Spike Milligan - I told you I was ill [6/6]

[blobby1972]

I,m so glad ross has gone from the BCC so no more ledgends will have to endure being ether presented to or intervied by the prick . ok he's gone over to ITV but you get what you expect from there . selling things

[dharmaseed]

How'd the poor presenter ever get through this?!?

[27Bluebottle]

4:20; Quite possibly the only person who could say that about a member of the royal family and not suffer any backlash.

[oldskoolmacboy]

My sister Laura's bigger than me and lifts me up quite easily. I can't lift her. I've tried and tried; She must have something heavy inside.

[PhilK1231]

Spike on Prince of Wales - "The little grovelling bastard..."

Apparently Prince Charles nearly pissed himself laughing at that !

[RayNDeere]

@PhilK1231 Spike sent The Prince a telegram saying "I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?" Needless to say, Spike did receive his knighthood.

[bossyboots55]

@PhilK1231

Yeah he also told prince charles...ýou live in the big house. rent free!  :)

[PhilK1231]

Eric Sykes is great too - A smashing person to pay tribute to a genius like Spike (Anglo-Irish-Indian loony)

[wraithneon]

Calling Jonathon Ross a tool implies he has use. He does not.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

i was lucky enough to se spike perfom in the glasgow metropole theatre (which no longer exists) the play was "the bed sitting room" and it was hilarious. he had a couple of wee glasgow boys throwing ice cream at him every time he got near them. brilliant!

[boychildnew1]

Hey - where is the comedy terrorist?

[dharmaseed]

Mel Smith at 4:47!

[bucketandsea]

'Shop!'

[HMservant]

ah the little grovelling bastard....

[RayNDeere]

@HMservant Only Spike could get away with saying that AND STILL earn a Knighthood.

A true comedy genius

[HMservant]

@RayNDeere So very true!

[hughvane]

"Shop!" was often accompanied by the tapping of the edge of a coin on the shop counter. I remember that from my youth in the 1950's!

[Grey3Vox]

Thanks: at 1:40 "Shop!" - what was called out to get attention from shopowners. Milligan and Cleese, both with a fine sense of the absurd, wrote a spec script describing a Moriarty-type: "a fiendish cur, an evil villain, who would stop at nothing. So that's what they decided to do." Someone please post the Blackadder clip in which Flashheart - Elizabethan era? - complains about exile in France, all those years of having to say "pardon."

Absurd: check clip of R. Coltrane as Dustcarten.

[Grey3Vox]

I'm especially fond of an essay Spike wrote toward the end of his life, touching on the subject of overpopulation. Maybe it's the accent, or Britspeak - I can't make out what Sykes says at 1:40 "he knocks at the door and says _____." ? Please and thanks.

[hornetgags]

He says "Shop!"

It's what was said when you walk into a shop and ask for service, just like you would ring a bell to get the storekeeper's attention if they were in the back.

[gmutube123]

"Shop" - as in calling for attention in the shop.

Common in the past, not so now.

[mspice7285]

@Grey3Vox knocks on the door and says 'shop'

[crossleydd42]

I always chuckle at the title of Spike's autobiography - "Hitler - my part in his downfall"!

[drkimy]

For Goodness sake can someone tell what was his name?

[barbaricsol]

Eric Sykes is his name

[MumCrabby]

Go straight to 3:54

[rrbh]

spike wrote to my local newspaper to ask what had happened to all the corners of tea bags after they became circular.

I wrote to him and told him that I was part of an enviromental group that was producing shirts from the left-over corners of tea bags. He rang me up to discuss the matter further ! The conversation went something like this.....

Me: Bloody Hell, Hello Spike, how are you doing?

Spike: Are you a doctor?

Me: No?

Spike: WELL WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU ASKING ME THAT FOR !

[blackpig24601]

4.20 class love it

[foleyoni]

I saw him in Easons in Dublin during a book signing. He was very old but stayed for 2 and a half hours and cracked everyone up. Love him.

[ShanksDChopper]

A master of comedy... not saying that comedy died with him... but I feel that this new generation of English 'comedians' just haven't been touched by Spike.

[VOLKENBOND]

AMEN TO THAT!

[jemini1974]

hahahahahahahaha ... ohd ear, thank you for sharing! this is brilliant and genius indeed, missed most horrid :-(

[RealBesty]

I met him once at a petrol station on the A21.

Not a great anecdote, but it's all I've got.

[maxwellthedog]

good enough

[britich]

I used to live near him. He used to cause chaos where ever he went, and not bad chaos, hilarious chaos.

Best one was when he put his own obituary in the paper.

[ReportedAsSpam]

@RealBesty That may not be a great anecdote, but I'm still jealous as hell.

[Bazabrush]

Comic genius!! we loved you Spike.. Thanks for everything.

[MsBabster]

my 28 year old son is called spike(not terrance) he suffered early on with his name due to my comic heroes,,but now works for a uk production company and has achived his goal....i now sound like a boring old twat...Q

[malarky321]

not that ross is a tool...just he knew that Spike,...even old and freil would have stole the spotlight from him....and did

[porcupineprovocateur]

what a tool jonathan ross is.

[britich]

and an over paid tit

[chrisburchardt]

@porcupineprovocateur he certainly is a tool, but no sharp edged as might fashion a finial or angel or the like on a pew , more like a cudgel or a lumphammer, smug, bastard so he is, trading on his skin-deep similarity to the glorious Oscar Wilde.

[friendlybees]

@porcupineprovocateur You mistook him for a tool, like a hammer or a screw? I couldn't see Jonathan Ross on the shelves of B&Q, could you? Shrinkwrapped, tidy and hanging from a hook; If I was Jonathan Ross, I would sue. The porcupine couldn't tell me why it would squash you under its shoe, but I'm sure it would say that you provoked it if it could. Whoop de doo.

[PhilK1231]

@friendlybees ....pardon ?

[PhilK1231]

@porcupineprovocateur If he was a tenth as funny as he thinks he is, he'd be unfunny.

[gregalodon]

Bye bye Spike.

[w1n6ed83a5t]

a great man, and an even better comedy writer/performer..

sorely missed

[ptfuret]

did this go out on the BBC ??? sadly missed

[paulwibble]

Honesty is so funny loved the prince charles bit and Iam sure so would he

[foleyoni]

Grow up boys

[val2go]

When I said Brits I was including the Paddies, I did not say "the English" I said Brits, as in

British Isles. I thought the Isles consisted of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Am I wrong.??

[peteandurnot]

We're not Brits mate. Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom, apart from Northern Ireland which is.

[val2go]

Brilliant.....but I'm not sure if anyone but a Brit would get the "in jokes"

[peteandurnot]

I think us paddies would get it too :-) There is a great deal the Brits and Irish have in common, including Comedy.

[cashfan223]

And language, and ethics, and fighting morality, and an appreciation of Father Ted and a mutual hatred of Northern Ireland...

[soeffingwhat]

Don't agree with you at all on the last bit, I'd say its more a mutual hatred of Terrorism, both Loyalist and Republicanism.

[soeffingwhat]

Oh loads of Irish do, tonnes of it.