Our high school had a film club that showed a movie every Thursday after classes. It was a small windowless room that held about fifty chairs. It was always full. This was 1970. When they showed "The Party", when the lights went on after it ended, almost all the chairs had been turned over. We had actually fallen out of our chairs laughing. That group walked around the halls talking like that, saying 'Birdie num nums' for weeks.
Funniest Peter Sellers movie I've seen my whole life! Everyone talked about the character and the awkward clumsiness portrayed in just one movie. Amazing talent, a true genius I've always admired!
I first saw this while on an airplane flight many years ago... I was laughing out loud so hard, the people around me must have thought I was crazy! Thank you for this.
_So_ good I didn't recognize it for what it was when I saw it the first time. Maybe I wasn't in my right mind, but it's the same with music, some of the albums that I didn't really like at first are my favorites now.
The best expression in any film ever made in the history of the world ~ is the fabulous "Birdie Num Num"... Peter Sellers was so fantastic in The Party of course ~ but the supporting cast were also major contributors to the fun... Definitely one of the funniest films ever made. A little too long perhaps ~ but the funny moments more than make up for it. Classic movie..
I just re-watched parts of the movie, and at one point, I was laughing so hard my vision became fuzzy. I was afraid I'd blown a blood vessel or something. Watching Peter Sellers in The Party can be dangerous to your health.
So glad to see this. Its wonderful that my kids, both millenials, also love it and regularly introduce their friends to it. So hilarious in a way few movies achieve.
When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I saw The Party on TV. I didn't remember the title, or even who was in it, but I remember "Hey man, close the door!". I didn't even understand what the guys in the closet were doing (I KNEW one of them had a cigarette in his hand, but I guess I was too young to realize they were smoking pot), but somehow that scene just cracked me up, even as a non-sequiter, and stayed stuck in my mind. So skip ahead about 15 years, and I up late one night, and I'm watching the A&E Channel, and this movie comes on, with Peter Sellers in it. By now, I'm a fan of the Pink Panther movies, and I may have seen The Mouse That Roared by this time, so I thought "Oooh, this might be good". So I'm watching this movie, and I'm realizing it seems vaguely familiar, and of course when THAT scene came up, I howled with laughter again, and thought "THAT'S THAT MOVIE I"VE BEEN LOOKING FOR, FOR FIFTEEN YEARS!".
As a side note, about 10 years ago, I went to a music festival where a Canadian band called Mahogany Frog was playing. At one point, the bass player introduces one fo their pieces, saying it's from a movie "you've probably never seen". So he says the title of the piece is, "You're Messugah!/I Am NOT Your Sugar!". Naturally, I recognized this, and blurted out "THE PARTY!". The bass player says 'That's right! Give them man a CD!". So I ended up getting a free CD because I knew the movie.
FIRST TIME I WATCHED THIS I WATCHED IT 3 TIMES IN A ROW BECAUSE IT IS SO HILARIOUS, PETER SELLERS HAD HIS OWN STYLE OF COMEDY...I'M JUST GLAD HE DECIDED TO SHARE IT WITH US ❤
For me, the best comedy ever, with an oscar valuable performance by the great Peter Sellers! I laughed to tears when I was 13y old....I laugh to tears today, 55y old. Greets from Vienna. 😎
2:40 “We didn’t have the Titanic, we just had Peter and a group of people in a house” which pretty much was a different kind of disaster all on its own i.e: the toilet bathroom scene, the dinner scene and of course... birdie num nums lol
one of the top all-time funniest movies I had ever seen. I watched it more than 10 times and still end up hurting laughing till this day. The other 2 - young Frankenstein and nutty professor
I snicker at hearing 'we wanted them to bring something to it' - then they cut to Denny in profile showing us his famous b'OOOOOiful, round, protuberant, GORRRRRRjus bum in profile. Yup... Birdie num-num Opening theme music And Den's backside (ahhhh... they just don't make 'em like they used to)
No one did or has come close to imitating the indian accent like sellers. It probably helped that he lived In India for a short while. He is a phenomenal actor.
The fact there are actually people who think like you is dangerous. In India this film was a cult classic. The only people who cry 'racist' are usually white middle class lefties who are obsessed by colour - the real racists.
