Bob Monkhouse showcases the zany genius of Spike Milligan on his chat show from December 1983.
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@johnlawrence27572 ай бұрын
Milligan’s war memoirs are truly brilliant. You get a better idea of the reality of WW2 through them than from all the learned academic tomes that have been produced highly recommended
@jedhill89722 ай бұрын
I've heard this story 3 or more times, on different shows, but still love it and Spike himself
@chap666ish2 ай бұрын
I didn't know Milligan could sing...!
@TheEllawayShowАй бұрын
Neither did he...
@vantheman123814 күн бұрын
@@TheEllawayShow😂😂😂
@gavinreid89373 ай бұрын
What hurt bob & the series was that critics thought he was his usual persona of being smarmy & insincere but he interviewed tommy cooper & bob hope & his other heroes, & was no more suck up than american talk show hosts today.
@tommygunn18873 ай бұрын
That's hardly a reference.
@phillipecook322722 күн бұрын
In this series he also did a wonderful interview of a young Ben Elton who grew into a great writer like Bob.
@phillipecook322722 күн бұрын
Two giants of British comedy who came of age in the post war period not only as performers but also as writers.Their styles were very different but you can bet there was mutual respect. It's a shame this conversation didn't last longer because it would have been fascinating to hear them compare notes on writing. Spike's struggles with bipolar have been well documented. Less well known are the tragedies which befell Bob from parents who were at best cold and undemonstrative towards their only child, a writing partner who took his own life, one child with profound learning disability and another who died from a heroin overdose. His autobiography Crying With Laughter is much less funny than Spike's Towards the end of his life when he knew he was dying from prostate cancer Bob bore the prognosis stoically ( and even tried to use the diagnosis to make men more aware).
@FullersDuck3 ай бұрын
Easy job for Bob. Light blue touch paper and retire.