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Posted by Jonathan Worthing (Member # 803) on 02-27-2002, 04:56 AM:

They have just announced that Spike Milligan has died.

For those who don't know him, he was the comic genius who was the main influence for Monty Python.

A great comedian & author.

R.I.P. Spike

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 02-27-2002, 05:37 AM:

Jonathan

I just heard this sad news on the radio.Spike along with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine created the truly groundbreaking Goons radio show back in the early fifties. Although the last of the original programmes was broadcast back before i was able to appreciate them some of my most enduring memories of my childhood are of Sunday lunctimes listening to the the repeats on the Light programme of the Beeb Beeb Ceeb>

Spike was truly a genius. I had the great honour of meeting him on a couple of occasions back in the late seventies and he made me laugh more than anyone before or since.

Farewell Spike . Truly Goon but not forgotten.

For more see BBC news online http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Posted by Ben Wales (Member # 92) on 02-27-2002, 05:55 AM:

How sad to lean about that- Spike Milligan was a real comic and will be sadly missed by all, I am sure.

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 02-27-2002, 08:42 AM:

Here here.

Posted by Michael Hunt (Member # 772) on 02-27-2002, 09:02 AM:

What are we going to do now?...

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There must be more to life than Film and Rugby...

Gwan Glawster!!!

Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 02-27-2002, 03:18 PM:

Actually there's not much more to life than film & rugby.

Except comedy.

Spike was the master.

I grew up listening to & watching Spike, reading his books.

Bloody awful start to the day.

Spike, we will miss you

Posted by Bernard Tonks (Member # 809) on 02-27-2002, 03:34 PM:

I also had the pleasure of meeting Spike Milligan over 30 years ago.
I was doing some moonlighting at the Roundhouse Theatre, Chalk Farm, London, helping out at the BFI Cinema City exhibition for a month under Charles Beadow. The three of us went to the empty bar which was situated behind the projection room, only to find Spike who decided to join us for company. Needless to say a great time was had by all leaving us with a wonderful memory! Think I bought a round ?

Harry Secombe lived just outside Cranleigh, often seen in the village.

Posted by Owen Shave (Member # 1156) on 02-27-2002, 09:28 PM:

I'd like to include this poem. Pure comic genius is rare, but Spike Milligan had it..

On the Ning Nang Nong

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!

Spike Milligan

we're not worthy.
Owen

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-28-2002, 03:51 AM:

Spike made sure he wrote his own epitaph...

it reads...

'I told you I was ill'.

Trust him to still make me laugh. The goons still run here on radio national every Sunday afternoon and have done for years. When they run out they just start again.

Here's a link to a famous moment on Australian Radio in 1971 where Spike was in the same studio as the very straight talking newsreader of the time during the reading of the live news on the ABC radio network. Very funny...
http://www.abc.net.au/am/2002/02/28/20020228am08.asx

To flap the unflappable...

See you, Spike.

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"It's not the years honey, it's the mileage". - Indiana Jones.

Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 02-28-2002, 12:26 PM:

"I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens"

I'm far too young to remember the goons, but I do remember the repeats. Spike leaves a legacy of most of the best radio and television comedy ever broadcast.

Posted by Craig Hanham (Member # 1010) on 03-01-2002, 04:35 PM:

A Real Loss.

I just love Bad Jelly The Witch.
A great piece of literature.
Try listening to a recorded version when rat-arsed drunk /stoned or both.

"she turned me into a mouse said Dinglemouse.
What were you before?
I was a Banana"