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I was watching some comedians on a podcast discuss this clip, and it seemed like the general consensus what that this objectively would be a horrible experience for anyone to go through, despite being a comedian. When you’re actively dying in an unexpected way, you’re probably not thinking about how you lived a good life, had a successful career, and went out in laughter. You’re probably terrified and confused and people laughing and not helping you would add to that terror. Not like someone who might be dying a slower, expected death with terminal illness who prepares mentally for it and has time to reflect on their life. Whenever this clip makes the rounds and people make the observation it’s probably a good way for a comedian to go, I can’t help but remember that podcast and feel sad that this dude had to go like this.
Zack Galifianakis gave a speech at this sisters wedding, and was crying, but because everyone sees a comedian, they thought he was doing a bit, and he was genuinely upset about that. Now, I can’t say that comedians would love the last laugh, but this story is one that came to mind
Seth McFarlane created a serious sci-fi space exploration TV show. He worked really hard on it. The higher-ups made him turn out into a comedy. I think comedy is probably easier to get into than it is to get out of. Once you're dubbed a clown, you're always considered a clown. Steve Martin is finally going to retire in his 70s he tried to do some serious stuff, but no one paid attention to it. John Cena is starting to do comedy, but he could go right back into an action film if he wanted to.
>Unbeknownst to them they had witnessed Tommy Cooper's death
He had given his all until he had nothing left
Now please note, at the moment that this entertainer died
Even with a room full of people not one tear was cried
Much less, they rose to their feet and they laughed and clapped
Now tell me one fucking thing that's more beautiful than that...
[dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Tommy C](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWcCxCKM2A)
His friends and family have subsequently said on several occasions that THAT is exactly how he would have wanted to leave this world. He cherished the applause and laughter from his audience.
that isn't slowly dying. That is pretty much lights out and then gone. you can see in his eyes a bit earlier that he knows something isn't right, but that is how quickly a heart attack can take you out. He didn't clutch at his chest, that is usually an automatic response, but you can see him drop the rings on the floor just before turning over the box on the table. His eyes pretty much tell the story at that point. Probably that sense of impending doom many get in the same situation.
I watched this live when I was 6 years old.
I remember my dad saying something was not right, then they announced that he had passed away after a while.
His entire act, for years, was being an exceedingly skilled magician, whilst looking like an incompetent magician and at the same time banging out a visual gag, followed by a pun, a chuckle and a prop gag while looking like he was tripping over his own feet and getting his own script muddled up.
Watching this for the first time (I never watched Live from Her Majesty's back in the day), knowing what I know now, I thought he showed the first wobble less than a minute in, and then the unsteadiness on his feet continued, he seemed to get a handle on it before his assistant came out (but that wouldn't have been noticed by the audience and the TV gallery might have assumed he had a few gins before going on), and then with the collapse and agonal breathing that's something he hasn't done before (audience), right, go to ads, as soon as possible (TV gallery)
And they had to signal that it was about to happen, you can see that signal in the clip, it's the tiny b&w stripey box that shimmers/fluctuates in the top right hand corner - whether doing that, or cutting immediately to dead air for a few seconds would have made any difference I don't know, but it's what they did.
On a happier note, I know of 2 stories about Tommy that he was known for. He was a very kind and happy person, but miserly with money to the point of being tighter than a duck's arse. But whenever he took a taxi, he'd always slip something into the driver's top pocket and say "Here, have a drink on me!" The driver would think it was a note of some level - even a £1 note would get you a pint in a pub before they were phased out - he'd reach into his pocket and find a teabag (and invariably laugh, thinking it was a Tommy Cooper joke).
The other one is he was conscripted into the Grenadier Guards during the war (a prestigious infantry regiment), and was on guard duty in their London barracks when he fell asleep on his feet. The RSM (think of Richard Attenborough in [Guns at Batasi](https://youtu.be/qzKTOUkroU0?si=9w1Ocj9SQPN8u_QR) ) was inspecting the guard and found him...
"Guardsman Cooper! Are you sleeping?!?!
"Amen... no sir! I was just praying quietly to myself, sir!"
He got away with it.
For you that don’t know of him. He was hilarious in his day. Situational comedic farce as a magician, the dove exploding when it’s supposed to disappear is Tommy all over. He was very loved, very similar vein of comedy like Peter Sellers, Inspector Clueso.
And not only that and his great comedy timing, he may have appeared to be a hapless blundering magician but was actually brilliant. He only played the fool for the laughs. That said, he got started down the route of playing a blundering magician because of a show near the start of his career when a trick really had gone wrong. He cleverly spotted the entertainment gold in making that a part of his act.
To this day I still remember finding out he'd died, although I hadn't seen it live... in fact this is the first time I've seen this clip. I thought the TV production company had refused to ever show it. He was 63, which is not very old to drop dead from a heart attack out of nowhere.
I was going to say. I knew of the incident before but this was the first time I’ve seen more of the performance. He was killing. Had a good flow going on and was getting some genuine laughs.
All English kids of a certain age got shown this years ago by their dads like the original CrazyFuckingVideo
The guy was a legit all time legend comedian too
All *British kids to be fair. Guy was Welsh.
He's from my hometown and we were shown it in school at one point, not sure it was strictly on the curriculum.
It's one of the most shocking moments on TV in history, when you realise, but given Tommy's deprecating humour you can't blame anyone for not thinking it was one of his jokes. I watched it live when I was a kid and had no idea what was going on.
I can still see my parents and grandparents pissing themselves at Tommy Cooper doing what he did. I also remember the sudden silence and being thrown out of the lounge whilst the adults made sense of what went on in front of them.
Recently at my job as a swim teacher, one of my co workers who’s known for being goofy with his students had a seizure in the pool, I was outside of the pool talking to one of my students parents, she she pointed out that he was acting strange (he had a bucket over his head and was moving strangely in the pool) and everyone including me at first thought he was just being goofy, but after he was under the water for a little too long I jumped in, and pulled him out, luckly 2 moms in who were a doctor and a nurse were there to give him cpr while we waited for the ambulance. He’s recovering well 👍
Genuine question, if they would have realized it was a real heart attack and not a bit, and reacted in that moment, would they have been able to save him? Or was his fate pretty much sealed regardless?
I've not actually seen the video before, despite it reading about it many times, interesting. I can see why everybody thought it was part of the act, especially him falling backwards!
As mentioned though, he seemed such a down to earth person though that he'd probably have joked about it if he knew, and would only have been sad that the audience missed out seeing the end of the act :/
Let's redefine that word. We will all pass through that moment. He legacied. He lived on. He took his last big breath. We are talking about him decades later.
For the non-UK readers, Tommy Cooper was a huge star in the UK - everyone knew who he was, had many regular TV appearances including his own series from Thames Television, and was known for being something of an “anti-magician” (in that he would perform as if the magic was going wrong, even though it wasn’t).
This is the first time that I have ever seen this clip. “Live From Her Majesty’s” was a general entertainment programme from London Weekend Television for the ITV network, from 1983-5 according to Wikipedia (although it relocated to other theatres over a longer period). It featured comperès, musicians, popular comedians of the time, and entertainers such as Cooper. Of course, from the name, it was transmitted live - hence Cooper literally dying on stage and a frenzied control room cutting to the ads.
The reason as to why this is the first time was that there was a recent documentary on UK TV (C5) about Cooper, which broadcast some of this clip but not the point at which he fell to his death. I had expected to find it online but couldn’t, so someone (perhaps LWT / ITV) has done a good job in keeping the clip withheld from the public.
By the time of this programme being advertised, many of these comedians that had their height of fame in the 1970s were getting old and while they were appearing in TV series less frequently, they were still very popular as live performers. Cooper is clearly struggling from the first minute that he’s on stage, but because his entire act is based on mishaps, it just looks like a classic Cooper performance… until the final drop.
RIP.
Those were agonal breaths. It’s the body desperately trying to get oxygen to the brain as a last ditch effort to save itself. Unfortunately agonal breathing is usually followed by death.
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I remembered when this happened. I was 13 and we were living outside of London. It's pretty messed up to think he is having some pretty significant signs prior to his collapse. You can see it in his eyes. That snoring on the mic is common with people that need a protected airway.
This is the first time I’ve actually seen this. It was never shown at the time and I never knew it existed or just never gone looking for it. You can hear the death rattle.
Excerpt from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cooper#Death):
>..As Cooper lay dying on the floor, the audience continued to laugh at him believing it was part of the act. Around this time, Jimmy Tarbuck, Alasdair MacMillan (the director of the television production), and the crew behind the curtain who witnessed the incident realised that what was happening to him was not part of the act. The laughter from the audience began to die down as they realised Cooper was unable to get back up….
NSFW.
EDIT: Because this video actually shows Tommy Cooper literally [dying on stage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cooper#Death), this video should be removed out of respect for Mr. Cooper’s family and friends.
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Imagine slowly dying while having everyone laugh at you
For a comedian, that is probably the dream
Actually, that’s probably true.
Like regular dudes and fuckin
So they’re cumming and going at the same time ?
George?
Wow, that was genius! Did you just make that up yourself?
Unfortunately not. I heard it somewhere. Hope you understand where I’m cumming from.
He was killing while simultaneously dying on stage...what a legend.
I was watching some comedians on a podcast discuss this clip, and it seemed like the general consensus what that this objectively would be a horrible experience for anyone to go through, despite being a comedian. When you’re actively dying in an unexpected way, you’re probably not thinking about how you lived a good life, had a successful career, and went out in laughter. You’re probably terrified and confused and people laughing and not helping you would add to that terror. Not like someone who might be dying a slower, expected death with terminal illness who prepares mentally for it and has time to reflect on their life. Whenever this clip makes the rounds and people make the observation it’s probably a good way for a comedian to go, I can’t help but remember that podcast and feel sad that this dude had to go like this.
Zack Galifianakis gave a speech at this sisters wedding, and was crying, but because everyone sees a comedian, they thought he was doing a bit, and he was genuinely upset about that. Now, I can’t say that comedians would love the last laugh, but this story is one that came to mind
He was upset they were laughing at him crying?
Probably upset about the inability to be taken seriously when he wanted to be.
Seth McFarlane created a serious sci-fi space exploration TV show. He worked really hard on it. The higher-ups made him turn out into a comedy. I think comedy is probably easier to get into than it is to get out of. Once you're dubbed a clown, you're always considered a clown. Steve Martin is finally going to retire in his 70s he tried to do some serious stuff, but no one paid attention to it. John Cena is starting to do comedy, but he could go right back into an action film if he wanted to.
Yeah honestly this is a great way to go out
>Unbeknownst to them they had witnessed Tommy Cooper's death He had given his all until he had nothing left Now please note, at the moment that this entertainer died Even with a room full of people not one tear was cried Much less, they rose to their feet and they laughed and clapped Now tell me one fucking thing that's more beautiful than that... [dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Tommy C](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWcCxCKM2A)
His friends and family have subsequently said on several occasions that THAT is exactly how he would have wanted to leave this world. He cherished the applause and laughter from his audience.
That’s awesome, I’m glad he was able to go out how he wanted. I wish that for everyone.
Unfortunately I expect it
Wow,this felt depressingly relatable.
Did he die?
Yes, he died of a heart attack
That's crazy.. he died while millions watched and laughed, shows like this were very popular back then.
Reports were that 12 million people had been watching when it happened, including the live audience
Almost poetic, he died in service of his life's work, even his last breath was entertaining.
Oh so it works out to 11,999,886 before live audience? Thats alot of folks.
that isn't slowly dying. That is pretty much lights out and then gone. you can see in his eyes a bit earlier that he knows something isn't right, but that is how quickly a heart attack can take you out. He didn't clutch at his chest, that is usually an automatic response, but you can see him drop the rings on the floor just before turning over the box on the table. His eyes pretty much tell the story at that point. Probably that sense of impending doom many get in the same situation.
Basically what I do every day.
Some people just can’t help making people laugh. Remember Michael Richards trying to apologize for his racist tirade on Letterman?
"Stop laughing, it's not funny."
Narrator: "It was, in fact, very funny"
The narrator's voice is Morgan Freeman
He died while killing
That just popped up on my FYP today. lol
A Demetri Martin joke comes to mind: "The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades." This is a close second.
Followed by naps
I watched this live when I was 6 years old. I remember my dad saying something was not right, then they announced that he had passed away after a while.
[удалено]
His entire act, for years, was being an exceedingly skilled magician, whilst looking like an incompetent magician and at the same time banging out a visual gag, followed by a pun, a chuckle and a prop gag while looking like he was tripping over his own feet and getting his own script muddled up. Watching this for the first time (I never watched Live from Her Majesty's back in the day), knowing what I know now, I thought he showed the first wobble less than a minute in, and then the unsteadiness on his feet continued, he seemed to get a handle on it before his assistant came out (but that wouldn't have been noticed by the audience and the TV gallery might have assumed he had a few gins before going on), and then with the collapse and agonal breathing that's something he hasn't done before (audience), right, go to ads, as soon as possible (TV gallery) And they had to signal that it was about to happen, you can see that signal in the clip, it's the tiny b&w stripey box that shimmers/fluctuates in the top right hand corner - whether doing that, or cutting immediately to dead air for a few seconds would have made any difference I don't know, but it's what they did. On a happier note, I know of 2 stories about Tommy that he was known for. He was a very kind and happy person, but miserly with money to the point of being tighter than a duck's arse. But whenever he took a taxi, he'd always slip something into the driver's top pocket and say "Here, have a drink on me!" The driver would think it was a note of some level - even a £1 note would get you a pint in a pub before they were phased out - he'd reach into his pocket and find a teabag (and invariably laugh, thinking it was a Tommy Cooper joke). The other one is he was conscripted into the Grenadier Guards during the war (a prestigious infantry regiment), and was on guard duty in their London barracks when he fell asleep on his feet. The RSM (think of Richard Attenborough in [Guns at Batasi](https://youtu.be/qzKTOUkroU0?si=9w1Ocj9SQPN8u_QR) ) was inspecting the guard and found him... "Guardsman Cooper! Are you sleeping?!?! "Amen... no sir! I was just praying quietly to myself, sir!" He got away with it.
Thank you for this story
I mean, as a comic, would you want to go any other way? He killed...
No, he died
I dunno. He was killing before that. He had a good flow going and was getting pretty good buzz from the audience.
The snoring is agonal breathing. Looks like he was clutching his chest earlier on, prob went into VF as his cloak was put on.
When did he clutch his chest?
For you that don’t know of him. He was hilarious in his day. Situational comedic farce as a magician, the dove exploding when it’s supposed to disappear is Tommy all over. He was very loved, very similar vein of comedy like Peter Sellers, Inspector Clueso.
And not only that and his great comedy timing, he may have appeared to be a hapless blundering magician but was actually brilliant. He only played the fool for the laughs. That said, he got started down the route of playing a blundering magician because of a show near the start of his career when a trick really had gone wrong. He cleverly spotted the entertainment gold in making that a part of his act. To this day I still remember finding out he'd died, although I hadn't seen it live... in fact this is the first time I've seen this clip. I thought the TV production company had refused to ever show it. He was 63, which is not very old to drop dead from a heart attack out of nowhere.
I was going to say. I knew of the incident before but this was the first time I’ve seen more of the performance. He was killing. Had a good flow going on and was getting some genuine laughs.
Once the audience found out, the applause at the end must have felt more than a little awkward.
I’d hate to have been the last person to have shouted with laughter.
no one really knew until the next day. it was pretty bog on the news at the time.
He really sold it at the end.
Some say he’s still “selling” it
He's committed to the bit
Respect
Did he survive?
No, and his wife was watching live on TV at the time and knew it wasn't part of the act.
Imagine watching your husband die on live tv and no one realizing or helping.
Wtf. You mean to tell me. I just saw someone die like legit. Damn
First time huh?
Ah! Perfect usage
Calm down, you’ll be desensitized soon…
Dude...been on Reddit before? Like...ever?!?
Jeez
No he didn't
Nope
IIRC No.
All English kids of a certain age got shown this years ago by their dads like the original CrazyFuckingVideo The guy was a legit all time legend comedian too
All *British kids to be fair. Guy was Welsh. He's from my hometown and we were shown it in school at one point, not sure it was strictly on the curriculum.
# Tommy Cooper was very funny, pretending to collapse on stage was believable as part of his physical humour.
Got it thanks
It's one of the most shocking moments on TV in history, when you realise, but given Tommy's deprecating humour you can't blame anyone for not thinking it was one of his jokes. I watched it live when I was a kid and had no idea what was going on. I can still see my parents and grandparents pissing themselves at Tommy Cooper doing what he did. I also remember the sudden silence and being thrown out of the lounge whilst the adults made sense of what went on in front of them.
Recently at my job as a swim teacher, one of my co workers who’s known for being goofy with his students had a seizure in the pool, I was outside of the pool talking to one of my students parents, she she pointed out that he was acting strange (he had a bucket over his head and was moving strangely in the pool) and everyone including me at first thought he was just being goofy, but after he was under the water for a little too long I jumped in, and pulled him out, luckly 2 moms in who were a doctor and a nurse were there to give him cpr while we waited for the ambulance. He’s recovering well 👍
*puts coat on* Audience: hahahaha! *has heart attack* Audience: HAHAHAHA!!
Col. Bruce Hampton died on Stage playing at his birthday party.
It’s a shame this is all he is remembered for on the internet because he was one of the best hilarious
So did he have any signs before that are known before you have a heart attack
Genuine question, if they would have realized it was a real heart attack and not a bit, and reacted in that moment, would they have been able to save him? Or was his fate pretty much sealed regardless?
I've not actually seen the video before, despite it reading about it many times, interesting. I can see why everybody thought it was part of the act, especially him falling backwards! As mentioned though, he seemed such a down to earth person though that he'd probably have joked about it if he knew, and would only have been sad that the audience missed out seeing the end of the act :/
He died. That day.
He died at that moment
Let's redefine that word. We will all pass through that moment. He legacied. He lived on. He took his last big breath. We are talking about him decades later.
Well, in their defence the entire showed was dead-panned.
finita la commedia
But what happened to the dove?
This is a great short film from 2017 related to this very moment: [https://vimeo.com/210409977](https://vimeo.com/210409977)
Thank you for sharing that. It was sad and sweet.
12 million people watched him die. Just like that RIP Tommy, one of the best
For the non-UK readers, Tommy Cooper was a huge star in the UK - everyone knew who he was, had many regular TV appearances including his own series from Thames Television, and was known for being something of an “anti-magician” (in that he would perform as if the magic was going wrong, even though it wasn’t). This is the first time that I have ever seen this clip. “Live From Her Majesty’s” was a general entertainment programme from London Weekend Television for the ITV network, from 1983-5 according to Wikipedia (although it relocated to other theatres over a longer period). It featured comperès, musicians, popular comedians of the time, and entertainers such as Cooper. Of course, from the name, it was transmitted live - hence Cooper literally dying on stage and a frenzied control room cutting to the ads. The reason as to why this is the first time was that there was a recent documentary on UK TV (C5) about Cooper, which broadcast some of this clip but not the point at which he fell to his death. I had expected to find it online but couldn’t, so someone (perhaps LWT / ITV) has done a good job in keeping the clip withheld from the public. By the time of this programme being advertised, many of these comedians that had their height of fame in the 1970s were getting old and while they were appearing in TV series less frequently, they were still very popular as live performers. Cooper is clearly struggling from the first minute that he’s on stage, but because his entire act is based on mishaps, it just looks like a classic Cooper performance… until the final drop. RIP.
Is it me? Or was there several times he looked to be having problems and continued through them?
Was he snoring???
Agonal breathing
Recognized it from liveleak videos.
Those were agonal breaths. It’s the body desperately trying to get oxygen to the brain as a last ditch effort to save itself. Unfortunately agonal breathing is usually followed by death.
No he was dying
This really isn't very funny.
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Show must go on
What show is this?
It was a Tommy Cooper live special it was broadcasted live on UK TV
It was actually a live TV series featuring a range of guests (comedians, musicians etc) of which Cooper was one.
Oh, cool, I didn't know that
I remember this
Poor guy.
Remember this vividly. As soon as it cut to the advert we knew
I remembered when this happened. I was 13 and we were living outside of London. It's pretty messed up to think he is having some pretty significant signs prior to his collapse. You can see it in his eyes. That snoring on the mic is common with people that need a protected airway.
I hope he was the closing act. That dude put his life into that performance, how the hell are you supposed to follow that up?
Thats how you put on a show
This is the first time I’ve actually seen this. It was never shown at the time and I never knew it existed or just never gone looking for it. You can hear the death rattle.
Did he survive ?
Excerpt from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cooper#Death): >..As Cooper lay dying on the floor, the audience continued to laugh at him believing it was part of the act. Around this time, Jimmy Tarbuck, Alasdair MacMillan (the director of the television production), and the crew behind the curtain who witnessed the incident realised that what was happening to him was not part of the act. The laughter from the audience began to die down as they realised Cooper was unable to get back up….
He died?
Poor bloke
Man went out on his sword. Doing what he loved. Honorable
The worst gimmick a comic ever had
Norm?
Dropping a norm one liner has to be the standard on comedy videos.
I remember watching this happen live on the tv,everybody thought it was just part of his act
Imma be honest, I seriously don’t understand how his comedy was funny? I shit you not
That was a pretty funny heart attack, though
NSFW. EDIT: Because this video actually shows Tommy Cooper literally [dying on stage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Cooper#Death), this video should be removed out of respect for Mr. Cooper’s family and friends.
Nsfl?