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.
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*
Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar
*Sunday Times*
Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of
the profound art of nonsense
*Guardian*
Milligan is the Great God to all of us
*John Cleese*
The Godfather of Alternative Comedy
*Eddie Izzard*
That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A
great man
*Stephen Fry*
Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal
*Terry Wogan*
A totally original comedy writer
*Michael Palin*
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