Michael Parkinson RIP

[Hollis]

Missed most of his glory years in the early 70s as his show coming on was bedtime...

Still, surely the greatest chat show interviewer ever?

RIP

 

[editor]

Brilliant interviewer. One of the absolute greats.

 

[Hollis]

Here we go: George Michael.

 

[JimW]

Staying mates with Dicky Bird over seventy years and married for more than sixty says something good about the man too.

 

[High Voltage]

Oh! What a shame, still death and taxes. But what a body of work to have left behind

 

[cupid_stunt]

They played this clip on the news, and it had me laughing as much as I did when it first happened.

'Why is it so aggressive', 'it's not aggressive.'



RIP Parky.

 

[marty21]

He was a massive part of Saturday night entertainment. The music got you excited about who was going to be on. RIP Parky.

 

[The39thStep]

One of the things about Parkinson was the standard of his interviews and discussions, not just his but often his guests. I liked his shows because the discussion was always going to be interesting, stimulating and enjoyable and with a variety of guests, normally top notch . He could play the straight man as with Rod Hull and Emu or with Les Patterson for example, or there was the occasion when he had Kenneth Williams and Jimmy Reid (from the UCS sit in) discussing workers' pay where he called something that Williams said 'rubbish' .He also got taken to task brilliantly by Helen Mirren over his sexism in saying that her body and looks meant that she faced problems being taken as a serious actress . Perhaps it is nostalgia but the series seemed to want to engage its audience on an adult level.

Founder member of the Anti Nazi League as well.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Perhaps it is nostalgia but the series seemed to want to engage its audience on an adult level.

I mean I'm not that old but in my lifetime we've gone from Parkinson to Graham Norton. So a pretty clear step down there.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Founder member of the Anti Nazi League as well.

And the son of a miner. RIP Parky

 

[weltweit]

I was wondering what Parky's formula might have been, plainly he liked people and didn't mind being the butt of jokes every so often, apart from that he asked open ended questions and then shut up and let his guests talk ..

 

[surreybrowncap]

I mean I'm not that old but in my lifetime we've gone from Parkinson to Graham Norton. So a pretty clear step down there.

And we no longer have the raconteurs of the likes of Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Orson Welles, Kenneth Williams...

 

[DotCommunist]

I mean I'm not that old but in my lifetime we've gone from Parkinson to Graham Norton. So a pretty clear step down there.

I see you've erased Jonathan Ross from memory, probably nothing lost there

 

[weltweit]

I loved Peter Ustinov ..

 

[JimW]

I loved Peter Ustinov ..

That sounds like quite the anecdote, but probably after the watershed?

 

[weltweit]

I wonder if Ustinov was ever on Parkinson .. ?

 

[weltweit]

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[Elpenor]

I loved Peter Ustinov ..

Dear me!

 

[Elpenor]

And we no longer have the raconteurs of the likes of Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Orson Welles, Kenneth Williams...

Roger Moore too

 

[surreybrowncap]

Roger Moore too

Yes - we should all roger more

 

[skyscraper101]

Paul McCartney posted a nice tribe on IG. Never realised Parkinson was on the front cover of Band On The Run either