Celebs call it autism or ADHD these days

Spike actually suffered massive personality changes after being injured in WW2. PTSD is much more accepted these days. True legends never die though. Live on Goons😘

@@jessecaple170 If you haven't done so listen to his memoirs on audio book it's narrated by him fantastic.

Autism is a real thing it’s not just celebs that say it is 😂

Harry was important .... held it all together. He was very much needed as a 'straight man' as they say. Love his giggles too. RIP to all of them

I've read all of Spike's war memoirs, and his humour sort of gets into the psyche. I was on late shift one day at work and turned up at 11 am. Someone had ordered a communal pizza which was sitting in the break room, and I grabbed a slice as I passed. My manager saw me and said "Hey, don't eat it yet, you are late today," to which I replied "It's ok, I'm eating early to make up for it."

I read all of Spike's war memoirs as a teenager in the 1980s. Often hiding under the duvet in bed, after bedtime, reading by torchlight. My parents occasionally came into my room to find out what all the stifled laughter was about. 'Drooling' was a personal favourite, as was the time him & his mates found a Stuka dive bomber parked up in the African desert, and one of them accidentally started its engine. "We didn't know how to stop it, so we all stood around and chucked rocks at the propellor, which bounced off and nearly killed us." Epic. Glad to see that the male of the species hasn't got any more sensible in the following 80 years.

So funny, so loveable and so charming. It brightened up my day. Too much doom and gloom these days. Thank God we can temporarily go back to the day when no one took themselves seriously. No safe space, no snowflakes generation. Wish we could go back in time.

@@hodgod1056 led kellett

An absolute gem of an interview!!!! Spike at his best!!!

Well said Ian

Spike Milligan so quick with his jokes. Doesn't take anything seriously. Just a fantastic laugh. He was a genius.

The poor man was manic depressive brought on by war.

THEY SERVED , ARMY. MESSAGE RECIEVED AND UNDERSTOOD .

All 3 of them (Secombe, Milligan, Sellers) were filming in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, and I came across them in a local Cafe. They were mercilessly ribbing each other and I honestly thought I would die laughing.

reasons for that mate 🤣

@@boredweegie553 What reasons?

Ah I could watch another 30 mins of that easy.. brilliant

​@@junee5666Political correctness is the main reason - Spike Milligan, Benny Hill, Python, and a host of others were showered with Isms from feminists and the Left-collective in general. The result is today's anemic 'comedy' with everyone terrified of causing offence.

@@--legion Left collective my arse. Spike Milligan was once a young communist, the Pythons were not right wing even Cleese is a Lib Dem. Ignore left wing comics and you've got little more than Jim Davidson and Geoff Norcott.

Spikes relative success as a sergeant in ww2 was largely because he could not be interrogated. Ze Germanz could not use the information.

@@robertfish4052 you have lost me there.

He was an ignorant ill mannered arrogant piece of garbage and I know from a personal experience of meeting him.

Ha ha ha. I know. She was so out of her depth with that style of anarchic comedy up till around when she buddied up with Jennifer Saunders.

@@deejannemeiurffnicht1791 And nothing funny came out of that

Greatest comedy ever!

My mother and I were in fits of laughter, but my poor dad just simply did not see ANYTHING funny about it. Poor dad had a joyless upbringing, and he just didn't get subtle humour like the Goons.

If you could keep up with The Goon Show at the age of 4, you were a clever child indeed!

@@douglassun8456 Understood the words, not so much all the gags. However, I had 3 older brothers who took much pleasure in educating me on any, "Adult Talk" So yes, I was ahead of most of my contemporaries for most of my Life. I miss those days of great humour.

AECSRQ Welcome to the machine.

agree entirely have a look at the stock on comics these day - very intelligent and intellectual- they would be destroyed if they touched any of the sacred lefty cows - Spike was the one and only - these boys and girls today are pussies - BBC now just a new left (not old working class left) private school old boy and old girl - hang out. I mean for god's sake even someone like billy connolly is totally PC.

but wasn't it a plant! the old trickery of tv in believe in everything you see, an advertisement made into a tv sketch

Harry Inkpot I am very sure the luscious Lumley has no balls, and God forbid if she did she wouldn’t be half so luscious.

@@sherbert500 No, it wasn't a plant.

Alot of people who make people laugh are manic depressive's as I'm sure you're well aware of. Such a great talent, I do miss old school England.

I just watched an. Interview Spike had with James Whall . It was the most honest interview you could ever here . Brilliant. I to suffer depression

Bet he was a great man to be round

That's right. Something must be done! I blame the government. They should do something for the comedians.

I think a lot of that had to do with his experiences during the war when he suffered very badly from shell shock which effected him very deeply for the rest of his life. I remember sometimes you'd see him on chat shows and you'd know within half a minute if he was on good form or bad form just by his demeanor. Bill Oddie seems to be similar in that way.

what total rubbish you speak. Every age has its hardships and easy moments. You are obviously a millennial or so naive that you can’t help making a fool of yourself with that inane comment. Have you lived through a world war or a global depression. Or a pandemic where there were no fucking vaccines to save you and millions died. Get a grip on life ffs!

Retsdon, Honestly? Could it be no more that some Change is for the better, and some for the not so good??

Ye its called the snowflake/woke crowd

Bullcrap.

Yes, those terrible people who just want everybody to be shown a bit of respect, dignity and humanity are CLEARLY the problem, not the swivel-eyed bigoted maniacs who throw ridiculous, childish tantrums at anyone wanting to so much as dare to be different.

Spike recognised and respected a fellow rebel.

Or perhaps a boot in the balls!

No, he really did beat the shit out of him ! 😂🤣😉

It was close to the edge, was Spike's remark to the intruder. Recalling his wheelchair arrival dragged it from barbarity to a place of humour

100% spot on

He probably set it up to expose the machine

Harry and spike were great mates. R i p to both of them, dont make em like them anymore.

Josh Hanson .. Seconded.

definately laugh out loud while reading late at night in bed.

Yes,but also some of the most poignant you, would be laughing like a lunatic on one page then,on the next weeping with the utter horror.

I agree. But not only funny, a vital folk history of how war is experienced by people on the front line. As opposed to the "Kings and Generals" crap that is taught as history to us and our children.

I was a voracious reader at a very young age and tried to read many of my parent's books. Tantalisingly, Rommel? Gunner Who? was kept on the top shelf of the bookcase along with The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin due to the 'language'. However my mother relented when I was about 11 and let me read Spike. Been a massive fan ever since. A madcap whirlwind of genius.

Harry Secombe and Joanna Lumley were sitting pretty close.

@@mikearchibald744 Good un.

He is dead so no point in trying to communicate with him.

​@@sodd1000What are we going to do now?

@@rogerjenkinson7979 We?

Thank you. I enjoyed Black Adder more though. X

More Black Adder Sir Tony!

Provided you were not the poor man who was once his dresser...............research !

Tim San What you see of Milligan here is not what he was like with his so called subordinates who elevated him to such status. Look it up

I have looked it up Michael, that's why I commented.

He probably was something to do with atomic testing. Provoking a different level of lunacy and spontaneity.

Who are Aussies anyway? Is there the truth out there? Nein

Upper class toff disgusted by being near to a "commoner"

There is a story about Spike in that he was a occasional guest on Call My Bluff. This was a long running panel show where they would have to tell a story and the 3 on the other team would have to guess which was true. The rest of the panel was always told that when Spike was on a roll they were to just shut up because whatever he would say would be comedy gold.

She's a classy woman!

He said "at least" not "at last"

Spike’s agent Norma Farnes arranged for a recording of Harry Seacombe singing “Cwm Rhondda” to be played at Spike’s funeral, as a joke at Spike’s expense. He’d have probably laughed at it

And on his own headstone he had, "I told you I was ill!"

Keldor D'Antrell A couple of months ago I visited his grave, the grass from the main path to his gravestone was very well worn, it’s easy to find because of this.

Harry Secombe could sing very well. He was also great in the Goons.

The alternative to comedy is serious and Spike was never that, in public anyway. There is no such thing as alternative comedy just people who aren't funny and those that are.

@@andytomhall6006 You obviously aren't from a time where people didn't have their heads up their ass! There is no such thing as truth, just facts and pedants.

+2old4gamez Those well known 'spullink mistooks'. God bless em!

Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error.

2old4gamez g

Joannas not dead.???????

@@paulbolton7490 Very much alive. Opened the new opera season at Grange Park yesterday .kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8uoraZ1uM-wpmw.html

She is a truly beautiful woman.

​@@iVengeI agree. But that's not what he said.

I think she was a cow - there was nothing whatsoever to be scared of, and she could well have said 'if you're happy to sit here quietly you can do your bit and we can do ours - then we're all happy' - but nah - self image and her own interests came first. There was even a pretence at an apology 'oh we could have let him be here' immediately after kicking him off to make herself look caring afterwards... nauseating.

He clearly has her on her back foot from the first moment.

imagine having Splke Milligan and Oliver Reed on the same show. That would have been interesting to say the least

If Mr. Milligan ISN'T disruptive, then he's not being Mr. Milligan.

john lewis

OR, Spike and Elliot Gould, or Lee Marvin, or, well, practically anybody!

That's a bit rude isn't it, you should really pay attention to the lady

@@therub2191 How was I rude? I just complimented her on her lovely soothing voice. I didn't say I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying. Can't you pay a lady a compliment these days? I don't know where you are coming from.

@@markriley5863 it was my (failed) attempt at a joke

@@therub2191 I got the joke immediately.

@@therub2191 As I have received a few comments suggesting that I have no sense of humour, I apologise for not getting your joke. In my defence however there are so many snowflakes and SJW's about these days, your lack of a suitable emoji or lol led me to believe I was dealing with one of those idiots. If you had responded in person to me and I knew you and your sense of humour, I would have known you were joking but words on a screen without any qualifying indicators can be misleading. If David O'Reilly reads this let me say sir your comment was amusing.

Spike comedy genius

Calling Prince Charles a grovelling bastard live on TV has to be one of his highlights.

Norma Farnes (Spike's manager) said that Harry and his wife were genuinely lovely people, but of course, you already know that.

Arrrrr didums because someone gatecrashed the shitty bbc.

Was it because they thought it was an assassination attempt?

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 And without the "shitty BBC" you would never have had any of this. I am still listening to the Goons on BBC radio.

@@skyzella You are Both Right i am old enough to have watched the BBC When it was at its Peak for COMEDY (Amongst other things Sport springs to Mind) Absolutely Brilliant it was too But Alas those Days Have long Gone and i fully Agree with @maraton on the State the BBC is in Today Total Garbage at pretty much anything it does Unfortunately

Reminds me of his tombstone wording that he requested, "See, I told you I was sick!"

Derek Williams

Ensure you have adequate power and internet connection then keep pressing repeat. While probably not lasting forever, I think it will do.

Oh, I need to read that! Who wrote it?

@@Skraeling1000 Spike book was Penguin

@@janegrainger3900 um... "whoosh" ?

@@Skraeling1000 Exactly what Spike would have said 🤣

@@jagoq53 I was an early Goon Show fan, so I started "channeling" Spike at an early age.

One of a kind...a comic genius !

I love the Demons they are so cute . What is wrong with people . You must 1st become friends with your demons .

I want my comment back, it was only leant to you!.

I loved to listen to them in the summertime when I was a kid. As well what was " My Word" and " My Music" Nothing better! Such Genesis!

@@edwardcarberry1095 hey dude well done you.You listened to origin of human ridiculousness

A most excellent description. :-)

@@jcmgt guitar riff 🎸🎸🎸

A brilliant way to describe them and their work.

Lumley*

i meant the gatecrasher :)

he was not btitish old boy he was irish as the shamrock he even carried a irish passport saying if u have a irish passport the sayat the customs hows the crack

Worst Interviewer ever, No Character, No Personality, Useless at Interviewing

@@cyrilpeter1958 You don't know who she is, do you?

@@cyrilpeter1958 she must know someone. Shes on lots of programmes. Dull as dishwater

Just a stunningly sexy woman.

Big pal of Rothschild, say no more eh. @@mariemcmahon9869

Good clean and funny timeless even god laughed

Was that in Pune?

Robin Williams apparently used to listen the Goon Show - probably the only American who did!

Absolutely, and on the subject of the war memoirs the line "He was both an agreeable fellow and a c*nt" was probably the greatest shock-humour line I've ever read.

What got me about his autobiographies is that he had a way of painting the situation somehow without using words a great trick in a book. I mean. Somehow without him mentioning it we know he grew up in poverty in a loving home with a strict father and he used his musical talent to get laid a lot yet he does not allude to it. Similar with the war the people etc.

+Chris Fogaty oh but herding cats is easy.. if you have a laser pointer ;-)

+duncanparsons LOL - You've got that right! :-)

They actually sell laser pointers in the shape of mice for the purpose of playing with your cat (my friend has one for her cat), so it can't do them any harm, and it does mean you can lead them anywhere you want them to go as they chase the red light around.

erm,,,thats not her name and JOANNA is a ghoul

Chris Fogaty how the fuck do you heard cats??? Numpty

To be honest that surprised me. I imagine if Wogan had been hosting considering it was pre watershed he probably would have apologised.

Ekpo Okwong but really why make such a big deal out of it, as long it's not regular and vulgar, this was not meant to be offensive ,it's the way some people are when they get frustrated,but also to get the story over to you,not to cause upset or offence, I do not watch the television now ,it is absolutely disgusting ,Mary Whitehouse was 100% completely right that television programms were heading for the sewer, and she was completely right, when you think non of the famous acts, popular entertainers, such as this would get a job or be able to perform now,it's all now vulgar, political correctness,and some entertainers want to tell you how to vote ,or speak poisonous propaganda, and I would not let any child near the TV now, it's absolutely corrupt

terence barrett It called mind control.

97channel you are spot on 100%,when you think the trouble going on against north Korea,even speaking of ,,oh nuclear war,,this is how powerful the establishment,the new world order ,etc they can eliminate any country in its way, no pensions to pay, unemployed,the starving,etc etc etc, in the 1970s CND used to have marches and protests, ,,but now everything is controlled,the complete media

I was thinking that, and not just no apology, but she doesn't even remind Spike they are live and to mind his choice of words, or something to that effect, but then I have no idea how often, if ever, Jo had done live telly presenting before this, so it may not have occurred to her to say either, where I suspect Terry would have done so instinctively by this point in his tv career. Or possibly she and/or the producers chose to ignore Spike's little slip in view of his well documented mental health issues, in the same way that these days they possibly wouldn't apologise for, say, some with tourettes swearing, lest they offend the person themselves.