Spike Milligan interview - Parkinson One to One (1987)
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- Spike Milligan interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson One to One. Some minor issues towards the end of the video. S01E07 - 9th May 1987
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I only saw Spike live once. Edinburgh Festival more than 40 years ago. Totally empty stage with one armchair at centre and he came on, sat down and had the full house in stitches for over an hour. I laughed so much I was actually sore most of next day. He was a comic genius from a very different time. Much missed. Thanks for posting this vid.
My mum wrote to Spike back in '93 after the release of his book about depression. She had written just expressing her feelings about the book and her own experience etc. Spike took it upon himself to find out my mums house phone number and gave her a call to see if she was ok. They ended up chatting on a couple of occasions and my mum sent him a Christmas card every year. Bless the man.
When Adolf Hitler, My part in his downfall was first released I read it on holiday in Dorset. I remember well sitting on the cliffs in hysterics, passers by thought I was mad. R,I,P Spike you are still the greatest.
I have spent the last 50 years of my 72 year life reading everything about Spike. I would love to come up with something astounding to say but Spike is just a lovely genius. We miss him now and should have made more of the great man when he was with us.
I used to work with a man, Ralph Pickett, RIP, who was in the same Artillery Regiment during WW2 - the 7th Heavy Artillery. Spike was 4 guns down the line. Ralph said he was an absolute lunatic in those days. His books, 'Hitler and my part in his downfall' and 'Rommel, Gunner who?' had me in stitches.
If you've never read Spike's : "Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall" I strongly urge you to. The funniest book that I've ever picked up. And RIP to Parky. A fantastic interviewer.
He grew to love Australia, Barry Humphries, and Woy Woy North of Sydney where his parents lived. Australia loved him, the Goon Show (ABC National, midday every Sunday), and everything else about him.
Anyone who hasn't read Puckoon, find a copy, laugh until you cry, then pass it on.
Spike Milligan was a wonderful bloke. I remember this brilliant joke of him, he said he was once asked what he would like to have written on his tombstone and he said "I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL!" 😂😂😂
He’s a gem. Spoilt me for most modern comedians. I was really young but in New Zealand we had the goon show on radio, repeats for years. I remember they came on tv, the telegoons. Then another show came on tv and spike was on at the end of each show dressed in a nightgown slippers and a noddy hat. He was hilarious, just sat in a chair by himself and had us in stitches. He was the best, they were all on that show, John Cleese and all, I think it was called Monty Pythons Flying Circus but spike was the best. The telegoons was good but it didn’t last long, really the script was written for radio not mud puppets. I would watch Monty Pythons just to see Spike at the end of the show.
In the eighties Spike would turn up at out Jazz club and sit there with his chicken in a basket just enjoying the ambiance. None of us regulars paid him overly attention and he appreciated that. He would on some occasions get up on stage and play along with the what ever bands were performing .On one occasion someone asked him for his autograph handing spike a beer mat and a pen. Spike obligingly signed his name on the back of the beer mat and passed it back to the chap who then asked "could you sign it to Wally and Enid" Spike grinned asking, " Why don't they know their name
RIP Spike Milligan (April 16, 1918 - February 27, 2002), aged 83
Spike was an absolute Comedy genius , nobody can touch him, the world is poorer for laughter without him.
Dear Spike left us in 2002 - 'Parky' left us just yesterday at the grand old age of 88. Both at the top of their respective games. Spike suffered mentally with the stress of writing single-handedly the Goon show scripts. It must be very difficult for an artiste to fully appreciate how much they are admired and loved form within the bubble in which they live - but i hope that both these wonderful gentlemen did have some inkling of the love and affection their audiences had for them. R.I.P. gentleman. Thank you for the enjoyment you have given me over the decades I that have been listening to you.
Spike is legendary, I love him for all his quirks, His highs, lows and everything in between.
Spike has been one of my heroes since I was a child. Today I am only 6 or 7 years younger than he was when this show was made and feel I can relate to much of his melancholy and how nostalgia was so appealing to him.
An absolutely genuine legend a great man whos timing and humour was amazing.We all loved Spike.
Fantastic. And rare to see him so lucid and with so much time to talk.
What a wonderful interview. I had forgotten the humour of Spike Milligan. Very nostalgic and sad to watch all in one.
Loved this man he was brilliant witty and eccentric the best