#spikemilligan — Public Fediverse posts
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I knew about his involvement with Dr Who (especially the Daleks) but not the rest. Certainly not that he started as a comedy writer!
(Perhaps apocryphally with #SpikeMilligan buying a sketch off Terry because he looked hungry & could use the money to eat)
#TerryNation DrWho #Blakes7 #DepartmentS
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Abraham said: "Here I am." And it was true. There he was.
From: the bible according to Spike Milligan
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Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 104
Clampdown
Joe Strummer is still speaking to us.
“We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers”#theclash #joestrummer #mickjones #SpikeMilligan #thesinisters #indigogirls #thenational #thestrokes #rageagainstthemachine #tommorello #brucespringsteen #jamesdeanbradfield #Metallica #folkclash #greenday
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"I’m serious about the environment, about kids, about what goes on, a better world ... I’m an environmentalist, I’m a romantic."
#SpikeMilligan, writer, performer and Goon, 1918-2002
https://www.pauldunoyer.com/van-morrison-spike-milligan-interview/
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The enduring brilliance of Peter Sellers: ‘There’s never been a better comic actor’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/01/peter-sellers-remembered-100-anniversary #DrStrangelove #SpikeMilligan #PeterSellers #Comedyfilms #Radiocomedy #Television #TVcomedy #Culture #Comedy #Radio #Film
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Today's rando op-shop find was this 1976 first edition hardcover of 'William McGonagall: The Truth at Last' by #SpikeMilligan & Jack Hobbs.
For the princely sum of $2 it's in surprisingly excellent condition - even the dust jacket is near perfect, aside from a very faded jacket spine.
Never even seen a hardback before - only the Penguin paperback with the colour illustration of McGonagall wielding a sword whilst wearing a saucepan in his head.
Anyway, an unexpected treat. 😎
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Let in the light
#SpikeMilligan was a renowned Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, and actor.
He is best known for co-creating and starring in the influential BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show, alongside Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.
Milligan’s work significantly influenced British surreal and alternative #comedy, paving the way for Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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A small masterpiece from the wonderful Spike Milligan.
#poetry #SpikeMilligan -
I challenge you not to smile 😹
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It's tempting to think that #Baroque / #DerivativeWorks are a thing of the #21stCentury.
And then within hours of tripping over the whimsical illustrations by #ToveJansson for a 1962 Swedish translation of #TheHobbit you, or more precisely, I, find a 1968 #BBC radio play adaptation of The Hobbit that, I kid you not, seems to have #SpikeMilligan's #Moriarty character from #TheGoons playing #Gandolf, and the dwarves sounding more like cherubs.
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Q5 by #SpikeMilligan, which preempted #MontyPython by several months.
John Cleese, on a conversation with Terry Jones: “We both happened to watch Spike Milligan's Q5, and one or the other of us phoned up and said kind of jokingly but also rather anxiously, 'I thought that's what we were supposed to be doing?' And the other one said, 'That's what I thought too.'”
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Not exactly a lost episode, but tomorrow #BBCRadio4Extra will air an episode of #TheGoonShow from 1957 never broadcast in the UK before: The Missing 10 Downing Street.
#SpikeMilligan #PeterSellers #HarrySecombe #Goons
https://goonshow.org/2023/12/05/new-goon-shows-on-radio-4-extra/
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Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#autobiography
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CW: Spike milligan grave stone
"We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!"
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The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town.
A Chopper Films Production.
Starring
Vincent Prance,
Peter Cushion,
Miles Behind,
Willy Eckerslike
and Lydia Dustbin#SpikeMilligan #TheTwoRonnies Tees by Sillytees bit.ly/40hlhaB
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Ooh!....I've never been so....oooh!!
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town a Chopper Films Production.
(we all know one)
#SpikeMilligan Tees by Sillytees https://bit.ly/40hlhaB
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Beautiful weather for the #bike commute day. Spike the bike meets it's namesake Spike the bridge #biketoot #sunrise #spikemilligan
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Just been reminded by someone that today would have been the birthday of the late, great Spike Milligan.
Loved listening to old recordings of the Goon Show when I was young, the absurdist humour appealed to me hugely (friends and I even performed some at school). Soon found his war memoirs, and the Q series. Evolution of British comedy would have been very different without Spike.
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@donni How do you know it was fake? The shaved face could have been a fake #spikemilligan