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Rip Taylor
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Steve Martin
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Tim Vine
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Tom Eaton
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Prop comedy is a comedy genre that makes use of humorous objects, or conventional objects used in humorous ways. The stages and films term "prop", an abbreviation of "property", refers to any object handled by an actor in the course of a performance. Although some form of prop comedy has likely existed as long as there have been comedians, the genre reached its zenith in the vaudeville era. The vaudeville team Olsen and Johnson made heavy use of prop comedy in their long running Broadway revue Hellzapoppin.

A prop comic is a comedian who makes use of prop comedy. Prop comics are sometimes looked down upon by other comedians, and the term is sometimes used derisively; however, some, such as Tommy Cooper, rose to critical acclaim as their props revolved around a gimmick (such as Cooper's magic) and the comedian's character around that gimmick.

Types of Props [link]

Props are any items that the comedian or comic uses in an absurd way. These can be hand props; items that can be carried such as a book or slapstick; costume props (props that are worn such as tearaway pants); and set props (props that are built into the sets such as a breakaway chair). Arguably, the quintessential comic prop is the rubber chicken which has become a symbol for the genre.

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Some well-known prop comics:

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The TV comedy game show Whose Line Is It Anyway? has a round called Props in which two teams of comedians are given a prop each and asked to improvise with them to humorous effect.

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Tommy Cooper
File:Tommycooper.jpg
Born	Thomas Frederick Cooper (1921-03-19)19 March 1921 Caerphilly, Wales
Died	15 April 1984(1984-04-15) (aged 63) Haymarket, London, England
Cause of death	Heart attack
Resting place	Mortlake Crematorium
Occupation	Prop comedian, stand-up comedian, magician
Years active	1948–1984
Influenced by	Laurel and Hardy^[1] Max Miller^[1] Bob Hope^[1] Robert Orben^[2]
Influenced	Jason Manford^[3] John Lydon^[4]
Spouse	Gwen (Henty, 1947–1984, his death)
Children	Thomas Henty (deceased) Vicky Cooper
Parents	Tom Cooper Gertrude (née Wright)

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Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper (19 March 1921 – 15 April 1984) was a popular Welsh prop comedian and magician from Caerphilly, South Wales.

Cooper was a member of The Magic Circle, and respected by traditional magicians. Famed for his red fez, his appearance was large and lumbering at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and more than 15 stone (210 lb; 95 kg) in weight.^[5]

On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed and soon after died from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre. His stage persona required that his act intentionally went wrong for comic purposes, leading to some initial uncertainty about whether this collapse was real.

1 Biography
2 Legacy
3 Recordings
4 References
5 External links

Biography [link]

Born in Caerphilly, South Wales, at 19 Llwyn Onn Street, Trecenydd, Cooper was delivered by the woman who owned the house in which the family was lodging. His parents were Welsh-born army recruiting sergeant father Thomas H. (Tom) Cooper, and his English-born wife Gertrude (née Gertrude C. Wright) from Crediton, Devon.^[6]^[7] In light of the heavily polluted air and the offer of a job for his father, the family moved to Exeter, Devon, when Cooper was three and gained the West Country accent that was part of his act.^[8]

The family lived in the back of Haven Banks, where Cooper attended Mount Radford School for Boys, and helped his parents run their ice cream van, which attended fairs on the weekend. At the age of eight an aunt bought Cooper a magic set and he spent hours perfecting the tricks.^[9]

Magic ran in his family—his brother David (born 1930)^[10] opened a magic shop in the 1960s in Slough High Street (then Buckinghamshire now Berkshire) called D. & Z. Cooper's Magic Shop.^[11]

World War II [link]

After school, Cooper became a shipwright in Hythe, Hampshire, and in 1940 was called up as a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards regiment of the British Army in World War II. He served initially in Montgomery's Desert Rats in Egypt. Cooper became part of the NAAFI entertainment party and developed an act around his magic tricks interspersed with comedy. One evening in Cairo, during a sketch in which he was supposed to be in a costume which required a pith helmet, having forgotten the prop, Cooper reached out and borrowed the fez from a passing waiter which got huge laughs.^[12] It was from this incident that stemmed two of the attributes that were a hallmark of his later act: the ever-present fez hat and his aptitude for slapstick comedy.

Act development [link]

When he was demobbed after seven years of military service, Cooper took up show business on Christmas Eve, 1947—he would later add a popular monologue about his military experience as "Cooper the Trooper". Cooper worked in variety theatres around the country and at London's Windmill Theatre, where he performed 52 shows per week.^[12]

Cooper had developed his conjuring skills and was a member of The Magic Circle, but there are various versions as to where he developed his act delivery of "failed" magic tricks:^[12]

Performing to his shipbuilding colleagues when everything went wrong. Devastated, Cooper still noted that the failed tricks got laughs.
During his British Army career.
At a post-war audition, at which his tricks went wrong, but which the panel thoroughly enjoyed.

To keep the audience on their toes, Cooper threw in the occasional trick that worked when it was least expected.

Career [link]

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In 1947 Cooper got his big break with Miff Ferrie, at that time trombonist in a band called The Jackdaws, who booked him to appear as the second spot comedian in a show starring sand dance act "Marqueeze and the Dance of the Seven Veils". Cooper then began a two-year period of arduous performing. Ir included a tour of Europe and a stintin pantomime, playing one of Cinderella's ugly sisters. The period culminated in a season long booking at the Windmill Theatre where he doubled up doing cabarets, one week performing in 52 shows. Ferrie would remain Cooper's sole agent for the next 37 years, until Cooper's death in 1984.

Cooper rapidly became a top-liner in variety with his turn as the conjurer whose tricks never succeeded, but it was his television work which raised him to national prominence. After his debut on the BBC talent show New to You in March 1948, he soon started starring in his own shows, and was popular with audiences for four decades, most notably through his work with London Weekend Television from 1968 to 1972 and with Thames Television from 1973 to 1980. Thanks to his many television shows during the mid 70s he was one of the biggest and most recognizable comedians in the world.

Cooper was a heavy drinker and smoker, and experienced a decline in health during the late 1970s, suffering a heart attack in 1977 while in Rome, where he was performing a show. Three months later he was back on television in Night Out at the London Casino. By 1980, though, his drinking meant that Thames Television would not give him another starring series, and Cooper's Half Hour was his last. He did continue to guest on other television shows, however, and worked with Eric Sykes on two Thames productions in 1982:

John Fisher writes in Cooper's biography, "Everyone agrees that he was mean. Quite simply he was acknowledged as the tightest man in show business, with a pathological dread of reaching into his pocket." One of Cooper's stunts was to pay the exact taxi fare and when leaving the cab to slip something into the taxi driver's pocket saying, "Have a drink on me." That something would turn out to be a tea bag.^[13]

By the mid-1970s, alcohol had started to erode Cooper's professionalism and club owners complained that he turned up late or rushed through his show in five minutes. In addition, he suffered chronic indigestion, lumbago, sciatica, bronchitis and severe circulation problems in his legs. When Cooper realised the extent of his injuries he cut down on his drinking and the energy and sparkle returned to his act and some of his later television performances were a revelation. However, he never stopped drinking and could be fallible: on an otherwise triumphant appearance with Parkinson he forgot to set the safety catch on the guillotine illusion into which he had cajoled Parkinson. Only a last-minute intervention by the floor manager saved Parkinson from serious injury or worse.^[14]

Death on a live television show [link]

On 15 April 1984, Cooper collapsed from a heart attack in front of millions of television viewers, midway through his act on the London Weekend Television variety show Live From Her Majesty's, transmitted live from Her Majesty's Theatre—not, as is often reported, the London Palladium.

An assistant had helped him put on a cloak for his sketch, while Jimmy Tarbuck, the host, was hiding behind the curtain waiting to pass him different props which he would then appear to pull from inside his gown.^[15] The assistant smiled at him as he collapsed, believing that it was a joke.^[16] Likewise, the audience laughed as he fell, until it became apparent he was seriously ill.^[15] At this point the show's director, Alasdair MacMillan, cued the orchestra to play music for an unscripted commercial break (noticeable by several seconds of blank screen while LWT's master control contacted regional stations to start transmitting advertisements)^[15] and Jimmy Tarbuck's manager tried to pull Cooper back through the curtains. It was decided to continue with the show. Dustin Gee and Les Dennis were the act that had to follow Tommy Cooper, and other stars proceeded to present their acts in the limited space in front of the stage. For a long time, a rumour circulated that the size 13 feet from his 6' 4" frame protruded underneath the curtains. While the show continued, efforts were being made backstage to revive Cooper, not made easier by the darkness. It was not until a second commercial break that ambulancemen were able to move his body to Westminster Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. His death wasn't officially reported until the next morning, although the incident was the lead item on the news programme that followed the show.

The video of Tommy Cooper suffering a heart attack on stage has been uploaded to numerous video sharing websites. YouTube was heavily criticised by the press when footage of the incident was posted on their website in May 2009.^[16] On 28 December 2011, segments of the Live From Her Majesty's clip, including Cooper collapsing on stage, were screened on Channel 4 in the UK, on a programme titled "The Untold Tommy Cooper".

Cooper was cremated at Mortlake Crematorium in London.^[17] He was survived by his wife, Gwen (whom he called 'Dove'), and two children, Thomas and Vicky, and a two-year-old grandchild, Tam. Cooper's son Thomas, who was an actor in his own right, changed his name for stage to Thomas Henty (his mother's maiden name). Henty said in interviews that, though he loved his dad, he needed his own identity to make a career on stage, and told very few who his famed father was, to further his dramatic acting career. Eventually son Tom travelled on the road as manager to his father. He also acted as occasional stage manager to his father, and was backstage with his father on the night he died. But like his father, son Thomas was a heavy drinker, and he died in August 1988 at Charing Cross Hospital in Fulham, London, aged 32. He died of haematemesis, following complications caused by liver failure. Doctors had attempted to pump seventy pints of new blood into his body, but the blood failed to clot, and after three days his mother took the decision to have his life support machine switched off. Thomas Henty left a son, Tam Henty.

Legacy [link]

Statue of Tommy Cooper, near the castle, in Caerphilly

A statue of Cooper was unveiled in his hometown of Caerphilly, Wales, in 2008 by fellow entertainer Sir Anthony Hopkins, who is patron of The Tommy Cooper Society. The statue was sculpted by James Done.^[18] In 2009 for Red Nose Day, a charity Red Nose was put on the statue, but the nose was stolen.^[18]

In a 2005 poll The Comedians' Comedian, Cooper was voted the sixth greatest comedy act ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He is commonly cited as one of the best comedians of all time, with several polls placing him at number one.^{[citation needed]}

Jerome Flynn has toured with his own tribute show to Cooper called Just Like That. In February 2007, The Independent reported that Andy Harries, a producer of The Queen, was working on a dramatization about the last week of Tommy Cooper's life.^[19] Harries described Cooper's death as "extraordinary" in that the whole thing was broadcast live on national television.^[20]

dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip wrote a song entitled 'Tommy C—about Cooper's career and death—which appears on their 2008 album Angles.

Recordings [link]

"Don't Jump Off the Roof Dad" (1961), words and muisc by Cy Coben, single, Palette Records (PG 9019) (a chart hit)
"Country Dreaming" - 12” LP
"Ginger" - 7” single
"Happy Tommy"- 7" single
"Just Like That" 7” single
"Masters of Comedy"- CD
"My Name Is Tommy" - 12” LP
"No Arms Will Ever Hold You" - 7” single
"Sweet Words Of Love" - 7" single
"Tommy Cooper Very Best Of" - CD, DVD
"Walkin' Home From School" - 7" single
"We'll Meet Again" - 7" single

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c John Fisher, Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing, Harper Collins, 2006, p. 137
^ Fisher, Tommy Cooper, pp. 157–158
^ WalesOnline. "I thought about retraining as a plasterer, says ex-One Show presenter Jason Manford". Walesonline.co.uk. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/television-in-wales/2011/07/11/i-thought-about-retraining-as-a-plasterer-says-ex-one-show-presenter-jason-manford-91466-29033283/. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
^ "Metal box, P.I.L". Observer.guardian.co.uk. 2011-02-11. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1240051,00.html. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
^ The Times obituary 17 April 1984
^ GRO Register of Marriages: DEC 1919 11a 1538 PONTYPRIDD - Thomas H. Cooper = Gertrude C. Wright
^ Tommy Cooper exetermemories.co.uk
^ Anniversary of Tommy Cooper's death BBC Wales News - 16 April 2004
^ "Tommy Cooper - Biography". Biographyonline.net. http://www.biographyonline.net/comics/tommy-cooper.html. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
^ GRO Register of Births: SEP 1930 5b 60 ST THOMAS - David J. Cooper, mmn - Wright
^ 100 Club - Norman's story^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c Tommy Cooper: Just Like That! BBC News
^ "The Art of Toppy Cooper" at bbc.co.uk, first broadcast 14 September 2007, BBC Two Wales (anecdote retold by Barry Cryer)
^ The Secret Life of Tommy Cooper, The Independent, 24 September 2006
^ ^a ^b ^c Nathan Bevan (12 April 2009). "Tommy Cooper's last act fooled us all, says Jimmy Tarbuck". Wales On Sunday. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/04/12/tommy-cooper-s-last-act-fooled-us-all-says-jimmy-tarbuck-91466-23367910/.
^ ^a ^b Kelly Miles (10 May 2009). "Tommy Cooper death video posted on YouTube". Wales On Sunday. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/05/10/tommy-cooper-death-video-posted-on-youtube-91466-23585341/.
^ Find-A-Grave profile for Tommy Cooper findagrave.com
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Name	Cooper, Tommy
Alternative names	Cooper, Thomas Frederick
Short description	Comedian and magician
Date of birth	1921-03-19
Place of birth	Caerphilly, Wales
Date of death	1984-04-15
Place of death	Her Majesty's Theatre, Westminster, London, England

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Gary Mule Deer
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Born	1940 Deadwood, South Dakota
Occupation	Actor Comedian musician
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Gary Mule Deer (born Gary Miller) is an American comedian and country musician. During a career spanning four decades, he has performed on every major concert stage in the country, and made over 350 television appearances, including many on both The Tonight Show and The Late Show With David Letterman the hosts of both who he had met early in his career at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. He was one of six comedians, along with Jay Leno, to star on the first HBO comedy special "Freddie Prinze and Friends", was the co-host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert for four years on NBC, a regular on Make Me Laugh, and a frequent judge on The Gong Show. He had over 100 appearances on The Nashville Network, including the last two years as a cast member on Hee Haw. He appeared in films such as Annie Hall, Up In Smoke and Tilt. He is currently featured on the DVDs "Jeff Foxworthy's Comedy Classics" and "The World's Greatest Stand-up Comedy Collection" hosted by Norm Crosby. He also has a "Gary Mule Deer Live" CD of his comedy and music. Gary is currently one of the most played comedians on the Clean Comedy Channels of both Sirius and XM Satellite Radio.

After being a member of Epic Records' music group The Back Porch Majority, RCA Victor's The New Society, and Paramount Records' Bandanna in the 60's, he joined up in the 70's in Denver with Denny Flannigan in a comedy act called "The Muledeer and Moondog Medicine Show". They became regulars on The John Byner Comedy Hour on CBS, Burns and Shriver Comedy Hour on ABC, and Madhouse 90 With David Frost on NBC, and were frequent guests on Midnight Special and In Concert. They also traveled for 6 years performing at comedy clubs, the Playboy Clubs and the college circuit. They were Rock and Roll Comedians, opening for many acts including the Doobie Brothers, Sly and the Family Stone, The Guess Who, Boz Skaggs, etc.

Gary Mule Deer entertains regularly at casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City and Reno. For over 15 years, he has been touring in concert as special guest with Johnny Mathis. He performs often on the Grand Ole Opry stage. On January 10, 2009, he appeared at Carnegie Hall.

Gary was once roommates with comedian Steve Martin (see Steve's book "Born Standing Up") and Michael Johnson.

Mule Deer resides in Spearfish, South Dakota.

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Name	Deer, Gary Mule
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Short description	American actor
Date of birth	1940
Place of birth	Deadwood, South Dakota
Date of death
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