Tommy Cooper at the BBC

Tommy Cooper at the BBC

0% | Apr 03, 2025 |

To mark 100 years since the birth of comedy legend Tommy Cooper, Sir Lenny Henry - one of Tommy’s biggest fans - takes a look back through the BBC’s archives and shares some of the great man’s finest and funniest moments. This collection features some of Cooper’s most famous routines, and shows that his reputation for terrible tricks that inevitably went wrong was all based on an act.He was actually a master magician, perfectly suited to television’s golden age.

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Lenny Henry
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Self (archive footage)
Tommy Cooper
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