Spike Milligan was a comedian, writer, and musician who left an indelible mark on British comedy. His work, often drawing from personal experiences and a whimsical view of the world, is characterized by its absurdist and surrealist style. With a unique sense of humor and an unconventional approach to his craft, he delighted generations of listeners and readers. Milligan's genius lay in his ability to transform the mundane into hilariously unforgettable moments.
Radio scripts originally presented Oct. 1954-Jan. 1956 on BBC. The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-On-Sea The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton The Affair of the Lone Banana The Canal Napoleon's Piano Foiled by President Fred The Mighty Wurlitzer The Hastings Flyer The House of Teeth
Spike Milligan's publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. Spike did not regard children as small adults, but as entirely different species who lived in a secret, magical world that very few adults understood. For decades he delved into this world, delighting children - and adults - of all ages with his poems and stories. Illustrated throughout with Spike's own drawings and specially commissioned artworks, this is an ideal read-alone or read-aloud book for Spike fans of all ages, featuring: Silly Verse for Kids (1959), The Bald Twit Lion (1968), A Book of Milliganimals (1968), Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry (1968), Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Nasty Dragon (1982), and Startling Verse for All the Family (1987).
A collection of sixty humorous and nonsense poems.
Silly Verse for Kids - a hilarious collection of silly poems by Spike Milligan! A collection of the absurd, ridiculous, sublime and characteristically anarchic verse from the brilliant Spike Milligan. With his very own illustrations, this collection, which includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong will make you laugh from the bottom of your belly - just like Spike did. The legendary and iconic figure, Spike Milligan was born at Ahmednagar in India in 1918. He received his first education in a tent in the Hyderabad Sindh desert and graduated from there, through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England, to the Lewisham Polytechnic. He then plunged into the world of Show Business, seduced by his first stage appearance, at the age of eight, in the nativity play of his Poona convent school. He began his career as a band musician, but became famous as a humorous scriptwriter and actor in both films and broadcasting. He was the creator, principal writer and performer of the infamous Goon Show. Spike received an honorary CBE in 1992 and Knighthood in 2000. He died in 2002. Other children's books by Spike Milligan: Bald Twit Lion; Badjelly the Witch; Dip the Puppy; Sir Nobonk and the Terrible Dreadful Awful Naughty Nasty Dragon; A Children's Treasury of Milligan: Classic Stories and Poems; The Magical World of Milligan
Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious sage of World War II - from the long remembered outbreak of crabs in monkey to the unfortunate ack-acking of and American killyhawk. Dio mio, is war is a game of cards, someone was cheating.
From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like- minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. They decide to call themselves The Goons...
This edition from the best-selling poetry series brings together the most beloved poems for children, from The Owl and the Pussycat through On the Ning Nang Nong to I Know Someone Who Can to Us Two. schovat popis
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Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron... up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst.
"This, the first posthumous anthology of his work, compiled with the co-operation of his closest circle, provides a comprehensive guide to Milligan's work" -- Book jacket.
Offers an account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two that sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital and from there to a rehabilitation camp.
This is the second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II.
The Selected Memoirs of Spike Milligan
Milligan's War is the one-volume selected edition of Spike Milligan's war memoirs, published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Britain's funniest old soldier on 16 April 1988. Adolf Hitler, Monty, Mussolini, Rommel (who?) - all played their modest parts in the Second World War and the shaping of human destiny, but we all know where the real action was... Milligan's war documents in words and pictures. The most scurrilous, bizarre and certainly the most hilarious military career embarked upon by any bombardier of the 56th heavy regiment, royal artillery, ever. 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
For years Spike Milligan has lovingly collected and collated over a dozen volumes of family photographs and memorabilia, stretching from army life in India in 1869, through his birth in 1918 and his childhood, to his career as an entertainer and the arrival of his own family. Spike has carefully selected scores of these delightful photographs to illustrate the story of his life. Notes in diary form are expanded into anecdotes and reminiscences in Spike's inevitably irreverent style, making light of the major emotional hurdle Spike had to overcome in writing this deeply intimate book. At times touching and sincerly personal, The Family Album includes details of how Spike was plagued by manic depression stemming from his war time experiences, his traumatic mental breakdown and the collapse of his first marriage, all of which let him to believe that he could never write an autobiography such as this. Also included, of course, are some of his adventures in showbusiness, from the early days with The Goons and his innovative work on television to his stage appearences and film work. Along the way there are famous friendships with famous friends as diverse as Barry Humphries and the Prince of Wales.
Offer an account of author's part in World War Two that sees our hero doing very little soldiering. Because it's 1946. Rather, he is now part of the Bill Hall Trio - a 'Combined Services Entertainment' inflicted on unsuspecting soldiers across Italy and Austria - and is largely preoccupied with the unbearably beautiful ballerina, Ms Toni Fontana.
An irreverent account of the "Old Testament", this book portrays a huge range of characters from Hushai the Archite to better-known figures, such as King (my brain hurts) Solomon. Spike Milligan has conjured up the whole bloodthirsty world of smiting, smoting and plagues.
Presents the recollections of the author's army life from enlistment to the landing at Algiers in 1943.
Do you know what a Onecan is? Have you met a Gofongo or the Bald Twit Lion? Can you guess what the Wiggle-Woggle said? Another collection of goonish poems and zany drawings by Spike Milligan.
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"This, the first posthumous anthology of his work, compiled with the co-operation of his closest circle, provides a comprehensive guide to Milligan's work"--Jacket
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Puckoon, Spike Milligan's first novel bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border. It's 1924 and the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. With much pushing and shoving, the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, and pub chairs from bars.
A riotous pastiche biography. [There was in fact a real William McGonagall, the Scottish notoriously bad, bad poet. 1825 Mar - 1902 Sep 29 ]
I never felt more like kicking so I kicked him in the goolies and they swelled up like melons. He had to put the harness on me while balancing his balls with one hand and could only move very slowly. In time I got used to everything (and he got used to swollen balls) and I could do my work as well as my mother. I used to wash up after dinner.
In the Bible, according to author: In the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth and darkness was upon the face of the deep; this was due to a malfunction at Lots Road Power Station... And God said 'Let there be light'. This title presents the author's version of the best known biblical stories.
This version of Robin Hood has Robin and his merry men when the King's deer manage to evade their arrows, dining out at McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and eating jam sandwiches, Nevertheless, they are still more than willing to do battle with Robin's arch enemy Sir Guy de Custard Gisborne.
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Já proti Rommelovi je vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka z druhé světové války. Kniha představuje znamenitou a inteligentní protiválečnou satiru, která si našla místo mezi světovou klasickou literaturou. Humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinerie připomíná české autory, jako jsou Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Škvorecký nebo Miloslav Švandrlík.
První dva díly Milliganovy válečné trilogie. První díl je inspirován autorovým nástupem k dělostřelectvu a pobytem ve výcvikovém táboře. Díl druhý se odehrává během nasazení v severní Africe. Vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka líčí období armádního výcviku v roce 1942 a posléze vylodění a boje v Africe až do vítězného konce. Kniha je znamenitá a inteligentní protiválečná satira, humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinérie připomíná české klasiky: Haška, Škvoreckého a Švandrlíka.
Jak jsem přispěl k Hitlerovu pádu je vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka z druhé světové války. Kniha představuje znamenitou a inteligentní protiválečnou satiru, která si našla místo mezi světovou klasickou literaturou. Humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinérie připomíná české autory jako jsou Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Škvorecký nebo Miloslav Švandrlík.
Jak Monty přispěl k mému vítězství je vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka z druhé světové války. Kniha představuje znamenitou a inteligentní protiválečnou satiru, která si našla místo mezi světovou klasickou literaturou. Humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinérie připomíná české autory jako jsou Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Škvorecký nebo Miloslav Švandrlík.Jak Monty přispěl k mému vítězství je vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka z druhé světové války. Kniha představuje znamenitou a inteligentní protiválečnou satiru, která si našla místo mezi světovou klasickou literaturou. Humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinérie připomíná české autory jako jsou Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Škvorecký nebo Miloslav Švandrlík.
Pokračování humorných příběhů z 2.světové války, kdy britská armáda operovala v severní Africe
Mussolini a jeho podíl na mém zhroucení je vtipný a zábavný deník britského vojáka z druhé světové války. Kniha představuje znamenitou a inteligentní protiválečnou satiru, která si našla místo mezi světovou klasickou literaturou. Humor v popisu vojenského života a tuposti armádní mašinérie připomíná české autory jako jsou Jaroslav Hašek, Josef Škvorecký nebo Miloslav Švandrlík.
