John Bluthal as Dr Jacob Bronowski - brilliant! I have loved the Goons since the 1950's and Spike Milligna , well known typing error, his genius from the goons to the Q series. Genius. THanks to KZread and the contributors for keeping the humour alive.

Utterly surreal.Who could , or dare, do this now? Spike did not give a stuff. Brilliant.

Julia Breck was the only reason i watched & bought the recent Q dvds. R.I.P BEAUTIFUL JULIA ❤❤❤

He can be hit and miss, but I miss the world where this kind of creative freedom was allowed on TV. We'll never see anything like Spike Milligan again.

@nethy02

3 жыл бұрын

and good riddance to this utter garbage

@alunlewis3631

3 жыл бұрын

@@nethy02 so, what floats your boat?

@nethy02

3 жыл бұрын

@@alunlewis3631 mick miller, dave allen, rab nesbitt, there is 3 for a start

@nethy02

3 жыл бұрын

@shashin m43 in the word of Capt. Mainwaring, stupid boy

@aardvaarkisgood

3 жыл бұрын

​@@nethy02 I'll go with Rab C Nesbitt (you forgot the 'C' . . . criminal). It's a fair bet that you're a Lady, a woman if you will. If wrong, then apology is due but if not, Milligan's humour tickled the male sense of humour, anarchic, surreal and occupied the borderline between sanity and madness. Pushing 80 and I've yet to meet a single woman who found him funny.

The unpredictable genius of Spike lightened up BBC TV in the 1970s and 80s .

@michaeld5888

Жыл бұрын

The rigorously controlled age we live in now has darkened it.

I love the way none of them, not a single one, can keep a straight face through a single sketch.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

Brian... That's because it's not funny!

@billyandrew

3 жыл бұрын

@@redblade8160 Ever considered a humour implant? Lmao.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

@@billyandrew I take it you had a "humour implant" after they took your brain out, so that you could laugh your head off when watching Spike Milligan!

@Trev359

3 жыл бұрын

@@redblade8160 If you don't like Spike Milligan why the fuck are you here? Fuck off and stop trolling.

@redblade8160

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Trev359 If you don't like someone else's opinion, then why don't you "Fuck Off"?

One of my favourite things about Spike is how he always laughs at his own jokes. 😊

There's a very good reason why the Monty Python crew worshipped the ground he walked on.

Put logic and sanity aside for 30 minutes and embrace the chaos.

Madness but brilliant. Poor old David Lodge couldn't stop laughing 😁

Those were the day of real comedy and laughter, nowadays is so insipid!!

Spike Milligan's comic genius and Ed Welch's "Fritha's Theme" from "The Snow Goose". An unforgettable combination of humour and pathos.

Love it when Spike blows his nose and David Lodge has hysterics.

@synthonaplinth5980

Жыл бұрын

Notice that Spike pretended to soil himself, which broke Dave up.

What a great bunch! They must have had so much fun making these sketches. Still gets me in tears 🤣🤣🤣 All we have these days is stand up comics trying to out-swear each other....!

@majorlaff8682

3 ай бұрын

Out swear and out vulgarise.

Rita Webb as Mrs Terrible. Perfect.

@illaveyoubutler3588

3 жыл бұрын

Have a look at Spike’s ‘Oh In Colour’ series on KZread....The great Rita plays Queen Victoria in one sketch!!!!

The Fruit song, the answer to all life's problems. Spike, where are you when we need you ?

Priceless upload of a bunch of ex WW2 chums mucking about. Thanks for putting it here.

This man was as mad as a hatter! He was also original and very funny.

@marktrickett5081

10 ай бұрын

He once called Peter Sellers Certifiable, so God knows how bad he was.

The nose blowing gag, absolutely priceless!!

@michaelsandford1015

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. The whole series is now on dvd

@tribblebooth1224

5 жыл бұрын

Great Mike! That's sorted my Christmas present out.

@michaelsandford1015

5 жыл бұрын

@@tribblebooth1224 yes go to Amazon

@billyandrew

3 жыл бұрын

Even _he_ corpsed at the ad lib. Lol.

I have an awful feeling that we are living in Q2020 . . . . . But without the funny bits.

@lucasrosenberg3431

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on your sense of humour :)

@armymatters8042

Жыл бұрын

More so in 2023.

The sketch in the labour exchange is classic. His timing is impeccable. A real genius.

@michaelsandford1015

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks this was somebody else's upload in witch I downloaded it and uploaded it in my name, the episode and the whole series is on dvd

@synthonaplinth5980

5 жыл бұрын

Is that Alan Clare behind Spike?

@StephenLyons-tl8ie

9 ай бұрын

@@synthonaplinth5980 It is.

Love Spike, and also the musical item from "Snowgoose" was beautiful

I choked back a tear when i read she had passed away. Never was there a better built woman on tv. Rest in peace Julia darling. There will never be another godess like you.

@billyandrew

3 жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 Didn't Mummy love you? Lmao.

@synthonaplinth5980

3 жыл бұрын

Carol Wayne on the Carson show weren't 'arf bad...

@clivenaylor5392

Жыл бұрын

Who says crossword compilers never get the girl?

Julia, Julia, wherefore art thou, come and ease this aching beast...

@StephenLyons-tl8ie

3 жыл бұрын

Alas, she passed away last January.

@keithnaylor1981

3 жыл бұрын

Stephen Lyons - sad to hear that.

Fruit song is just about the most sublime joyous experience in the English speaking world.

@markbaldwin9878

3 жыл бұрын

Agree ...raspberry

@janefrost1856

Жыл бұрын

I just cannot stop laughing when I watch the fruit song, I have shown it to my grandchildren who also love it.

In the first sketch, Alan Clare plays the first stooge, a role he reprised frequently. He was a very talented jazz pianist and a great friend of Milligan.

Mr Sandford, thank you for giving me a good laugh today in this awful rotten world............

Just brilliant. Dear spike, you are well out of it. What a fucking mess we are all in now.

@oliveroneill1388

6 ай бұрын

He knew we the human.race was running down the pan . Over population and crass people, think that's why he created his own world . 🌎

Then, now and forever, a comic genius.

Oh merde, Julia Breck in black leather....

@ginskimpivot753

3 жыл бұрын

She actually got one out for a very old joke - *_"Oh, God! I've left the baby on the bus!"_* This is a fact, but it seems it may have been on one of the lost episodes. It may also be that she simply elected to have the sketch cut when the DVD set was issued....which I shall regret to my dying day.

@arhassoc

3 жыл бұрын

......or even better, NEARLY in black leather!!!

@ginskimpivot753

3 жыл бұрын

@NowForTheTruth Nope. Def Julia Breck; you don't forget babies bag rations of those proportions!

A genius at taking the absurd and comical and creating charming nonsense. But some great punch lines.

Totally genius ! he was clinicaly mad and suferd from depression but still a genius !.

Just watching Spike's face during the fruit song cracks me up every time.

I first listened to the Goon show in 1959 as an 8 year old and remained a fan of Milligan , Secombe and Sellers and all the cast for the rest of my life . Milligan spawned alternative humour in 1951 , Python in 1968 and unfortunately the course foul language which the comedians in the 80s and 90s sought to exceed Milligan and FAILED dismally

@kevcatnip7589

5 жыл бұрын

Wonder if this got FRANK BOUGH into drugs?

@aprayerandpositivethoughts9308

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevcatnip7589 lmao. Good question

@aardvaarkisgood

3 жыл бұрын

I remember as a school-kid listening to the Goons in my bedroom on my crystal set that one of my classmates had made for me.

@Deepthought-42

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO to prove your point.

This episode sees the welcome return of dear old Major Startling-Grope, both literal and figurative "camp" commandant of Rest Camp "Mad and lonely", Naples, Italy 1943. Hooray!

classic ..... julia breck provided the saucy moments

i miss him

spike maligma the well knomn typing error ,yes he was unmatched the biggest goon of them all

I really miss laughing like this.

The Labour Exchange has me on the floor, every time!!

I like their beauty spots!!! :D

Today's BBC would completely miss the point. Spike' comedy was frantically chaotic and often hilarious based on his army humour. Now he'd simply not be commissioned.

Fantastic memories

@michaelsandford1015

5 жыл бұрын

This episode is now on dvd, this was somebody else's upload in witch I downloaded it and uploaded in my name, sorry.

A Brexit Unicorn. Spike Milligan was truly a man before his time.

The corpsing kills me.!

Haha insane genius!

The amount of corpsing that went on around Spike is often as hilarious as the skits, due to his ad-libbing, typified by his cry of alarm, 05:00, when blowing his nose in the labour exchange. Lol.

@dennislane100

Жыл бұрын

That,and the frantic clutch at the seat of his trousers!🤣

Read The Looney and all his other books too - genius of comedy!

Chaos madness genius ..what r we going to do now what are we going to do now

Everyone got made fun of regardless..I seem to remember this as life🤔🤔🤔

Great to see Ronnie!

Used to love this Id forgotten all about it

Never really got it but made me laugh all the same! :-))

He was in the film Life of Brian

What was that lovely bit of piano music in the middle ?

Ronnie Scott.. Lol. Hi brow gone AWOL.

genius

They could never show this on TV again in these pc times !

@arhassoc

3 жыл бұрын

Julia Breck in all her glory would loose the Beeb its licence on her own!!

@sbor2020

3 жыл бұрын

Copy and paste comment. How boring.

@freespeechoneeach

Жыл бұрын

@@arhassoc yes they dont build women like that nowadays, not where i live anyway😂

02 January 2023. Everyone had a Merry Crisis and are now enjoying a Happy New Fear.

Pakistani spoken by appointment 😂✌️. I’m a Pakistani 😀

Joyful utter madness

that was hilarious

Completely mad.....I love it.

Like 40s old time theatre on acid

So when do the BBC think they will show the repeats as if

@MrThecarebear

3 жыл бұрын

Answer? Is the Pope an agnostic?

Oh spike I miss u

The q series is on dvd

He was a genius!!!

big brother in control

I guess that will go down like the Titanic

" Here's a way of saving on family food bills "..class , an Julia Breck Wow.

It's like watching Parliament in session......Order, Order, Order, Order......

English and Asian man arguing 🤣

What was the musical piece at ~12:40? I was going to rewind it, but it was so beautiful.

@MrLlamajockey

3 жыл бұрын

It's an arrangement from a song in Paul Gallico's 'The Snow Goose'.

Luvverly Spike....

Classic.

@michaelsandford1015

4 жыл бұрын

Yes a classic, but not to the pc brigade, like my pc snowflaking social worker, some body might be offended ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@jamesmcleesh2688

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelsandford1015 TOUGH , POOR LITTLE THINGS, TELL THEM TO GET A LIFE.

Slap Stick at it's best.

Good old spike I have seen the book my part in his downfall

The kind of humour which is best taken in small doses.

Anyone have the clip of Spike on Parkinson telling the story of Jack Hobbs who shit himself and got on the train thinking he'd bought new trousers and it was a pink cardigan? Never forget Spike with tears of laughter. Would love to see it again.

@nevillegriffiths4395

2 ай бұрын

If I recall he threw the trousers away then put his legs in each arm of the cardigan put a bowler hat over his private’s and legged it out the station

comic lengend lol

This has the fruit song!

episode now on dvd.this was somebody eles upload in witch i downloaded it and uploaded in my name ,sorry but its all on dvd now

Love Spike... what was the lovely music at 12:42?

Julia Breck is the star of the spike Milligan show show showinggggg

Dave Lodge is our hero!

@stevelyons3347

Жыл бұрын

A Cockleshell Hero, no less.

The funniest father figurine in ‘istory

Should be an MP. Spike makes more sense than Parliament at this time.

@aardvaarkisgood

3 жыл бұрын

Only he was being intentionally funny whereas the bunch of bone-heads that inhabit the benches are funny, but not intentionally so. Rest in peace Spike

23:47 it's... The Fresh Fruit Song

6 o’clock by the jam factory

The Q Series was the template for Monty Python. They had the material but didn't have a format for the show, and this was it.

@llwyde1104

3 жыл бұрын

Check your dates...

@NorrisHistoryCorner

2 жыл бұрын

@@llwyde1104 first series of Q was released March 1969 and Flying Circus was October 1969. Dates check out.

@llwyde1104

2 жыл бұрын

@@NorrisHistoryCorner fair enough...good research...it's just that I don't remember it that way.

As a big fan of Spike, I don't think folks of today would laugh. Maybe the King?

a gas man

Very good

Good old Arsenal. 👍🏾

Ronnie Scott at 16 minutes ?

I need to know whow wrote and played the musical piece at 12:40? Any ideas anyone please?

@ginskimpivot753

3 жыл бұрын

Ed Welch, and I think it may be from a Milligan/Welch co-written story called The Snow Goose. It may be incidental music from the following... kzread.info/dash/bejne/dKBmpKick6Swnrw.html

@battleofwills7189

3 жыл бұрын

@@ginskimpivot753 - Thanks for the reply. It is indeed on there, starting at 5:34. Wow! Amazing, thanks again!

@ginskimpivot753

3 жыл бұрын

No probs.

Love seeing these again. Did you have this on an old VCR tape? Unfortunately, the BBC accidentally recorded over the original versions.

@michaelsandford1015

5 жыл бұрын

They are all on dvd now

@michaeld5888

Жыл бұрын

Accidently?

@rickwithasilentp2868

Жыл бұрын

@@michaeld5888 apparently. That’s what I read years ago. The BBC was apparently somewhat disorganized during the conversion to video from filming the late 1970s and some original versions were lost.

Milligan gives us a version of Bloodnok here.

Should have been prime mister Would have made prime ministers Question time very entertainment John bluthal does a wonderful impression of w c fields Keith smith was mr wheeler the head master in the Beiderbecke series