Historical: The Death of Tommy Cooper

ppot1103 · #21 ● 10-26-2016, 12:38 AM

If it's the one I think It's called my last summer, one girl is still alive

This seems to be it, though I can't get the episodes to play on my computer for some reason.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/m...mer/on-demand/

switchpeel · #22 ● 10-26-2016, 01:12 AM

Thanks. Never have heard of this before... Seems like he was poisoned; cyanide maybe. The poor audience thinks its all part of the act. How shitty it mustve felt to know you laughed in amusement while watching the death of a man.

diamount · #23 ● 10-26-2016, 01:24 AM

Originally Posted by switchpeel ↗

Thanks. Never have heard of this before... Seems like he was poisoned; cyanide maybe. The poor audience thinks its all part of the act. How shitty it mustve felt to know you laughed in amusement while watching the death of a man.

It was a heart attack.

sevens7ar · #24 ● 10-26-2016, 02:04 AM

That sucks....imagine dying....and everyone is just laughing at you.

**kellyhound** · #25 ● 10-26-2016, 02:08 AM

It took very long before ems arrived and he died in the hospital.
The guy behind the curtain couldn't drag him behind the curtain as Cooper was a heavy tall guy.

vagabond · #26 ● 10-26-2016, 02:11 AM

Very macabre, very.

The Krokodil · #27 ● 10-26-2016, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by heartsong ↗

He seemed to know something was going wrong and tried to ignore it and go on with the show, very unreal listening to an audience laughing at his death struggle.

I wanted to agree!! Yeah it was fucked up how people laugh at him

Rizz · #28 ● 10-26-2016, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by claytoaj ↗

That's a little presumptuous. Perhaps, like me, the OP found it disturbing because the guy's in front of a whole audience of people who, instead of helping him, are laughing at him under the mistaken impression that it's all a big joke. It's a little macabre, and definitely different from a gore video where all of the people perpetrating the violence are disturbing in different ways.

Well said.

wildaxboxer · #29 ● 10-26-2016, 04:36 AM

Originally Posted by The Krokodil ↗

I wanted to agree!! Yeah it was fucked up how people laugh at him

Tommy Cooper would have seen the hilarious side of it, if he survived, he would have included it in his performance..maybe not the actual collapse , but boy would he have had some daft props made up...A second TC dummy on the stage ,called Tommy 2, just in case, was a cert

Icybluegrrl · #30 ● 10-26-2016, 05:32 AM

Originally Posted by heartsong ↗

He seemed to know something was going wrong and tried to ignore it and go on with the show, very unreal listening to an audience laughing at his death struggle.

I thought that too, I see worry in his eyes

Historical: The Death of Tommy Cooper

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