No. Look, I'll put it in therelike that. Open your hand. But it was an occasion that...
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No. Look, I'll put it in there
like that. Open your hand. But it was an occasion that would
nearly cut short the career of the
nation's favourite talk show host. There is one trick, isn't there, that you've never successfully done
on a show, which you'd like to
try out on me? Yes, I would. Over here, is it?
Yes. In the studio that night was
Cooper's prop maker John Palfreyman. We did it straight off the cuff,
with no rehearsal prior to putting
Parkie into the guillotine
like that. Open your hand. But it was an occasion that would
nearly cut short the career of the
nation's favourite talk show host. There is one trick, isn't there, that you've never successfully done
on a show, which you'd like to
try out on me? Yes, I would. Over here, is it?
Yes. In the studio that night was
Cooper's prop maker John Palfreyman. We did it straight off the cuff,
with no rehearsal prior to putting
Parkie into the guillotine
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No. Look, I'll put it in there
like that. Open your hand.
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But it was an occasion that would
nearly cut short the career of the
nation's favourite talk show host.
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There is one trick, isn't there,
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that you've never successfully done
on a show, which you'd like to
try out on me?
00:00:20.076 --> 00:00:23.002
Yes, I would. Over here, is it?
Yes.
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In the studio that night was
Cooper's prop maker John Palfreyman.
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We did it straight off the cuff,
with no rehearsal prior to putting
Parkie into the guillotine.
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Movie Summary
Two-part celebration of Tommy Cooper's life and work. Three decades have passed since Tommy Cooper died, but the nation's love of this unique magician has endured. With contributions from family, friends who worked with him and famous fans, the programme reveals how an act that started out in the desert during the Second World War went on to take the comedy world by storm.
