Spike Milligan in rare stand-up comic mode on a 1964 Billy Cotton Band Show. Pity poor old Bill Herbert on the banjo towards the end, having to keep a straight face through all that...
Milligan could play the spoons just for the craic. Jazz trumpeter, pianist, guitarist, comb-and-paper; his like cannot be found anywhere in the world today.
Bugger my hat, what a find. Well done, Cheeseford. The important part is to watch the backing band-if they're in bits, the performer is spot on. These blokes keep a straight face for money.
This is one of the first clips I have found of Spike actually playing the trumpet- he is just fantastic! Does anyone know of any other clips like this?
Actually having played trumpet myself I really hated my thin European lips and envied my African-American jazz trumpet heroes and Milligan always exaggerated for effect. No-one was safe from his wit and humour is impossible if everyone is safe from this. Great to hear him play like this. So much offense is taken by groups entirely detached from the people supposedly offended.
He was amazing, full of creative energy. A complete nightmare as well to live with I'd imagine. A lot of his humour was poking fun at basic absurdities, often racially based. That was acceptable in those days. His Dad was Irish and he took the piss out of the Irish. The goons were like people celebrating the escape from world war and their targets were the elements they'd experienced such as the foreigners and the military and authorities and such.
Love splice magdalen. He brought us up. Made us proud to be second rate, as a nation. In him we accept the fact. He spanks us into reality. Sad to see the rubber lips CC racist bit - cheap and not as good as ‘Pakistani Daleks’ which does not offend me because it is about Daleks and curry.
Milligan: "(Bach) never played any of mine!" Actually, Spike Milligan was a serious composer. Here's an orchestral work of his: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9joUb3alavY.html
Only because you have reprocessed by the government, television, and media...... myself I stopped watching television 39 years ago when reconditioning of the Nation's brain was starting
And you're not a racist? Do you see race in everything? Are you in an intermarriage. No? Why not. Did you ever date interracially? Have interracial kids?
