Posts Tagged ‘Peter Sellers’

Random Thing That Amuses Me

Thursday, February 4th, 2016

The name of this top-ranked high school football recruit: Chauncey Gardner.

I’m just going to assume all my readers know why I find that name amusing. And how often do I get to use the “football” and “Peter Sellers” tags for the same post?

Amazing 1974 Interview With Peter Sellers

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

I forgot exactly what I was looking for, but I came across this interview UK talk show host Michael Parkinson did with Peter Sellers in 1974. Sellers was, of course, one of the great comic actors, but according to this backstory, Sellers did very few interviews, and was very hard to interview in his own personality, as opposed to the many characters and impressions he did.

Anyway, the interview is a bit choppy in YouTube format (there’s a lot of overlap between the first two videos), but is full of fascinating Sellers impressions and bits, some Pink Panther outtakes, as well as a pinch of pathos about his failed marriages toward the end.

Seller died in 1980, but Michael Parkinson is still alive.