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Another legend gone.
Best TV interviewer ever. No contest. The Muhammad Ali interviews were superb. RIP
Yep - and from a time people were actually interviewed - not the product plugging 'chat shows' we have now.
RIP Parky
Hope his Sun Life insurance premiums were upto date.
Some of his interviews were great.
I particularly like his comment which is paraphrased...after all the people I've interviewed, I'm best known for being attacked by a sodding emu!.
RIP
That's the final survivior of my childhood Saturday evenings gone.
Bruce Forsyth
The Two Ronnies
Parky
Match of the day with David Carpenter/Frank Bough
Still he outlived Rod Hull I suppose
Hope his Sun Life insurance premiums were upto date.
Genuine lolz 😆
Re emu I always wonder how rod hull never took a bunch of fives in the mooey
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00nyy41/parkinson-dr-jacob-bronowski
One of the greatest interviews of all time, by one of the greatest, Fitting, as The Ascent of Man has very recently been re-shown on BBC4.
I genuinely thought he had already gone! Sad to hear though still, he was coming to the end of his chat show career by the time I was watching that sort of show but he still made a mark on me of what a chat show should be.
I always remember a bit of advice he gave to Graham Norton ages and ages ago: the interviewer's job is to get the guest to talk naturally. Michael was a master at that, never interrupting and just being polite. I put it down to why Norton is so good too, learned from the master.
Muhammad Ali and Billy Connolly appearances were outstanding moments of TV.
Almost evety guest liked and trusted him. No gimmicks, just listening and asking the right questions.
Rip
One of Barnsley's finest, RIP Sir Michael of Cudworth.
He was good but he was also a reflection of the quality of his interviewees - they may have been today's news, as it were, but they also tended to already have a worthwhile established career rather than today's wannabes from nowhere.
Yep – and from a time people were actually interviewed – not the product plugging ‘chat shows’ we have now.
RIP Parky
All of this. Absolutely light years ahead of what we get now.
I often have to ignore these RIP threads because I'm glad to see the back of the people concerned. Not Parkinson, he gets a genuine RIP.
He was really good at giving people the opportunity to say what they had to say. George Michel in 1998 is another one to watch.
George Michel in 1998 is another one to watch.
Just finished watching after seeing eds post. It is a fantastic interview, GM is really interesting and down to earth, but of course parkinson got the best out of him. Well worth watching if only for entertainment..
Almost evety guest liked and trusted him. No gimmicks, just listening and asking the right questions.
Recently, I saw the Kenneth Williams series of interviews, and MP said that they didn't get on at first but tolerated each other later.
I remember seeing the first Billy Connolly interview live. Back when regional accents were rare on TV. Included the bike parking joke.
RIP Parky.
Amongst all the great interviews and interviewees, one that always come to mind for some reason was that one with Meg Ryan. You know - where she was truly appallingly uncooperative, clearly didn't want to be there, whilst MP did his utmost professionally to try to drag a modicum of something worthwhile out of it (I'd have told her to f@#£ off and not come back after 2 minutes if she couldn't be asrsed being interviewed on prime time when it is obviously a chat show where she was there to be interviewed!
The best ? I loved it when he got Dicke Bird (the umpire) on.
Almost evety guest liked and trusted him.
Probably not Helen Mirren, when he asked her about her breasts.
barely MP, but just saw a great clip with Buddy Rich, Roy Castle and a surprise guest (worth watching to the end for)