5/5 The Clive James Show (1995) - With Spike Milligan

[@johnbenee8224]

A genius no one was ever like him and there never will be.

[@bennyjazzful]

What a comedian genius Spike was! Wonderful & will always be remembered by all his fans>

[@SR-jx8yu]

Loved this show, especially Clive's introductions to Pracatan! The sight of Spike Milligan wetting himself laughing at her was just classic!

[@chrisevans5259]

Spike Milligan a total mixture off the wacky, oddball, nutty, originality, and GENIUS. They broke the mould when he was born, there's never been anyone like him, a total one off. Spike Milligan RIP.

[@JDWDMC]

The mould was WWII and PTSD.

[@londoncalling151]

@@JDWDMC Never a truer word was spoken.

[@catherineelizabeth9135]

RIP Clive and Spike. Reunited at last

[@ruthcarter1360]

We will always be grateful that Spike shared his comedy with us...never will someone like Spike come past again 🙏🤪🤣 Pure hilarity, can't stop laughing ♥️

[@TheRealist2022]

Priceless.... just priceless. There will never be another Spike.

[@MrDaiseymay]

THERE CAN'T BE, HIS MOTHER'S DEAD.

[@numbtee8478]

Thank you...so much....Spike is my first Hero....and I cant't laugh hard enough...at that singer.....she is hilarious...

[@HEV29]

Milligan was/is awesome. Age was never a factor for Spike, except when it meant he couldn't write/perform anymore, then it was a problem. I love Spike and his work in all his 7 ages. When he died, the world lost something dear x

[@carntspell]

a dream guest for a chat show host. He did all the work.

[@GauravVaidya42]

The anecdote with the Bren carrier is unbelievable. Thanks for posting this!

[@terryspurr1563]

Ah Spike. I just love him. 😂

[@boemcshane4790]

Two genius who loved Australia

[@jwood36]

Why is Clive James still not on tv, he's a great interviewer, intelligent, witty and most importantly he lets his guests speak. Too many of today's chat show hosts think that because their name is in the title of the show that they're the stars, well your not the guests are

[@MrDaiseymay]

HE'S TOO GOOD, HE WOULD SHOW THE REALITY OF THE OTHERS SHITE.

[@jessiejames7492]

once he starts he never stops. i get stitches laughing

[@showaddy11]

a very gentle man . sorely missed. i make sure some of my poems dont rhyme in memoury of the the funniest man ever

[@cygil1]

Margarita Pracatan was more self aware than I remember.

[@kennethgriffin509]

god bless clive james never forget him, istill have 4or5 of his books in my collection and as for old spike well he;s there allready bless him to.

[@Cheepchipsable]

He's not quite dead yet!

[@wardis8303]

The master

[@raymondlindsay3149]

Paul Morgan bass

[@Bennyboy12]

Margarita pragatan was also a legend.

[@mrdfac]

I am currently listening to Spike recite his Mussolini book. :)

[@TheMichaelseymour]

chamberlain -who did prime minister impressions !

[@mariaw.4780]

"How are you?" "Are you a doctor?" Now I know what to say when my customers ask me that stupid question at work.

[@vivahate100]

@hsd628 *sigh* It's "I told you I was Ill" and it doesn't as his Irish roots wouldn't alow it, so it's conveerted into Galic.

[@Lytton333]

He does the same jokes on every chat show.. every time. The dad shooting the tiger, the Chamberlain joke, the mother digging the air raid shelter.

[@philipbonner6486]

Does it matter.

[@jwmiss7605]

Clive has been in very ill health for the past few years, he has been battling leukaemia. His days on TV are over, very sad.

[@williefinn4932]

spike was a genius....always funny.

[@JohnSmith-uc4ku]

A true headcase, from a lunatic of a Irishman who was a alcoholic genius suffered from a drinking problem ,😂😂😂WHAT 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮HELLO SPIKE WERE EVER YOU ARE your friends in dublin 😉😉😉😉😉😂😂😂

[@liberalmind8680]

Spike is delightful but there was also Peter Cook .. I wouldn't give one of them gold and the other silver .. share the top podium. Milligan was "madder" , Cook "drier"

[@ysplse]

I love the singer she was the best part of Clive's show. Getting Spike'sGoons humour has little to do with any generation gap its simply a matter of our sense of humour. We are all unique individuals each having a different sense of fun, what tickles my funny bone might not tickle yours

[@jonnyy40]

PR-AC-A-TAN! I'd forgotten about her

[@richardsharpe2966]

There's one word for Spike Genius

[@loftusboy9]

is that angie dickensen from eastenders bangin out the tune on the old hammond B organ...

[@pommiesniper]

Most of the best Brit comedy is based on Monty Python which couldn't have existed without The Goon Show. What we have now couldn't have happened without Spike, even if his humour now seems quaintly old fashioned.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Well of course, once a form is created it becomes more developed and nuanced over time. Still far better than most of the dross that passes for comedy these days. I really can't think of one modern comedian worth a pinch of shite.

[@MrDaiseymay]

MOST SUCCINCTLY PUT, VICAR--ANOTHER CREAM PUFF?

[@dafinker3443]

Wow wow wow

[@lospatxintxis1776]

lets goooooooooooooooooo

[@dharmaseed]

Kind of hard to 'puzzle the audience with who Spike is', when his quips have you laughing helplessly.

[@tangent272]

@EdWrite Fair question; here's the answer. Google bbc "Grumpy old people 'can't help it' " and the first entry should be the report. Like I said, I meant no critisism of Mr Milligan, quite the opposite in fact; before aging set in and talking to an audience of the same generation he must have been awesome.

[@clivep3515]

So Sadly missed.

[@rayphillips5578]

-Brilliant read his books How I won the war....well worth reading

[@jessgibbs8702]

looks like mi dear old late uncle mick, he was irish as well, so he was. R.I.P to all those that have lost their lives, no matter what circumstance, and may God bring your family hope and courage this day and every day.

[@ClannCholmain]

@MichaelKingsfordGray, his father was from Sligo, Spike said he got his humour from him. Milligan is an Irish surname.

[@aston0708]

The Irish are completely bonkers!

[@EoinFC]

@Kenneth Griffin Clive James is not dead as of March 20th 2014

[@MrPaulmorris7777]

He's still not dead!

[@EoinFC]

+paul charles morris How 'bout now?

[@MrPaulmorris7777]

Not, yet!

[@EoinFC]

Paul Charles Morris OK, but I'm running out of patience!

[@klyvemurray]

Jan 2018...STILL Not dead !!

[@tangent272]

@hsd628 No, Australian, of two English parents who emigrated here in '72 and my Dad's a big fan of The Goon Show so I've made several attempts over the years to connect with the humor but it just doesn't translate. Most of the humor I watch is British, mostly on KZbin and I enjoy practically all of it, about he only exceptions I've found are Little Britain, The Office and that comedy panel show hosted by Vic Reeves and that other guy. Like I said, not all humor translates through eras.

[@wellert7481]

cigarette time changed to 19.35

[@jonnyy40]

It's 'sense of sphincter'

[@gromitpesley]

what was the girl at the end all about

[@danwoodhouse9290]

***** That was Margarita Pracatan - it became the tradition for her to always do the closing number on The Clive James Show

[@MrDaiseymay]

NO BODY EVER KNEW, INCLUDING HER

[@SueRosalie]

that's the joke!

[@SynphamyMusic]

Well lol... the majority of today's celebrities aren't really worth listening to anyway. :P

[@MrStonecold69]

I told you i was ill

[@tangent272]

I've tried listening to The Goon Show a couple of times and didn't really get it but I think maybe that's becuase that humor was aimed at a different generation. It's now been scientifically proven that old folks progressively lose their sence of humor as they age (this is quite separate from dimentia). So knowing that, it's all the more remarkable that Spike Milligan, even at that age, was still able to tell good unscripted jokes on tap. He must have been truly Amazing when he was younger.

[@steeltrap3800]

First thing about the Goons is that the humour is very heavily based around a love of the English language. Then it's tremendously anarchic/'surreal' (a term used far too often). There are remarkably clever conceptual themes and inversions underneath. A fantastic example is the segment about time ("I've got it writted on a piece of paper"). Go search for it, it's truly brilliant on all sorts of levels. I hope this doesn't all sound pompous/pretentious. I grew up listening to Goons when at lunch break during high school day long cricket matches I played, and I still laugh. Spike really was a 'comedic genius' in so many ways.

[@SueRosalie]

Boy do you need a citation for that BS claim, KZbin user 5907. If you don't get the humour of the Goons, and the Pythons etc. it just means you're only average intelligence. Sorry.

[@Nozinbonsai]

Losing humour and becoming grumpy is the only way talk back radio survives.

[@wellert7481]

cigarette time 19.50

[@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY]

SPIKE WAS AND THE SECOND COMING!!! If Jesus Christ as the son of God - the Lord of Heaven was not SPIKE - then I am not fucking going!!!

[@ericgolden3194]

V.

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[@critchley3819]

Clive James. Spike Milligan, both Aussie , Kogarah to Woy Woy is not far..

[@DieFlabbergast]

brian critchley You must be thinking of another Spike Milligan, then. THIS Spike Milligan grew up in India and Burma and spent most of his life in the UK.

[@noelmcloughney6240]

DieFlabbergast You must be thinking of another Spike Milligan, True Spike Milligan grew up in India and Burma and spent most of his life in the UK but he travelled on an Irish Passport as his Dad was from Sligo

[@DieFlabbergast]

Noel Mcloughney Very true, but what has it got to do with my post? Mine was in reply to a feller who seems to think Spike was an Aussie. Anyway, he only used an Irish passport because the bloody British (i.e. English) bureaucracy wouldn't give him a British one on the pettifogging grounds that he hadn't been born in Britain, ignoring the fact that he served in the British Army for six years.

[@noelmcloughney6240]

Point being, Both of you were wrong, Mr Milligan was granted an Irish passport as the Brits wouldent give him one after India became independent, he managed to get an Irish one as his Dad was from Sligo....so technically speaking Mr Milligan was Irish.

[@critchley3819]

Ok that's great, you have done your research but one thing I can tell you is he lived for a time at his mothers house in Woy Woy

[@nethy02]

he was as funny as piles

[@curleyteeth]

Your loss.Sad.Jim.Liverpool.

[@MrDaiseymay]

PILES JUPP ?

[@sdgfsdfsdf1820]

Was that an attempt at humour, too deep for me

[@Nozinbonsai]

Piles of what?