STAR CAST FOR SPIKE MILLIGAN COMEDY AT THE GRAND! A full star cast for SPIKE has been announced! Tune in to the critically acclaimed Spike Milligan comedy by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman at Blackpool Grand Theatre this November. Hitler may be over, but his war with Auntie Beeb - and ultimately himself - has just begun. Will Spike’s dogged obsession with finding the funny elevate The Goons to soaring new heights, or will the whole thing come crashing down with the stroke of a potato peeler? Delve into the inner workings of one of our most unique and brilliantly irreverent comedy minds with the latest exciting project from talented co-writers Ian Hislop (BBC’s Have I Got News For You team captain and editor of Private Eye) and Nick Newman (writer and satirical cartoonist).
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t’s good to be alive! A full star cast for the celebrated Spike Milligan comedy SPIKE has been announced for Blackpool Grand Theatre from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 November. Radio sensations The Goons are back! Robert Wilfort (Gavin and Stacey, Bridgerton) will play the infamous Spike Milligan, Patrick Warner (The Crown, One Man, Two Guvnors) is Peter Sellers and Jeremy Lloyd (The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Trial by Laughter) is Harry Secombe in the absurdly funny new play SPIKE about the life and career of the inimitable comedy genius. Top TV comedienne and podcaster Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Motherland, Miranda, Buffering) 146
will also join the famous Eccles, Count Jim Moriarty and Bluebottle to reprise her role as Janet the irrepressible sound assistant. It’s 1950s austerity Britain, and out of the gloom comes Goon mania as men, women and children across the country scramble to get their ear to a wireless for another hilariously anarchic instalment of The Goon Show. While Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers get down to the serious business of becoming overnight celebrities, fellow Goon and chief writer Spike finds himself pushing the boundaries of comedy and testing the patience of the BBC.
Ian Hislop said: “It’s a privilege to take SPIKE on tour, exploring the genius of Britain’s most inspirational and ground-breaking comedian. And of course, it’s another chance to steal all his jokes and pass them off as our own. Spike Milligan may be Goon, but he’s not forgotten.”
“I’m not acting crazy. I’m the genuine article” – Spike Milligan And there’s more where that came from…
Flanked by his fellow Goons, Spike takes a flourishing nosedive off the cliffs of respectability and mashes up his haunted past to create the comedy of the future. His war with
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