Spike Milligan (1918–2002)
Autore di Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall
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Opere di Spike Milligan
D.H.Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane: Part 2: According to Spike Milligan - Part II of "Lady Chatterley's Lover" (1995) 21 copie
Spike Milligan Military Memoirs : Monty - His Part in My Victory - Rommel Gunner Who - Adolf Hitler My Part in His… (1977) 10 copie
Spike Milligan Classic War Memoirs Collection 7 Books Set (Adolf Hitler my part in his Downfall, Rommel Gunner Who?,… (1980) 8 copie
SPIKE MILLIGAN A CELEBRATION 7 copie
Q. - The Almost Complete Q [DVD] 3 copie
By SPIKE MILLIGAN - PUCKOON 2 copie
Goon Show Classics 3 2 copie
Mini Milligan Collection: "Silly Verse for Kids", "Book of Milliganimals", "Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry"… (1992) 2 copie
The Goon Show, Volume 18 2 copie
Children of Aberfan 1 copia
By Spike Milligan - A Children's Treasury of Milligan : Classic Stories and Poems (New edition) 1 copia
The Best of Spike Milligan [DVD] 1 copia
The Goon Show Compendium Volume 12: Ten episodes of the classic BBC radio comedy series plus bonus features (2017) 1 copia
BadJelly The Witch 1 copia
The Goon Show 1 copia
Milligan Milestones: Adolf Hitler and My Part in His Downfall and Puckoon and Rommel Gunner Who? and Small Dreams of a… (1977) 1 copia
Spike Milligan And Jeremy Taylor 1 copia
The Milligan Papers 1 copia
The war memoirs 1 copia
Opere correlate
Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating (1994) — Collaboratore — 296 copie
Penny Points to Paradise [1951 film] — Actor — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Milligan, Spike
- Nome legale
- Milligan, Terence Alan Patrick Sean
- Data di nascita
- 1918-04-16
- Data di morte
- 2002-02-27
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Winchelsea, East Sussex, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, British India
- Luogo di morte
- Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Ahmednagar, British India (birth)
Rangoon, Burma
Sussex, England, UK
Italy
Poona, India - Istruzione
- Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, India
St Paul's Christian Brothers, de la Salle, Rangoon, Burma - Attività lavorative
- comedian
writer
musician
poet
playwright - Relazioni
- Farnes, Norma (manager)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- British Book Award (Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 2000)
Order of the British Empire (Commander ∙ 1992)
British Comedy Awards (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1994) - Agente
- Beryl Vertue
- Breve biografia
- Creator and chief writer of The Goon Show. A major influence on the Monty Python group.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 165
- Opere correlate
- 17
- Utenti
- 9,811
- Popolarità
- #2,433
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 105
- ISBN
- 362
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 28
None of the wit is witty. None of the humor is humorous. All of the 'yucks' fall with a dull thud. Even the illustrations fail to amuse and entertain.
This book is just woefully unfunny.
It’s full of vulgar language, and endlessly repetitive ‘gags’:
“My fee is ten guineas an hour with a down payment of one hundred guineas.”
“Holmes was still wearing one black boot and one brown boot.”
“Quack! Quack! Stop that duck”.
“I was headed toward High Tor where I tort I taw a puddy tat.”
And those four ‘jokes’ comprise a good third of the entire book. In case you missed any one of those tired old chestnuts, don’t worry…Milligan will be recycling them yet again in another page or two. Talk about a needle getting stuck in the groove!
Even the less tired wisecracks fail to provide any laughs:
‘ “What do you make of it?”
“I would make a rice pudding of it.” ’
Pause for laughter...& Cue the crickets.
‘ “You have arms, I suppose?"
“Yes, and legs.” ’
Boy, those crickets sure are getting louder.
‘ “Halloa,” cried Dr. Mortimer, “What is this?”
“This is England,” I said. “I thought you knew.” ’
The crickets are just an incessant noise machine at this point.
If this is representative of Spike Milligan’s work, how in the world did he manage to have a career as a comedian?
Save yourself the aggravation, and just read the original Hound of the Baskervilles instead.… (altro)