Spike Milligan on The Late Late Show (1985)
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Comedian and author Spike Milligan on being Irish, his eccentric family and how he met Harry Secombe. (RTÉ Archives) With apologies for the out-of-sync audio.
For grade 9 English we had a South African teacher who would read excerpts from Spike Milligan's book "Puckoon". I recall him wiping the tears from his face as he'd read out loud this passage or that. Of course we boys had no idea what it was all about but we loved it nonetheless.
One of the funniest humans ever to have lived
To think i only found that out after he’d died. I’m much poorer for not having seen much of Spike before.
@@kevdimo6459 He wrote a number of extremely funny books that are worth reading. He had his problems with depression and mental health issues, SPIKE: An Intimate Memoir is a wonderful book.
@@jonathanphillips5514 thanks mate I’m not into reading books since my depression started again. But i will get to read them one day.
The genius that is Spike Milligan
The audience look like a bunch of accountants.
Spike is mad & excellent.
Just discovered this great man
Greatest comedian EVER
There is one LLS where spike is joined by donovan who was so enamoured at meeting spike he got out his guitar & sang "Im walking backwards,,,"The joy of live TV.
one of the best stand up I ever watch in my life
I saw him in Karratha when he visited Karratha entertainment centre and met him there. A very nice man
Different times eh, different times.
I get why Robin Williams and Craig Ferguson admired this guy. He was non stop nonsense. Every sentence he blurts out takes you nowhere with laughter. Insane comedy mind
This was great. So funny. Gay Byrne got the best out of comedians and he had a great laught himself.
Non stop laughing 😂
Hero!🤣🤣🤣
"He's dead now long since?" "Well I hope so they buried him,he can't be very pleased if he isn't." pmsl.
He has a funny epitaph, worth looking up
His description of Seagoon in "Highway" was brilliant. Religious cringefest. So unfunny it was hillarious.
We're awful short of people.
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I have to ask.. where did this footage originate from?
www.rte.ie/archives/2020/0910/1164349-irishman-spike-milligan/
@@OneSunnyDayEst2020Thanks a million !
Shows the ignorance of the period “His uncle was in India surrounded by Pakistanis” 😂
Is it just me? The lipsynch is a mile off. I'm laughing at the jokes before he makes them... Ooh, Matron...
Sorry about that, it's a screen recording. I apologised for the out of sync audio in the video description.
Ahhh I see Spike - you made your career in England, have a very eccentric English sense of humour, were born in England, your mother was English, are embraced in England, but because your father was Irish, you are automatically Irish, and you never stopped going on about it.
He was born in India, eventually brought up in London, and then fought for Britain, and conscripted as British, in the Royal Artillery; as his father and paternal grandfather both had before him too.
But after World War Two the law was changed, a long term consequence of Irish independence, so that anyone British whose father had been born in the now Eire (his dad was a native of Sligo), had to _reapply_ for British Citizenship or just lose it - Spike goes into this at length in his interview on manic depression with James Whale, which is on UA-cam as well.
Stuck in a hall stuffed full of foreigners from around the world, expected to queue for hours, and complete endless paperwork, because of this bureaucratic nonsense, all for the chance of having to take the Oath of Allegiance again, as he’d done in the army, he decided to just walk to the Irish embassy nearby and ask whether they’d take him instead… the ambassador gave him a whiskey and they sorted his citizenship that same afternoon.
England didn’t want him.
@@michaeljames4904 that all sounds like the bullshit of a bitter man with an overactive imagination, and a fondness for taking shot at those in charge, and a love of hyperbole for the sake of story and his narrative.
@@michaeljames4904 A bit strong to say that "England didn't want him". The absurd bureaucracy combined with his unusual circumstances forced his hand, or at least guided it. And I understand that because of his Indian place of birth, his Irish dad and his English mother, he could have become a citizen of any of the 3. He chose Ireland, and the legend on his grave is in Irish Gaelic ( "I told you I was ill"). A deeply flawed man, but an absolute one-off comedy genius. I wish he was still with us.
@@bobbyperu4683 the accusation being responded to was likewise “strong”
I'm irish. I recognise spikes irish accent as a cork accent. Which explains a lot to me. Cork people are funny and outspoken