Was Peter Sellers as funny as he thought he was?!


Question: In the early days he was brilliant but later seemed to forget his job and became self indulgent.
What do you good people think?


Answers: In the early days he was brilliant but later seemed to forget his job and became self indulgent.
What do you good people think?

I think you're right. He started to believe his own press, as they say. He was talented but like a lot of comedians, he wanted to be taken seriously. He was good but his comic work suffered. He became a bad imitation of himself

I don't know enough about Sellers to know whether he became self-indulgent, but I found his performances pretty funny. In Dr Strangelove he was hilarious in all three roles. Especially funny when he was trying - as politely and tactfully as possible - to convince the General to let him know the code.

He was also a brilliant actor, as in Being There, which I found not particularly funny, but certainly moving.

Yes he was an incredibly funny guy with clean humor one of the best ever.

When he was on his game--and even late in his career, he could do a great comedy film--he was like nobody else. He was one-of-a-kind, and he was hillarious.

Often, he was better than the material of the movie he was in. He was in some bad movies, and I'd wonder why anyone thought that this was so funny.

His manner was typically over-the-top, which works well for a good comedy, but when done in a bad comedy, that over-the-top style just accentuates how unfunny the material is.

My favourite performances of his were in Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb and in Being There. In both of those films, he was more restrained than he was in some other comedies, which matched the mood of the film. He could do a realistic, restrained role when the situation called for it, but more often than not, he went for the over-the-top performances that were his trademark.

Does your dog bite?'
'Non'
'AAHH! I thought you said your dog did not bite'
'That is not my dog!'

Sellers was a virtuoso, a true champion of British comedy. As versatile and chameleonic as he was constant in producing his brand of physical and verbal hilarity. Only Chaplin rivals him as the king of such endeavours.

He has been called a philanderer and a skirt-chaser but ultimately, as his children will testify, he was a consummate familiy man and professional....

I think his body of work speaks for itself. Dr Strangelove, Lolita, The Pink Panther and so on. Even Sellers' harshest critics can't deny that his bewilderment as the British Captain at the General's morbid obsession with 'bodily fluids' isn't fantastically funny. His character was so quintessentially British, repressed, rigid and frantically trying to maintain the 'stiff upper lip' even in the face of imminent death.

His wit was barbed with satire, his mimicry was genius and his physicality was just downright funny.

'NOT NOW KATO!'

My dad thinks he's funny. I like the Pink Panther movies but that's all I know of the guy.

I like the blood & guts movies! Unless it's Joe Dirt ( Dirte ) or something silly I usually watch those.



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