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Spike Milligan. A legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business ...
The fourth installment of Spike Milligans war memoirs.Written and spoken by Spike himself.
Spike Milligan is one of the great comedians of our time. All his memoirs in this series are very readable and this is no exception, although I found the first two exceptionally good. In this fourth book he describes all his army mates and their eccentricities with photographs to accompany the tales.
The sixth volume of Spike Milligan's off-the-wall account of his part in World War Two sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana ('Arghhhhhhhhh!).
Spike Milligan is the progenitor of the Goon Show and thus the founder of modern British comedy. That means he's funny. He was also a British soldier in the Second World War. That means a lot of people get killed in this book. Somehow he brings it all together and without losing his tone he remembers his comrades and raises howls of laughter.
A centenary collection of the best BBC Radio programmes about the legendary Spike Milligan - including the brand-new documentary Spike Milligan: Inside Out. Named for Spike’s explanation of his sense of humour - ‘I’m Irish - we think sideways’ - this BBC radio anthology, published to celebrate the centenary of his birth, provides unique insight into his genius.
30 de jun. de 2012 · Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show.
