Re: Veteran British Broadcasting Legend David Frost Has Died
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Master
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Gandalf
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Greenbeanz
Of course he was a satirist you mealy mouthed pompous twit.
He tried to be one,but it wsnt really his forte.
He did a good job of being funny. :)
His entire spiel was 100% ripped off from Peter Cook. Peter Cook is an excellent person to copy if you are trying to be funny, but David Frost was never in a million years Peter Cook funny. It was like a Mini trying to pass as a Porsche. He just wasn't a very good comedian and got lucky. Very lucky as Peter Cook was busy touring America and should have been on TV instead of Frost.
David Frost had something that Peter Cook didn't and that was the ability to show an interest in other people and that was why he was a quality interviewer. It is a fantastic skill to have too. Peter Cook was quite the opposite and that is why he failed as an interview host (his failed show eventually became Parkinson). Frost could show interest and warmth, whilst Cook was much more self absorbed and aloof.
They were very much opposites really and just as Peter Cook will always be remembered for great comedy, Frost will be remembered mostly for his interviews. I think posterity will largely remember it that way.
