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Spike Milligan (1918–2002)

Författare till Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall

147+ verk 9,678 medlemmar 105 recensioner 28 favoritmärkta

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Verk av Spike Milligan

Puckoon (1963) 791 exemplar
Monty: His Part in My Victory (1976) — Författare — 585 exemplar
The Essential Spike Milligan (2002) 473 exemplar
The Goon Show Scripts (1972) — Författare — 295 exemplar
Goodbye Soldier (1986) 263 exemplar
Small Dreams of a Scorpion (1972) 203 exemplar
Peace Work (1991) 186 exemplar
More Goon Show Scripts (1973) 172 exemplar
A Book of Milliganimals (1968) 153 exemplar
The Little Pot Boiler (1963) 148 exemplar
Dustbin of Milligan (1961) 143 exemplar
The Looney: An Irish Fantasy (1987) 123 exemplar
Bedside Milligan (1969) 119 exemplar
Badjelly the Witch (1973) — Författare — 118 exemplar
The Compulsive Spike Milligan (2004) 108 exemplar
The Bedsitting Room (1970) 84 exemplar
Gunner Milligan (1995) 82 exemplar
The Book of the Goons (1974) 82 exemplar
The Spike Milligan Letters (1977) 69 exemplar
The Q Annual (1979) 62 exemplar
Open Heart University (1979) 60 exemplar
Hidden Words: Collected Poems (1993) 54 exemplar
Transports of Delight (1974) 52 exemplar
The Nation's Favourite Children's Poems (2001) — Förord — 49 exemplar
Goblins (1800) 47 exemplar
The Lost Goon Shows (1987) 46 exemplar
A Mad Medley of Milligan (1999) 43 exemplar
Spike Milligan: Man of Letters (2013) 40 exemplar
Milligan's Ark (1838) 35 exemplar
The Murphy (2000) 34 exemplar
Milligan Book of Records (1975) 32 exemplar
The Great McGonagall Scrapbook (1975) 32 exemplar
Spike Milligan: A Celebration (1995) 27 exemplar
Milligan's Meaning of Life (2011) 27 exemplar
The Magical World of Milligan (2009) 21 exemplar
Dip the Puppy (1974) 18 exemplar
The Goon cartoons (1982) 17 exemplar
More Goon Cartoons (1983) 13 exemplar
More Spike Milligan Letters (1984) 12 exemplar
Get in the Q Annual (1980) 10 exemplar
That's Amazing (1988) 9 exemplar
Mala pinta (2018) 7 exemplar
The Mirror Running (1987) 7 exemplar
Spike (2003) 5 exemplar
Condensed animals (1991) 5 exemplar
Goon Again (2001) 5 exemplar
The Bald Twit Lion (1968) 4 exemplar
There's a lot of it about! (1983) 4 exemplar
The Melting Pot (1983) 3 exemplar
The Goon Show Classics, Volume 9 (1992) — Performer — 2 exemplar
The Goon Omnibus (1978) 2 exemplar
The Goon Show Classics (1996) 2 exemplar
Goon Show Classics 2 (1996) 1 exemplar
The war memoirs 1 exemplar
Box of Books (1984) 1 exemplar
BadJelly The Witch 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Monty Python's Life of Brian [DVD] [1979] [2007] (1979) — actor — 625 exemplar
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 297 exemplar
History of the World, Part I [1981 film] (1981) — Actor — 218 exemplar
The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 97 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (1996) — Författare, vissa utgåvor25 exemplar
Animal Stories: Tame and Wild (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
The Hound of the Baskervilles [1978 film] (2004) — Actor — 18 exemplar
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie [1972 film] (2007) — Actor — 8 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1974 (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
The Best of Spike Milligan (2003) — Actor — 5 exemplar
The Last Remake of Beau Geste [1977 film] (2014) — Actor — 4 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1974 (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Nothing Solemn: An anthology of comic verse (1973) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Penny Points to Paradise [1951 film] — Actor — 2 exemplar

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This book is marketed as an uproariously hilarious spoof of Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles. It isn’t.

None of the wit is witty. None of the humor is humorous. All of the 'yucks' fall with a dull thud. Even the illustrations fail to amuse and entertain.

This book is just woefully unfunny.

It’s full of vulgar language, and endlessly repetitive ‘gags’:

“My fee is ten guineas an hour with a down payment of one hundred guineas.”
“Holmes was still wearing one black boot and one brown boot.”
“Quack! Quack! Stop that duck”.
“I was headed toward High Tor where I tort I taw a puddy tat.”

And those four ‘jokes’ comprise a good third of the entire book. In case you missed any one of those tired old chestnuts, don’t worry…Milligan will be recycling them yet again in another page or two. Talk about a needle getting stuck in the groove!

Even the less tired wisecracks fail to provide any laughs:

‘ “What do you make of it?”
“I would make a rice pudding of it.” ’

Pause for laughter...& Cue the crickets.

‘ “You have arms, I suppose?"
“Yes, and legs.” ’

Boy, those crickets sure are getting louder.

‘ “Halloa,” cried Dr. Mortimer, “What is this?”
“This is England,” I said. “I thought you knew.” ’

The crickets are just an incessant noise machine at this point.

If this is representative of Spike Milligan’s work, how in the world did he manage to have a career as a comedian?

Save yourself the aggravation, and just read the original Hound of the Baskervilles instead.
… (mer)
½
 
Flaggad
missterrienation | 3 andra recensioner | Jan 19, 2024 |
Limited, if classic, compilation of Goon Show scripts, enlivened by a plethora of drawings and some priceless character descriptions.
½
 
Flaggad
EricCostello | 1 annan recension | Oct 7, 2023 |
Cabincore lit. Spike navel fluff. Sometimes his nonsense is the funniest thing, sometimes it bellyflops. But there are also two or three pieces in this, screeds almost, although still very short, written during mental breakdowns in the sixties, which are scary and sobering.
 
Flaggad
yarb | Aug 2, 2023 |

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Verk
147
Även av
17
Medlemmar
9,678
Popularitet
#2,468
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
105
ISBN
352
Språk
5
Favoritmärkt
28

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