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Spike milligan headstone9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Although he did not perform as much in the early shows, Milligan eventually became a lead performer in almost all of the Goon Show episodes, portraying a wide range of characters including Eccles, Minnie Bannister, Jim Spriggs and the nefarious Count Moriarty. The first episode was broadcast on on the BBC Home Service. During its first season the BBC titled the show as Crazy People, or in full, The Junior Crazy Gang featuring those Crazy People, the Goons!, an attempt to make the programme palatable to BBC officials, by connecting it with the popular group of theatre comedians known as The Crazy Gang. After a delayed start, Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine joined forces in a relatively radical comedy project, The Goon Show. ![]() His first success in radio was as writer for comedian Derek Roy’s show. He was also trying to break into the world of radio, as a performer or script writer. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul’s High School, Rangoon. After returning from Burma, Milligan lived most of his life in the United Kingdom apart from overseas service in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. Milligan returned to jazz in the late 1940s and made a precarious living with the Hall trio and other musical comedy acts. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband (1893–1990), was English. Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), who was serving in the British Indian Army. ![]()
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