Where are they now, these multi-talented greats of yesteryear? If you mentioned Peter Sellers to the geeks who view X Factor, Britains got shit etc., they would wonder who you were talking about, thank god I lived when I did, I have memories and youtube to back them up..

Nobody will ever come close to this genius. Timeless comedy and such a normal guy at heart. Lovely clip...

You can tell here that he absolutely loved to work. He seems forlorn and vulnerable when he's talking about his marriages, but then very animated and energetic when he's talking about being in the moment of acting. It's lovely to see that passion especially from a man who was as complicated and talented as he was.

God I really admire that he is speaking frankly and candidly about his life...celebrities these days are all about covering everything up. He's a real person! I love Peter Sellers!

such a monster talent Peter Sellers had...and here he pulls amazing ukulele skills and an absolutely perfect Wigan accent, but he's been a master of accents and dialects of all around the world

I love Peter Sellers, a rare genius and taken from us far too soon.

Such an incredible comic genius and mimic. Could do ANY accent - just amazing.

I learnt to play the ukulele because of when i saw this interview on TV.

he kinda reminds me of john lennon in this clip, great clip, talented dude definitely......

Peter Sellers is the best! Loved his work in the movie ' The Party ' he says birdie num num LOL

What a treat - I keep Peter Sellers for rainy days when I need a lift. What a prescription!

that's some good strumming at the end.

His genius is sadly missed

Awesome Uke playing! Vale Peter Sellers!

I'm a window cleaner and this the anthem of my life.

@DominaMaria I really agree about the John Lennon similarity with Peter Sellers. I always thought htey looked alike and had a similar sense of humor. But I just dicovered the George Formby connection. I always thought that "Polythene Pam" was john doing his Formby impersonation. Of course we all listened to the Goon Show back in those days in England. So if Sellers was Lennon, then McCartney was Harry Secombe.

please whom ever has the power, put back up this entire interview and all the other now lost tapes of the genius of mr. sellers!

i still remembered the band mamas & the papas refused Peter at one of their party! refused a man like him = someone miss and the word Party = Peter Seller sorry for my english but Peter Seller was a great man inside and outside ! me too i am a great person with other.

He was revelling in it when he was singing the Formby song.

love the violin ending.

On the other hand, I saw an interview with Burt Kwock on YT. Burt said that they'd got on very well, although many ppl have done character post-mortems on Peter since his death, dwelling on his dark side. But Burt claimed he never really saw that, and prefers to think of the "light" side of Peter which he knew and enjoyed. He also suggested that Peter would have been on heavy medication from 1964 onwards because of his massive heart attack, and this in turn may have had an effect on him.

terrific talent

Wow, he was born down in southsea, just 40 mins away from me! :D

When I'm pissed I can't even recite Little Jack Horner!

could see downey junior playing him, never saw the geoffery rush one

i fecking hate cleaning windows

wow mad ukulele skills!

I thought that Geoffry Rush played Peter Sellers well, and really portrayed the manic brilliance of him. He desperately wanted to shake off the shackles of Inspector Cluseau.

this is tapping music!

Sellers the pope

more layers than an onion,amazing how he talks about his failed marriages,you can actually see the hurt on his face as he shares it with the nation,then he goes on 2 minutes later singing a george formby song!

he reminds me of john lennon here

In vino veritas!

He didn't, it was all in his head. Read Roger Lewis' biography of Sellers.

@mattmale most geniuses are

DONOTKNOCKGENIUS

How could anyone have NOT had an affair with Sophia Loren?????

@bacala777 ya, i kinda detected a liverpool accent here

@bacala777 i was just thinking that. I think lennon listened to the goon show a lot. Must of picked up little quips and mannerisms from it. But even just his nose is like Sellers hah

@kirk7524875248 The interviewer was actually one of his fondest friends.

@kirk7524875248 Michael Parkinson was the interviewer, best chat show host on British TV, retired now.

THe only affair Peter Sellars had with Sophia Loren was in his head. He pestered her but she told him to get lost.

I think it's 1974 could be wrong...

6:30

@kirk7524875248 Indeed!

There are times when ignorance really IS bliss. Sellers was my all-time hero, until I read several books about him, and saw that excellent film of his lfe. You can blame his monsterous egotistical fame chasing mother, but in the end, as a grown man who came from nothing--had nothing, he was unbeleivably selfish, needy, and irrisponsible to his wife and children--and everyone who indulged him and tried to help and support him. Seff destructing--doesn't even come close.

He sounds drunk!

The sad thing is this man was a narcissist, egostistic, violent personality who he broke the life of many people even the life of his children, who did their best with him. And even with this disatrous personality he was a genious a great artist, in some films a wonderful actor. This is the sad thing o P.S.

Wonderful performance - or would be if it weren't for that first-class prat Parkinson