Spike Milligan - I told you I was ill [1/6]

[FloormanUK]

What do those guys say at 0:00 - 0:40.....I can't understand any of it...

[timebandit90]

@ 6:37 i had tears of laughter running down my face. it was stupid yet genius ! so so funny

[Glasnost]

Anyone aware of what the intro tune played is from? I assume its a spike composition?

[shakeypitt]

@Glasnost Alte Kameraden (Old Comrades) is the title of a popular German military march. It was composed around 1889 by the composer of military music Carl Teike in Ulm.

Spike must have had a good reason for chosing it, considering what theGermans did to his mind in the war.

[flapsplitter]

Spike always made me want to jump into a dustbiiiiiiiiiiin AND DANCE

[nw8000]

You see all us mad Penelopes are Harry lies to us (hilarious). We are worth something in this EU (Nazi) bollocks. Squeak!

[ebonyflesh69]

i love it when spike cracks up during skits

[cookmoore]

Yeah, that sounds about right. I would think that the first televised Goons show would be in black and white-telegoons.

But thank you very much for the date.

[trombonistpete]

what is the name of the sketch that starts at 4:47 ? Someone please help

[scarlebloke]

@trombonistpete This is from "A Show called Fred" that ran very briefly in 1956, I think. It had only about six showings, either due to low ratings or it was thought to be too 'advanced' for the telly audience of the time..

This is only a segment of the whole thing - hugely funny!

[CenaTv2]

@scarlebloke NO NO NO!! The dustbin dance is from 'Son of Fred" which is the follow up, and it is the only clip of that show.

A full half hour exists of 'A Show Called Fred'

[cookmoore]

When WAS that televised Goons Show with Jack Cheese?

[emcameron]

Paul Merton + beard = Roy Keane

Scary.

[maryade]

@emcameron it IS eerie!

[Zorboid]

Paul Merton proves that the devalued language joke isn't ostensibly all that funny. Maybe the original sketch was so much funnier because of Spike's barely suppressed hilarity.

[wallywoods2]

ps

I have 3 Degrees waiting in my bedroom...

P.P.

[wallywoods2]

Children children!

Such bickering (see below)

"banal crap.." Ha!

Spike would have loved it.

[TheQubez]

Who cares about if the laughter is canned?? This is a tribute to one of the greatest comics of the 20th century. Without Spike Milligan you would not have the likes of Monty Python (Milligan is in Life Of Brian), Eddie Izzard, The Fast Show, Paul Merton, Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey etc. If you like his particular humour is irrelevent, his influence will be felt for decades to come. I suggest you listen to The Goon Show radio recordings to hear the beginnings of Modern Surrielist comedy.

[LazlosPlane]

Are you joking? You really must be kidding, or you're a the biggest asswipe in the universe.

THIS IS ALL CANNED AUDIENCE REACTION.

And the King of Canned Laughter was Benny Hill, though he didn't need it.

Grow up, moron.

[LazlosPlane]

Idiot.  You think they can't add canned laughter to shows "filmed before a live audience."????

Most TV shows have done it since Lucy. You're a moron.

AND,

This crap isn't funny.

[LazlosPlane]

What a loser.

And your expertise into TV history and its techniques comes from....??? Where?

I have two higher degrees in TV History; I have worked in television since the late sixties in NYC and in L.A.

Um, I think I know something about TV and how it works, and I can SURE AS HELL IDENTIFY CANNED FUCKING LAUGHTER YOU IGNORANT LIMEY.

NO WONDER THE EMPIRE COLLAPSED, YOU CUR.

Peace.

Rule Britannia!!

[LazlosPlane]

It's canned. It's NOT ALL CANNED. But most of it is.

Grow up.

I don't give a flying fuck if you "believe" my credentials or not. Fact is fact. Do the damned research yourself, moron, or do you just want to believe what you want to believe? That's the definition of a true fucking idiot.

Go ahead--don't believe me. Do the research.

[LazlosPlane]

My God. You get more and more stupid as you stretch for reasons to defend your position. Pathetic.

You think this was BROADCAST LIVE?

Enough of your stupidity.

And, by the way, are you somehow, bragging that you looked up my other comments, something a six-year old American could do?

Fool.

I'm gone. I've wasted enough energy on your sorry ass.

[chairehead]

wow

you sure chose a shit degree

[LazlosPlane]

Yeah. A real shit degree that has helped me earn six-figures for 30 years, own two houses, a Tubo-Carerra, a box seat at the Metropolitan Opera, and a nice fish tank with guppies in it, you cretan.

Now run along and watch Manchester United on the telly with your other ape-like pals.

[chairehead]

...

now i can tell a liar on the internet but you really set a record with this one.

in either case, most of your terrible comedies have canned laughter anyway.

[LazlosPlane]

Oh, you can tell a liar on the internet? Ever thought of working for Scotland Yard? Maybe the CIA could use you.

I, however, can tell an uneducated asswipe over the internet. Amazing no?

Yes, most of my terrible comedies has canned laughter. And they are terrible. Like this banal crap posted here.

Go away now. You bore me silly.

[chairehead]

why oh why should i go away? i dont seem to be the one paining myself watching a comedy i dont like just to try and pick it apart.

slightly depressing, no?

you havent denied lying

[nickthefox72]

british humour will always be misunderstood by american people due to the fact that american people are as a whole........retarded

[CenaTv2]

@LazlosPlane Benny Hill never had canned laughter. His shows were all filmed infront of an audience and the outdoor scenes were shown on a screen to them. They are not canned laughter on benny hill, as on quite a few ocasions he had to wait for audience members to stop laughing so hard.

[LazlosPlane]

canned laughter. hate it.

[soeffingwhat]

Where was the Canned Laughter in this? You only really hear that Crap in American Sitcoms and whose incredibly Stupid Idea was it to add canned Laughter tracks to the Fred Flintstones Cartoons?!

[darkaproN]

pakistani daleks

[vikramkrishnan]

paul looks like a jihadi here

[tudanski]

thanks for the post, man was a genius

[GrandiaKnight]

I love the Q news sketch! Guden Abben!

[captaincomfort1970]

and goes arh ha a ha a ha marks brothers i thank u not meny people no what i am talking about just like harry enfield i dont think ya wanted to do that a wacca wacca hmmm muppets fonzy bear???? the list is endlist

[captaincomfort1970]

the goon show-had john cleese aka monty python-monty phython had faulty towers- every comedy since then has tried to imertate or steer it self away from this comedy bench mark i.e black adder since then aka all recent comedy is due to the goons .

Bow and pay homage to your gods dam is this how jesus was born i thank u gets cigar out

[23tboz23]

cleese wasn't in the goon show. he was in university when the "goon show " was on. The show consisted of Michael Bentine (1951-1953),Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers.

[GrandiaKnight]

Monty Python was inspired by The Goons. The humor is very similar.

[jimmywires500]

and peter cook, another genius

[HEV29]

YAY!!!Spike Milligna!!! And Harry Unfolds job, were he not born in the 1960s...

[fiddlexabout]

i love the dustbin bit!!!!!!

[theizzardkingfan]

greatness!