He’s probably best known as a co-creator and member of the Goons, and their ‘50s radio comedy programme ‘The Goon Show’. Before his death, he made his name as an irreverent Irish-English writer, actor, comedian and more. Milligan died on this day in 2002 at the age of 83. WHAT WILL IT SAY ON MY HEADSTONE I intend to keep the stone masons hanging on for a few years yet, but the alleged message on Spike Milligan's grave always. To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up 33 likes All Members Who Liked This Quote. And where else could we start but one of the best comedians ever, Spike Milligan.ĭeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company His early life was spent in British India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. Specifically, let’s take a look at some of the wittiest, snarkiest and wryest gravestone epitaphs that have been preserved by history. Sir Spike Milligan KBE (born Terence Alan Milligan 16 April 1918 27 February 2002) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage. So it seemed only fair to make the opening Re-View of this week a study of a more humorous, if indeed darkly comical, subject: gravestones. It seemed fitting to drop the chipper usual tone of this column and elect a more serious remembrance of a year at war. 27 February 2002: Spike Milligan’s gravestone has the last laugh.įor the final Culture Re-View of last week, it was the anniversary of the day Russian troops invaded Ukraine.
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