Last laugh is on Spike

Even in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans.

Even in death, comic genius Spike Milligan has raised a laugh among his adoring fans.

Two years after he died aged 83, relatives of the Goon Show creator have erected a headstone on his grave bearing the star’s epitaph: “I told you I was ill.”

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