Biografia

The inscription on his tombstone reads "Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite", which is Irish for "I told you I was ill".

When Peter Sellers and Stanley Kubrick were stuck for an ending for Dr. Fantástico (1964), it was Milligan who suggested the use of the Vera Lynn song "We'll Meet Again".

Roald Dahl had wanted Spike to play his character "Willy Wonka" on the big screen. The studio instead chose Gene Wilder.

Once anonymously placed an advert in the 'lonely hearts' section of England's Private Eye magazine which said 'Wanted - rich elderly widow - object, murder', and got several replies.

Spike has at last been officially recognised by the establishment. He was awarded a knighthood in the 2000 New Years honours list. But because he's an Irish citizen (he refused to take the oath of loyalty when he became stateless in 1960, despite spending 7 years on active service in the British Army) he can only be awarded an honorary knighthood.

Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy. - Puckoon 1963

World peace could be a possibility...if it weren't for all those damned foreigners!

I don't mind dying - I just don't want to be there.

The fondest memory I have is not really of the Goons. It's of a girl called Julia with enormous breasts.

[on his 62nd birthday] Any man can be 62, but it takes a bus to be 62A.