Tommy Cooper and Cooperisms
Here are a selection of jokes from that comic genius, Tommy Cooper. What I liked about Tommy Cooper was his original style of humour. Dale Carnegie once said that it was easier to earn a million dollars than create a new phrase. Well in Tommy Cooper’s case he did it – ‘Just like that’.
Tommy Cooper was more than a catch phrase, he had an original approach. Biographers say that in his earliest days, Tommy Cooper was so nervous that he made unintentional mistakes, he soon saw that if he could recreate these accidents then he would have people rolling in the aisles. To get the most from these classic one liners, I suggest that you get into state, imagine that fez hat. ‘Just like that’.
Tommy Cooper’s Jokes – One liners
I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.
I bought some HP sauce the other day. It’s costing me 6p a month for the next 2 years.
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.
A woman told her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor said, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman said, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says, ‘OK. You’re ugly as well.’
“You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’ So that was nice.”
A man walked into the doctors, The doctor said ” I haven’t seen you in a long time ” The man replied “I know I’ve been ill”
A man walked into the doctors, he said “I’ve hurt my arm in several places”
The doctor said “well don’t go there any more”
I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.
“So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said ‘Who’s speaking please?’ And a voice said ‘You are.'”
“So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said ‘Is that the local swimming baths?’ He said ‘It depends where you’re calling from.'”
Two Aerials meet on a roof – fall in love – get married.
The ceremony was rubbish but the Reception was Brilliant.
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said ‘I want a skip outside my house.’ He said ‘I’m not stopping you.’
In addition to numerous one-line jokes, Tommy Cooper mixed his show with slap-stick magic. Tommy Cooper also featured in films, for example, ‘And the same to you’. With Sid James and Brian Rix. Perhaps Tommy Cooper’s best known film was ‘The Plank’ 1967.
Tommy Cooper was born on the 19th of March 1921 in Caerphilly, Wales
He died during a TV show on the 15th of April 1984 in London.
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