Spike Milligan était un comédien, écrivain et musicien qui a laissé une marque indélébile sur la comédie britannique. Son œuvre, souvent inspirée d'expériences personnelles et d'une vision fantaisiste du monde, se caractérise par son style absurde et surréaliste. Avec un sens de l'humour unique et une approche non conventionnelle de son art, il a ravi des générations d'auditeurs et de lecteurs. Le génie de Milligan résidait dans sa capacité à transformer le banal en moments hilarants et inoubliables.
Britannia rules the waves TA-RA, but on occasions she waives the rules and Spike is all set to liberate-gasp-Italy. In this fourth volume of war memoirs, Lance-Bombardier Milligan (Spike actually) continues his notorious sage of World War II - from the long remembered outbreak of crabs in monkey to the unfortunate ack-acking of and American killyhawk. Dio mio, is war is a game of cards, someone was cheating.
Spike Milligan's publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. Spike did not regard children as small adults, but as entirely different species who lived in a secret, magical world that very few adults understood. For decades he delved into this world, delighting children - and adults - of all ages with his poems and stories. Illustrated throughout with Spike's own drawings and specially commissioned artworks, this is an ideal read-alone or read-aloud book for Spike fans of all ages, featuring: Silly Verse for Kids (1959), The Bald Twit Lion (1968), A Book of Milliganimals (1968), Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry (1968), Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Nasty Dragon (1982), and Startling Verse for All the Family (1987).
'Spike Milligan wrote the book on today's sense of humour''But why keep me in the dark, Holmes?''It saves electicity, Watson.''What is a black spot? He spoke as he sat up, 'Have you got a fag, mate?'Welcome to the world of the classic adventure story, hilariously retold by legendary comic Spike Milligan. schovat popis
Featuring illustrations, this collection includes the famous On the Ning Nang Nong.
From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like- minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers. They decide to call themselves The Goons...
This edition from the best-selling poetry series brings together the most beloved poems for children, from The Owl and the Pussycat through On the Ning Nang Nong to I Know Someone Who Can to Us Two. schovat popis
Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five hundred gunners try to dance with two girls and an old French matron... up there in Valhalla, Monty's laughing fit to burst.
"This, the first posthumous anthology of his work, compiled with the co-operation of his closest circle, provides a comprehensive guide to Milligan's work" -- Book jacket.
An Illustrated Autobiography
Spike Milligan has carefully selected scores of very personal photographs to illustrate his intriguing family history, from his birth in India in 1918, his childhood, Army life, and the story of his career to the arrival of his own family, creating a fascinating record of his amazing life.
Offers an account of life as a Bombardier in World War Two that sees our hero dispatched from the front line to psychiatric hospital and from there to a rehabilitation camp.