Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBEwas a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 April 1918
CityAhmednagar, India
CountryIreland
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
I told you I was ill. (On his headstone)
One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?
It was a perfect marrige. She didn`t want to and he couldn`t
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.
Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
If a robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage, How feels heaven when Dies the billionth battery hen?
Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.
I can speak Esperanto like a native.
If you kill me, I promise you - you will never take me alive.