Peter Sellers last TV role

[@markwhittaker6321]

What a true genius Peter Sellers was...incredible.

[@deleteclawz4266]

I miss him

[@wardropper]

Sykes was always a very funny character too. They are really great together.

[@Celt-starseed]

I loved Sykes.

[@seamusweber8298]

Two superb comedic talents, and Hattie was also a great comedic actress as well. Eric was a gifted writer and actor. Peter was phenomenal

[@mikemorgan7893]

Many of Eric Sykes shows in the 70s were remakes of his shows in the 60s . This was one of them The Stranger. Original made 11 years previously in 1961 . The Peter Sellers part was then played by Leo McKern.

[@martm216]

Two great performers - and they were mates from the days when Sykes used to write some of The Goons scripts.

[@fepeerreview3150]

What a genius he was. He could capture so much in just an instant. Check out 0:38 where the whole dynamic of the scene shifts. In that one glance his friendly smile shifts to an entirely different and much angrier feeling. You realize he really has never forgotten the abuse.

[@TheEchovoices]

i thought he was Al Pacino he was so brilliant

[@acegikmoii]

Gosh! Was waiting for Sellers to make his appearance - then realized the "tough guy" had to be him! I've seen almost every Sellers role but didn't recognise him here at all. What a master!

[@zamiadams4343]

@Skylab 5691 Spot on 100%, Sellers was a genius.

[@hadassah356]

Me, too!

[@the5thmusketeer215]

Same here! 😳

[@ebbhead20]

You're not a fan then. I saw him in the thumbnail and he looks exactly like he does in loads of movies and interviews. The interview with the gestapo coat and Nazi helmet is just like him right here. So nah, you've been asleep when he's on mate...

[@SevenOf9-Seven]

​@@ebbhead20 always an asshole

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Brilliant 👏 👏 ❤

[@vantheman1238]

You can hear how the audience are so enthralled and excited to have Peter Sellers performing for them. They love him. Wonderful ❤

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I think he’s doing one fantastic job. He isn’t himself, he is 100% that character!

[@davidevans3227]

Sykes! remembering Derek Guyler too 🙂 😉

[@josephlawson9950]

In memory of Peter the best pink panther

[@pipeandslippersman]

all of them - on the edge of corpsing. brilliant!

[@petergedd9330]

Peter was great, just look at him here, so different from his natural self, so observant, so good comical timing, fantastic.

[@Gulrabankhan]

Boom bloody boom. Good Ness Gracious me.❤❤❤

[@stevemurray4854]

Great stuff

[@hardworx28]

Some of the finest comedy acting of all time

[@davidcopson5800]

Here he looks like Al Pacino and sounds like Ronnie Barker.

[@paulfuller8985]

Peter , Eric and Hattie were great . Great London humour .

[@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe]

Indeed. PS: Eric Sykes was born in Oldham Lancashire.

[@TheGrenfellRatio]

He did the muppets tv show after this

[@haileyshannon7548]

No, that was years before this…after this he kicked it

[@EddieFunkowitz]

@@haileyshannon7548 The clip above was in 1972. Sellers appeared on the Muppet Show in 1978. He died in 1980.

[@richardobi-jh8jo]

you can see the class of Sellers in this drab sitcom

[@paulhill1379]

Brilliant.👏👏👏👏

[@jimikguitar]

What a genius

[@georgeshelton6281]

What Chance Johnson did in 'Being There,' was totally impossible. Can you believe what Joseph Ceracini did how he kept him from going to school, during the 1920s and 30s?

[@davew4998]

His cockney accent was spot on. Such a great actor.

[@elbecko7969]

Eric and Hattie I was thinking just then that he played a similar character in an episode of Steptoe and Son, but then remembered that it was actually Leonard Rossiter

[@Sci-fi-Si]

Genius

[@georgeshelton6281]

I had no idea or intention to find out that, this was actually Peter Sellers' last role. I thought it was when he appeared as; Chance Johnson in the 1980, Rated PG comedy movie called 'Being There!'

[@jeffstone2136]

Being There was not a comedy. Peter Sellers' last movie was The Fiendish Plot Of Dr Fu Manchu, which _is_ a comedy. Not a very good one. He fired Piers Haggard, the guy directing it, halfway through filming and reshot large chunks of the film with himself in the directors chair. It was released in August 1980, 15 days after his death. Technically speaking, his very last movie is 1982's Trail Of The Pink Panther, which incorporates about half an hour of deleted scenes from The Pink Panther Strikes Again.

[@prettyshinyspaghetti8332]

This was his last TELEVISION role

[@fepeerreview3150]

His last film was The Fiendish Plot of Doctor Fu Manchu. It was not well received at the time, coming just after the brilliant Being There. But I found it to be a great movie, of the kind only he could make.

[@alexlazebat839]

cant think of him being in tv roles as much as he was a radio/film star

[@EstherAustin-q3i]

Great stuff. In memory of Peter the best pink panther.

[@haileyshannon7548]

Actually The Pink Panther was a Diamond

[@david-p8e6o]

@@haileyshannon7548 exactly he was clouseau the best one

[@michaeloflannagen]

I think he is channeling da Fonze

[@markfrancis5164]

It’s amazing how these undiscovered gems keep cropping up. Besides the wonders of Peter Sellers. I’ll never get over the fact that Hattie Jaques was absolutely sex crazed in real life.

[@johndeagle4389]

Sellers is doing the voice of Michael Caine.

[@martinpurdy2448]

Not a lot of people know that.

[@EricOconnell-j5r]

Great ..

[@markduffy3717]

Master

[@jamesgale2147]

The only one of a kind

[@joeoconnor5400]

Spike Milligan never at any point thanked Eric Sykes for helping him with the Goon Show scripts.

[@slydawgg]

He looks like the singer from Killing Joke.

[@ShaggNasty-yk1ie]

1972. Was that really his last TV appearance?

[@uingaeoc3905]

Was this the first time Sellers and Sykes got together after The Goons?

[@jeffstone2136]

Not _quite_ true. Sellers' last TV role was as 'Monty Casino' in a series of Barclays Bank adverts shot in Ireland in 1980, mere weeks before his death. He nearly died of a heart attack while filming one of those, in fact.

[@alexlazebat839]

i think they mean within a tv role as this was 1972 those airline ads were about then

[@mikedoran9851]

This was a reunion: Eric Sykes had worked as a writer on The Goon Show, where he'd met Peter Sellers years before. By the way, Sellers's character in Being There was simply named Chance, the gardener; where the heck is everybody getting Johnson?

[@jmason2838]

.Hi there 🙂🌻🤞🏻.. just my humble opinion . .. . .I think it's **Chauncey***.. (nicknamed ' Chaunce' .. silent 'e' ..) Gardener.🌱🌱🌻🌻.I have the film and never have I heard👂 Mr. Sellers' character referred to as 'Chance' ☺️...silent 'a' .. 🤨🤔🙄..🍀☕☕☕

[@mikedoran9851]

@@jmason2838 Early in the film, he identifies himself as "Chance, the gardener". Later on, when Shirley MacLaine picks him up in the limo, she asks him his name after giving him an alcoholic drink. Chance hasn't ever drunk alcohol before; when he tries to say "Chance the gardener", he chokes on it, and Shirley mishears it as "Chauncey Gardiner" ... ... much as you did ...

[@mikedoran9851]

Add to above: Much later, the doctor (Richard Dysart) asks Chance outright, "Your name is Chance, isn't it? and you are a gardener?" And Chance, blissfully unaware of all that has gone before, confirms this with a smile. And Dr. Dysart lets it ride ...

[@geoffreyparsons4353]

Cut off way too quick . Funniest part is when he " snogs" hattie jakes

[@wormsnake1]

There’s a secret hidden in this sketch.x

[@aleksandrakettner905]

❤🎉❤

[@youarewhatyouare]

I bet he said he had a fling with Eric oh Eric

[@david-pb4bi]

I never thought Sellers all that funny, but he was good in that and in Being There. 01:38 I thought you were a Mason brilliant.

[@Mack-bc3sp]

Peter sellers proper legend rip

[@runaroundstu]

Brilliant I think Eric Sykes was deaf, wasn't he?

[@u2verparacreer743]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🙌🙌🙌

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Sykes frequently trying desperately not to laugh there....

[@grahammaguire404]

Ever noticed how comedians seem to die young from heart attacks!!!!!

[@alexistarr]

Especially this year.😉

[@billcobbett9259]

Peter's intake of amyl nitrate didn't help. His first attack came after a session with Britt Ekland.

[@jeffbauer3425]

​@@billcobbett9259 Not surprised with that .

[@Abc-zerotonine]

Liked character role's but lacked the same comedic punch as Sykes and Milligan.

[@KarmicWealth]

She sounds like Smeigal!!

[@opencurtin]

He looks like Sly Stallone

[@markmarsh27]

The movie 'Being There' was a life-long passion project of Peter Sellers' that he willed into existence. It's every bit as great as 'Citizen Kane' but has never been properly recognized for the absolute Masterpiece that it is.

[@beatlebrian4404]

I couldn't agree more, I saw it in the cinema when it came out, a beautiful and moving film with great acting from Peter

[@david-p8e6o]

@@beatlebrian4404 it was a great film

[@psychedelicelvis-777]

The part of "Chancy" was offered to Elvis Presley(a huge "Sellers" fan) initially, probably because of his turn as "Toby Kwimper" in "Follow That Dream") where naivety and honesty is mistaken for genius!

[@ThomasMaczura-c7i]

Whew... That was close... I thought somebody was going to say it was underrated... I like to watch tv...

[@georgeshelton6281]

Will you always remember the time when Peter Sellers worked with Stanley Kubrick, the author of 'Eyes Wide Shut?'

[@Mat-fw1ky]

It was Lolita who during 3001 told Closeau, and I’ll never forget this:

[@georgeshelton6281]

What else Chance Johnson did that was impossible was when, he made no previous bank statements. He said; "I've never ridden in a car before."

[@georgeshelton6281]

Chance Johnson told one woman who was a newsreporter; "I don't know how to read or write!" We ought to get completely/totally shocked about this.

[@billcobbett9259]

Sellers was a Mason, hence the joke.

[@vinceveedal]

Not funny. And you can still see he's Peter Sellers

[@martm216]

Peter Sellers was a highly gifted comic actor. The fact that you can see it's still Peter Sellers in this piece might be something to do with the fact that they were performing in front of a studio audience, and Peter was the special guest star. He would be expected to be Peter Sellers, albeit in the guise of a Cockney bad boy.

[@billcobbett9259]

Show me one actor you don't recognise in a role. Apart maybe from one dressed in an animal costume. It was funny, and because we knew it was Sellers.on top form.

[@alexlazebat839]

alot of sykes is studio bound comedy and at times can be boring

[@davidgoulden5956]

And we can all see that YOU aren't very bright!

[@yingyang1008]

Is this meant to be funny?