Peter Sellers
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
Press clippings Page 8
Obituary: Paddie O'Neil
Expressive actress and comedienne who worked with Peter Sellers and Dick Vosburgh.
Tom Vallance, The Independent, 27th April 2010Last Night's TV: Shooting Stars
When my mother was in her early twenties, a boyfriend took her to watch a Peter Sellers film. She sat there, sombre and straight-faced, as beside her, and all around her, an entire cinema of men were laughing so hard that they were choking in their 1960s mod collars.
Thirty years on, I spent my undergraduate years being placed in front of Shooting Stars - the must-see new comedy show of the 1990s - suffering from the same affliction. In some communal TV room of a student house boys were laughing so hard that they were dribbling on to their Pixies T-shirts and, occasionally, their transfixion to Vic and Bob and the "Dove from Above" would be broken for a moment to shoot a pitying glance at me, a leaden, lumpen blob who could not even crack a smile at the funniest thing in the universe as it existed in 1995. I think maybe it's genetic.
Helen Rumbelow, The Times, 27th August 2009