Spike was a client of the bank I worked at in the late 1970's and there a very famous story we had amongst staff regarding him. and which I overheard to a large degree. He phoned in one day to get the balance on his account. The Daily Mail at the time were doing one of their big campaigns on how easy it was to get info out of the banks, so my lady colleague asked 'Can you identify yourself?'. He replied 'Hang on', the phone was put down but my colleague heard footsteps going away from the phone and a couple of minutes later footsteps approaching. 'Yes, I've looked in a mirror and I am DEFINITELY Spike Milligan!!' It couldn't be anyone else, really 😂😂🤣🤣
@SeanAtkinson-zx2zx2 ай бұрын
Oh what a wonderful anecdote of this truly remarkable great man as daft as a brush and as bright as anything ❤
@kenstevens50653 ай бұрын
Oh I wish we still had such talent in this crazy world to cheer us up. Bless you Splke.
@mcfcguvnors3 ай бұрын
His Army CO was a right character
@stephenhumphrey7935Ай бұрын
@@mcfcguvnorsWas that Major Chaterjack?
@nickalina2 ай бұрын
This has made my day watching dear Spike.
@chrishowgill8882 ай бұрын
What a great man - wasn't it special to see him with Eric? Love Love Love
@cemu10657 ай бұрын
A talent we will never see again 🥺
@ritadonnelly88207 ай бұрын
what age is his wife looks like his daughter
@Hanamy77773 ай бұрын
@@ritadonnelly8820 Good girl Rita. Jealousy will get you nowhere. Your old man isn't half as rich and bores for Scotland.
@CONNELL195112162 ай бұрын
I'm looking at him now
@johnferguson40898 ай бұрын
Spike was a comedy genius, always fondly remembered.
@SeanAtkinson-zx2zx2 ай бұрын
Truly a beautiful spirit, troubled moment's of despair and darkness blown to pieces by such a mind a naturally hilarious bonkers genius and every single person who ever lived ever and I do mean ever absolutely loved and LOVE Spike.
@ianearl34072 ай бұрын
God bless you Spike, a true genius.
@daviddouglas66102 ай бұрын
Iv read all of his war books . . . Bless him and all of his genoration
@mcfcguvnors3 ай бұрын
This made me laugh & Cry at the same time Getting J Paul getty on a TV show is the equivalent of interviewing someone live on Mars!
@callumnoblett49052 ай бұрын
Absolutely agree. My jaw actually dropped. Shows you just how widely loved and respected Spike was
@Bennyboy122 ай бұрын
One of the greats along with Ken Dodd, Tommy cooper and Eric Morecambe.
@ozzie-sk9dh8 ай бұрын
Tough gig for old Michael Aspel this one 😂
@annie4820006 ай бұрын
He certainly had his work cut out didn't he❓
@mcfcguvnors3 ай бұрын
The wig story was totally worth the cuts & edits & his Army CO what a character he was
@scopex27497 ай бұрын
I have followed Spike all my life and read all his war memoirs. I always wondered what 'Toni' looked like? The girl he met in Italy and clearly fell deeply in love with. I dont understand him not marrying her. I listen to his memoirs on Audio book s now and he reads his own stories and breaks out laughing at times at his own life. In 'Goodbye Soldier' at the end when he leaves Italy - you can hear the sadness in his voice at leaving Toni behind.The greatest comedian we ever had in the UK! Sadly missed. NO ONE can equal his quick wit and comedic genius!👍👏👏👏👏👏
@timmyfriday2718Ай бұрын
I found this utterly fascinating. In the books he describes them growing apart, when he left her he was gigging with the band, sleeping around, doing gig work in showbiz, and when he met her again in Italy there's a heartbreaking account of an awkward day together where it feels like she has grown out of him. She asks him what his plans in life are, and how he would make the money to marry (especially given her classy background), and seems both unsurprised and nonplussed when he can't name a "grown up" plan. She sees him as unstable, without a secure future, and doesn't like the influence of showbiz life on him, smoking and drinking and so on. He puts his hand on hers in a cafe an tells her he loves her, and she laughs it off, saying 'you only think you love me'. He focuses on the money aspect of it but ... yeah. The exchange they have in this is REALLY weird. I think she still loves him, and he seems genuinely thrown for a loop. She seems bitter, the display of asking for a tear is clearly planned, probably a reference to some sad conversation we will never know about, and throws him utterly off guard. In the awkwardly brief second she is given she (probably having read his memoirs) only mentions that he loved many women ... perhaps what she was thinking at the cafe all those years ago.
@sandradowling46052 ай бұрын
Awwwww how wonderful
@flannerymonaghan-morris48254 ай бұрын
Spike, despite being frail, was still as sprightly and witty as ever! He was still the same funny fella that he was all those years ago.
@stevenoneill7166Ай бұрын
Brilliant. Even Michael Aspel nearly cracked up laughing at one point
@npc3po3012 ай бұрын
You just know sincerity and beauty effected him deeply
@tomatenpaprika63236 ай бұрын
England has worldbest comedians. Thank goodness for that. Bravo
@stevenbissett2 ай бұрын
Jimmy Saville was one of your best.
@daviddouglas66102 ай бұрын
Oh the joy when he met his old comorades
@Clumsoethewonderdog2 ай бұрын
He gave up drinking for 5 minutes and he's been drunk ever since🤣🤣🤣
@JJmoony7 ай бұрын
I wasent sure he remembered half these people lol. God bless spike.
@maryjones85542 ай бұрын
What a wonderful man. I remember him when i was a child. They just don’t make comedians like Spike and Eric Sykes now. Its all smutty and swear words. RIP Spike. You are missed. Xx
@34hedgehog8 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this. The story Spike told in his war memoirs of the time he and Toni spent on Capri is one of the most beautiful pieces he ever wrote. According to several biographies I've read, at the end of the show, Spike said to Toni 'lets run away together', to which she replied 'darling, we're too old'. She was the one true love of his life, and the one that got away, as his mother dissuaded him from marrying her, something he never really forgave her for. But I believe he did visit Toni and her daughter in Paris a couple of times before he died.
@gavinreid89378 ай бұрын
.from what I heard ........at the time, they sneaked her in & got her on a plane home before his wife could have a word, which woulda been ironic cause Spike cheated on his last wife before she died with Sheila amongst others. Spike also phoned his wife with Barry convincing her he was in oz when he was in london on the pull. Barry admits though not here "He made my career , but what a ratbag!"
@grantd1656 ай бұрын
This is so touching. The books are my absolute favourites and he never seemed happier than that time in Capri. It was nice to actually get a glimpse of Toni in real life.
@34hedgehog6 ай бұрын
@@grantd165 You're absolutely right. I don't think Spike was happier than when he was with Toni on Capri.
@Elitist202 ай бұрын
Always wondered what happened to Toni, and what their life together would have been like if they'd married.
@IanYates-ef2tq9 күн бұрын
Listening to the Goodbye Soldier audiobook Spike sounded so old and tired at the outset but you could hear the memories reviving him as he read. Broke, and reaffirmed, my heart.
@RosieWoolf8 ай бұрын
Absolutely wonderful
@user-eh3ou7oq4w7 ай бұрын
One of the funniest things I ever read of Milligan was, when he wrote to the Met police about someones dog who kept shitting outside his home. In one letter he had wrote "To the Met police. re: Milligan v Dog shit."
@richardsharpe29668 ай бұрын
They is only one word for Spike genuins
@quietman187 ай бұрын
Genius.
@CONNELL195112162 ай бұрын
@@quietman18They is geniums
@peterkirgan29217 ай бұрын
Mastermind of the Goons loved his work my late pommie mate bill lived in woy woy who was very good friends with his brother Desmond!!!the backward walk over the bridge is dedicated to Spike each year 😂😅😅
@paulmcdonough9595Ай бұрын
I must have seen this on first airing , but having recently re read his war memoirs I now see how important Toni’s appearance must have been that day, wonderful.
@richardchapman6340Ай бұрын
I agree it must have been .
@markdaly19038 ай бұрын
spike Milligan was one of the great comedy genius/giants of the post war era. but as the 1990s came. i kind of wished that tv companies left in Peace. I just felt uncomfortable that he had to wheeled out on tv when he was becoming more frail
@wolfie854Ай бұрын
Genius. Some of his TV stuff was terrible tbh, but he would try anything and turned out some pure gold.
@chrishowgill8882 ай бұрын
How spike loved his children. Remember him for that. Flawed genius.
@craigcollier-wilson21313 ай бұрын
Amazing comic genius
@jaybaxter48308 ай бұрын
He weren’t half shocked when the ballerina turned up
@richardh80828 күн бұрын
@jaybaxter4830 Wasnt it, lol. I believe he had always kept in touch an often visited over the years
@esmeephillips58886 ай бұрын
One wordless glimpse of Sellers in the Goons reunion and nothing about him in the script. Weird.
@denisesaunders54737 ай бұрын
Spike had a handsome dad.
@marysmyth8687Ай бұрын
Love Spike.
@Snug-the-Joiner3 ай бұрын
Life was better when Spike was around.
@CONNELL195112162 ай бұрын
A round what?
@Snug-the-Joiner2 ай бұрын
@@CONNELL19511216 Yes?
@timmyfriday2718Ай бұрын
The exchange he has with Toni in this is REALLY fascinating ... and very weird. I think she still loves him, and he seems genuinely thrown for a loop. She seems bitter, the display of asking for a tear is clearly planned, probably a reference to some sad conversation we will never know about, and throws him utterly off guard. In the awkwardly brief second she is given she (probably having read his memoirs) only mentions that he loved many women ... perhaps what she was thinking at the cafe all those years ago (as described in the book) when on his first return to Italy he takes her hand to say he loves her, desperate to know she still feels the same, when it's clear she doesn't. She laughs it off and says he only thinks he loves her. She seems to have grown out of him, and it's heartbreaking.
@peterwhitaker40383 ай бұрын
at 17:50 his daughter Laura Milligan..i used to sit next to her at 'Bishop Douglass' Secondary modern school, East Finchley, N. London.aged 11-12. then. haven't seen her since 1967 as i left the school about then to move north..this was a wow to see her again and can remember her and identify with her looks today which is not too different from the young girl of '67.
@direcorbie3 ай бұрын
the only thing missing was the legendary Peter Sellers.
@CONNELL195112162 ай бұрын
Peter was often missing, being more often Bluebottle and a miriad other characters
@eurouc7 ай бұрын
Spike was giving the producers in the control room a heart attack…. wrap it up!
@brianduggan14323 ай бұрын
It must have been hard for anyone to keep a straight face working with spike
@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb8 ай бұрын
So selfless but oh so funny sadly missed
@petejones8797 ай бұрын
His brother Desmond looks so much like him
@robinmabbott73347 ай бұрын
12:45 The guy in the middle looks like a peaky blinder
@MarkSmith-tp6zc2 ай бұрын
He had no time for sycophancy and bullshite. Which out Aspell on a sticky wicket from the outset.
@hermanthetosser421924 күн бұрын
12:09 goodness these men are rare
@sandradowling46052 ай бұрын
Genious
@TVWorldShowHunter9 ай бұрын
Hi would you happen to possibly have any of the shows I'm looking for on the about part of my channel mentioned please?
@GlynneWright-zb4kf2 ай бұрын
A class act
@patrickgray83685 ай бұрын
If you read his war memoirs you'll see there's a great movie to be made by someone about the romance between Spike and Toni.
@PhillRobinson7 ай бұрын
Spike's world of fantasy.
@headgroundsman16502 ай бұрын
magic
@venderstrat2 ай бұрын
One takes on Spike at one's peril.
@stevekoolie19773 ай бұрын
He's up there now hopefully with Ronnie barker having a fab time. They left him a bit late giving a lifetime achievement . Such a fun guy enjoying making people laugh all his life. Calling our now king a w***er but he was the only person who could with out being strung up..
@andrewmacleod582615 сағат бұрын
Ying tong diddle i poh ...🤣🎉🤣🤣
@paulfitzpatrick65366 ай бұрын
Wow
@malcolmfraser79392 ай бұрын
One of the best tiyl shows, there are many . Spike stopped in Hongkong on his way to Australia in Autumn 1966. The English channel was RTHK and we were all set up for a few episodes of laughter with yours truly. It didn't happen. All cancelled at the v v last minute. Spike just couldn't do it. That's my enduring thought. He wasn't funny all the time.
@jacksugden81907 ай бұрын
Always thought ‘Spike’ a strange man after hearing on ‘The Goon Show’, as never really understood those strange voices as rather silly. I liked his performances on two shows of ‘Til Death Us Do Part’, here ‘Spike’ looked elderly, he died in 2002, was interested in his career and guests, was all unknown to me until now.
@GlynneWright-zb4kf2 ай бұрын
As a Gnu, i wasnt quite true! But then again neither are me
@cameronlock12607 ай бұрын
Bring back this show?
@hermanthetosser421924 күн бұрын
It would lack those characters what you got in these shows. Amazing old people in this, sadly all gone surely now being nearly 30 years ago
@joereedsmith15312 ай бұрын
Wit, Charm and Repartee. They dont make em like that anymore.
@user-vl6xt2rt7p8 ай бұрын
A good comedian that is about it otherwise spike was too free carrying out affairs
@paulmcgrath32482 ай бұрын
That air raid shellter get smaller all the time
@semajttam5 ай бұрын
No Michael Bentine 🤔
@timelordvictorious3 ай бұрын
well they did have there issues with each other
@rrbh8 ай бұрын
Where's Norma ?
@34hedgehog8 ай бұрын
Right there with him, getting off the trian, from 1:14
@rrbh8 ай бұрын
@@34hedgehog I need to watch it again as I didn't notice her in the studio.
@johnathandaviddunster382 ай бұрын
Deport
@MultiVince959 ай бұрын
Wednesday 15th February 1995
@SeanAtkinson-zx2zx2 ай бұрын
This was always one of my very favourite sketches by Spike... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfdaoKVoriMZ7csi=Xa4yI29WkNsRL7cB