It's refreshing to find footage of spike milligan that I have never seen until now. That really cheered me up thanks. Why would anyone take offence at such comedy material. The Scots and the irish take poke fun at thier own culture all the time. I should know my dad is scot and he enjoys comedy greats such as spike , the pythons amongst others. He is always making jokes that are not intended to offend but people will be people. Far to damned sensitive. Why not just enjoy comedy has comedy.
I was raised here in the states and have never met a real Irish person with an accent and all and even I find this offensive. Although, you could just change the title card to "Uh-merican Uh-lympics" and then I'd find it hilarious.
well in case you didnt know spike milligan is irish and not british ,so its fine and funny its his blood right to take the piss out of himself ,gas thing is he became sir spike but got refused a british passport in 1960 and ireland gave him an irish passport his father was born in sligo town and because of which gave him a natural right to irish citzenship which spike was greatly proud to hold ,he is among the irish poet legends and certainly the funnest person ever in our time may he R.I.P
....sanctimonious high horses and read his war memoirs - hysterically funny and tragically sad especially as he comes to terms of losing so many friends. RIP Spike.
You cannot help but laugh. When the guy raises the starting pistol and they put their hands up- that is a genuinely funny gag and I speak as a person of Irish heritage. Yes the era of this type of irreverent comedy is over, maybe thankfully so. But Spike was a flawed genius who suffered from manic depression ( he had several nervous breakdowns) and he sought refuge in a sense of the ridiculous. I love his gravestone. "I told you I was ill!" . And for those PC junkies out there- come off your
@simonm7133 bums? buttocks? bottoms? or can you please give me the Irish word for the behind? And I mean this question, contrary to the first words of my comment, quite seriously.
Ever heard of Woy Woy? I knew Spikes mum as that is where the family ended up living - he called it "Australia's largest above ground cemetery" due to the large retirement population - So he is Ausie not Irish
@TheClassicalSymphony Spike Milligan was born in India to English parents. His Father being of Irish blood. He died as an Irish citizen and was buried in Brighton with a tri-colour draped over his coffin... The one thing i love about being Irish is the ability to laugh at ourselves whilst others dont get it!! Calling my friends a c*nt is almost endearing...
@toon172 u stupid cunt...this is so racist....it's like calling this "Nigga-olympics" and having people looking like Al Jolson....sorry mate, this is plainly RACIST!
@TheClassicalSymphony Using c*nt in that manner, wow, great start to an argument! So does this mean Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and co are racist too as they also take the piss out of their own race?
I like Spike Milligan as much as the next 'feller'. I grew up watching him on TV. I too have become a bit tired of the way that oversensitive political correctness has influenced comedy. In this case Spike, an Irish-man, is joking about the Irish. He is indeed a bigger person to put history behind him. Howeverit should not be forgotten that the British colonised the Irish, enslaved and impoverished them, forbade them to have Catholic schools then made jokes about them being stupid.....
@mchugh1968paddy Interesting. Spike Milligan was indeed Irish but he was certainly not born or brought up there. He was born in India and lived most of his life in England. His Father was Irish and his Mother English. I could be wrong but I believe he first opted for British Citizenship but was refused and so he opted for an Irish one. Hardly a true Irishman then.
@Fank234 That is a very valid point Fank. It reminds me of how so many Irishmen had to in one way or another pledge allegiance to his / her majesty in order to navigate the environment into which they were born. Sometimes in order to eat and escape the ravages of famine, while their colonial masters exported their surviving harvests and sold them for profit. Many of these poor souls ended up as cannon fodder on the front lines for her majesty.
I wish people would stop giving out and getting offended. I'm 100% Irish, born and raised in Spike's home town of Sligo and I live in the western city of Galway. My Dad and I watched a lot of Spike's stuff the other day including this one and we couldn't breathe with laughter. This one was especially brilliant. My favourite one was the tug of war with the nuns. And I'm Catholic. So there. Stop taking this so seriously!
yeah i do find this offensive. no surprise that this video has been most viewed in the UK and that most of the people telling everyone else this is funny and that they can't take a joke are british. CUNTS.
@deadrock05 I'm not offended and I am certainly not British. Seems to me that from your own little collection of gems, you're more likely to be the cunt here than anybody else. You're a loser whichever way you look, because Spike is dead and he is still funny. You are alive and seriously fucked.
Spike Milligan. The funniest man ever to have lived! Also the funniest man ever to have died. Also the funniest man ever to have flown on the end of a cannonball. Also the funniest ever Irishman, along with Dave Allen, Father Ted the series. and/or anyone else equally as funnie.
Any race or country that can't take the "Mick" out of the same race and country they where born, or live in, should remove the said country and race quickly somewhere else and stop breaking everybodys balls!! God Bless Ya Spike!!
Fuck the PC idiots who can't take a joke. You "should" intend offense. It's humor and it's not funny or worthwhile unless it's upsets someone. But again, fuck em. Thanks for sharing this hilarious skit.
It's sad that you had to put 'no offence intended' in the info.. I mean as in you had no other choice. It's not even your material and people should stop being so uptight! People who find this sort of stuff offensive are too full of themselves
@danthecat21 Totally agree with you! I mention it just to prevent all the arseholes who ride around YouTube on their high-horses looking for targets. Sad indeed.
The Pythons owe Spike a huge debt, without him, they might have crashed and burned. Take a look at their "Upper class twit of the year" sketch, guess where they got the idea from lol.
@ConnollyMann - Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. (wikipedia)
look, anyone whose getting into the whole 'this is racist' 'or 'but he was a quarter irish himself' is stupid.most of us irish know how to take a joke and laugh at ourselves once in a while, we dont care, neither should you, its comedy not politics.
@velapulsar i know he did, my dad showed me this when i was a kid and said 'this here is the only thing we can be proud of' he was right, im irish and what do i have now but a failing economy and a fat minister for health, joy.
I think it's perfectly logical to raise your hands in surrender at hearing a gunshot. It's not silly at all, an that's what makes it so funny. Milligan was a genius.
im not irish, and only a quarter english:) , i caught the joke.. but i can appreciate the irish sensitivities with jokes like this.. no offence intended..
Those were the days, Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe etc The Goons.
Every one took the mickey out of every one else, and no one got upset. It was just good, clever humour. Same with Monty Python and dear old Benny Hill to name but a few. Those days are gone now, and every one is so thin skinned and take offence at the slightest thing. Very, very sad.
Spike had an Irish father and a British mother, he was born in India and only became an Irish citizen in 1962 when the British Government declared him stateless. He wrote and performed a number of sketches that today would be considered racist - Pakistani Daleks and recidivist Arabs spring to mind among others.
No doubt he was a genuis but nevertheless he was a flawed genius. Let's be honest, at times he was brilliant at other times he was downright offensive.
The Irish part doesn't bother me any more than if he'd used any other group. But just because something isn't PC doesn't automatically make it funny or a work of genius. The broad humour and obvious gags in this sketch just aren't that amusing - it almost seems American. Race can be used in humour but it has to be smart to work. For example, Spike's "First Irish on the Moon" sketch was pretty good because the ideas were somewhat original. Unfortunately this one seems kind of lazily written.
@icemachine79 I think you are missing the point , humour is subjective, so if I watched something and thought it wasn't funny when others did there is really no point trying to say it isn't.
I downloaded an iPhone / ipod touch app called "Pocket Goon" (59 pence!) It's totally great at showing off what the Goons were all about. It has video and audio clips from early 1956 and has two versions of the Ying Tong song on with video!! Theres a young Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers and others; but unfortunately no Harry Seacombe. Still, it's a "must have" for Goon fans. Absolutely brilliant.
In reply to OZWIZARD182 and the mental breakdowns. There is an app on the Apple app store called Pocket Goon. It features an undiscovered version of the Ying Tong song in video. It is based on a Show called Fred which is now in the public domain. It features Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and others but is minus Harry Seacombe. There was a rumour that Spike fell out with various members of the Goons at various times and I wonder if that is why Harry Seacombe was missing on this occasion?
I Found this! " The Goons elevated Milligan to stardom, the demands of performing took a toll. During Series 3 he suffered several mental breakdowns. In late 1952, Milligan became convinced he had to kill Peter Sellers, while attempting to gain entry to Sellers' flat, armed with a potato knife, he accidentally walked through the plate-glass front door. He was heavily sedated for 2 weeks, and spent almost two months recuperating. Milligan later blamed The Goon Show for his breakdown"
for everyone below me shut the fuck up anyone with a bit of cop on will find this funny and yes im oirish also most people hate the IRA and this is youtube anyone who needs their opinions formed by youtube comments doesnt need opinions
when you say most people hates the ira please clarify which one you are talking about the ira of 1900's -1916/1921 which defended ireland from attacks or the provisonal ira which came into action around 1968 , they are 2 very different organisations . as for this being funny , have you ever lived in england and been turned down for work because your irish . if you had you may feel differently
I don't know that much about Mr Milligan. The only show that I have seen him in is "Curry and Chips", which I found hilarious. He wasn't derogatory towards the Pakistanis at all.
But he made every single English character look like a total bastard, bigoted, hateful piece of crap. Did that bother you folks? I thought that it was a LITTLE unfair, he should have include at least one non-bigot.
Anyway, I thought that it was a great show, even though there are only two episodes on youtube.
Stereotypes aside, you can actually see how this influenced Monty Python, especially the Olympics sketches they wrote for Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus.
concidering spike was born in india i think this is very funny, if you dont belive me then read a old book called puckoon he wrote he was known for jokes about the irish or anything but aint the irish known for there humour
@GerryDisthename I would say that most peope can't take a joke these days. The art of humour has pretty much died. Anyway, fuck all those politically correct bastards, i found this video funny and Spike Milligan was a genius :D
A few years ago I might not have laughed at this but I can see its funny now. Monty Python had a similar sketch that lampooned the English, they made a career out of doing similiar. The only group to take offence at them were Christians. But now even Christians laugh at The Life Of Brian.
Spike Milligan will always be regarded as a comic genius in England. I don't recall any Irish references in the Goons. To say he had to demean his own blood to be accepted is nonsense.
we're not allowed to say anything cause we've got a chip on the shoulder, but you crack one joke about the english in a demeaning fashion and watch the chip on their shoulder,......
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lol, the irish are thick,...that old chestnut, look at the education situation in england and ireland, vastly different, england is programmed to churn out an endless stream of chavvy idiots, and teenage mums,.....we're the thick ones huh.........
i'm irish and take no offence whatsoever to spike. he was a genius. this wasnt racism, its was taking the p1ss. spike got the irish sense of humour and realised we were well capable of taking the p1ss out of ourselves. its also just going to extremes to point out the idiocy of stereotypes. check out the majors speech in fawlty towers when he uses the most racist words imaginable to talk about indians at a cricket match, youd never get away with it now even though its high irony about ignorance
On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, Sussex, and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's Church cemetery in Winchelsea, East Sussex, but the Chichester Diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite",
It's refreshing to find footage of spike milligan that I have never seen until now. That really cheered me up thanks. Why would anyone take offence at such comedy material. The Scots and the irish take poke fun at thier own culture all the time. I should know my dad is scot and he enjoys comedy greats such as spike , the pythons amongst others. He is always making jokes that are not intended to offend but people will be people. Far to damned sensitive. Why not just enjoy comedy has comedy.
TheDonnellymarie 2 days ago
I was raised here in the states and have never met a real Irish person with an accent and all and even I find this offensive. Although, you could just change the title card to "Uh-merican Uh-lympics" and then I'd find it hilarious.
Vaipan 1 week ago
well in case you didnt know spike milligan is irish and not british ,so its fine and funny its his blood right to take the piss out of himself ,gas thing is he became sir spike but got refused a british passport in 1960 and ireland gave him an irish passport his father was born in sligo town and because of which gave him a natural right to irish citzenship which spike was greatly proud to hold ,he is among the irish poet legends and certainly the funnest person ever in our time may he R.I.P
ultanbeare 2 weeks ago in playlist COMEDY SKETCHES etc
might be a bit young and not from the uk, but not sure i get it? some funny stuff but why are they Irish?
Dannyp1945 2 weeks ago
@Dannyp1945 Because spike milligan was an irish citizen and his father was irish.
JordoF6 1 week ago
Wonderful!!
27sepulchre 4 weeks ago
for fucks sake that was good, makes us look bad though the cunt ha
MrFunkehMonkeh 1 month ago
love it !! Thanks for posting, XX
mirandas111 1 month ago
Makes me proud to be Oirish
dingoswamphead 2 months ago
ohoho the Irish people are so thick.
roryphelan 2 months ago
....sanctimonious high horses and read his war memoirs - hysterically funny and tragically sad especially as he comes to terms of losing so many friends. RIP Spike.
simonm7133 3 months ago
You cannot help but laugh. When the guy raises the starting pistol and they put their hands up- that is a genuinely funny gag and I speak as a person of Irish heritage. Yes the era of this type of irreverent comedy is over, maybe thankfully so. But Spike was a flawed genius who suffered from manic depression ( he had several nervous breakdowns) and he sought refuge in a sense of the ridiculous. I love his gravestone. "I told you I was ill!" . And for those PC junkies out there- come off your
simonm7133 3 months ago
@simonm7133 bums? buttocks? bottoms? or can you please give me the Irish word for the behind? And I mean this question, contrary to the first words of my comment, quite seriously.
sendanor 2 months ago
@sendanor Arse
bruneenee 1 week ago
back in the day we laughed , now we're back in the dark ages
MrShreka 3 months ago
This was made as a bit of fun in an innocent age .. now it's a platform for some kind of high brow debate
barnbersonol 3 months ago
Ever heard of Woy Woy? I knew Spikes mum as that is where the family ended up living - he called it "Australia's largest above ground cemetery" due to the large retirement population - So he is Ausie not Irish
Iceycabbie 4 months ago
@Iceycabbie Oh yeah - by te way my family hail from County Cork But like Spike count ourselves as Ausie Oi Oi Oi
Iceycabbie 4 months ago
Hilarious!! Love Spikes humour!
Honey2TheBee1 5 months ago
shockin but good, i thought it said Huns not Nuns but sure.... up she flw and the cock flattined her1!!!
ryano1987 5 months ago
I'm Irish too and I think this little show was hilarious
gjulspep 5 months ago
anyone who thinks comedy like this is racist or offensive in any way needs to pick up a dictionary and look up the word ''JOKE''.
jemmzee 5 months ago
I'm Irish and think is just hilarious......... what a sketch!! 5 STAR.... R.I.P. SPIKE.
fairhillnorrie 5 months ago
It's so racist, it's unbelievable....it's a bit like the Nazi's in the 1930s joking about how stupid the Poles are....
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony Spike Milligan was born in India to English parents. His Father being of Irish blood. He died as an Irish citizen and was buried in Brighton with a tri-colour draped over his coffin... The one thing i love about being Irish is the ability to laugh at ourselves whilst others dont get it!! Calling my friends a c*nt is almost endearing...
toon172 5 months ago
@toon172 u stupid cunt...this is so racist....it's like calling this "Nigga-olympics" and having people looking like Al Jolson....sorry mate, this is plainly RACIST!
TheClassicalSymphony 5 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony Using c*nt in that manner, wow, great start to an argument! So does this mean Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock and co are racist too as they also take the piss out of their own race?
toon172 5 months ago
@toon172 I can use the word Cunt whenever I wish.....you mind-fascist!
TheClassicalSymphony 5 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony
Go hifreann leat!
alanidlehands 5 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony Shut the fuck up
TheBillTalbot 5 months ago
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@TheBillTalbot LIKEWISE! Now, PISS OFF!
TheClassicalSymphony 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@TheClassicalSymphony Shut the fuck up
TheBillTalbot 5 months ago
its hilarious all the comments about "why are people getting offended"
i haven't seen one comment where someone says they're offended
everyone's arguing in agreement!
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend I am and I'm not Irish.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony you're offended?
ok good for you
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend no, it's not good, it's bad for Mankind that one Nation can be labelled as "thick".
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony its a joke, a generalisation that only idiots would believe
just like labelling the english as yobs
the welsh as sheepshaggers
the scottish as mean
the yanks as crass
the french as rude
the italians as vain....
i could go on, so as i said if you're offended good for you.. i think life's too short
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend very poetical the way u put it...so what, this is still wrong,joke or no joke.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony
you say "joke or no joke" but that's the point, it IS a joke...its meant to be funny, not a true statement
they're not trying to say it's right....so there's no argument there
you're arguing against a mute point
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend shut it! Stop arguing! You know I'm right....you're just splitting hairs to justify your viewpoint.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony 'shut it'
i find that offensive
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend GOOD! Now, maybe, you'll get the message.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony last word last word
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend NO! I get the last word in, you thick Irish joke.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
@TheClassicalSymphony
yeah you can have the last word you fucking mong
nurofiend 6 months ago
@nurofiend last word! tHANK U!
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
I like Spike Milligan as much as the next 'feller'. I grew up watching him on TV. I too have become a bit tired of the way that oversensitive political correctness has influenced comedy. In this case Spike, an Irish-man, is joking about the Irish. He is indeed a bigger person to put history behind him. Howeverit should not be forgotten that the British colonised the Irish, enslaved and impoverished them, forbade them to have Catholic schools then made jokes about them being stupid.....
mchugh1968paddy 6 months ago
@mchugh1968paddy Interesting. Spike Milligan was indeed Irish but he was certainly not born or brought up there. He was born in India and lived most of his life in England. His Father was Irish and his Mother English. I could be wrong but I believe he first opted for British Citizenship but was refused and so he opted for an Irish one. Hardly a true Irishman then.
Fank234 5 months ago
@Fank234 That is a very valid point Fank. It reminds me of how so many Irishmen had to in one way or another pledge allegiance to his / her majesty in order to navigate the environment into which they were born. Sometimes in order to eat and escape the ravages of famine, while their colonial masters exported their surviving harvests and sold them for profit. Many of these poor souls ended up as cannon fodder on the front lines for her majesty.
mchugh1968paddy 5 months ago
@Fank234 "Hardly a true Irishman then."
Irish citizen and had a lot more in common with Ireland than a lot of people who think they have.
MsOneiroi77 1 month ago
Hope the 2012 olympics will be as funny, then I might watch it.
chastuk 7 months ago
Spike was feckin mad and funny as hell. And he was Irish. A great guy.
VisFatur 7 months ago
I wish people would stop giving out and getting offended. I'm 100% Irish, born and raised in Spike's home town of Sligo and I live in the western city of Galway. My Dad and I watched a lot of Spike's stuff the other day including this one and we couldn't breathe with laughter. This one was especially brilliant. My favourite one was the tug of war with the nuns. And I'm Catholic. So there. Stop taking this so seriously!
mastermaestro 7 months ago
spike was Irish and faught against Hitler, he wasn't a petty minded Nationalist.
eddybullet 7 months ago
Of course there's no offence intended...Spike was Irish himself!
Sportymike 7 months ago
I think he meant, " No O'ffence." It's all about the punctuation, friends.
MichaelStn 8 months ago
Brilliant.
MyMakelovenotwar 8 months ago
Spike was an Irishman himself! He held an Irish passport. Don't be put off by people , there's an "off" button for those who don't like it!
ambyyy1 8 months ago
yeah i do find this offensive. no surprise that this video has been most viewed in the UK and that most of the people telling everyone else this is funny and that they can't take a joke are british. CUNTS.
deadrock05 8 months ago
@deadrock05 I'm not offended and I am certainly not British. Seems to me that from your own little collection of gems, you're more likely to be the cunt here than anybody else. You're a loser whichever way you look, because Spike is dead and he is still funny. You are alive and seriously fucked.
VisFatur 7 months ago
Spike Milligan. The funniest man ever to have lived! Also the funniest man ever to have died. Also the funniest man ever to have flown on the end of a cannonball. Also the funniest ever Irishman, along with Dave Allen, Father Ted the series. and/or anyone else equally as funnie.
wordreet 9 months ago
Any race or country that can't take the "Mick" out of the same race and country they where born, or live in, should remove the said country and race quickly somewhere else and stop breaking everybodys balls!! God Bless Ya Spike!!
Albachiara464 9 months ago
To all the PC wankers out (especially the Irish ones)....
You know what Spike (An Irishman himself, despite the Indian and English connections) would say to your bleating?
"Go gcuire sé sconna siar síos ort"
Which is, apparently a rather fruity way of wishing diarrhoea on someone.
That, or he just tell your to **** off.
BunrakukenIII 9 months ago
Fuck the PC idiots who can't take a joke. You "should" intend offense. It's humor and it's not funny or worthwhile unless it's upsets someone. But again, fuck em. Thanks for sharing this hilarious skit.
bullmeecham 10 months ago
Superb!! Must send to Molly!
Thelovelyreddirtgirl 10 months ago
Spike held an Irish passport all his life as The UK government wouldn't grant him one after the war as he was born in India.
jatrius 10 months ago
Haha Classic!
InfrasonicBeats 10 months ago
It's sad that you had to put 'no offence intended' in the info.. I mean as in you had no other choice. It's not even your material and people should stop being so uptight! People who find this sort of stuff offensive are too full of themselves
danthecat21 11 months ago 34
@danthecat21 Totally agree with you! I mention it just to prevent all the arseholes who ride around YouTube on their high-horses looking for targets. Sad indeed.
gr00ved 11 months ago 11
@danthecat21 nah...it's clearly anti-Irish, I don't care if Mulligan had Irish ancestry, still doesn't make this right.
TheClassicalSymphony 6 months ago
The Pythons owe Spike a huge debt, without him, they might have crashed and burned. Take a look at their "Upper class twit of the year" sketch, guess where they got the idea from lol.
THISREALLYBORESME 1 year ago
1:30 still cracks me up
youwinoneinternets 1 year ago
what are all you's talking about spike milligan is Indian ... btw got dis off who wants to be a millionaire
ConnollyMann 1 year ago
@ConnollyMann - Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the British government declared him stateless. (wikipedia)
sainglain 1 year ago
Spud bashers
a3w4 1 year ago
oh man, i laughed bahahaha
lishakara 1 year ago
they look more like scousers
stephen88hox 1 year ago 4
look, anyone whose getting into the whole 'this is racist' 'or 'but he was a quarter irish himself' is stupid.most of us irish know how to take a joke and laugh at ourselves once in a while, we dont care, neither should you, its comedy not politics.
thefreakwiththesugar 1 year ago
@thefreakwiththesugar, he didn't get the surname Milligan from anywhere other than Ireland, and he was in Irish citizen.
velapulsar 1 year ago
@velapulsar i know he did, my dad showed me this when i was a kid and said 'this here is the only thing we can be proud of' he was right, im irish and what do i have now but a failing economy and a fat minister for health, joy.
thefreakwiththesugar 1 year ago
I think it's perfectly logical to raise your hands in surrender at hearing a gunshot. It's not silly at all, an that's what makes it so funny. Milligan was a genius.
garykelly1944 1 year ago
im not irish, and only a quarter english:) , i caught the joke.. but i can appreciate the irish sensitivities with jokes like this.. no offence intended..
tapestrystarr 1 year ago
This is pure class! Thanks for posting!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
Why do all the Irish fellas have afro's? :D
Gibbo118 1 year ago
I'm Irish, this made the tears roll from my eyes with laughter. How could you be offended?
katoness 1 year ago
Those were the days, Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe etc The Goons.
Every one took the mickey out of every one else, and no one got upset. It was just good, clever humour. Same with Monty Python and dear old Benny Hill to name but a few. Those days are gone now, and every one is so thin skinned and take offence at the slightest thing. Very, very sad.
BerlinBunker1 1 year ago 8
@BerlinBunker1 Absofriggingdoodley. you cant' say boo to a PC goosestepper these days.
chrisburchardt 1 year ago
kin hell it do not get better than the Irish and the Brits as second of the funniest people in the world!
This is a thing to be proud of, for sure.
Have you all heard the war diaries?
buttsyrc8 1 year ago
@buttsyrc8 ..ive read 'em all ...funny as fcuk and sad in equal amounts..RIP Spike, a true comedy legnd
mallet999 1 year ago
They don't make 'em like dat any more
eagleskinner 1 year ago
Does anyone know the name of the march played in the background?
TashkentFox 1 year ago
Not as funny as 'The Pakistani Daleks'
smeejit 1 year ago 4
Im Irish , Spike is Irish. If you can't take the piss out of yourself well you are just a sad case....i love it!
sbbinahee 1 year ago 17
@sbbinahee
Spike had an Irish father and a British mother, he was born in India and only became an Irish citizen in 1962 when the British Government declared him stateless. He wrote and performed a number of sketches that today would be considered racist - Pakistani Daleks and recidivist Arabs spring to mind among others.
No doubt he was a genuis but nevertheless he was a flawed genius. Let's be honest, at times he was brilliant at other times he was downright offensive.
SplitTheBeam 5 months ago
The Irish part doesn't bother me any more than if he'd used any other group. But just because something isn't PC doesn't automatically make it funny or a work of genius. The broad humour and obvious gags in this sketch just aren't that amusing - it almost seems American. Race can be used in humour but it has to be smart to work. For example, Spike's "First Irish on the Moon" sketch was pretty good because the ideas were somewhat original. Unfortunately this one seems kind of lazily written.
icemachine79 1 year ago
@icemachine79 bollocks
buttsyrc8 1 year ago
@icemachine79 shut up you cunt
seamusmcmad 1 year ago
@icemachine79 I think you are missing the point , humour is subjective, so if I watched something and thought it wasn't funny when others did there is really no point trying to say it isn't.
jambamz 1 year ago
dis is great......dave allen would have loved it im t i n k i n g......irish o,lympics hawhaw!
louislungbubble 1 year ago
spike was the funniest mike of them all !
bigrider2806 1 year ago
hie jump class
MrDavy86 1 year ago
LOL Brits are hilarious at taking the mickey...Classic!
pinworms70 1 year ago
man i think i just pissed myself
thewhack64 1 year ago
I downloaded an iPhone / ipod touch app called "Pocket Goon" (59 pence!) It's totally great at showing off what the Goons were all about. It has video and audio clips from early 1956 and has two versions of the Ying Tong song on with video!! Theres a young Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers and others; but unfortunately no Harry Seacombe. Still, it's a "must have" for Goon fans. Absolutely brilliant.
msjanet2012 1 year ago 2
Hahaha Spike Milligan <3
cofpaddy 1 year ago
well bah im an irish cunt n this is quality street
robhourican911 1 year ago
@robhourican911 so was spikes father so spike can do this and get away with it. Very funny though.
seonidh 1 year ago
In reply to OZWIZARD182 and the mental breakdowns. There is an app on the Apple app store called Pocket Goon. It features an undiscovered version of the Ying Tong song in video. It is based on a Show called Fred which is now in the public domain. It features Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and others but is minus Harry Seacombe. There was a rumour that Spike fell out with various members of the Goons at various times and I wonder if that is why Harry Seacombe was missing on this occasion?
msjanet2012 1 year ago
if you dont like it why you searching for it and watching it
fuzzyfeltman 1 year ago
They look like black white men
currypot1965 1 year ago
I Found this! " The Goons elevated Milligan to stardom, the demands of performing took a toll. During Series 3 he suffered several mental breakdowns. In late 1952, Milligan became convinced he had to kill Peter Sellers, while attempting to gain entry to Sellers' flat, armed with a potato knife, he accidentally walked through the plate-glass front door. He was heavily sedated for 2 weeks, and spent almost two months recuperating. Milligan later blamed The Goon Show for his breakdown"
OZWIZARD182 1 year ago
The irish are famous for takin the piss out of themselves. jays ye ar sum bunch o langers for fecks sake!
mutoid1 2 years ago 2
If one is upset by the Irish tag, ignore it and try putting your own nationality in front - it is just as funny.
As Spike had Irish Nationality I think he is entitled to name it as it is - but please don't feel bad about it all - he didn't.
TonyTheDriver100 2 years ago 2
From UK how do it get bettter than Joyce
A genius writer and them books are stunning things.
Is Ulysses the best book ever written?
buttsyrc8 2 years ago
In one word: No. In In four words: no, it is not. In five words: No, it is not, no. I six words... you catch my drift...
Nabend1401 2 years ago
@Nabend1401 Best book ever? No. A book that literally (literarily?) changed the world? Without a doubt. Genius.
timdaughte 1 year ago
dont you mean guinness! lol
jamierourketen 1 year ago
I'm Irish and I love it. We're all too sensitive these days.
adebarde1 2 years ago 2
true! and what about the packies! lol
jamierourketen 1 year ago
Humour is Humour! Full Stop............
richyrichafc 2 years ago
ROLL ON 2012!
JamieVonDestructo 2 years ago
Agreed.. this does appear to be the springboard for the Monty Python silly olympiad sketch... I found both really funny.
sromag 2 years ago
for everyone below me shut the fuck up anyone with a bit of cop on will find this funny and yes im oirish also most people hate the IRA and this is youtube anyone who needs their opinions formed by youtube comments doesnt need opinions
darraghtank 2 years ago 6
when you say most people hates the ira please clarify which one you are talking about the ira of 1900's -1916/1921 which defended ireland from attacks or the provisonal ira which came into action around 1968 , they are 2 very different organisations . as for this being funny , have you ever lived in england and been turned down for work because your irish . if you had you may feel differently
mayfieldhummper 2 years ago
@mayfieldhummper a great line from dara o brien my grandad was killed by the ira... a tree fell on him.. yeah the ira planted it haha
shanecurley1988 2 years ago 2
Your badly written comment did more to make Irish people look stupid than this skit did.
mugwump666 2 years ago
I cannot remember how you love spike etc.
Well hope all that is in the past
buttsyrc8 2 years ago
A fair comment for sure - but us in England would fight for being as funny as our Oirish friends.
Whatever you can say we get on OK over here.
buttsyrc8 2 years ago 2
I don't know that much about Mr Milligan. The only show that I have seen him in is "Curry and Chips", which I found hilarious. He wasn't derogatory towards the Pakistanis at all.
But he made every single English character look like a total bastard, bigoted, hateful piece of crap. Did that bother you folks? I thought that it was a LITTLE unfair, he should have include at least one non-bigot.
Anyway, I thought that it was a great show, even though there are only two episodes on youtube.
mugwump666 2 years ago
Stereotypes aside, you can actually see how this influenced Monty Python, especially the Olympics sketches they wrote for Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus.
gaelicviking 2 years ago 2
spike was irish
tomhamilton8 2 years ago
concidering spike was born in india i think this is very funny, if you dont belive me then read a old book called puckoon he wrote he was known for jokes about the irish or anything but aint the irish known for there humour
walkdru 2 years ago
really funny, it could have been any place it doesnt matter its just a funny comic clip.
We only see they are Irish because it is written on the board, chill out everyone.
No one watching this clip is laughing at he Irish we are laughing at the clip. Millions of us are proud of our Irish Roots X
sehseh6 2 years ago 3
Loved the bit with the starters pistol.
schizoidboy 2 years ago 2
The only thing that links irish and british is comedy. Our sense of humor may not be completly the same, but beats american humour, THANK FUCK!
chinn11 2 years ago 58
I'm American, and I agree with you. Love British humor.
vigo894 2 years ago 4
@chinn11 Ever watch Seinfeld?
breda83 1 year ago
@chinn11
Only an American would spell it 'humor'. Nice try though.
sherman3211 1 year ago 3
Good stuff! I'm Irish and find this funny. I don't know why some people commenting are getting worked up. Most of us can take a joke.
GerryDisthename 2 years ago 36
@GerryDisthename I dont see why they would. Milligan himself was Irish wasnt he?
AlexanderT21 1 year ago
@GerryDisthename spike was irish so i find it hillarious that some dumbtards get worked up
liam69love 1 year ago
@GerryDisthename
especially since Spike was 1/2 irish himself.
Tiwaz81 1 year ago
@GerryDisthename I would say that most peope can't take a joke these days. The art of humour has pretty much died. Anyway, fuck all those politically correct bastards, i found this video funny and Spike Milligan was a genius :D
DogmeUK 1 year ago
A few years ago I might not have laughed at this but I can see its funny now. Monty Python had a similar sketch that lampooned the English, they made a career out of doing similiar. The only group to take offence at them were Christians. But now even Christians laugh at The Life Of Brian.
Spike Milligan will always be regarded as a comic genius in England. I don't recall any Irish references in the Goons. To say he had to demean his own blood to be accepted is nonsense.
brewdarrymore 2 years ago 6
we're not allowed to say anything cause we've got a chip on the shoulder, but you crack one joke about the english in a demeaning fashion and watch the chip on their shoulder,......
angelusmortis1412 2 years ago
@angelusmortis1412 dont be a dick! the English know how to laugh at themselves, demeaning or otherwise.
seamusmcmad 1 year ago
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lol, the irish are thick,...that old chestnut, look at the education situation in england and ireland, vastly different, england is programmed to churn out an endless stream of chavvy idiots, and teenage mums,.....we're the thick ones huh.........
angelusmortis1412 2 years ago
LOL thank God we can laugh at ourselves we know who we are, classic stufff
dadsarmy77 2 years ago 3
"Give dis to der next feller!" LOL
MaskedMan66 2 years ago 3
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lets be honest...this is not funny lol
its quite stupid?
adamsully2006 2 years ago
"this is not funny lol" - you contradict yourself. It's funny *because* it's stupid ;)
gr00ved 2 years ago 12
spoken like the son of a true irish nun done by five people
heyarnoldsknee 2 years ago
@adamsully2006 thats cause you dont have a sense a humor you posh CUNT!
RangersFCx217x 1 year ago
this is funny.
Peacechild01 2 years ago
Hey i'm irish and i find this really good and funny, I don't know why some people are pissed off! Chill it makes me smile anyway. :)
finipops 2 years ago
Dat woz fookin' brillyant.
Ceaaa22 2 years ago
yer it was just a bit of fun..
i bet you cant buy them just cos some 1 cant take
a joke me and my m8ts all ways take the piss big time
i friends relly..you take the piss they take the piss all in fun ..but now it s gone all tits up and just gets good tv banned booooo
BRAINSTORM555 2 years ago
Enjoy my Paddy brothers - just hope do not resort to shooting each other again.
How cool is Ireland now compared to the UK
buttsyrc8 2 years ago
some of ireland is the uk
gingerrfc1 2 years ago
Of course
buttsyrc8 2 years ago
Sorry did not mean this bad - and Good Luck to Ireland!
We are both funny Nations no dought on that.
buttsyrc8 2 years ago
why would any Irish person take offense to this ?
Spike was IRISH !
oliversinhell3 2 years ago 4
God Bless Spike!!!!!
Totally unique and sadly missed :-((
oldthrashhead 2 years ago
Genius!!!
1welshdevil 2 years ago
MY parents are Dubliners... so we can
take the crack .....
Ginatheroma 2 years ago
This is so funny, I laught till my sides hurt!
Thank you for sharing this with me Georgina
skervydawg 2 years ago
Fantastic .. love Spikes humour...
Ginatheroma 2 years ago
lmfao 1:30 to 1:42
whiteheadfg 2 years ago
skeptic,
friends, everyone loves raymond, will and grace........
or fawlty towers, harry enfield, sunday night project, fonejacker, trigger happy tv
know which one i'd prefer
the major thing about british comedy is its unpredictability. american humour is too planned, you know whats going to happen;
"well, we'll be ok as long as no one comes through that door and sees us..."
3-2-1, enter joey through said door, walks past and eats from the fridge, audience piss themselves. lame
minigeff82 2 years ago 4
skeptic ur a prick
scorps59 2 years ago
risky comedy alwys the best
JerrySmith2 3 years ago
bloody hilarious
JerrySmith2 3 years ago
When the athletes put their hands up at the beginning, I thought they were French!!
paul51 3 years ago
lol
itstherevolution 3 years ago
i'm irish and take no offence whatsoever to spike. he was a genius. this wasnt racism, its was taking the p1ss. spike got the irish sense of humour and realised we were well capable of taking the p1ss out of ourselves. its also just going to extremes to point out the idiocy of stereotypes. check out the majors speech in fawlty towers when he uses the most racist words imaginable to talk about indians at a cricket match, youd never get away with it now even though its high irony about ignorance
stevroch 3 years ago 2
On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, Sussex, and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland. He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas's Church cemetery in Winchelsea, East Sussex, but the Chichester Diocese refused to allow this epitaph. A compromise was reached with the Irish translation, "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite",
richardco5000 2 years ago
I might get on too u.tube staff myself
blobby1972 3 years ago