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I NEVER drop names!! BUT Jimi Hendrix once told me ..."Brother...if you've hung out with the cat...then tell EVERYONE!"
I got to my TV show called Hey Hey Satddy early one time and accidentally wandered into the Green Room (bar) .
there was THE Peter Cook himself! sitting all alone and looking like a mudskip in a desert.
The bar was locked!
So... I para-diddled that for him (I’m a drummer) and told him I was the Official Channel 9 Bar-Person (in leather jacket dirty jeans and 10 day growth).
And I poured him and me a large quadruple in coffee mugs. And sat quietly---untill such a time.
One thing I learnt early in the game is NEVER tell jokes to superior comedians...
He started…he was funny of course and when he finally paused.
I asked him if he had ever driven the Outback of Australia?
''Yes…I have! and I saw SAND!! Red fekking sand !! for three fekking days, then we drove back and saw SAND! More SAND!''
After that TV show finished we went down to Len Thompsons Collingwood Pub 'The John Barleycorn'.
Peter was there with his wife, Ms Lyn Cook who is a Malay Chinese person.
I speak sedikit sedikit Bahasa Malayu and even less Chinese and so we got on a hoot.
It was her job to make sure Peter only drank 3 bottles of wine a day.
She failed every day.
He got plastered.
We played cards for money ('Blackjack, ie 21, ie Pontoon then
We played 'Forehead Poker' which is hilarious)
I got to my TV show called Hey Hey Satddy early one time and accidentally wandered into the Green Room (bar) .
there was THE Peter Cook himself! sitting all alone and looking like a mudskip in a desert.
The bar was locked!
So... I para-diddled that for him (I’m a drummer) and told him I was the Official Channel 9 Bar-Person (in leather jacket dirty jeans and 10 day growth).
And I poured him and me a large quadruple in coffee mugs. And sat quietly---untill such a time.
One thing I learnt early in the game is NEVER tell jokes to superior comedians...
He started…he was funny of course and when he finally paused.
I asked him if he had ever driven the Outback of Australia?
''Yes…I have! and I saw SAND!! Red fekking sand !! for three fekking days, then we drove back and saw SAND! More SAND!''
After that TV show finished we went down to Len Thompsons Collingwood Pub 'The John Barleycorn'.
Peter was there with his wife, Ms Lyn Cook who is a Malay Chinese person.
I speak sedikit sedikit Bahasa Malayu and even less Chinese and so we got on a hoot.
It was her job to make sure Peter only drank 3 bottles of wine a day.
She failed every day.
He got plastered.
We played cards for money ('Blackjack, ie 21, ie Pontoon then
We played 'Forehead Poker' which is hilarious)
--- he was a chronic gambler -- poor fella.
When the card finished we played ‘2 up’
Then he bet me thus --- "I I throw all the coins in the air…more heads than tails will face up"
He threw them all up, they CRASH LANDED, HEADS TURNED and then there he was--'the funniest man God had ever breathed life into'--- down on his knees in a humble Johnson St Collingwood pub -- counting all the coins -- dozens of them!
I lost -- and he took my last $30 off me.
When the card finished we played ‘2 up’
Then he bet me thus --- "I I throw all the coins in the air…more heads than tails will face up"
He threw them all up, they CRASH LANDED, HEADS TURNED and then there he was--'the funniest man God had ever breathed life into'--- down on his knees in a humble Johnson St Collingwood pub -- counting all the coins -- dozens of them!
I lost -- and he took my last $30 off me.