Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan

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Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs. Joan Greenwood, who played Olga, later recalled that her husband André Morell thought the first performance was so appalling that they should get Greenwood out of her contract. According to Scudamore: In 1974 Milligan was arrested for shooting a trespasser with an air rifle. He defended himself in court and was given a conditional discharge. [70] Humour with the Prince of Wales [ edit ]

He married Patricia Ridgeway (also known as Paddy) in June 1962, with George Martin as best man and the marriage produced one child, Jane Milligan (b. 1966). The marriage ended with Patricia's death from breast cancer in 1978. [60] [61]

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The book has a tone of photo's and drawings which are a nice addition to the text, and fit well with the way the book is written. Vinyl Album – Spike Milligan – Milligan Preserved – Parlophone – UK". 45worlds.com . Retrieved 10 October 2015.

After a stringent Physical Examination they told me. “Sorry, your eyesight isn’t up to what we need for a pilot; however, we have a number of vacancies for rear gunners.” Charles III (then the Prince of Wales), was a fan of Milligan. When Milligan received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Comedy Awards in 1994, the prince sent a congratulatory message to be read out on live television. The comedian interrupted the message to call the prince a "little grovelling bastard". [2] He later faxed the prince, saying: "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?" The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search". 11 April 2013. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013 . Retrieved 21 December 2017. Spillett, Simon. [ "Tina May: 52nd Street (and Other Tales): Sings the Songs of Duncan Lamont"]. Jazzwise. Retrieved March 30, 2022.

At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on the train . . .' Sapsted, David (9 March 2002). "Piper's farewell for Spike Milligan". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 23 May 2010.

Taylor, Jerome (18 November 2008). "Auction reveals the secret life of Spike Milligan". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022 . Retrieved 18 November 2008. At Victoria Station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked ‘This is your enemy’. I searched every compartment, but he wasn’t on the train. Martin Chilton (15 April 2015). "Spike Milligan: Man of Letters, review". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 10 October 2015. On 9 June 2006, it was reported that Richard Wiseman had identified Milligan as the writer of the world's funniest joke as decided by the Laughlab project. Wiseman said the joke contained all three elements of what makes a good gag: anxiety, a feeling of superiority and an element of surprise. [89]

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Barnes, Peter (August 2002). Barker, Clive; Trussler, Simon (eds.). " 'An Uncooked Army Boot': Spike Milligan, 1918–2002". New Theatre Quarterly. 18 (Part 3 [Intq 71]): 205–210. doi: 10.1017/S0266464X02000295. ISBN 978-0-521-52404-9. ISSN 0266-464X.

One issue was a large vacuum-sealed tin of ‘Emergency Chocolate’, only to be eaten in the event of, say, being surrounded by the Enemy. That night, in bed, surrounded by the Enemy, I ate my Emergency Chocolate. Terence Alan Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India on 16 April 1918 [3] during the British Raj, [4] the son of an Irish father, Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), a regimental sergeant-major in the British Indian Army, [5] [6] [7] and English mother, Florence Mary Winifred (née Kettleband; 1893–1990). He spent his childhood in Poona and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon. His father remained in the Indian Army after the end of the First World War, steadily promoted till "the family's lifestyle became almost lavish"; Milligan considered that "My old man lived the life of a gentleman on sergeant's pay". [5] [8] Milligan was born in the British Empire to an English mother and felt that he was thus entitled to British citizenship, especially after having served in the British Army for six years. When British law related to Commonwealth-born residents (which had given him a secure place in the UK) changed, he applied for a British passport in 1960. The application was refused, partly because he would not swear an Oath of Allegiance. Through his Irish father, he avoided statelessness by becoming an Irish citizen in 1962 and remained so for the rest of his life; this status gave him almost the same rights as a British citizen. [1] [67] [68] Religion [ edit ] Some Goon Show scripts feature the names of places where the regiment was encamped. Bexhill, Pevensey Bay, and "Robin's Post" (a private house used by the regiment) each have a script named for them. 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!). But he must enjoy it while he can before he is demobbed and sent home to Catford - so he does ...This book is quite different from other soldiers memoirs I've read before (my favorite probably being All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe), mostly because it is written in a humorous style. And while at times I enjoyed that style, and had to laugh because of what I read, at other points it came across a little forces. Like the book had to be funny so jokes/funny lines/puns where place in the text when ever possible. Even if it didn't make the book any better. Roxburgh, Alastair. "A Short History of The Telegoons: Voice Actors, Puppeteers & Producers". The Telegoons. Archived from the original on 1 May 2006. We looked at the blaze and it seemed to be getting bigger. I think we all knew it was London. My mother, father and brother were there. I'm not sure how i felt. Helpless, I suppose. Bombardier Edser switched on the BBC Midnight News, but there was no mention of any raid. Lots of the lads from London (we were a London regiment) found it hard to sleep that night. In the dark of our bedrooms, there were attempts at reassurance'. Nobody seemed at all comfortable in their roles and the audience began to hoot with laughter when Milligan's slipper inadvertently went spinning across the stage into the stalls. That was the end of Spike's playing straight. The audience demanded a clown, he became a clown. When he forgot his words, or disapproved of them, he simply made up what he felt to be more appropriate ones. That night there were no riotous first night celebrations and most of the cast seemed to go home stunned. The following night Milligan began to ad lib in earnest. The text of the show began to change drastically. The cast were bedevilled and shaken but they went along with him... Incredibly, the show began to resolve itself. The context changed completely. It was turned upside down and inside out. Cues and lines became irrelevant as Milligan verbally rewrote the play each night. By the end of the week, Oblomov had changed beyond recognition. Andre Morell came again... and afterwards said 'the man is a genius. He must be a genius—it's the only word for him. He's impossible—but he's a genius!'. [46]