'Spike Milligan'

'Spike Milligan' he's real name was Terence Alan Milligan  was born in 1918 and died in 2002 in Poona, he was preforming on the television and the radio he  was  a comedian and fames for making people lathing by he's poems and memoirs  and often just by being himself , he was voted "the funniest person of the last 1,000 years." in the 1999.  his big break came when he decided to try scriptwriting for radio, he needed to  persuaded the BBC to produce a wacky new radio show with them as the stars. First called The Crazy Gang and finally The Goons  the show that had lots of wired and wonderful characters he had ended the show in 1960 become of depression cursed by the breakdown of his first marriage. He had influence Roby Williams and many others comedians, he was recognised with an honorary knighthood in 2000. Spike Milligan died in 2002 at the age of 83 and he's final joke was "I told you I was ill" (written in Irish) carved on his headstone what I found funny.  As well as writing serious poems when he was ill, Spike also mocking in funny poems. He was influenced by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, two famous English poets of the past who also loved  wordplay and nonsensical stories. Here are two of Spike's best-known nonsense rhymes, delivered in his distinctive piping voice. Spike was famous for "corpsing", that is getting the giggles when you're performing, and he almost does it half way through 'Land of the Bumbly Boo' - but hearing his own merriment only makes the poem funnier. 'On the Ning Nang Nong' was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in 1998. Here you can listen to Spike read it with music specially composed for the poem to complement the bonging cows and clanging mice! But he wasn't just a poet but also I comedian witter and made some work  that was surreal(info from http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/spike-milligan?gclid=CjwKEAjw876oBRCYr86w6KGfpkgSJAACIidwad0b4DsyfsqI7_gxAyfL4IijJCVBFfGBSmoex6KsthoCq53w_wcB)