Passing of a TV game changer – TW3 & that interview with Nixon.

edit: mods can you moveto chat pls keyboard/chair interface issue. ooops!

Cheery thread topic.

Spoilers! I’ve got the news on record for later

Cheery thread topic

Would you prefer a euphemism?

Would you prefer a euphemism?

This is not the time or the place, Spin, a man is dead fer chrissakes!

Well after the RIP debate I though it better to use plain English. 🙂

He probably watched Keith Lemons version of Through the Keyhole

I misread the title and got my people mixed up thinking this was David Jason. Obviously he played Frost.

Never heard of David Frost but never the less never nice to lose someone.

Edit – just googled him and i do indeed recognise him.

Never heard of David Frost?!?!?

(heads to shed to find crown green bowls and trilby, anyone want to buy some Glenn Miller LPs – big black CDs)

I do indeed know who he is, I just got the names muddled up.

Never heard of David Frost but never the less never nice to lose someone.

WTF? You been in cryostasis??

This is not the time or the place, Spin, a man is dead fer chrissakes!

You started it. He’s dead so the OP said so. What’s the problem?

To be fair I just didn’t know his name , plus the interviews he is most famous for happened before I was even born.

Does me not knowing who he was by name really matter?

Does me not knowing who he was by name really matter?

No. It’s just surprising.

A great character.

I watched Frost Nixon the other night as previously only seen bits.

He was at his best as the host of satirical shows imo. It was his TWTWTW that gave John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbet, their first important break in TV

He was not, imo, a good interviewer, lacking as he did the ability to conduct robust and challenging interviews, preferring instead to take a sycophantic attitude towards his interviewee and rolling on his back to let them tickle his tummy, metaphorically speaking. Which explains why the high and mighty were always happy to be interviewed by him and why he got important exclusives.

I am however eternally grateful for his contribution to TV satirical comedy, specially when it was still in its infancy. Anyone who furthers the noble art of pisstaking is OK by me.

Edit to the above : it was the Frost Report that gave John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbet, their first important break in TV, not TWTWTW.

Peter never had any regrets in his life. I never heard him voice any regrets. He didn’t regret the fact that he lost his early facility, he didn’t regret the fact that he lost his looks, which he did quite spectacularly, he didn’t regret the fact that Dudley had gone on to fame and fortune in Hollywood. The only regret he regularly voiced was that, at the house we all shared in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1963, he’d saved David Frost from drowning.

Alan Bennett, in a documentary, Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook