Milligan's War: The Selected War Memoirs of Spike Milligan

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Spike Milligan exclusive: Previously unheard audio of one of Spike Milligan's last one-man shows". Extrageographic Magazine. 25 December 2006. Archived from the original on 10 October 2007 . Retrieved 26 December 2006.

Eddie Izzard described Milligan as "The Godfather of Alternative Comedy". "From his unchained mind came forth ideas that just had no boundaries. And he influenced a new generation of comedians who came to be known as 'alternative'." [90] Other advertising appearances included television commercials for Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Planters nuts. Milligan died from kidney failure, at the age of 83, on 27 February 2002, at his home near Rye, Sussex. [62] On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex, and was draped in the flag of Ireland. [78] He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words "I told you I was ill." He was buried at St Thomas' churchyard but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph. [79] A compromise was reached with the Gaelic translation of "I told you I was ill", Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite and in English, "Love, light, peace". The additional epitaph Grá mhór ort Shelagh can be read as "Great love for you Shelagh".The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually. First, there is important preparation to be done: extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently'), psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!'). At last the battle for Tunis is upon them . . . This book is quite different from other soldiers memoirs I've read before (my favorite probably being All the Way to Berlin: A Paratrooper at War in Europe), mostly because it is written in a humorous style. And while at times I enjoyed that style, and had to laugh because of what I read, at other points it came across a little forces. Like the book had to be funny so jokes/funny lines/puns where place in the text when ever possible. Even if it didn't make the book any better. a b Hastings, Max (4 April 2019). "Staying On". New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504 . Retrieved 3 April 2019.

Scudamore, Pauline (2013). Spike: a Biography. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-9501-9. OCLC 833768136. a b "Camera spread: Taking a rise out of the serious supermen in TV commercials, Spike Milligan in Bat-Goons outfit leads BP's sales campaign...". Autocar. 126 (3714): 22. 22 April 1967. Milligan, Spike (27 February 2002). "My Obituary, by Spike Milligan". London Evening Standard . Retrieved 30 October 2013.The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine[14/01/72] (1972)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. The fourth volume of Spike Milligan's legendary account of his time in the army during World War Two begins as he and his regiment land in sunny Italy in 1943 ('The ship touched the beach very gently, so gently I suspect it's not insured').