Spike Milligan....what's your favourite moment?

[keslake]

Can be a sketch, poem, interview etc.

Two that spring to mind for me are:-

1. The bald twit lion story....first paragraph went thus:-

'Once, twice and thrice upon a time there lived a Jungle. It started at the bottom and went upwards till it reached the monkeys, who had been waiting years for the trees to reach them, and as soon as they did the monkeys invented climbing down.'

2. Pakistani Dalek sketch:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q

Hopefully number 2 won't be seen as racist!

Honourary mention to the William Mcgonagall book.

[Fishtigua]

Telling Prince Charles, at the Comedy Awards, he was a ..............(I wish not to end my days in the Tower).

Having read all his wartime books, those rather than any TV or radio productions, make him an icon to me.

I also have most of the Goon Shows still on tape.//old fart

[Nuclear Biscuit]

The bin dance.

[stevemiller]

The british prisoner of war camp Germany - The german prisoner of war camp England - The vicars rest home................

[Oilchange]

"... grovelling bd"

...is what he said

[Wacky Racer]

"Hello....I'm the famous Eccles"....

http://www.thegoonshow.net/characters.asp

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I heard him being interviewed, telling a story about how he attended a BT shareholders meeting. The chief exec of BT stood up and gave a 30 minute speech about BT's achievements in the last year, and what they were doing, fitting new lines, improving this, upgrading that, loads of really technical stuff about fibre optics and the internet (in its early days). Computerising this, microchipping that, blah blah blah.

When it was all over he invited questions.

Milligan put his hand up and when called to ask his question, said "my bloody phone isn't working."

[Scousefella]

Could not stand him - annoying twunt imo.

[wack]

I liked the story about how he ended up in the life of Brian

He wasn't meant to be in the film, he was on holiday and stumbled into a shoot , they asked him to be in the film so he did but when they came back to do a re take he'd buggered off on the rest of his holiday.

[pherlopolus]

I love the war diaries, and listen to the goon shows a lot. But....


There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But they're ever so small
That's why the rain is thin.

[PositronicRay]

When he met Harry Secombe in the army.

A 10lb cannon on a small hillock has been fired without being pegged down. The cannon flies off backwards down the hill followed by Harry. Harry spots Spike and says "have you seen our 10 pounder" Spikes says "what colour was it"

(may or may not ne a true story)

[Legmaster]

From 'Silly Verse For Kids'

It's hard to lose a friend when your heart is full of hope,
It's worse to lose your towel when your eyes are full of soap.

Hilarious book, should be on every kid's bookshelf.

[Impasse]

Never really liked any of his material.

[DickyC]

What would you do if you were Peter Sellers and it's late on the Saturday you picked up your new Rolls Royce, which you were delighted with for a few hours, but now realised there was a noise coming from the back? That's right, you drive to Spike Milligan's house, explain what the problem was and ask him to get into the boot while you drive around as he tries to locate the source of the noise.

With Milligan in the boot, Sellers drove around London in his new Rolls Royce, slowly, quickly, braking, accelerating, weaving, you name it, and eventually attracted the attention of the Police. The Police pulled him over and questioned him. Sellers was understandably vague. They asked to look in the boot. When one of the officers lifted the boot lid, he looked in and said, "Oh, it's you."

[br d]

Doctor Bell fell down a well and broke his collar bone.
Silly man should heal the sick and leave the well alone.

[Kenty]

On his gravestone "I told them I was ill"

[DickyC]

Thought of another one. The pub in the storm scene in Puckoon.

[55palfers]

Puckoon.

[Fishtigua]

One of his last writings was of his dreadful bouts of depression. He called it his 'Black Dog'. One night he was feeling really down with it in his bed and his family were downstairs, and in hushed tones, talking about Grandpa's 'black dog.'

His little grand daughter overheard about problems with his black dog, so wobbled upstairs with a bowl of cold water. "Here Grandpa, this is for your black dog."

He wrote that he had never felt more heartbroken but happy in his life.

[vx220]

"Spring is sprung
The grass is ris
I wonder where the birdies is?"

My grandad taught me that, and now I use it to annoy the kids at school!