American Reacts to The Tommy Cooper Hour Episode 1 Part One | Comedy Reaction

[@rachelc3279]

My parents made sure I watched Tommy Cooper when his shows were repeated when I was a child - that man had funny bones. Some people are just naturally hysterical, like Tommy, Eric Morecambe, Billy Connolly ... Love your comedy reactions Squirrel, keep 'em coming!

[@grahamwalker2312]

This story has been told of Tommy Cooper meeting the Queen after the Annual Royal Variety Performance. Tommy patiently waited in line for Her Majesty to reach him. When given the opportunity he said to her ^May I ask a personal question Ma'am". The Queen curious as to what this might be replied "By all means Mr Cooper", Tommy then asked "Do you like football". He knew that, in those days, it was traditional for the Queen to present the FA Cup to the winning team at Wembley Stadium each year. Her Majesty replie to his question "Well, not particularly". Tommy's face brightened and he then says "In that case please may I have your Cup Final tickets"

[@fedpoulton]

There's a story that later in Tommy's life he went on vacation to Morocco and visited a market. Walking around he stopped at a hat stall and picked up a Fez. The stall holder immediately said "Just like that" . Tommy asked why and he said that's what all the tourists say when they try on a Fez.

[@glastonbury4304]

That's a lovely story 👍

[@franl155]

lol I bought a thing to protect the outside tap during winter: four-sided, red, with a pull-cord on top to hold it in place. The sales person thanked me for not saying "Jut like that" when I paid for it, so I don't know how many Tommy Cooper impressions he'd had!

[@Wally-H]

I was watching the TV when Tommy died. He was on a variety show in a prime Sunday evening slot. He slumped back through the curtain and everyone thought it was part of the act at first. A sad way to go, but also sort of fitting for a man who spent his life enjoying making people laugh on the stage - it's a cliche to say he died doing what he loved, but it's definitely true.

[@franl155]

Me too. He might have been saved if people had reacted faster, but as you said ... Long ago there was a Charlie Drake show, The Worker; in this episode Charlie was being thrown around the warehouse set by two burglars who had come in the window, crashing into shelves and boxes; then they lowered him out of the window and the credits started to roll. I remarked that that was an odd ending [I was very young] and my mother said that he'd got hurt - they broadcast live in those days and that was the only way to get him off the set. So when the Tommy's act cut to an ad break, I sort of knew it was bad, though not as bad as it turned out.

[@susanashcroft2674]

Nothing like a bit of nostalgia and a good old walk down Memory Lane.

[@lynette.]

Love this man. My cheeks hurt. It was definitely the way he told them.

[@tonygriffin_]

This was the typical format for Tommy's shows - 75% humour with 15% magic tricks that didn't work and about 10% that did. Loving Tommy Tuesdays...Mickey Mondays...2 Ronnies Friday. It's like one (very amusing) nostalgia trip!

[@ronturner9850]

I’m so glad you GET Tommy Cooper...he was a total one-off.

[@dawnpratt7544]

My Dad saw Tommy Cooper in the late 60s. He says that Tommy didn't finish a single joke or trick, yet he still had people crying with laughter for an hour.

[@sukmileftun2248]

Tommy Tuesday! Outstanding Squirrel, outstanding. Love your comments.

[@mazza4190]

Cheers. Not enough Tommy Cooper in the World of entertainment.

[@sidrat2009]

Tommy Cooper and Kenny Everett are the forgotten comedians and most talented "content creators" that don't get the recognition via air time they deserve. Squirrel how about some Kenny Everett reactions.

[@myview5840]

Can't be copied, he was just a brilliant act.

[@lynette.]

Miss his grace and daftness.

[@emilywhitfield2780]

One of my favorite British comedians

[@animatedAL]

So pleased you're doing Tommy Cooper Tuesday absolute legend.

[@steveyates7044]

How is it that something so silly can be so funny? Genius.

[@rosswatson5996]

He wears the Fez as he was a British soldier in Egypt!

[@SpeedyBrandon]

Phahaha gotta love anything Tommy has done...my first time seeing a lot of this so thanks Squirrel!

[@DruncanUK]

Yay! It's so great to see the immortal Tommy Cooper again.

[@loosewheels1000]

He was in the army during ww2, when he was in Cairo when he found a Fez and began using it to entertain troops.

[@joanmduncan]

Tuesday's have just got better. Just like that! Thank goodness for waterproof mascara!

[@chrisobrien9687]

He's got a great sketch where he tells a story involving lots of different characters in a pub, whilst pulling hats out of a box to replicate the characters and in true Tommy fashion he gets it all ass upwards. CLASSIC, search Tommy Cooper hats

[@mikemikemick]

The Fantastic Tommy Cooper, remember, clean jokes can be funny too, and he was a master to me.

[@neilmacdonald9843]

Legend Squirrel, Thanks for Tommy Tuesday

[@KyuzouTV]

hyena joke is such a classic

[@glastonbury4304]

You just can't help loving Tommy Cooper...

[@bexsta7766]

I'm 42 and I use to watch this with me mam and dad. Laughed me arse off. Little info... he was very clever and extremely hard working Love him ❤💕

[@GinaBeana_Tootsie]

Tommy Cooper Tuesday I’m in…. now you need a fez hat 😁🤣😹😂

[@thisiszaphod]

You will have to REACT to Michael Parkinson: The Tommy Cooper Interview - it is enthralling, hilarious. Tommy does some serious close up magic, too.

[@shellyandtimbell9574]

He was in his own right a Top Magician.RIP.

[@kyotocoversjimanderson782]

Of course these days a lot of it is corny, but it's still pure and exemplifies great timing and suspense building. Love it!

[@franl155]

We know the jokes are going to be corny and somehow that adds to the appeal! Talking about timing: Michael Parkinson once related a story: he was head of some entertainment team that was arranging a show, and Tommy Cooper was going to appear on it. Trevor Howard phoned Parky and begged for tickets. "It's his timing" was Howard's explanation.

[@BlameThande]

According to a book I read, Tommy got a lot of his material by sending off for a subscription from an American company that employed teams of joke writers. The only trouble was, they were all full of America specific sports and pop culture jokes, so then he had to change them all so they'd work over here!

[@highpath4776]

Bob Monkhouse wrote gags for Bob Hope when Hope visited the UK. though really given the US films we watched we would have found US jokes just as funny.

[@jasonward6723]

Tommy cooper is for me a happy childhood memory used to watch it with my grandad as a kid laughing our arses off lol

[@MrHolmgren194]

You`re on the money Squirrel, Tommy was one of a kind. Looking forward to the next one :)

[@theantilifeequation8150]

He did a show I went to as a kid where he did nearly half the show saying he was stuck in the toilet. Honestly it was hilarious. He went off stage did the microphone on while taking a wee bit and claimed to be stuck in the toilet, man it was so funny people were rolling laughing.

[@jasonbeard6802]

Look out for Tommy coopers hat scene

[@SavageGrace]

Frankie Howerd, Dick Emery, Charlie Drake, Dave Allen, Tommy Cooper. We'll never see their like again, sadly.

[@neilmacdonald9843]

Freddie Starr too.... Thanks Again Squirrel, for rekindling all the wonderful memories that these comics gave us, God Bless

[@stuartdownie4535]

Well, I disagree actually. Tim Vine is in the same vein as Tommy Cooper and has actually had some of his jokes wrongly attributed to Tommy Cooper. A Tim Vine reaction would be good to see. You have to stick with him and let the jokes build up though.

[@louquine]

And Ken Dodd ☺

[@davidbirchall832]

Tommy was one of the impressions we all did as kids (usually badly lol)

[@Osk.S57]

It's innocent, childlike fantastic comedy. RIP Tommy.

[@daviniarobbins9298]

Tommy Cooper was a perfectionist. Everything was scripted and every prop had to be in a certain place. If something appeared to go wrong it was meant to. He died on live television shortly after 8pm on a Sunday I think in 1984 and his death was announced two hours later on the 10pm news. I think the footage of him dying is on KZbin or at least it was. I was only 9 at the time. They went to an unscheduled ad break after he collapsed.

[@martindunstan8043]

🐿️you legend you've done it again! Thank you mate✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸🍻🍻

[@johngardiner6800]

The best ever impersonation of Tomy Copper was by Anthony Hopkins (Hannibal Lecter) our great Welsh actor on the Michael Parkinson show, absolutely brilliant.

[@tomredaintdead9575]

Tommy cooper was the funniest man 😌

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

If you did two of these a week, we'd have a Four Ronnies Friday and a Two Tommy Tuesday.

[@saxon-mt5by]

and then we could have Morecombe & Wise Mondays and Wednesdays!

[@richardjones8699]

Wonderful stuff 👍

[@myview5840]

I think you have a bit of a thing for our magical master of mayhem and comedy. RIP Tommy

[@ltsecomedy2985]

I first got interested in Magicians watching David Nixon in the `60/70`s. Finding a magician who did comedy, was unusual back then. Tommy was the first to make it a major part of his act. I seem to remember watching this show as a teenager, I can`t say I saw them all. As I believe it was on during the 3-day week period when we had blackouts & missed our favourite tv programs. The actor who portrayed the casting director was also in some other comedies as well as in tv dramas & films. He often portrayed a Military Officer/ Civil Servant/ Company Director, in the `60/`70`s.

[@elmonte5lim]

There's funny material and then there are - genuinely - funny people. After they made him, they broke the mould.

[@j.dmetalhead7517]

Well I am no longer a Tommy Ckoper teusday virgin. Thanks to those guys who found this material and of course to the Squirrel for spreading the fun!.

[@highpath4776]

We spent all that money on colour telly, and what do we get, a bloke in a penguin suit. (we only needed red as the colour !)

[@skipper409]

You have GOT to try Frankie Howard !

[@philipmay5659]

Sir Anthony Hopkins impersonated Tommy and its on You Tube. Have a look. We all used to love Tommy Cooper.

[@fionamitchell3763]

James, its not corny its comedy it makes you laugh unlike a lot of the tripe they try and pass off for comedy these days

[@michael6401]

The late great Tommy Cooper, when we were little we laughed because he was silly then as we got older we understood the jokes 😊 the whole family would watch together, I also have fond memories of watching a few of your greats, Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello with the Saquachana hat company and my personal favourite Laurel and Hardy and the music box 😂 seems our humour has always worked on both sides of the pond, glad your enjoying Tommy Cooper and I would recommend Dick Emery also 😂😂

[@highpath4776]

Edit -? Laurel and Hardy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3LTpHSGo9R7bcU

[@michael6401]

@@highpath4776 thanks for that kidda, absolute classic, have you seen the movie Stan and Ollie with John C Reilly and Steve Coogan ? It’s very good

[@kennethstark9383]

Super upload cheers 🍻

[@capcompass9298]

10:45 The look on your face says it all "What next?"

[@deniseperryman2814]

Thanks so much I really enjoyed that he was so funny God Bless him I was the same I only had to look at him and I would burst out laughing 😂 I was upset the other day because somebody put on KZbin him dying on stage I was crying it upset me so much what kind of person does that I think and hope they’ve taken it down I wasn’t happy and I told them so Great Reaction as always Love 💕 from Denise in Yorkshire England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😂😂👌👍👏👏👏👋

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Unfortunately I’ve seen many clips posted of him dying. I’m enjoying discovering him and look forward to many Tommy Cooper Tuesdays.

[@benjamindenton]

I think you'd really like Tim Vine who effectively took over Tommy's 'one-liner' act.

[@TheRealSquirrel]

I’ll look for him

[@stuartdownie4535]

You have to watch a decent amount of him though to get the full effect because the jokes build.

[@TheRealSquirrel]

@@stuartdownie4535 over the next few months we will watch all 9 one hour specials he did

[@kylereese4822]

@@TheRealSquirrel Tommy Cooper i remember him dying on live tv.... :(:(....

[@henryhartley9993]

Brilliant..

[@OntheBusesDatabase1]

Thanks for that Squirrel.

[@dumplzbabi1514]

Nice clean innocent fun

[@CMDRRustyDog]

Is there enough material for a 'Micky Flanagan Monday' ? :D

[@petersutton2182]

Legend!

[@Mr_Fahrenheit]

Tommy was 1000 times better live I was lucky enough to see him live in the 70s

[@derekellershaw3186]

I went to se tommy in Manchester, they introduced him a few times but no tommy they eventually found him in the local pub playing cards

[@annother3350]

How high do you think squirrels hat goes?! 😂

[@bexsta7766]

Daft and clever Slapstick xxxx

[@highpath4776]

When you have finished with Tommy Cooper, try Tim Vine.

[@winkle1]

TOMMY COOPER LEGEND

[@anitahargreaves9526]

Please give a look, Bill Bailey and Oti, win Strictly Come Dancing. He was phenomenal. 60+ we thought that he was not

[@markbuckle2222]

Tommy cooper & Eric Sykes in the film the plank was good as well

[@TheGramophoneGirl]

1973, wow, just wow.

[@Sleepy_DOOD1701]

7:22 Neverly Crusher stole Tommy Coopers joke

[@bish6352]

Love your videos

[@TheRealSquirrel]

Thank You

[@Clivegsd]

Maybe try Spike Milligan in one of his Q series?

[@TheSorub]

What a great man he was, try getting the Tommy Cooper -Cooper at sea sketch its an early one but vv funny

[@justinthyme3396]

Best TIME to go to the dentist, TOOTH HURTY.

[@kengregory6026]

Hi man..as a big fan of the Two Ronnies have you had a look at 'Porridge',arguably Ronnie Barker's greatest work (had a quick look thru yr vids but didnt see any)...there was a remake but it was rubbish,see if you can find any of the original stuff..absolutely superb..btw appreciate the Tommy Cooper stuff..cheers,keep up the good work

[@DroneKingsInDarwin]

Part 1? Strap yourself in folks. Tuesday will never be the same again.

[@johnallan4826]

Tommy was in a film called and the same to you and a couple of records

[@mhtbfecsq1]

Mum showed me about TC when I was young and I've seen clips which are much funnier than this. As an english guy I wanna give a shout out to an American called Chris Hannibal who I think is a good entertainer/magician too.

[@TheMadTatter]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm thinking you're a guy who appreciates quality one-liners? If that's the case then you should definitely check out Gary Delaney, another British stand-up for the list. Always appreciate seeing more Tommy Cooper, great stuff Squirrel 👍

[@TheMadTatter]

Nevermind, just seen you've done Gary Delaney already! You are indeed a man of culture 🍻

[@stephenwaters3515]

A natural clown I think, Just couldn't help but laugh at him, The jokes were the kind every kid told in the schoolyard. Not sure if they learned them from Tommy or if he learned from them , But somehow when he told them they were always funnier.

[@alangriggs6355]

He only has to laugh

[@nicklegg61]

Their is no better

[@kb3194]

Have a look for Benny Hill

[@jameshumphreys9715]

There was a comedian call Russ Abbott, who had a character called Cooperman and a partner called Blunderwoman kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6jHapSmfJxlf6c kzbin.info/www/bejne/g37cnpiwZtqDd6M

[@777petew]

Silly, silly, silly. It just needs laughing at for what it is. As a kid in the 60s and 70s, the whole family would fall about. Analyse it for scientific comedy value and you won't find anything. You just watch and laugh. That's all we did.

[@TechyMantis]

I would recommend this karate sketch from Tommy Cooper as well kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5amdndna7umfq8

[@Payne2view]

I'm sorry that you had to see those "comedians" at the start, especially the very Scottish one who couldn't do anything but a Scottish accent. In the 1970s every bad impersonator did the same 2 impressions; Tommy Cooper and Frank Spencer (from a Michael Crawford comedy called "Some mothers do 'ave 'em"), when they weren't impresonating how they thought black people talked that is. There was some great comedy acts like Tommy Cooper in the old days but also some very bad ones too. Also, I'd mention that the "producer" who came on is the actor who played "Mr Hall" in an episode of Fawlty Towers. I don't know if you or others noticed that.

[@tristram8436]

333rd

[@philjones45]

like i said before, very funny, but a limited act. Unfortunately you'll see the same tricks a lot, and some of the gags are poor Taking nothing away from Tommy though, he was one of the funniest guys I've ever seen. Perhaps if he'd had a manager that understood comedy his act would have been stronger.

[@jamespasifull3424]

I doubt he'd need any sympathy with the level of success he enjoyed..........for decades!! I can hardly imagine anyone nowadays who has the public's love & affection that TC had, so don't pity him, he was having a ball! 🤣

[@philjones45]

@@jamespasifull3424 I don't think his personal life was "a ball", quite the opposite.

[@theantilifeequation8150]

Fair comment but most comedy acts of that generation had a routine, it's because they got their acts in comedy clubs so you would do the same act in each club. But when you are on television it exposes your act which means you need to keep coming up with new material. Tommy could do that and did some new stuff but it's the curse of television. How many times can Les Dawson do mother in law jokes? or Frankie Howard do "oohh Mrs, oooh don't", or Dave Alan do jokes about catholicism?. It's the same with serious magicians, saw a lady in half in a different show every night of the week it's fine but do it on TV more than a couple of times and you've exposed it, similarly professional wrestling, back in the day they could do shows having the same matches and storylines up and down the land for weeks at a time but when it went on television they had to keep coming up with new finishes and storylines and feuds every week.

[@philjones45]

@@theantilifeequation8150 yes, I agree with most of your points here. He was so precious, I just think they should have got stronger script writers in, nurtured his career a little. Still, one of the best performers ever, that could make mediocre content very funny.