Tommy Cooper Born 100 years ago today

One of the greatest comedians ever

You must all know loads more like this.....


I was a big surprise to my parents. They found me on the doorstep. They were expecting a bottle of milk.


I went to the doctors, told him it hurts when I lift my arm, he said well don’t do it then.


When the nurse told my mother she had an eight pound bundle of joy. She said: “Thank goodness the laundry is back.”

And one of my favourites

Doc I can’t stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home’

“That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.

‘Is it common?’

“It’s not unusual.”


But of course to paraphrase another comedian's catch phrase


It's the way he told them


And as Tommy would say


Just like that

Nof like that

Like that

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day - couldn't find any.

Two blondes walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have noticed.

Never forget that night he literally died on stage.
Shown live on Sunday night and for a few seconds thought it was part of the act.

Then it became obvious something was wrong. The rest of the show went on but he was all over the news after that he'd passed away.

What a way to go!

Extremely talented and funny man.

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Originally Posted by MacAdder

Never forget that night he literally died on stage.
Shown live on Sunday night and for a few seconds thought it was part of the act.

Then it became obvious something was wrong. The rest of the show went on but he was all over the news after that he'd passed away.

What a way to go!

Extremely talented and funny man.

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I remember that night. As we watched i remember my father saying that don't look right as the audience laughed thinking it was part of his act.
Sid James went a similar way to

hardly max boyce tho

My favourite.

I was cleaning out the attic the other day.
I found an old violin and an oil painting.
I took them to a dealer and he said....
"What you have here is a picasso and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately Stradivarius couldn't paint and Picasso made awful violins."

He was delivered just like that.

His jokes written don't seem that funny, delivered live by the big man is genius.

Glass, bottle, bottle, glass:biggrin: Heard a story years ago told by British people on a cruise. They reckoned they had a stop in, I think
they said, Morocco and there was a local on a quayside hat stall with a fez on his head repeating ‘Just like that, just like that’. They said to him ‘Oh you know of Tommy Cooper’, he didn’t know who he was he just said that loads of people who get off the ships when passing his stall very often picked a fez up and say it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lVd3Pl3z3M

The Plank is on talking pictures at 8.15pm tonight :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

The Plank is on talking pictures at 8.15pm tonight :thumbup:

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I watched it the other day, Eric Sykes another genius.

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Originally Posted by splott parker

I watched it the other day, Eric Sykes another genius.

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I caught the end of it the other day. Think it was on BBC4. I'll give it another watch as anything will be better than Davina McCall and Henny Lenry.

I was cleaning up in the attic the other day with the wife.

Rotten dirty, covered in cobwebs....
But she's good to the kids!


Sounds like he was forever cleaning out the attic :hehe:

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Originally Posted by splott parker

I watched it the other day, Eric Sykes another genius.

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I've seen Tommy Cooper and Eric Sykes live on stage. Eric Sykes was brilliant whereas Tommy Cooper was disappointing.

30 days has September, April, June and November,
All the rest have 31, except February, which has 28, and 29 in a leap yr.
That’s not fair!! 😂

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Originally Posted by Vindec

I've seen Tommy Cooper and Eric Sykes live on stage. Eric Sykes was brilliant whereas Tommy Cooper was disappointing.

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I saw Eric Sykes in the New Theatre years ago, outstanding.

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Originally Posted by splott parker

I saw Eric Sykes in the New Theatre years ago, outstanding.

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I saw Eric Sykes in York. The cast was brilliant and included Britt Eckland, Robin Asquith and Ian Lavender but the best performance was Sykes who was utterly brilliant. He forgot his words on a few occasions and laughed it off and had the audience in stitches. The fact he was able to perform at all was brilliant given that he was totally deaf.

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Originally Posted by Vindec

I saw Eric Sykes in York. The cast was brilliant and included Britt Eckland, Robin Asquith and Ian Lavender but the best performance was Sykes who was utterly brilliant. He forgot his words on a few occasions and laughed it off and had the audience in stitches. The fact he was able to perform at all was brilliant given that he was totally deaf.

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PARDON ? :hehe:

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Originally Posted by BLUETIT

PARDON ? :hehe:

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HE SAID, "THE FACT THAT HE WAS ABLE TO PERFORM AT ALL WAS BRILLIANT GIVEN THAT HE WAS TOTALLY DEAF!"

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Originally Posted by Vindec

I saw Eric Sykes in York. The cast was brilliant and included Britt Eckland, Robin Asquith and Ian Lavender but the best performance was Sykes who was utterly brilliant. He forgot his words on a few occasions and laughed it off and had the audience in stitches. The fact he was able to perform at all was brilliant given that he was totally deaf.

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I spoke to him on Greyfriars Rd at the same time I saw him at the New Theatre and, you’re correct, he was mutton. He did reply to me whilst cupping his ear though, I thought it was funny at the time because he had huge lugholes:hehe: