Comments on: When John Claridge Met Tommy Cooper https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: the pipe and slippers man https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-1384320 Tue, 29 Jun 2021 12:05:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-1384320 i am putting the second image here on my wall. the first and only time the camera has properly captured the darkness behind the funniest british man in history…

]]> By: Tony Buckingham https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-1371219 Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:11:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-1371219 I would love to purchase a Tommy Cooper
Photographs please contact me with prices

]]> By: Anthony Gerundini https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-1371132 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 10:31:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-1371132 “His final show has become a modern myth, how the disbelieving crowd roared in 1984 when Cooper – who had sometimes clutched his chest in pretend heart-attacks for a joke – was felled on stage by a real one.”

A fitting way for him to go perhaps – In The Act.
Maybe he would have approved.

]]> By: ian silverton https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-736419 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:02:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-736419 Drunk with him many times in Londons West End,great guy, never ever got over the size of his feet, size 18s,had to have his shoes handmade,even in the guards he told me.

]]> By: Louisa Gonzales https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-564373 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:47:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-564373 Beautiful portraits. A life-time of joy and sorrow, frivolity and seriousness, tenderness and pain, laughter and tears are there in Tommy’s eyes in each and every frame.

]]> By: Terry Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-546717 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:49:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-546717 I was working on that show, Keith, our Propmaster ran to give him the kiss of life, but sadly …
wonderful photographs !

]]> By: Mondo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-546710 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:43:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-546710 Interesting detail on the suit – the folded back cuffs on the sleeve. I’ve only seen that a few times, but never know what the style is called

]]> By: Pauline Taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-546668 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:09:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-546668 A man who is still much missed who knew that true comedy needed pathos. How I agree with the sentiment of never telling other people your troubles, the punch line is sadly so true!!

RIP Tommy Cooper, my favourite comedian of all time.

]]> By: Natalie Koch https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-546564 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:48:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-546564 Beautiful photographs.

]]> By: Alice Neal https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/10/06/when-john-claridge-met-tommy-cooper/#comment-546542 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:34:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=121557#comment-546542 Stunning, what an incredible set of pictures and a lovely article to boot!

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