Peter Sellers - Timeless

What's New Pussycat is on the box. Man is it dated? But Peter Sellers is still hilarious. 

Great movie.

Woody Allen wrote it after flunking out of Columbia and NYU's film depts.  He took out a full page add in the NYT saying that and his first major Hollywood film was being released.  Revenge is sweet.

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Glyn Barnes


What's New Pussycat is on the box. Man is it dated? But Peter Sellers is still hilarious. 

You you you ... lascivious adulterer!

A film I have not seen for ages is "Soft beds-Hard Battles" were Sellers plays six charecters including Adolf Hitler.

Great quote - Sellers is Herr Schroeder  .

Schultz: What do you look forward to?
Herr Schroeder: After the war? I look forward to going back to my old job in civilian street.
Schultz: What did you do?
Herr Schroeder: I was an income tax inspector.
Schultz: Very different from the Gestapo.
Herr Schroeder: Not the way I do it!

SteveStrummerUK


Personally speaking, I think Steve Martin was the definitive Clouseau. 

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No, not really.
 

Steve Martin thinks he is funny ... he doesn't know how to be funny by just being who he is! He's been steeped too much in the American tradition of the canned laughter, to know how to do a Closeau properly. It was all gags and no continuity, as his character was empty in between a bit or two.
 
You get more of the feeling of a person, with Sellers' character, specially as he goes about his day in and day out, which Steve bungled, or perhaps the writing was the problem, but Steve is too self-conscious as an actor to make this work. He won't work with directors that make him work ... only directors that don't know how to direct, so he can do whatever he wants!

Hi,

You can catch some funny bits from the Goons on the net ... most famous are some really good bits here and there ... some goon show bits.

1. What Time is It? - Bluebottle and Eccles discuss how to tell what time it is.

2. Shelled - More than once, and specially in the Dreaded Pudding Hurler story, are the jokes about ... and the original design that had the joke continuing and if you laugh, you will miss part 2 or 3!

3. Classic! - Six Charlies In Search of An Author. One of the best Goon shows ever, beautifully crafted and written, with the funniest and weirdest twists ever. Just hearing it now, it is still very good!

4. Insane -- The Last Tram -- The House of Teeth -- The Canal -- President Fred ... all of them seminal shows that border not only on the surrealistic, but on the crazy and the best satire around.

5. Out There -- The Great Statue Debate ... Hyde Park? Where's that?

6. Funny and Weird -- China Story -- The Last Tram -- Tales of Men's Shirts

Spike Milligan did a whole bunch of books ... and it is worth reading all his books about the WW2 and how he met Peter and Harry, in Algeria of all places while going after the bonde German guy! The stories are nutz! His stories are not only poignant, but also neat and entertaining. After that he did many children's books, and there are several LP's of him reading these stories with a live audience of kids, and he is really good with them!

Peter Sellers also did a few LP's of his own, and most of it was satirical stuff that featured him playing an instrument or two, and drumming. There are some great bits here ... like him at the pub ... crossing the street ... and many more. It kinda tells you that for this guy, comedy had absolutely nothing to do with being funny to anyone, but that it was really just an extension of his internal mind seeing these things happen, which is the CLUE for his really good acting ... he can follow it and have a story on it ... Steve Martin only had moments and gags by comparison!

Even funnier, if you never have seen it ... get the movie "After The Fox" ... and enjoy a madman at work, turning Vittorio de Sica into a crazy director. The film is magnificent and shot just like the story would! But the bits in it, are histerical ... and the timing ... ... make sure you replay the bingo bit a few times ... absolutely off the wall timing! But the subtle and satirical side of it ... what we doing ? ... Tony my dear, in this scene we do nothing! Do you get the significance? Nothing! Absolutely nothing!

Steve would never be able to tell you to dream that!

Have fun!

Yes Peter Sellers was hilarous.
Most of his works are still funny today, and have stood the test of time.

(Steve Martin's Clouseau was completley devoid of humour. The Clouseau humour is quite different to Steve Martin's slapstick style, and he clearly did not 'get it' at all. 
I don't know what they were thinking of when they cast him).

My favourite Sellers film is 'The Party'.
It is priceless!

Steve Martin is a pretty good banjo player.

That's all I got.

Especially in some Pink Panther movies Sellers is so high above the rest,
that it's annoying. The rest of the humour/characters are cheap slapstick, and Sellers moves in a level of his own. Party is one of my favourites.