The slip off of the rostrum (platform) at 1:49 is such classic Victor. He was a master of physical shtick like that that he would use with incredible comedic timing. That purposeful slip is very akin to his signature slide off of the piano bench that would always make his fans roar. He was a genius in so many ways!
What a great blessing that he was born within the technological age that allowed his genius and gifts to be captured and freely shared long beyond his time!
When he says he'll pay for the music stand after struggling for a minute was genius. I usually don't like it when people make fun of classical music, but Victor Borge knows how to make it respectfully funny.
I actually stage managed him at our small college symphony. Every little thing was tightly scripted, right down to 2--and only 2--curtain calls. EXCEPT he was so delighted with how me and my light crew had to bend over each other to prepare the shift to house lights that Borge came off stage, laughed at us, and went out to take calls 3, 4, and 5! Funny, funny guy!
Dude was a card. Great professional musician, one line comic actor, director, and more a story teller. When I was a kid I would look for his programs on PBS constantly. Also he did on the sneak tip he taught classical. The dude was a pure beast. The world lost a big treasure on his passing. LONG LIVE VICTOR BORGE !!!
No matter how old he got he was always just as funny. What a great comedian and talented musician he was. I watched him for years and always loved it. Miss his talent
What a great talent. What makes his comedy even funnier is setting it in the context of an orchestra, or even a single piano, where everything is usually so prim & proper and formal, and he proceeds to make fun of all that formality...what a hoot..!!
1:27 No one noticed the joke! He pickup the paper that was supposed to be at the last part and put it in the first page! Haha, what a humorous man he is!!
He does that all the time. In one piece he took the papers and put them upside down, and he literally played it that way. Halfway he realised (of course staged), put them in the correct way, and you could quickly notice what piece it was. He has so many of these. Mixing papers and playing a piece completely randomly and things like that. Genius
Borge was such a charming, as well as extremely funny, guy - saw him live in London in the 60s, he had the whole audience in his hand the whole way through. His only musical/comedic equal was P D Q Bach.
@@THE-HammerMan There was no point you tard. He was merely pointing out the fact that someone who's acting like they're clueless is actually damn good at it...... You didn't graduate anywhere near the top of the class I see.
Without his comedic talent and timing, Victor Borg would only be remembered as yet another world-class concert pianist. I had the pleasure of seeing him perform in Melbourne during his last visit to Australia in 1996.
First saw VB on the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore show in the UK doing the Scottish football results in inflationary English some time in the late 1960's I was about 10 - 12 (or is that 11 - 13) at the time, been a fan ever since. Would love to find that sketch if only to check memory anaint reality.
Victor Borge was one of funniest pianist & musical conductor that has ever lived , when GOD created some people , he gave them a certain talent & there will never ever be anyone else like Victor Borge !!! May he R.I.P. ! 🤧
You would love Celibidache conducting Dvorak. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_9RT2nHD6CQ.html About 27 minutes in (in the largo) a violin is playing to fast and the look he gets will probably haunt him for years.
My first connection with Victor Borge was the "phonetic punctuation" bit he did on the Electric Company when I was about 6 years old - the one about the knight and the dragon. I have loved him ever since. What an absolute joy he was to the world of classical music. I teach high school, and I still use his routine on phonetic punctuation - the one about Eleanor and Sir Henry - in my 11th grade lessons dealing with syntax as an element of literary analysis. They probably think it's dumb, but I think Borge's wit and joy is worth trying to preserve.
Victor Borge was at the airport and said to his wife "I wish I'd brought the piano." She said "why would you want a piano at the airport?" and he replied "because I left the tickets on it."
I used to hear him on the radio when I was a teenager trying to learn English listening to the BBC was as funny as watching him later on TV and still now. Great Musician and Comedian!
I always honor the fact that elderly people really have quite a sense of humor, and Victor Borge here really defines the combination of music and comedy. He died about a month after I was born, so it was amazing to know that I got to live while he was still here for a short time. There will never be another Victor Borge.
This was with the legendary BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA under the direction of then conductor John Williams. I saw this concert many years ago! I couldn't stop laughing 😂!
@@capnjackgallows3204 Don't get me wrong, so do I. BUT. There are more than a few comedians who really have nothing going for them other than vulgarity. Andrew Dice Clay, on his best day, could not hope to match Harvey Korman and Tim Conway in the "Dentist" sketch. And they did that level of comedy over and over for years. 'Sall I'm sayin'!
@@lavendervideos4234 I'll give you that your not wrong , the likes of carlin , Connelly and hicks for instance I think it's an integral part especially for connelly and Carlin the grouchy old man gig just works haha plus language can be so damned creative and the careful use of profanity at the right time or combination can make something even funnier even the tone applied to it if you get my meaning , but people like this sweet old man and stephen write......class acts !!
@@lavendervideos4234 Thanks a lot, Lavender. I was planning on going to bed in a few minutes, but now I've got to go and re-watch the dentist sketch (for about the 150th tie). And after that, there's no way I can watch that without watching Tim Conway's Elephant Story.
An absolute master that even though most likely rehearsing all that with the orchestra, some of them were crying with laughter and at the end they gave him a standing ovation. We simply do have any more the incredible comedic and musical genius of Victor Borge and as such legends just don't exist now.
Descubrí su talento por una maravillosa casualidad, ahora soy su seguidora, solo una sugerencia, podrían traducir al español para quienes no hablamos muy bien el inglés 🤪🤪🤪
used to be a regular on british tv when I was a lot younger .a master entertainer.between him and Liberace .. bbc tv at its finest.....sadly how times have changed
