Spike Milligan

BBC Four TV tonight at 9:30pm.
Spike is one of the guests on Parkinson.
Joanna Lumley sitting in for Parky.

Marmin

‘German opera from Covent Garden’ is possibly the funniest sketch I have ever seen.

I decided once to see how long I could watch an opera by Wagner. The prelude was good, but four hours of people singing in German was no fun.

‘German opera from Covent Garden’ is possibly the funniest sketch I have ever seen.

My Dad is great one for rhymes, he taught us this by Spike Milligan, I may not be word perfect after 60 odd years though.
Mary Pugh was nearly two
When she went out of doors
She went out standing up, she did
But came back on all fours
The moral of this story
Please meditate and pause
Never send a baby out
With loosely waisted drawers.

He was before my time but my parents loved him , and Peter sellers . They had a lot of his records. One of my favourites was Balham, pronounced Bal ham , gateway to the south . We lived in Morden . And my first first flat was in Balham .

I loved him, such a wonderful man.

I used to read the Ning Nang Nong with my two GC, they are just a bit too old for it now but they loved it so much.

Magenta8

His humour was a bit hit and miss at times but at his best he was a comic genius.

I saw him on stage in 'The Bed Sitting Room.'

Sometimes he overdid the Hitler sketches, but Spike's mad, anarchic humour was always well worth watching. Like Kenny Everett, if you wanted zany hunour and sketches, Spike was the go to comedian and actor in the seventies.
Also Spike's books were hilarious to read like Adolf Hitler, My Part In His Downfall.

His humour was a bit too anarchist for me. But I did like his books

I saw him twice live, once in a stand up show he was so funny, the on stage musicians had to walk off crying with laughter and they had seen the production many times. Then I saw him in a Panto at Chichester FT.
He was one of the greatest comics, his add lib was legendary.

I thought Spike was great. As a lot of performers do, he suffered terrible depressions and dark periods.
He was incredibly clever and he actually wrote some pretty good poetry too.

He was zany in a good way !

His humour was a bit hit and miss at times but at his best he was a comic genius.

I saw him on stage in 'The Bed Sitting Room.'

One of the greats. Hilarious onstage in Son of Oblomov.

His books are great.

I didn’t like the Goon show but I did find Spike Milligan on chat show and his writing totallyhilarious

VANECAM

Spike played one of the parts in a comedy radio show that I heard this morning.
Go to Radio 4 extra, today at 9 am.

Cheers, also The Goon Show produced the comedy legend that was Peter Sellers. Both Sellers and Milligan suffered from serious mental health issues and performing comedy was cathartic for them. Luckily most of the time, their comedy was fantastic to watch.

Spike played one of the parts in a comedy radio show that I heard this morning.
Go to Radio 4 extra, today at 9 am.