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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 It's Saturday 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---until such a time.
One thing I learned 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 saw SAND!! Red fekking sand !! for three days, then we drove back and saw SAND! More SAND!''
After that TV show finished we went down to Len Thompson's Collingwood Pub 'The John Barleycorn'
Pete'swife Lyn is a Malay Chinese person, I speak sedikit sedikit Bahasa Malaya and even less Chinese and 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 'Forehead Poker' which is hilarious) - he is 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 was then on his knees in a Johnson St pub counting all the coins -- dozens of them!
And he took my last $30 off me.
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