The Bible : The Old Testament According To Spike Milligan : - Softcover

Milligan, Spike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140239707 ISBN 13: 9780140239706

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994

Synopsis

The Bible According to Spike Milligan is an irreverent but very funny spoof of The Old Testament in which, in his own inimitable fashion, Spike Milligan gives his version of the best known biblical stories.

In the Bible, according to Spike Milligan: "In the beginning God created the Heaven and Earth and darkness was upon the face of the deep; this was due to a malfunction at Lots Road Power Station...And God said 'Let there be light'."

'Desperately funny, vivid, vulgar' Sunday Times

'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese

'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard

'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man' Stephen Fry

Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.

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Review:

That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently. A great man (Stephen Fry)

A totally original comedy writer (Michael Palin)

Close in stature to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear in his command of the profound art of nonsense (Guardian)

Manifestly a genius, a comic surrealist genius and had no equal (Terry Wogan)

From the Back Cover:

The Old Testament: but more mad, more merry, more... Milligan!

"And God said, Let there be light; and there was light, but Eastern Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected."

There have been many interpretations of the Old Testament over the centuries but never one quite like this. Spike Milligan has rewritten, in his own inimitable style, many of the best-known stories of the Old Testament, featuring characters like King "my brain hurts" Solomon, the great oaf of a giant Goliath and the lesser-known crossword clue, Hushai the Archite.

Believers and non-believers alike will enjoy this hilarious re-working, where the jokes, jests and jibes tumble over each other from Chapter One, Verse One until kingdom come.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140239707
• ISBN 13: 9780140239706
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 186