Terence Alan “Spike” Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself “Spike” after hearing the band Spike Jones and his City Slickers
Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme The Goon Show, performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of the Goons. Milligan took success with The Goon Show into television with Q5, a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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Spike and Peter
Buddies two
Dustbin stomping
Choogaloo
Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers
Don Matthews
November 2022
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
sadly missed; a bit of lunacy keeps the world sane 🙂
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Yes , sadly missed.. I’m your substitute loony. Kaboom….
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you do a pretty good job, Don 🙂
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Thankyou John. Spike is my mentor. I’ll never reach his peak. I’m plodding up the long ladda to the pinnacle Poet Laureate in Nonsense. Wish me luck. We do have one thing in common tho. Both bipolar. Create our zany stuff in manic states. I’m doomed John…..
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Be doomed and happy. Don 🙂 plodders have their place in the pantheon of punsters 🙂
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clap clap clap . Edgar’s impressed…..
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Raw humor. Nothing can replace it. 🙂
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Raw humour….I like that expression. We would call it just plain silly. many seem to have lost the appreciation of CLEAN raw humour. They clamour for sex-filled gutter stuff. Or am I being too …..?
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No, I guess you have a point, Don.
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I often wonder if I’m being too critical….I do like racy humour but not gutter stuff……
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