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Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg. [1] [2] Milligan was the co-creator, main writer, and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister.
Apr 12, 2018 · Legendary British sketch comic and writer Spike Milligan celebrates his 100th birthday next week. Or, he would, if he weren’t dead. Death was a recurring theme in the work of the man...
Spike Milligan. Actor: The Bed Sitting Room. Spike was born an 'Army Brat', the son of an Irish Captain in the British Raj in India. Educated in a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and at Lewisham Polytechnic in England, he spent his formative years playing the fool and playing the trumpet in local jazz bands.
Spike Milligan (born April 16, 1918, Ahmadnagar, India—died Feb. 27, 2002, Rye, East Sussex, Eng.) was an Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show.
Apr 16, 2018 · Starting with The Goon Show in the 1950s, Milligan revolutionised comedy with his brilliantly surreal imagination, inspiring the likes of Monty Python and Eddie Izzard. A century on from his...
Feb 28, 2002 · Spike Milligan, progenitor of a lunatic brand of postwar British humor that blossomed as the 1950's radio hit ''The Goon Show'' and evolved into a blueprint for antic and...
Feb 27, 2002 · Spike Milligan has died of liver failure at his home in Sussex, England. He was 83. The author, poet, playwright and comedian had suffered ill health for sometime and had been nursed by his third...
Spike Milligan. Actor: The Bed Sitting Room. Spike was born an 'Army Brat', the son of an Irish Captain in the British Raj in India. Educated in a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and at Lewisham Polytechnic in England, he spent his formative years playing the fool and playing the trumpet in local jazz bands.
Oct 19, 2023 · New to 4 Extra. Comedian and poet Henry Normal feels Spike Milligan changed his life, in particular with his 1973 poetry collection, Small Dreams of a Scorpion.
Spike Milligan - author of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall and member of The Goons – picked by poet Henry Normal. In the Psychiatrist's Chair: Spike Milligan....
