World’s oldest stuntman

by Robert Popper on July 10, 2009 · 10 comments

This is just so brilliantly British…

Danke schon @El_nacnud

Tagged as: Great Omani, Robert Popper

  • professoryard

    Obviously shot prior to the ban on smoking in pubs.

    Someone really didn’t perform a valid risk assesment for that one.

  • http://crikeynotlikely.wordpress.com/ Andy Morgan

    Apart from anything else…shouldn’t this have been done outdoors?

  • http://twitter.com/Jefy Jefy

    The Great Mr Cunningham says “for fuck’s sake…Ow” and the subtitles read “for God’s sake….Ow”

  • http://www.twitter.com/duncotron Duncotron

    A few people there looked genuinely uneasy there but fair play it looks more fun than tottering down the bingo hall. Despite the subtitles insistence I’m pretty sure he doesn’t say ‘for god’s sake’

  • http://www.twitter.com/AnnjelinaZ Annjelina

    Aww I shouldn’t laugh but I had to in parts. Bless im

  • Carbags

    Is it wrong that you’re eagerly waiting for the flames in the first few minutes? I liked it, merging Early Doors with Jackass. Genius, it has it all.

  • http://twitter.com/el_nacnud El_Nacnud

    My favourite bits:

    holding the zimmer frame whilst in the wheel chair.

    his grand entrance.

    when he says “Ah, yeah yeah yeah”.

    his guttoral noises after the fire’s been put out.

    Check out the TV it’s from. It was originally shown last year in the BBC’s outsiders season. It’s quite tragic. He dances on broken glass in that pub at the start of the show to looks of horror from a South Korean TV crew!

  • Matt`

    The original BBC Wonderland film following his last days was delightful, very sweet and sad. Worth trying to track down a copy. Incredibly British in that mixture of bizarre eccentricity, dogged determination and just utter inept hopelessness. Swear to God you love the old bastard by the end.

  • Carl H

    Where’s the fire extinguisher? WHERE?

  • professoryard

    Obviously shot prior to the ban on smoking in pubs.

    Someone really didn't perform a valid risk assesment for that one.

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