Iconic Watergate interviewer David Frost dies of a heart attack.

[Bad_Doggie]

Sir David Frost, the revered British broadcaster whose encounter with Richard Nixon led to an apology for Watergate, has died at the age of 74.

Sir David is thought to have died from a suspected heart attack while aboard the Queen Elizabeth II cruise ship on Saturday night, where he had been due to make a speech

Most famous for the Nixon Watergate interview; Frost was responsible for revealing details of a previously unknown conversation between Nixon and Charles Colson. Nixon's resulting admissions would support the widespread conclusion that Nixon had obstructed justice.

During a journalistic career of 50 years Frost became probably the most well-known international interviewer with a series of interviews with the major players on the world stage.


Woof!

 

[EducatedOwl]

Americans tend to remember Frost for that one interview, but David Frost was so much more than that. His satire The Frost Report introduced John Cleese and Graham Chapman (later of Monty Python) to the world.

 

[Bad_Doggie]

Americans tend to remember Frost for that one interview, but David Frost was so much more than that. His satire The Frost Report introduced John Cleese and Graham Chapman (later of Monty Python) to the world.

Sure it was, and with good reason, his most famous interview. It’s not every day you get to outsmart a US president and force an apology.

There were many others though…Thatcher, Emil Savundra, Tennessee Williams etc etc.

Woof!

 

[Busybody]

who cares


another loud mouth know nothing who loved commiez and dictators and was buddies with em and SHIT on PRO GOOD GUYS

 

[mark197205]

Shut the fuck up, busy.

RIP. Frosty.

 

[Busybody]

Shut the fuck up, busy.

RIP. Frosty.

Who?




Was I wrong?

 

[Busybody]

Shut the fuck up, busy.

RIP. Frosty.

Is PABLO wrong?

 

[Balladeer08]

Did he find the missing 18 minutes of tape?

Sorry, couldn't resist the obvious.



Seriously, sad to see him go. He was a good man.

 

[Scotsman69]

I first encountered him as presenter of the BBC's revolutionary TW3 ('That was the week, that was... see why it's called TW3?) when I was still at school in the early-mid sixties.

That was the show which won him UK, and eventually international, acclaim. More Brits of a certain age will remember him for that than for the Nixon interview.

I've no way of knowing if he was a good man. But he was certainly a terrier-like interviewer!

 

[neci]

was it the hamburger or the french fries that did him in?

 

[Busybody]

Is PABLO wrong?

 

[Balladeer08]

I first encountered him as presenter of the BBC's revolutionary TW3 ('That was the week, that was... see why it's called TW3?) when I was still at school in the early-mid sixties.

That was the show which won him UK, and eventually international, acclaim. More Brits of a certain age will remember him for that than for the Nixon interview.

I've no way of knowing if he was a good man. But he was certainly a terrier-like interviewer!

TW3 here was a show that featured the talents of Tom Lehrer. I still treasure him accusing President Johnson of practicing "escalatio" on the Vietnamese. Extremely talented and funny, with no political agenda of his own. He skewered EVERYONE.

 

[neci]

that's what he said.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

Jonathan Miller called Frost "the bubonic plagiarist", Peter Cook said that the biggest mistake he had ever made was saving Frost from drowning in a swimming pool and Monty Python created "Timmy Williams Coffee Time" in his "honour".

He made his mark, for sure. Still...RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evc8KTGdF7E

 

[Scotsman69]

I treasured my 10" Lehrer LP

But alas have lost it. A very fine man, TL.

TW3 here was a show that featured the talents of Tom Lehrer. I still treasure him accusing President Johnson of practicing "escalatio" on the Vietnamese. Extremely talented and funny, with no political agenda of his own. He skewered EVERYONE.