Famous last words


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Spike Milligan's desire to have his grave inscribed with the satirical words, "I told you I was ill", appeared to many a fitting epitaph to one of the country's greatest comics. Yet, more than two.


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16 Apr 1918 Maharashtra, India Death 27 Feb 2002 (aged 83) Rye, Rother District, East Sussex, England Burial Winchelsea Churchyard Winchelsea, Rother District, East Sussex, England Show Map Memorial ID 6522482 · View Source Suggest Edits Memorial Photos Flowers Memorials Region Europe England East Sussex Rother District Winchelsea


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27 February 2002: Spike Milligan's gravestone has the last laugh For the final Culture Re-View of last week, it was the anniversary of the day Russian troops invaded Ukraine. It seemed.


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Bluthal also performed with Bentine's fellow Goon Show star Spike Milligan in the 1958 Australian TV special The Gladys Half-Hour and the first two series of The Idiot Weekly (1958-59) on radio.


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Todays Famous Grave is, Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and.


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Published May 25, 2004 This article was published more than 19 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Late British comedian Spike Milligan, the creator of landmark radio series.


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The last words of Spike Milligan. Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) is described on his gravestone (of which more later) as 'Writer, Artist, Musician, Humanitarian, Comedian'. He was certainly all of those things, but it is as a comic genius and the father of post-war British comedy that he is best remembered. His epitaph reads:


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Spike Milligan's grave in the grounds of St Thomas' Church in Winchelsea. SUS-201123-123923001. One person, Dom Storey, said the St Anthony's monk who had buried Milligan told how he "used to shout out jokes during his masses and had everyone in stitches". Another tweeter, called Andy, said: "My wife is from Rye and tells me some very.


The newly erected headstone of Spike Milligan in the grounds of St. Thomas the Martyr Church

Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) Photo © BBC I'm sure the acerbic Spike Milligan would have given opinion polls as short shrift as headstones, but in a 1999 BBC poll he was voted the.


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Comedian Ade Edmondson went on a seaside jaunt to the Hastings area at the weekend - and visited Spike Milligan's grave. By Alex Watts Published 14th Feb 2022, 15:34 GMT Updated 14th Feb 2022, 15:39 GMT Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now


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Spike Milligan's headstone bearing his famous joke "I told you I was ill" has vanished from its Sussex graveyard. The comic is buried at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea. But the headstone has.


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Spike Milligan's gravestone has been altered to bear the name of his third wife after a family feud over the comedian's famous epitaph. The stone features the Milligan quip: "I told you I.


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Terence Alan " Spike " Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002) was an Irish [a] comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.


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She also noted that the epitaph on Spike Milligan's headstone in St Thomas's church graveyard in Winchelsea - "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite" ("I told you I was ill") - was in Irish.


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T he famous epitaph on Spike Milligan's gravestone, "I told you I was ill", has been added to , at the end of a bitter feud between the ex-Goon's family members. The comedian died in 2002,.