The Spike Milligan Letters

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241966930
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spike Milligan: Man of Letters written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . . Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous politicians, actors, celebrities and rock stars (as well as a host of unlikely individuals on some surprising subjects): - rounded teabags ('what did you do with the corners?') - backless hospital gowns ('beyond my comprehension') - heartfelt apologies ('pardon me for being alive') and the imbalance of male and female ducks in London's parks. Here, then, is the real Spike Miligan: obsessive, rude, generous and relentlessly witty. 'Milligan's zaniness shines through' Telegraph 'The godfather of alternative comedy' Eddie Izzard 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.

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140049299
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spike Milligan Letters written by Spike Milligan and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241966167
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monty written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME THREE OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail ______________ 'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.' 'This could mean war . . .' The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line account of life as a gunner in World War Two resumes on the eve of victory in North Africa. Now Britain's looniest war hero must combat some of the direst threats a soldier has ever faced - boredom ('Christ, I just thought of Catford'), moving camp ('It's a sort of Brighton with camels'), moving camp again ('We're already somewhere else'), a visit to Carthage ('It's terrible, it's like Catford') and a perilous encounter with the gloriously endowed Mademoiselle Villion ('"Help! massage," I said weakly'). Against the odds, they survive and are sent at last to Italy to be killed... ______________ 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal' Terry Wogan 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140081633
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Spike Milligan Letters written by Spike Milligan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 : 9780718116378
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spike Milligan Letters written by Spike Milligan and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0670920789
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milligan's Meaning of Life written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies. With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy, leaving a legacy of influence that stretches from Monty Python's Flying Circus to the work of self-confessed acolytes such as Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry today. Throughout his life, Milligan wrote prolifically - scripts, poetry, fiction, as well as several volumes of memoir, in which he took an entirely idiosyncratic approach to the truth. In this ground-breaking work, Norma Farnes, his long-time manager, companion, counsellor and confidante, gathers together the loose threads, reads between the lines and draws on the full breadth of his writing to present his life in his own words: an autobiography - of sorts. From his childhood in India, through his early career as a jazz musician and sketch-show entertainer, his spells in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Artillery, to that fateful first broadcast of The Goon Show and beyond into the annals of comedy history, this is the autobiography Milligan never wrote.

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241966175
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME TWO OF SPIKE MILLIGAN'S LEGENDARY MEMOIRS IS A HILARIOUS, SUBVERSIVE FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF WW2 'Brilliant verbal pyrotechnics, throwaway lines and marvelous anecdotes' Daily Mail 'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times ______________ 'Keep talking, Milligan. I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds.' 'That's how I got in, sir.' 'Didn't we all.' The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . . ______________ 'The most irreverent, hilarious book about the war that I have ever read' Sunday Express 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'A totally original comedy writer' Michael Palin 'Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense' Guardian

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Robert, Dear Spike written by Robert Graves and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007246404
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Box 18 written by Spike Milligan and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Spike Milligan's work is compiled and edited by Norma Farnes, Milligan's manager, biographer and close friend. Drawing on diaries and letters, it consists of the contents of 'Box 18', a file into which the highly prolific Spike would put his writing and drawings as they came to him.

Author : Spike Milligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007171033
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Spike Milligan written by Spike Milligan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard. With a foreword by Milligan-fan Eddie Izzard, this stunning anthology of Spike Milligan's work comprises of favourites from his classic books, (Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall, Goodbye Soldier, Puckoon...) as well as scripts from the now-classic Goon show. Interspersing such comic genius is also a touching collection of letters and his celebrated and liberating writings on depression, demonstrating the diverse talent of a man whose creative output spanned over half a century. A selection of children's poetry and writings (Unspun Socks for A Chicken's Laundry, A Book of Milliganimals, Silly Verse for Kids and much more) reveals Spike's irresistible connection with the childlike imagination and a brillant sense of the ridiculous. All the favourite and funniest stories are there. For those who want an excellent introduction to the mind of Milligan or a welcome return to a much-loved genius, this is the ultimate Milligan reader.