Spike Milligan

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Title: Bible, The Old Testament According To Spike Milligan: Description:
There have been many versions of the Old Testament over the centuries but never one quite like this. Believers and non-believers alike will enjoy this hilarious reworking, where the jokes, jests and jibes tumble over each other form Chapter One, Verse One until the end.

Title: Black Beauty According To Spike Milligan (according To...): Description:
Spike Milligans take on Black Beauty, a very funny read

Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover: According To Spike Milligan: Description:
Clifford and Constance made home in Wragby Hall. Clifford's father was killed in the Boer War during the siege of Ladysmith. He was hiding in the NAAFI when a tea urn fell on his head. Clifford was now a baronet, Constance was Lady Chatterley. They dressed for dinner and undressed for bed.

Title: The Compulsive Spike Milligan: Description:
This second superb collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians is an excellent companion to the sensational original, The Essential Spike Milligan. Spanning his 50-year career and incorporating a rich and varied range of material, this second anthology is as unmissable as the first. When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history -- as well as a legion of devoted fans and admirers. His themes ranged from environmental issues to war, from nostalgia to depression, and his prolific output covers some of the most evocative events of the twentieth century, in a style both twistedly comic and harrowingly honest. The huge success of the Spike Milligan anthology, The Essential Spike Milligan, inspired a second raid on the original brilliant source. Milligan was arguably the most one of the prolific and mould-breaking comic writers of the twentieth century and this second anthology gives another opportunity to sample his finest writing.It includes more of the best from his war memoirs and novel Puckoon, his children's stories, poetry and drawings plus a wonderful collection from his voluminous correspondence from the 1960s onwards with such varied recipients as the House of Commons, the Director-General of the BBC, Private Eye and British Telecom. A compulsive read for all Milligan fans. About the Author Spike Milligan was born in 1918. In the 1950s he wrote and performed in The Goon Show with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, and in the 1960s he had success as a stage and film actor. Active into his eighties, his one-man shows were always sell-out events. Milligan received lifetime achievement awards for writing and for comedy in 2000 and 2001. He died in 2002. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: The Goons: The Story: Description:
A collection of scripts, sketches, Spike Milligan's personal memorabilia and photographs that make up the history of "The Goons". It also includes contributions from Harry Secombe and Eric Sykes. It forms the definitive story of Eccles, Bluebottle, Neddy, Grytpype-Thynne et al.

Title: The Essential Spike Milligan: Description:
'The encyclopaedic, comprehensive, utter and absolute, top to bottom, holy, unholy, profane, lurid, lewd, offensive, vulnerable and utter charminy Milligan' who left us in 2002.

Title: The Essential Spike Milligan: Description:
George Orwell asserted that 'whatever is funny is subversive', and this was never truer than in the case of Spike Milligan. His absurdist vision was not unique, but with him it perhaps shone the brightest and burnt him the worst, leaving him with a tender mind, often on the cusp of madness, but always brimming with comic, surreal ideas. He was the creative spark of the generation of comics who survived the war and, along with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, he created The Goon Show, a mould-breaking radio programme quite unlike anything else austere Britain had heard before. It's often taken as the precursor of Monty Python (and thereby much of post-war British comedy), but a more convincing ancestor would be Milligan's long-running Q TV series or his Running, Jumping, Standing Still film, both of which took his highly skewed world view to new realms of weirdly addictive comedy. As the years took their toll on his mental stability, Milligan's output grew more and more patchy - and elements of casual racism in his later comedies do grate - but his memoirs and children's fiction became more assured instead, and his autobiographies of his war years were especially popular, being comic, poignant and revelatory, and opening his world to a new audience. This marvellous collection is an excellent smorgasbord of the man's prodigious output, with selections and titbits from his prose, his poems and limericks and his scripts. Skilfully gathered together, this is a marvellous testament to a giant of comedy whose brilliance and influence remain with us still. (Kirkus UK

Title: The Hound Of The Baskervilles According To Spike Milligan: Description:
The classic and terrifying story of The Hound of the Baskervilles is hilariously rewritten according to Spike Milligan. Sherlock Holmes and his trusty companion, Dr Watson, are working together once more to solve the mystery at Baskerville Hall. This time, however, there's something fishy about the hound, a woman cries in the night, Guinness and Newcastle Brown are taken intravenously and the Berlin Philharmonic keep running out of things to play. 'But why keep me in the dark, Holmes?' 'It saves electricity, Watson.'

Title: William Mcgonagall: Freefall: Description:
William McGonagall is famed throughout the far-flung reaches of the Empire for his exquisite verses and is a seasoned traveller - from Balmoral to El Alamein, from Istanbul to Lewisham. This is the sequel to "William McGonagall, The Truth at Last" and "William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin".

Title: Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan: Description:
A major event in humour publishing as a wide range of Spike Milligan's unpublished work is brought into the public domain for the first time in a stunningly produced volume. The two previous anthologies, "The Essential Spike Milligan" and "The Compulsive Spike Milligan", brought together the very best of his stories, cartoons, poems and correspondence, and reminded his fans how deserved his reputation was as a wildly inventive and original comedian. "The Unpublished Spike Milligan" - chosen and edited by Norma Farnes, Milligan's manager, biographer and close friend - is yet more essential and compulsive than these first two collections. 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, but which never came to be published. The book also draws on previously unseen diaries and letters. As both an original anthology and a personal legacy from a long-gone era, this is absolutely unmissable.

Title: A Children's Treasury Of Milligan: Description:
Illustrated throughout with Spike's own drawings and specially commissioned artworks, this is a n ideal read alone or read aloud book for Spike fans of all ages.

Title: A Mad Medley Of Milligan: Description:
A collection of new humorous poems, cartoons and stories, ranging from nonsense rhymes about donkeys to weirdly wonderful cartoons and a three-part story 'Adolf Hitler, Dictator and Clown'. The author, who is now 80, recently won an award for the nation's best-loved funny poem. Contains black and white photos and line drawings.

Title: John Thomas & Lady Jane: Description:
From the ping of elastic down in t'woods, and disgusting goings-on in chicken 'ut, to 100 amazing things you can do with a bluebell, this is Spike Milligan's retelling of D.H. Lawrence's second version of "Lady Chatterley".

Title: Robin Hood According To Spike Milligan: Description:
This re-interpretation of Robin Hood finds Robin and his merry men dining out at McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and eating jam sandwiches. The band of outlaws include the immensely strong Big Dick and the insolent Groucho Marx. Paperback 0753503034

Title: William Mcgonagall: The Truth At Last: Description:
traces life of mcgonagall from his birth 1843/4/5 through to his quest for recognition

Title: Black Beauty According To Spike Milligan: Description:
This is one in a series of renditions of classic works by Spike Milligan. The book recounts the adventures of a beautiful horse called Black Beauty, who bites, kicks, swears and enjoys drinking whisky.

Title: Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall - War Biography Vol. 4: Description:
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.

Title: The Goon Show Classics: Volumes 1, 2, 3 (bbc Radio Collection): Collection Vol 1: Description:
From 1952 to 1960 the Goons ruled the airwaves, the most celebrated and influential clowns in the history of radio. This latest release features twelve more episodes of classic Goonery, starring the inimitable Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. This slipcase set contains Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of BBC Radio Collection's The Goon Show titles.