Oh fuck. I'm in tears. I've never seen this before in my life and I dont remember a video ever making me laugh and squirm in my seat quite like this did. Funniest shit I've ever seen hahahahaha
One other thing that Spikes has left us from his 'Q' tv series was the name plates he usually had on his desk --'Hugh Jampton' and 'R Slickka' among others, which have been used by countless Bloggers the world over, and mostly banned now. I'm laughing still, as i write this. Pass the tissue--
When i was a kid in the early 50's--The radio Goon Show could only be heard with the sound right down, because my old man and most of his generation didn't understand the Goon humour, and insisted the sound be turned low---mostly due to Harry Secombes yelling. Even the BBC executives thought that 'GOON' was actually 'GO--ON', and thought the title ludicrous. You either 'got it' or you didn't. and that is still the case. It's not a crime to say so. Fan forever !! ps US humour is simply different,
Yes indeed, Aussiewalla. After all, how could a comedy lightweight like Spike Milligan possibly hope to compare with your verbal dexterity and rapier wit? If only the world could see fit to provide us with a few more individuals of your evidently godlike disposition, all our problems would be over and we could enter a new golden age of intellectual exploration, the likes of which have heretofore only been dreamt of. Or not, you tit.
Spike Milligan was a comedy genius. It's just a pity he never received the kind of Queen's Birthday honours that were accorded to the late, great Sir Harry Secombe (or Peter Sellers, for that matter). (Indeed, Spike Milligan's late mother who had been an Australian resident (as with Spike's younger brother) for some time ended-up renouncing (or considered renouncing) her British Citizenship in protest of UK Government investigations into Spike.)
LOVE SPIKE... Has anyone else noticed that the Straightman is the fellow who plays 'Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley with Dawn French'... amazing and very funny... :0)x
@Len2108 Because they are dumbing everyone down, so the Banks can keep stealing our money and financing phoney wars whilst the Sheeple watch X - Factor.
it's just painful that this brand of humor isn't properly appreciated, especially in my country (USA); over here, the comedy trend is just pure cynicism, a bunch of people going on national TV and just bitching about society and the people in it. Why can't simple, cheerfully fucked-up stuff like this (and for that matter, Vic and Bob's stuff) get the respect it deserves?
@zarkbot88 Here, here! Well said! There's a place for snarky but after a while it's just too 'easy'. This was inspired mad as a hatter GENIUS! Lots of laughs in heaven with Peter Sellars and Spike Milligan, I'm sure
I'd like to see the sketch where Spike walks onto a stage and begins a piano recital...he lifts his arms for the dramatic first chord, and when they come down the piano has become a kitchen sink. I can't remember where it goes from there, apart from odder and odder; at one point he's a plumber underneath the sink when it suddenly turns back into a piano and he finds himself repairing a piano from underneath in front of an audience. Nightmarish and hilarious.
isn' it about time Milligan got some posthumous world recognition for his genius?
Maybe some Japanese robotics genius could design robot versions of this unique orchestra that millionaires could park in their driveways and elsewhere?
@8269998 Hear hear! Spike made so many of us helpless with laughter and truly deserves such an accolade. My dad had the great fortune of being in the same regiment during WW11 and always said that although the german army was something to be feared, it was Spike who nearly killed him with laughter. Apparantly he used to iron his KDs (khaki drills) by shoving them between two planks and driving a tank over them. Genius!
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.
Brilliant, and funnier because Spike is more restrained here, too often his tangent on comedy was too far off target, he knew this, and tried to contain himself, but then gave in to more mischief all round. A very funny man, unique, and so sadly missed.
I keep coming back to this one again and again, cheers me up no end. Milligan was one of the one offs of comedy, Sure it may have been done before - but there are only so many jokes/plots/etc anyway; he did it with spirit. I think a re-make of Puckoon is sorely needed. Thanks for posting this.
Couldn't agree more. The Goon shows are surreally evergreen. Spike was a sensitive soul, and could be difficult by all accounts. There was a superb Parkinson in the early '70s with Spike and George Melly as guests, and they jammed together at the end. Priceless! I still use his "Any fear of ....?" in place of "Any chance of...?" as used in the Irish Lunar Mission 8)
@mrspivvy If you like that song as well as other odd Novelty jazz from that period
. then look out for an album on CD called "Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us" as its some of the songs the Bonzo dog doo dah band Covered or should have covered.. Its a great album
I seem to remember that Spike was really pissed with the B.B.C as they lost or destroyed a large part of the Q Series much as they did with Pete & Dud. Good old Aunty
Haha, genius!! I got given Spike Milligans war memoirs for christmas, the first time I'd honestly been introduced to his comic genius, and it's just had me laughing so much. I never knew that a month later, I'd recognise him as one of the best comedians to ever walk this Earth.
This humour is better than traditional joke telling I feel,for as skilled & funny as that can be, it allows much more liscence to mock the things in life that we may regard as,for the most part, taboo Provided this is done with a little empathy,this little bit of "subversion" harms no-one,gives us a laugh & ,sometimes,might even result in a bit of a change of viewpoint,for the better,on some subject that we held dear And, having written this,perhaps my failing is over analysis!!!...
ahhhh... over analysis is fine. But Its the simple things that are most complicated and..the other one..decomplicated...un de complicated...that makes it all worth while...
My God! Yes! the Ratties! How could I possibly have forgotten them? Thanks so much for the reminder MrH. As for the song above, I never tire of watching Milligan gazing with affection at Frank....and now I can't get the wretched tune out of my tiny brain... but Oh what superb genius.
Re my previous comment, you'd think i'd have had the nous to try searching for "the ratties" on youtube by now, wouldn't you! lol! I just tried it and found an episode!
If you're interested, just type "the ratties jumping beans" in the search bar and it should pop up.
As you will see, the narration has a manic, surreal, irreverent style that is very Goon-esque i.m.o.
I'd never seen or heard of the ratties before but after your comment searched them out. Thanks so much its pure Milligan, utterly random. I love finding any of his work as he is a comic genius. Unfortunately very few of todays programs are funny.
The Ratties unfortunately seems to have slipped away unnoticed in the mists of time for some reason. I wish someone would release them on DVD. It goes without saying of course that the biggest crime against british(irish?) comedy is the BBC's continual reluctance to release a DVD box-set of all Spike's Q series. Sort it out, Beeb!!!
Also, my first taste of Milligan insanity was as a kid watching the cartoon show "The Ratties". This is a forgotten Milligan gem, purely because of Spike's narration which, as you'd expect, took off on bizarre, hilarious flights of fancy which often had absolutely nothing to do with what was happening on screen! But it's never been repeated and isn't available on dvd (the odd over-priced second hand video pops up on amazon from time to time). Does anyone else remember this programme?
It's often said that Monty Python was the direct comedic descendant of Spike Milligan, and this is obviously true to a certain extent. But i've always felt that Python sketches were equally as influenced by the Oxford Revue/ Cambridge Footlights style of their Alma Maters. In my opinion the closest anyone has come to the pure, surrealist lunacy of Milligan's humour is Reeves and Mortimer's best stuff. Does anyone know if Spike ever saw any Reeves and Mortimer shows or what he thought of them?
I have a habit of over-analysing many things,but, I think that Milligan's Humour works So Well & is Superior to much of Modern Comedy because of Two Very Important Factors. One is Milligan's, "Musical" sense & Timing that He gave to his Work (he was a Jazz Trumpeter of some repute) & My point number Two is the Unforced & Genuine Amusement that the Players too, cannot help but Show, giving in to fits of Laughter throughout much of the "Q" Series!!! And I Do the same!!! thank U
The main difference is Spike Milligan is a GENIUS. "Friends" is, as best, average. Spike Milligan not only defined post-war comedy but also dictated much of its future movement (Python, Mighty Boosh etc etc). "Friends" made a lot of money. (And it even stole a joke from "Mr.Bean".) But hey, just say some crappy catchphrase accompanied by some poor "character" acting and you can flease the western world of millions as they clamour for the entertainment equivilent of dry vomiting.
This song was released on the back of an ant and it reached number 2 in the Tibetan pop chart, being held off number one spot by Bing Crosby whistling The Lord's Prayer in French.
"Tho' it isn't very pretty/You've got to admit it's cute/So all together let it go/Eat more Fruit'' It would be easy to dismiss such Beauteous & Poetic phrases as the aforementioned as "only the work of a down & out French Knotted String Consultant" and, therfore, hardly worth "our" attention!!!So, it is with a Heavy Heart & light Trousers that I must relate to you that that last sentence you read is completely & utterly True!!!!!BOLOGNE!!!!!
Surreal Fruticultural Musicology eh? What a great phrase. Does what it says on the tin. Milligan lived in many universes, usually simultaneously, and I feel privileged to have experienced some of it through his books and competely insane TV sketches.
Funny? Spike had difficulty not to be funny, almost everything he did was a poke at life to see what would happen...........this song is a classic, nobody else could get away with it...
Its not only the Pythons who nicked his stuff, Reeves and Mortimer have nicked shit loads of his style n' all, you can see it all over their stuff, Vic has said he nicked a lot from Q. When they gonna release some of it on dvd or repeat em? Soon I hope, until then we have these clips some decent folk have put up.
Totally agree. Just seeing Spike standing there in that outfit, with the demure expression on his face and those wistful glances cracks me up every time.
Spike's head appears unexpectedly out of a lavatory dressed in a Sowester.... this whilst someone is taking a bath.... very funny. Can anyone advise if this skech has been posted on UT.
This video went viral on Malaysia
claudecarson616 15 hours ago
This video went viral on Tashkent
ughkane614h 1 month ago
Oh fuck. I'm in tears. I've never seen this before in my life and I dont remember a video ever making me laugh and squirm in my seat quite like this did. Funniest shit I've ever seen hahahahaha
obnokshus1 1 month ago
One other thing that Spikes has left us from his 'Q' tv series was the name plates he usually had on his desk --'Hugh Jampton' and 'R Slickka' among others, which have been used by countless Bloggers the world over, and mostly banned now. I'm laughing still, as i write this. Pass the tissue--
MrDaiseymay 2 months ago
When i was a kid in the early 50's--The radio Goon Show could only be heard with the sound right down, because my old man and most of his generation didn't understand the Goon humour, and insisted the sound be turned low---mostly due to Harry Secombes yelling. Even the BBC executives thought that 'GOON' was actually 'GO--ON', and thought the title ludicrous. You either 'got it' or you didn't. and that is still the case. It's not a crime to say so. Fan forever !! ps US humour is simply different,
MrDaiseymay 2 months ago
Spike we miss you
kinofrost 2 months ago
Love you Spike. Miss you loads matexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TheMrgaztop 3 months ago
14 people should eat more fresh fruit.
WDH59510 3 months ago
Spike scrubs up nicely, no?
shangrigreige 4 months ago
Brilliant song, they should use this for a "5 a day" advert lol!
mikeward1701 6 months ago
For years my Dad has spontaneously come up to me saying "Eat more fruit", blown a raspberry and then hummed a tune.
Now I know where it comes from. O_O
vksbaudelaire 6 months ago 5
Yes indeed, Aussiewalla. After all, how could a comedy lightweight like Spike Milligan possibly hope to compare with your verbal dexterity and rapier wit? If only the world could see fit to provide us with a few more individuals of your evidently godlike disposition, all our problems would be over and we could enter a new golden age of intellectual exploration, the likes of which have heretofore only been dreamt of. Or not, you tit.
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Shittest comedy old shows suck!
AussieWalla 6 months ago
@AussieWalla Re your reaction to the Raspeberry Song, as performed by Spike Milligan;
is there something wrong with your brain?
Cheers.
livefrom3mileisland 3 months ago
14 dislikes...14 people who want shooting..or putting in the curry
aditay 6 months ago 2
Absolute bloody British genius!
steeleboy30 6 months ago 2
Spike Milligan was a comedy genius. It's just a pity he never received the kind of Queen's Birthday honours that were accorded to the late, great Sir Harry Secombe (or Peter Sellers, for that matter). (Indeed, Spike Milligan's late mother who had been an Australian resident (as with Spike's younger brother) for some time ended-up renouncing (or considered renouncing) her British Citizenship in protest of UK Government investigations into Spike.)
metlmick 6 months ago
my last name is milligan
TheAshleyemma 7 months ago
It's not that good. Milliagan was a demi semi quaver out on his raspberry after the tea pot solo. If you're going to do something, do it right.
Nurse the screens.
ChazsmateIII 8 months ago
How I enjoy this. Yay!!!! Shame there is no Harry Secombe, but it on tape!!! shomewhere,,,
HEV29 8 months ago
Wagner eat your heart out!
123jsbach 9 months ago
At his best, oh spike you make me chuckle.
God bless you my friend .
Foxyon55 9 months ago
Too silly, too silly, quite agree.... Get some discipline into those chaps, Sergeant-Major!
Lucius1958 9 months ago
Absolutely brilliant - thanks for posting.
GlowWorm1962 10 months ago
Yes, his name is John Bluthal, He used to impersonate Hughie Green in the hilarious idiot scout sketch which I think was in Q6
jnorman737 10 months ago
LOVE SPIKE... Has anyone else noticed that the Straightman is the fellow who plays 'Frank Pickle in The Vicar of Dibley with Dawn French'... amazing and very funny... :0)x
wenglishsal 10 months ago
Pure genius! Brings laughter to any situation
rockonRAY21 10 months ago
Priceless!.
meredith21846 10 months ago
Tormented genius. What a darker place the world would have been without him.
ChazsmateIII 11 months ago 2
We could use more fruit in our diet
Darbkin 1 year ago
Why isn't BBCAmerica showing this sort of thing instead of the tripe that is currently on their playlist?
Len2108 1 year ago
@Len2108 Because they are dumbing everyone down, so the Banks can keep stealing our money and financing phoney wars whilst the Sheeple watch X - Factor.
ludwigvonsteampole1 1 year ago
it cracks me up and when they look at each other half way through i'm gone !!
spike on top form--thanks
ilikefishish 1 year ago
@ilikefishish Yup. That is EXACTLY the point when I breakdown into helplesse mirth too, no matter how many times I watch this.
ladydigger 1 year ago
amusing expressions by milligan here.
BlandBoy 1 year ago
This is by far the funniest video I have ever seen. Even beats the dustbin song with Sellars, which also had me laughing painfully for hours.
cadenzrime 1 year ago 2
Ace.
TheBitterWeed 1 year ago
I wet myself watching this on the telly the first time round! and ive just done it again..lol
dementedgray1 1 year ago
Tie
djjoff 1 year ago
The look on the presenter's face at 0:09 makes me laugh
muteboyuk 1 year ago
this is so random
Abirocketh 1 year ago
OMG , my stomach hurst , haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
bigmuso123 1 year ago
Spike was in drag. How do people think it's someone else?
vanillaorchid 1 year ago
@vanillaorchid
I thought that it was a Pakistani dalek that was doing the Valkyrie bit....
8-)
gupsnot 1 year ago
raspberries my favourite!
roblowefan1 1 year ago
is that Sid Cesar as the Valkyrie?
MmmMan 1 year ago
Classic!!!
SirJekyllAppliance 1 year ago
"somebody open a window, please?"
paulgeoffreybrown1 1 year ago
Genius!
I particularly like the middle guy in the musical trio playing the teapot, absolutely on cue.
And Spike exchanging looks of love with Valkyrie.
Were they perhaps related?
Thank you to original poster.
redoler 1 year ago
Forgive all the wee flaws in his character; there were inestimable qualities in his mind-God rest him and forgive him for making us enjoy ourselves!
samarian100 1 year ago 2
i want to try to be even a quarter as funny as spike milligan
TheBeck666 1 year ago 3
it's just painful that this brand of humor isn't properly appreciated, especially in my country (USA); over here, the comedy trend is just pure cynicism, a bunch of people going on national TV and just bitching about society and the people in it. Why can't simple, cheerfully fucked-up stuff like this (and for that matter, Vic and Bob's stuff) get the respect it deserves?
zarkbot88 1 year ago 4
@zarkbot88 Here, here! Well said! There's a place for snarky but after a while it's just too 'easy'. This was inspired mad as a hatter GENIUS! Lots of laughs in heaven with Peter Sellars and Spike Milligan, I'm sure
budgienation 1 year ago 2
Spike was a genius, his humour will live on for years.
MrJamest3333 1 year ago
Nothing wrong with this at all.
I'd like to see the sketch where Spike walks onto a stage and begins a piano recital...he lifts his arms for the dramatic first chord, and when they come down the piano has become a kitchen sink. I can't remember where it goes from there, apart from odder and odder; at one point he's a plumber underneath the sink when it suddenly turns back into a piano and he finds himself repairing a piano from underneath in front of an audience. Nightmarish and hilarious.
nisbend 1 year ago
Surreal comedy at it's very, very best.
JohnnyTheWolfLupino 1 year ago
This is hilarious. Didn´t see this before. One of the funniest musical numbers I have ever seen. LOVE the understatement. THANKS SO MUCH!
phonomono78s 1 year ago
ALWAYS makes me laugh!
louloutemarie9 1 year ago
isn' it about time Milligan got some posthumous world recognition for his genius?
Maybe some Japanese robotics genius could design robot versions of this unique orchestra that millionaires could park in their driveways and elsewhere?
8269998 1 year ago 2
@8269998 Hear hear! Spike made so many of us helpless with laughter and truly deserves such an accolade. My dad had the great fortune of being in the same regiment during WW11 and always said that although the german army was something to be feared, it was Spike who nearly killed him with laughter. Apparantly he used to iron his KDs (khaki drills) by shoving them between two planks and driving a tank over them. Genius!
ladydigger 1 year ago 2
How fruity!
Jamaramasama 1 year ago
i havent seen this for 2o years....awesome.....who is the origianl singer?......marty
louislungbubble 1 year ago
Jack Hodges (with Sid Geening & His Band) -though Milligan used this song in an episode of the Goon Show as well....with Secombe and Sellers..
hoss1962 1 year ago
I just posted a fruit comedy too!
SueSlacks 1 year ago
Check out my new Goon show channel. It features a rare TV version of the Ying Tong song sung by the goon show gang.Simply click on my link.
goonshowTV 1 year ago 14
Thank you! I loved that. I'm more familiar with the "prison" version...
javakogan 1 year ago
I love this. Gets me everytime.
KeithUnderneath 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 3
Brunhilde never looked more beautiful!
;-)
BuzbyWuzby 1 year ago 3
Brilliant, and funnier because Spike is more restrained here, too often his tangent on comedy was too far off target, he knew this, and tried to contain himself, but then gave in to more mischief all round. A very funny man, unique, and so sadly missed.
swallin19 1 year ago 2
I keep coming back to this one again and again, cheers me up no end. Milligan was one of the one offs of comedy, Sure it may have been done before - but there are only so many jokes/plots/etc anyway; he did it with spirit. I think a re-make of Puckoon is sorely needed. Thanks for posting this.
Percy1916 1 year ago
@Percy1916
When you say much of it was done before. well spike and the goons were well before python etc. he was one of the first of his kind.
Anarchy4daUK 1 year ago
@Anarchy4daUK
Couldn't agree more. The Goon shows are surreally evergreen. Spike was a sensitive soul, and could be difficult by all accounts. There was a superb Parkinson in the early '70s with Spike and George Melly as guests, and they jammed together at the end. Priceless! I still use his "Any fear of ....?" in place of "Any chance of...?" as used in the Irish Lunar Mission 8)
Percy1916 1 year ago
Spike at his Best, just Magic /
noelcavo 1 year ago
its by Jack Hodges The Raspberry King - Everything Is Fresh Today made in 1927
skawashers 1 year ago 2
@skawashers You are right- I didnt realise this was an actual song until it was played on late night radio recently
mrspivvy 1 year ago
@mrspivvy If you like that song as well as other odd Novelty jazz from that period
. then look out for an album on CD called "Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us" as its some of the songs the Bonzo dog doo dah band Covered or should have covered.. Its a great album
skawashers 1 year ago
Many thanks, i am just hungry for a bloody good laugh.
Where has all the comedy gone?
Why nothing from the 'BBC' Of Spike Milligan material?.
If you have anymore please post, it's fab.
spib65 1 year ago
This was originally done by 'The Goons' with Harry Seacombesinging
Timcar3 1 year ago
I think `ull find that the song was Originally done by Jack Hodges The Raspberry King - Everything Is Fresh Today in 1927
skawashers 1 year ago
@Timcar3 You're right! You know i didn't know that. Thank You. I did some research and found that it IS Jack Hodges' version they're mimeing to!
Timcar3 1 year ago
Comedy at its best,everybody acting daft as a brush,lovely !!! This type of comedy is sorely missed nowadays.Spike was the master !!!
soundnicetome 1 year ago 2
I seem to remember that Spike was really pissed with the B.B.C as they lost or destroyed a large part of the Q Series much as they did with Pete & Dud. Good old Aunty
quotza 1 year ago
PAHAHA
aronswritingdeskyt 1 year ago
And what do you do ?...." I DO MY BEST SIR"
MANTLEBERG 1 year ago
ha ha ha ha ha ha Milligan you genius
star69elvis 1 year ago
"You idiot Milligan, you've driven into a minefield" "Don't worry sir, its one of ours"!
RandomSam189 2 years ago 26
Haha, genius!! I got given Spike Milligans war memoirs for christmas, the first time I'd honestly been introduced to his comic genius, and it's just had me laughing so much. I never knew that a month later, I'd recognise him as one of the best comedians to ever walk this Earth.
SGManiacPerson 2 years ago
This humour is better than traditional joke telling I feel,for as skilled & funny as that can be, it allows much more liscence to mock the things in life that we may regard as,for the most part, taboo Provided this is done with a little empathy,this little bit of "subversion" harms no-one,gives us a laugh & ,sometimes,might even result in a bit of a change of viewpoint,for the better,on some subject that we held dear And, having written this,perhaps my failing is over analysis!!!...
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ahhhh... over analysis is fine. But Its the simple things that are most complicated and..the other one..decomplicated...un de complicated...that makes it all worth while...
Keep falling in the water :-)
PopCriminal 2 years ago
Dressed as a Valkyerie blowing melodic raspberries. I remember seeing this as a kid and it nearly killed me.
Alembic25 2 years ago 3
me too,with my brothers, couldnt stop rolling around laughing,
fabios66 2 years ago
My God! Yes! the Ratties! How could I possibly have forgotten them? Thanks so much for the reminder MrH. As for the song above, I never tire of watching Milligan gazing with affection at Frank....and now I can't get the wretched tune out of my tiny brain... but Oh what superb genius.
ladydigger 2 years ago
FRANK PICKLE!!
SuperDooperTess 2 years ago
Re my previous comment, you'd think i'd have had the nous to try searching for "the ratties" on youtube by now, wouldn't you! lol! I just tried it and found an episode!
If you're interested, just type "the ratties jumping beans" in the search bar and it should pop up.
As you will see, the narration has a manic, surreal, irreverent style that is very Goon-esque i.m.o.
MrHokeykokey 2 years ago
I'd never seen or heard of the ratties before but after your comment searched them out. Thanks so much its pure Milligan, utterly random. I love finding any of his work as he is a comic genius. Unfortunately very few of todays programs are funny.
gd070510 2 years ago
Glad to be of service. :)
The Ratties unfortunately seems to have slipped away unnoticed in the mists of time for some reason. I wish someone would release them on DVD. It goes without saying of course that the biggest crime against british(irish?) comedy is the BBC's continual reluctance to release a DVD box-set of all Spike's Q series. Sort it out, Beeb!!!
MrHokeykokey 2 years ago
Also, my first taste of Milligan insanity was as a kid watching the cartoon show "The Ratties". This is a forgotten Milligan gem, purely because of Spike's narration which, as you'd expect, took off on bizarre, hilarious flights of fancy which often had absolutely nothing to do with what was happening on screen! But it's never been repeated and isn't available on dvd (the odd over-priced second hand video pops up on amazon from time to time). Does anyone else remember this programme?
MrHokeykokey 2 years ago
It's often said that Monty Python was the direct comedic descendant of Spike Milligan, and this is obviously true to a certain extent. But i've always felt that Python sketches were equally as influenced by the Oxford Revue/ Cambridge Footlights style of their Alma Maters. In my opinion the closest anyone has come to the pure, surrealist lunacy of Milligan's humour is Reeves and Mortimer's best stuff. Does anyone know if Spike ever saw any Reeves and Mortimer shows or what he thought of them?
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ufothe3 2 years ago
Such a missed comedian,totally off his trolley,but was and is the best funny man we had,God bless Spike !!
soundnicetome 2 years ago
I have a habit of over-analysing many things,but, I think that Milligan's Humour works So Well & is Superior to much of Modern Comedy because of Two Very Important Factors. One is Milligan's, "Musical" sense & Timing that He gave to his Work (he was a Jazz Trumpeter of some repute) & My point number Two is the Unforced & Genuine Amusement that the Players too, cannot help but Show, giving in to fits of Laughter throughout much of the "Q" Series!!! And I Do the same!!! thank U
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ufothe3 2 years ago
Friends - TV for morons
Spike Milligan & The Goons - Comedy for the imaginatively equipped
desweller 2 years ago 3
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my mum thinks this is really funny but I think it is immature and not funny AT ALL. Why do people even smile at this? Its so babyish...
BlondGirly123 2 years ago
Oh dear. You don't laugh at Friends or that sort of thing do you?
livefrom3mileisland 2 years ago 2
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Yes. Its way funnier than this! Its just a weirdo blowing raspberries
BlondGirly123 2 years ago
The main difference is Spike Milligan is a GENIUS. "Friends" is, as best, average. Spike Milligan not only defined post-war comedy but also dictated much of its future movement (Python, Mighty Boosh etc etc). "Friends" made a lot of money. (And it even stole a joke from "Mr.Bean".) But hey, just say some crappy catchphrase accompanied by some poor "character" acting and you can flease the western world of millions as they clamour for the entertainment equivilent of dry vomiting.
livefrom3mileisland 2 years ago 2
Fuck Off you Humorless little bitch
Ianseymour 2 years ago 3
the bloke with the mustache on the left is the guy who plays Frank Pickle in the Vicar of Dibley !!
MumCrabby 2 years ago
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manyhighhills 2 years ago
This song was released on the back of an ant and it reached number 2 in the Tibetan pop chart, being held off number one spot by Bing Crosby whistling The Lord's Prayer in French.
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ufothe3 2 years ago
lol
cricketbat08 2 years ago
I AGREE!!! Ying-tong-Iddyl-Eye-Poe!!!
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@cricketbat08 are you related to him!!
sturdle 1 year ago
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cricketbat08 2 years ago
I have a whole collection of his music in my car. Had the siblings repeating this song for hours.
LeoDeGrand 2 years ago
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ufothe3 2 years ago
"Tho' it isn't very pretty/You've got to admit it's cute/So all together let it go/Eat more Fruit'' It would be easy to dismiss such Beauteous & Poetic phrases as the aforementioned as "only the work of a down & out French Knotted String Consultant" and, therfore, hardly worth "our" attention!!!So, it is with a Heavy Heart & light Trousers that I must relate to you that that last sentence you read is completely & utterly True!!!!!BOLOGNE!!!!!
ufothe3 2 years ago
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ufothe3 2 years ago
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ufothe3 2 years ago
Genius!
racksy 2 years ago
How long did Miligan practice before he perfected this First Demonstration of the Standard European Raspberry?
A pioneer in Surreal Fruticultural Musicology, his work has yet to be equalled in this difficult field.
What Dali did with paint, Gunner Milligan followed with words, music and a great love of people.
Spike's Love was Catching.
8269998 2 years ago 2
Surreal Fruticultural Musicology eh? What a great phrase. Does what it says on the tin. Milligan lived in many universes, usually simultaneously, and I feel privileged to have experienced some of it through his books and competely insane TV sketches.
ladydigger 2 years ago
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what episode was this originally in?
deltamatrix 2 years ago
magnificent
hutspah71 2 years ago
The man was a genius, mad but brilliant. You want to read his war memoirs they are excellent
089sumpy 2 years ago 10
Is that Franck Pickles from Vicar of Dibley?
jaybone23 2 years ago 4
Yes, it's Australian actor John Bluthal who worked with Spike on all the Q series
Wiganmaher 2 years ago
He's actually from Poland.
amarone1956 2 years ago
@Wiganmaher He's actually Polish of Jewish Descent.
fatboyslim142 9 months ago
when im fed up i play this timeless peace and it always puts a smile on my big ugly mug thankyou so much spike and friends.
sephra86 2 years ago 31
lmfao spike is a nut lol
gkidd1963 2 years ago
Sublime, glorious and disturbing all at once....
lewisrozenberg 2 years ago
LMAO at this every time - have written into my will that this clip is played at my funeral!
HootyMcBoobie 2 years ago
what is this tune please help i cant stop whistling it
doctorstaymoist 2 years ago
It was an actual song in the hit parade back in the 1920s by the "raspberry king"
mrspivvy 2 years ago
funny
sillyjilly913 2 years ago
ahhhh this is so weird but so funnnnyyyy!!!!!
DRACOvsHARRY 2 years ago
i might be related to him
slorgz 2 years ago
Funny? Spike had difficulty not to be funny, almost everything he did was a poke at life to see what would happen...........this song is a classic, nobody else could get away with it...
swallin19 2 years ago 3
The look on Spikes face (between raspberries) is hilarious.
The look they give each other at about 1.23 is also great comedy!
Thanks for posting gr00ved!
GRENADIERHEEDER 2 years ago 2
Still funny today. Love you Spike, you were a true one of a kind genius. RIP. God rest your soul.
lawifuhic 2 years ago 2
if you still have a video you can get the best of Q on video. I got one for about 10 quid on ebay.
squibs72 2 years ago
a comical genius . how many comedians owe him.
vindicari 2 years ago 2
Rest in Peace Terry, and thank you for being the funniest man who ever lived. x
OutdoorClassrooms 2 years ago
The demure look on Milligans face during this number is perfect! A raspberry blowing Brunhilde. Fantastic. Every time I watch this I wet me knicks!
ladydigger 2 years ago 2
I know! Brilliant- glad someone else noticed it..
holly84 2 years ago
the song is called
EVERYTHING IS FRESH TODAY by Jack Hodges
pressgangers 2 years ago
This exemplifies Milligan. I honestly believe this to be his funniest work. His eyes say it all.
funkyalfonso 2 years ago
Its not only the Pythons who nicked his stuff, Reeves and Mortimer have nicked shit loads of his style n' all, you can see it all over their stuff, Vic has said he nicked a lot from Q. When they gonna release some of it on dvd or repeat em? Soon I hope, until then we have these clips some decent folk have put up.
Anarchy4daUK 2 years ago
Nicked is putting it too strongly. Influenced, shown the way, inspired is more accurate.
retread01 2 years ago
1:26-when they exchange a wistful glance-hilarious
donnca 2 years ago 5
Totally agree. Just seeing Spike standing there in that outfit, with the demure expression on his face and those wistful glances cracks me up every time.
Calaban63 2 years ago
Spike at his best!!
tazman745 2 years ago
One of the most silly, hilarious examples of Spike at his best. No matter how many times I see this, I just can't stop giggling!
Nimmynimmypinkpoo 2 years ago
Marvellous! Cheers for that. :)
TheRussianGestapo 2 years ago
This still makes me cry with laughter!!! no matter how many times i see it
ibloodyloveit 2 years ago
Isn't the singing chap with the monocle the "boring" guy from Vicar of Dibley?
TheRussianGestapo 2 years ago
LMAOOOO it never gets old :)
Selz1977 2 years ago
whoa ,,,spike is a hot piece of chick ass----he missed his calling,,,,,,,,,,still brilliant however old it is,,,R.I.P. milligan
maxziz 2 years ago 2
BRILLIANT SPIKE JUST HAD 'IT'... whatever 'it' is, his childlike soul just shines through. wacky. i love him
pistachio1987 2 years ago
so funny!
JerrySmith2 2 years ago
It might be 35 years old, but its still bloody funny
wildenfree 2 years ago
wasn't this originally in one of the goon shows - "the raspberry song"?
hoss1962 2 years ago
well - a distorted version of jack hodges "evertything is fresh today"
hoss1962 2 years ago
Old Spike makes a fairly convincing woman in that get up.
FordPrefect23 3 years ago
Yup...I've slept with uglier...
hoss1962 2 years ago 7
spike makes a good woman
i think?
10Redrum01 2 years ago
Damn. I wish he was a woman.
ancienttoes 2 years ago
This never gets old.
bobaloubro 3 years ago
How refreshing to watch this
audreywade 3 years ago
Whatever is wonderful!
God bless Spike.
buttsyrc8 3 years ago
the song is actually called
everything is fresh today
by Jack Hodges with sid geening and his band
ecc84 3 years ago
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ecc84 3 years ago
I'm looking for a sketch from Q where....
Spike's head appears unexpectedly out of a lavatory dressed in a Sowester.... this whilst someone is taking a bath.... very funny. Can anyone advise if this skech has been posted on UT.
emperorsdragon 3 years ago 2