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Reviews: The Essential Spike Milligan: The point of Spike
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The Essential Spike Milligan Edited by Alexander Games
4th Estate, GBP 16.99
Eddie Izzard contributes a hazy page of introduction to this new
collection, musing in the kind of approving fog which Spike Milligan
seemed to induce in everyone who liked him. And I must apologise if a
vaguely approving fog is the best critical analysis I can offer
anyone who is interested in this book.
Spike Milligan may have been essential, in the sense that his
outpouring of surreal whimsy settled into the bedrock of much of what
we think of as modern comedy. But what does it add up to, that
mixture of ...
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GOON BUT NOT FORGOTTEN; Tributes to genius of British comedy.(News)
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; TRIBUTES to Spike Milligan began to flow in today as news...His spokesman said: 'He knew Spike Milligan over many years and had a great...modern British comedy started with Spike Milligan. He was the godfather of it all...
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Spike Milligan: a very silly mid-off
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; ...many letters of tribute to the late Spike Milligan, and in his honour I would like to...Sir, In all the tributes to the late Spike Milligan, I have seen no mention of his deep...Reg Mildew Sir, I first encountered Spike Milligan during the war. I was on patrol duty...
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Christmas TV Guide: Portrait of a troubled genius.(Features)
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; THE Unseen Spike Milligan (Christmas Eve Saturday, Channel...into the life of troubled genius Spike Milligan. Arguably the most influential...Milligan's daughters. The Unseen Spike Milligan reveals the close relationship...
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Christmas TV Guide: Portrait of a troubled genius
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail
; THE Unseen Spike Milligan (Christmas Eve Saturday, Channel...into the life of troubled genius Spike Milligan. Arguably the most influential...Milligan's daughters. The Unseen Spike Milligan reveals the close relationship...
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Did I say that? You will, Spike, you will
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...things about the death of the late Spike Milligan was the willingness of so many newspapers...true. What was odd about this was that Spike Milligan never said it. Or at least, if he did...alone all those papers, thought that Spike Milligan said it. Or, indeed, why any Woody...
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Farewell to zany comedy genius; SPIKE MILLIGAN,1918-2002: the last of The Goons dies at home surrounded by his family
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; Author and comedian Spike Milligan has died aged 83 at his Sussex...saddened to hear the news. "He knew Spike Milligan over many years and had a great...modern British comedy started with Spike Milligan. He was the godfather of it all...
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Spike is Goon but not forgotten, says his friend Charles.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...yesterday led the tributes to his friend Spike Milligan, the last of the Goons, who died aged...was an immense sadness to learn of Spike Milligan's death and my heart goes out to all...modern British comedy started with Spike Milligan. He was the godfather of it all.' Monty...
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SPIKE MILLIGAN 1918-2002: Memories of a madly funny guy.(News)
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; ...SHELLEY GENIUS is never easy. And meeting Spike Milligan - probably the last real genius in...just as you thought this was not the Spike Milligan you wanted to meet, a mischievous grin...as much as anything else. That was Spike Milligan: probably the happiest, saddest man...
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SPIKE MILLIGAN: Even `The Simpsons' relied on Spike's invention of strange comedy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; MY FIRST experience of Spike Milligan was suitably surreal - it was...included. You can see elements of Spike Milligan's comedy across the world...greatest tribute we can pay to Spike Milligan is the fact that in this country...
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