The one British comedian who was so funny, he would have my Dad in tears of laughter from the moment he walked on stage - for Dad, Tommy Cooper didn't even have to DO anything funny ... though merely by his appearance, fluffed magic tricks, jokes, and other 'silly' antics ... he was funny, hyster...
Already I could see life wasn’t easy.’ Indeed the reality was even more painful. Even Cooper’s birth bore the stamp of adversity that came to characterize his stage act. In more serious moments he would ruminate on the actual conditions in which prematurely he came into this world: ‘They tell me ...