Barrymore to play Spike Milligan

[Arch Stanton]

And Barrymore has the odd loose screw as well.

[Arch Stanton]

No but it was said that his manic depression was caused by his WW2 experiences which seems slightly odd as he must have had a disposition towards manic depression before WW2. More typically war causes PTSD.

[Arginald Valleywater]

I hope Prince Charles puts the spoke into this one. He was a great friend of Spikes.

Barrymore, please fuck off to obscurity where you belong.

[Hillfish]

Definitely a worthy read TLW, and I don't mind admiting that the reading of the events during and immediately after the Italian campaign brought a tear to my eye.

Perhaps Barrymore could attempt to try and get into character by first taking a few friends into the desert and have WW11 re-enactors constantly, for a period months, use artillery, tanks and planes to injure and kill one or two of his friends around him helping to push him towards the edge. He can then go into the mountains in southern Italy where those WW11 re-enactors can then land some mortar shells on top of him. Barrymore can then spend the time in hospital trying to find out who he is once more before attempting to immitate a true comedy genius.

[leobloom]

I was reading about a year ago, that many societies/cultures did not believe in the sanctity of psychology or psychiatry as their only aim was to violate the sanctity of the inner uniqueness of the human being. That's just food for thought.

[colonel]

It was 'There's A Lot Of It About' !

[colonel]

magoo wrote:

> colonel wrote:
>
> > Yes- a Johnny Speight production.
> >
> > Spike blacked up to play a Pakistani Irishman. Why?
>
> its an absurd cocept isnt it? An Irish Paki. Someone who drew
> the short straw twice.

It's deliberately offensive. Oddly enough, it also starred Eric Sykes, who had a contractual clause that no swearing would appear in any scenes he was in.

But Sykes and Speight were old friends- with Galton, Simpson, Milligan, Secombe and Sellers, they owned a company called Associated London Scripts as early as the 1960s.
>
> >
> > Even in 1969, LWT pulled it after 2 episodes. Yet we still
> > remember it.
>
> I suppose we remember it because of its notoriety. I liked
> Spike but I have to be honest......his upbringing in India left
> him a wee bit racist.

I just think it was a sign of his genius humour going off key.

[colonel]

Spike wrote the world's funniest joke! :

[Trumpton]

colonel wrote:

> It was 'There's A Lot Of It About' !

Yup, that's what I've been on about.