BOOKS: More humour from beyond the grave.(Features)

From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) | Date: July 13, 2005 | Copyright information

The Compulsive Spike Milligan. Edited by Norma Farnes. Published by Harpers Perennial, pounds 8.99.

WHEN Spike Milligan requested the epitaph OSee, I told you I was illO for his gravestone, it was clear this was a comic who fully intended to keep people laughing well beyond his demise.

And so it has proved.

The anthology of his collected musings on life, love and, above all, comedy proved such a hit when it was published after his death in 2002 tha...

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