Love this woman. So bright, so talented, so gifted. Her voice can bring me to tears. AND she gives back.

She smiles with her whole face. Such a pretty smile she has.

One of the most magnetically charismatic women in the world!

I love Bette Midler. She is so talented in every way. All Class.

Bette Midler is just fantastic, i could watch her forever! Love love love her!! Thanks for posting this, and bring on more Bette interviews!

I saw Bette once in concert and she was "tired" then but still put on a two hour show with her mermaids, etc. She is so funny, and talented.

Fantastic interview! Thank you so much for posting this. I adore Bette Midler's sense of humour and vivaciousness. Cheers.

I saw Bette at the Frog and Nightgown, a night club in Raleigh, NC, in the 70's just when she was getting started. Her piano player was Barry Manilow who at the time no one had heard of. It was a fabulous show and it was evident that she would make it big.

What a treat to have Miss M with Stephen Fry!!! Two very funny people!!! Love them!!! May they never leave the stage!!! Or fall off!!!

A natural charisma that he has in buckets! Superb and Divine

Like all Michael Parkinson interviews - absolutely classic. Bette - 60 yrs old - looking brilliant- but love her honesty about her energy level for performing. So bloody frustrating - but it is fact.

This lady is so remarkable. I mean really. Just the way she’s describing things. She just fantabulous. Love love love her.

Soooooooo smart n’ WONDERFUL she is! SO insightful and incisive. ❤❤❤. “They fall into the pit !!” YEAH - Too true! 🎉 😎🤓👍 Thanks tons for posting this. She never said a word that isn’t true. What a brilliant, sheer perfection of a performer she is. LOVE YOU & respect you more all the time, Divine Ms. M.!

The whole package is Bette, great talent

oh bette i love you so much! ur beautiful and hilarious!!

Back in the late 1970s, BM appeared at the Cave in Vancouver. As she cracked jokes, a heckler got so loud that she stopped her show and told the management to give him a refund and remove him from the audience.

she was , is , and hopefully always will be a riot ! BETTE MAKE MORE MOVIES !

she has a great sense of humor.

i love this woman, shes got an amazing voice and she was brillient in hocus pocus lol

Favorite story about Bette - Couple of fans saw her in a Airport and said Oh, Ms. Midler, we are just such big fans and we think you are just wonderful! She turned to them and said "F--k Off" and walked away.

Omg! She's so funny! Thanks God for her!

She looks so good at 60!

bette midler is the coolest

i just love you bette midler, your personality rocks and you look fabulous as always in everything you do and say;)

How fascinating & wonderful!

Bette is totally amazing, smart, beautiful and......enough said..!!

She is fabulously wonderful

It must be so neat to interview Bette Midler.

Extraordinary...I love that she refers to Mr. Etegan.....

Great chat!

Sin palabras, maravillosa actriz, gran ser humano. Bendiciones donde se encuentre. ❤😊😊

One thing about Bette Midler that I love so much, is her brutal honesty!!! She calls it as it is, like the way Madonna use to be....

I was in the Audience for this show!

Fabulous. She is fabulous.

Bette Midler is my favourite actress ❤

awesome!! thank you so much!!!!!!!

I love The Divine. She is soooooooooooooo Long Island. (I love LI too)

Love Bette Midler.

Kool singer and actress

I love her!!!

The Divine Miss M.

Love you Bette!

Particularly love when she flips the bird at people in airports. She's such a lady.

I Never Realized How Fast Bette Talked Until Now!

I've always loved this bubbly lady......

Aww. I want more :(

Bette is amazing❤ I adore her so much and I love both of those albums. Hopefully Barry has another dream and Bette releases more albums. 😢 2014 was her last album. (Watching this in 2023. Bette will be 78 soon and she's still divine)

ahahaha!!! Beth!!! so funny love u!!! ur my Fav amomg all female singer!!!

Interviewed Bette Davis twice..once at the Hollywood women`s Press Club Xmas party. She was lovely. Of course my mother did not name me after her so there wasn`t a problem. Joan Crawford was also wonderful.

Thanks!

Love this woman

Why didn't anyone write a screen-bio of Mae West for Bette Midler?

one of the last true geniuses tragically.

How sweet

Maybe it's just me, but Bette's personality seems very similar to Joan Rivers. I can still remember her interview with Parkinson in 1979.

`BING CROSBY FELL INTO THE PIT`..I was there. What a night. At Pomona College..Bing was doing a benefit for ANTA (American National Theatre Academy) I was a member and attended the concert that night. Bob Hope hopped up the aisle and gave us the eye. Sigh..sigh...sigh. Then Bing sang..Oh My God! Heaven!! then at the end when he was taking his final curtain call for some strange reason he stepped back..miscalculated step...bad lighting..and fell into the pit. There was a reception afterwards but noone went. It was like a funeral. Although Bing did survive, the fall obviously damaged his heart and he died a few years later. It was an awful occasion but how strange for Bette to mention it in passing.

*Time to call Bett Meddler again & do a New Show with her, shes 70 yrs old now*, let me know when you have her on your show*

The Parkinson Show had the great format of eventually having all guests on set at one time, but it was still a 'talk show' between & each guest & Michael The next evolution is the Graham Norton Show. GN owes a debt of gratitude to MP for learning that the show should be about the guests talking freely, but he's added the factor, that because all his guests are brought out together, they often just chat between themselves MP was great for the 20thC. GN is great for the 21stC

The gay community really brought Bette into the limelight. They knew talent when they saw it

I don't usually do not toot these celebrities' horns because they are egotistical and self-centered enough. I judge them by their work because that is the only way I can judge them. Not by their looks for sexual preferences or personal interest, I really do not give a shit. If I like their acting I will watch their movies. If I like their voices, I listen to their music. We do not know these people personally or do they even give two shits about us. I don't judge them on their personal life, I don't care about their personal beliefs or how they raise their kids or how much money they have. Their love, homes, and how much money they have or screen, yell I love you to them, cry or faint as I have seen stupid broads do, even guys. But for some reason when I saw Midler performing the first time and how kind she was to the gays who were still pretty much hated and harassed them. And when I heard her singing I always wanted to be a singer and had a pretty voice but no one noticed the kid was talented at home but yet would give me quarters to entertain our guest with Barbra Streisand songs. Bette Midler seemed to me from vibes that she is a straight-up, no bullshit bitch who takes wooden Nickle's like a New Yorker which she lived there for years and still has an apt there. I hear her in interviews and she sounds honest about her work and home life. She did not hit me as a phony Hollyweird actress. I love Bette Midler's voice, music and acting.

Love Bette!

Interesting that Bette describes (or did then) herself as a belter. I really love her singing of ballads more...

I may have made a typing mistake...But I am not that pretentious. Quality can be found everywhere..And Bette Midler is one of those artists that, if you are inteligent enough, and if you know what she is talking about, you would be just a bit more modest and , I insist, least empty

Min. 05:01 "Oh my god, look, a drag queen!" LOL

I love her face when she says she's 60. Kinda makes me sad. Looks like she is a little sad also. But OMG she doesn't look a day over 40. She is incredibly short...it's sooo cute!

o my god i love her 2death so funny and entertaining

man, im a cultural idiot. when i saw parkinsons, i clicked thinking she was giving a testimonial about her own experience seeing someone with parkinsons disease. not at all disappointed, just shocked at my own expectations!

She so cute

TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS, "i never saw a penis, and i looked VERY hard" thanks so much for uplpoading i have been waiting years to see this and now i finally have THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH i mean that from the bottom of my heart :) Take care Jess xx

You lucky bugger. I am so jealous.

Used to love me some Better. Almost named a child after her. Since the Melaina Trump comments she lost her class

@helenTheUtubeUser OMG! LOL That's from Will & Grace!! hahaha!

Yeah. Jealousy, or else...God forbid someone is more discerning than you are.

I've never seen steven fry and buzz lightyear in the same room

Didnt bring it anyway LOL

Do you have any idea of their history??? If you did you would know that she was being incredible kind towards that bastard!

That such a sweet dream.

Bette is so small.

My goodness, is that lady cute?

brill isnt it hayley

To heck with bette who's the hot blonde

why was our stephen fry on both parkinson and graham norton when bette was also there and also when joan rivers was on parkinson? coincidence or gay icons? lol anyway love you bette, no other actress makes me laugh as much as you do, outrageous fortune is my fav movie:P

If I told you about Bette Midler And I " Would You Record my Song ?

Some people look for quality. You should try to understand that, Ms. VLEAR.

What's more neat is that she asked to sit next to me and then she pulls up a chair , saying to me " oh my feet are so sore . " while rubbing her legs And feet . right before my very eyes she takes off her shoes ..rubbing her feet ." yes Bette Midler was by my side rubbing her legs and her feet ...

Where is a good place to buy a potato?

i love her- I DO♥ but ya know.... im old now and goddamn she talks too much. She talks this much and so fast? Jesus gimmie a break.

If you got nothing out of this, it's very vlear YOU ARE NOTHING,,,,,

She is a 🐷. She is against gay marriage

I would like to ask her why she is against gay marriage , I used to like her - no more 😉

blah blah blah - just alot of chatter about nothing.

She’s not at all nice. Read some of her tweets. Disgraceful.