezunt]

I AM Maxine Ventham and I can prove it. So you will have heard Stanley Kubrick loved working with him? And Spike Milligan calling him a dear boy? And Max Geldray describing his generosity? Read Graham Stark's autobiography and David Lodge's, both of whom knew him for 40 years then come back and apologise to his fans. Since you continue to be so nasty - this discussion is over

[@raggedydr]

What TV series was he talking about that he said was the funniest he had ever seen? I couldn't hear it clearly.

[@doppelbanger5797]

i wonder if peters upper class accent is put on, rather like Kieth moon would do in interviews sometimes

[@pix046]

+doppel banger Definitely so and, after all, it would not be difficult for him to do it.

[@wild7279]

I wonder if half the British entertainers today Chavifiy their accent to look less posh then their privileged background. Since the entertainment industry today seems to be dominated by young Etonians , star kids or those from a well off background.

[@fergusdonaghy3124]

sounds like Group Captain Mandrake

[@dunebasher1971]

Sellers was a genius, no question. He could be incredibly charming, funny and generous - no question. But he also had a major capacity for being a truly appalling human being. Read Norma Farnes' book "Spike: An Intimate Memoir" for many examples of his betrayal of close friends like Spike Milligan and Alan Clare. The stories of Old Min the car and his behaviour on the set of the film Ghost in the Noonday Sun are typical.

[@pix046]

+dunebasher1971 And Kirk Douglas (99) said Sellers was not interesting until he started doing impressions.

[@wild7279]

Unless you actually knew him or where there your no one to pass judgment , you just repeating tabloid talk Ive noticed that all famous humans get called out as being unpleasant I suppose it has nothing to do with envy , no one tries to potray the bitter shelf stacker at Tesco's as being an unpleasant character in every corner of his life because no would read about it.

[@maryannlouviere1132]

Really ? do you know that he beat the living daylights out of his first wife ?

[@wild7279]

See the above if your just going on secondhand tabloid Hersey like I said its easy to make sweeping judgmental remarks about the famous and distant especially if their dead since you can say whatever you like. Funny how people are all cuing up to talk trash about the likes of Cary Grant and Sellers years after their demise. When they have no right of earthly reply.

[@77777aol]

Drugs accentuate paranoia. Gossip and Chinese whispers create legs.

[@MrDaiseymay]

It all depends on who you talk to and at which period in time, before or after death. Those that depended on him for their career.eg (David Lodge) aren't going to critisize are they. (hand that feeds etc) . Some of these criticisms were quite vitriolic, WHERE were the legal charges for defamation? Why the silence? Fair questions.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I have to agree. I hate discovering that boyhood heroes were in fact inexcusably---selfish, childish, inconsiderate, fathers and husbands. And Sellers set the bar so high, no one has come close since. Flawed genious doesn't do it---still depresses me, especially watching this.

[@wild7279]

I find it even more depressing to read of another human being putting all his hopes on a man who was employed to entertain nothing more , nothing less. He gave you what you wanted he entertained , he inspired his private life and what you think you know about it is irrelevant to the public and fuelled on secondhand gossip.

[@lifelessvoyeur]

cue Monty Python.

[@uncledingbat]

Don't get me wrong; I admire him more than any other actor for the extremes he went to for the sake of art. His madness is inspiring, but his toddler tantrums put a director in his grave and nearly cost Britt Ekland her life

[@rexmundi3108]

That's not his real voice! He's imitating the interviewer! Son of a....

[@johnmc3862]

He tended to do that, sometimes not even knowing he was.

[@garryentropy]

he uses kubricks voice in lolita @@johnmc3862

[@zaygezunt]

What director? Have you spoken to Britt? I have and she says no such thing - talk to those knew him before you try to sound like and expert

[@dlamiss]

Maybe he should have stayed off the drugs probably WOULD have lived longer

[@rayjr62]

I thought his 1st heart attack was a drug related one.

[@uncledingbat]

Back to normal? Seriously?

[@johnhaggerty4396]

Michael Dean (1933-2015) was the doyen of interviewers on television, a New Zealander who made documentary films. The dumbing down of arts on television is a scandal. The young are badly served by sloppy and pop-orientated shows. Interviewers have none of Dean's crisp professionalism and learning or his readiness to keep quite and really listen.

[@toff358]

I entirely agree about Michael Dean (I also worked for Television New Zealand for many years) a friendly, empathetic, focused, respectful and intelligent NZ born interviewer, who very much made his mark in the UK.