Which radio comedy show host gave themselves the name "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers?
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The Milligan Papers The Milligan Papers was a BBC radio comedy show, written by John Antrobus and starring Spike Milligan. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987, it also featured Chris Langham, John Bluthal, and Antrobus, and is sometimes referred to as "A Goon Show for the '80s". It was produced by Paul Spencer. Milligan stated during the show's production run that he was not happy with the show, and it was cancelled after only one series.
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Spike Milligan Terence Alan Milligan {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name, and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
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Peter Marshall (entertainer) Ralph Pierre LaCock (born March 30, 1926), better known by his stage name Peter Marshall, is an American television and radio personality, singer, and actor. He is best remembered as the original host of "The Hollywood Squares", from 1966 to 1981. He has almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits. His stage name reportedly derived from the college in his home town (Marshall College, which became Marshall University in 1961).
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Rockpalast Rockpalast ("Rock Palace") is a German music television show that broadcasts live on German television station Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). "Rockpalast" started in 1974 and continues to this day. Hundreds of rock and jazz bands have performed on "Rockpalast". Some acts were recorded for broadcast and for retail sale. All-night marathon shows called “Rock Night” ("Rocknacht") were produced once or twice a year from 1977 through 1986 and simulcast throughout Europe via the Eurovision network of TV broadcasters. "Rockpalast" is involved in several German pop, rock and underground music festivals, once sponsoring Bizarre Festival.
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Shtick A shtick (Yiddish: שטיק‎ ) (or schtick) is a comic theme or gimmick. "Shtick" is derived from the Yiddish word "shtik" (שטיק), meaning "piece"; the closely related German word "Stück" has the same meaning. The English word "piece" itself is also sometimes used in a similar context. Another variant is "bits of business" or just "bits"; comic mannerisms such as Laurel and Hardy's fiddling with their ties, or one of them looking into the camera shaking his head while the other one would ramble on. A "shtick" can also refer to an adopted persona, usually for comedy performances, that is maintained consistently (though not necessarily exclusively) across the performer's career. In this usage, the recurring personalities adopted by Laurel and Hardy through all of their many comedy films (although they often played characters with different names and occupations) would qualify as their shtick. A comedian might maintain several different shticks of this sort, particularly if appearing in a variety show encouraging development of multiple characters, such as "Saturday Night Live".
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MC Mario Mario Tremblay, better known under his moniker MC Mario, is a French Canadian song producer, disc jockey and radio host from Montreal, Quebec. Born circa 1970, Mario studied in acoustic equipment at UQAM and then performed with a numerous amount of other DJs, before starting his own career as a nightclub MC at Métropolis in the early 1990s. Starting 1998, he is hosting popular nonstop EDM shows "The Mixdown" (on Fridays) and "The House Party" (on Saturdays) together with Derick Stonebridge on Virgin Radio 96.
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Radio Arvyla Radio Arvyla (Greek: Ράδιο Αρβύλα ) is a Greek live show hosted by ANT1 in Thessaloniki. It first aired on April 2008. It is hosted by Antonis Kanakis, Giannis Servetas, Stathis Panagiotopoulos and Christos Kiousis. It mainly criticizes the political life and what prevails in the modern social life through parodies,videos, Comedy Sketches and jokes.
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Rush Limbaugh Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( ; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host and conservative political commentator. He currently resides in Palm Beach, Florida, where he broadcasts "The Rush Limbaugh Show". According to December 2015 estimates by "Talkers Magazine", Rush Limbaugh has a cume (cumulative weekly audience) of around 13.25 million unique listeners (listening for at least five minutes), making his show the most listened-to talk-radio program in the US.
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Spike (UK) Spike UK is a British digital television channel owned by Viacom International Media Networks Europe. Launching on 15 April 2015 on Freeview, it is a localised version of the American channel of the same name, and primarily airs entertainment programming geared towards a male audience, including import dramas, programming from its U.S. counterpart, and mixed martial arts.
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Disco (TV series) Disco was a pop music program that aired in Germany on the ZDF network from 1971 to 1982. It generally aired on the first Saturday of each month at 7:30PM, each show running 45 minutes. 133 shows were produced. The show was hosted by German actor and comedian Ilja Richter. Its lesser known predecessor on ZDF, "4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet" was aired between 1966 and 1970, presenters included Ilja Richter and Suzanne Doucet. "Disco" generally served a younger pop-oriented audience compared to ZDF's own "Hitparade" show, and until 1972, its main competitor was "Beat-Club" (originally patterned after the pure live-act show "Ready Steady Go!" in the UK, from the late-1960s turning more and more into psychedelic music videos made especially for the invited acts), followed by "Musikladen", both on ARD.
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Spike (Netherlands &amp; Flanders) Spike is a Dutch television channel in the Netherlands and Flanders, based on the American channel of the same name. It is the third Spike channel next to the US and UK version of the channel. The television channel aims at an audience of mainly men. In the Netherlands and Flanders, the channel started broadcasting on 1 October 2015. Initially it only broadcast daily between 21:00 and 2:30, time-sharing with Nickelodeon. As of 12 December 2016 the channel is broadcasting 24 hours a day in the Netherlands.
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Let's Sing and Dance Let's Sing and Dance, formerly known as Let's Dance, is a British television programme shown on BBC One, featuring celebrities performing famous dance routines to raise money for the charities Comic Relief and Sport Relief. The programme was presented by Steve Jones and Alex Jones, who replaced previous host Claudia Winkleman in 2011. In the first series, Anton du Beke was a regular judge, appearing alongside two guest panellists, but in the second series onwards, three guest judges were on the panel each week.
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Newzoids Newzoids is a British topical satirical puppet/CGI sketch show that is aired on ITV and is a co-production between Citrus Television and Factory. The show has a similar style of presentation to that of "Spitting Image", a show it has been compared to, in that it features comedic satirical scenes that spoof current events at the time of each episode's broadcast, with many well known celebrities of different fields (e.g. politics, entertainment) often portrayed in a satirical fashion, with voices provided by impressionists Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Lewis MacLeod, all current stars of the similarly-themed BBC Radio 4 comedy "Dead Ringers".
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Prank call A prank call (also known as a crank call or hoax call) is a telephone practical joke. Prank phone calls began to gain a worldwide following since the invention of telephones, as they became a staple of the obscure and amusing cassette tapes traded among musicians, sound engineers, and media traders beginning in the late 1970s. Among the most famous and earliest recorded prank calls are the Tube Bar prank calls tapes, which centered on Louis "Red" Deutsch. Comedian Jerry Lewis was an incorrigible phone prankster, and recordings of his hijinks, dating from the 1960s and possibly earlier, still circulate to this day.
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Loose Ends (radio) Loose Ends is a British radio programme originally broadcast on Saturday mornings, and then transmitted early Saturday evenings from 1998 by BBC Radio 4. It was hosted by Ned Sherrin until 2006, and has been hosted by Clive Anderson and Peter Curran since 2007. The programme brings together guests, generally from the world of entertainment, in a mix of interviews, sets by comedians and musical sessions.
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The David Lee Roth Show The David Lee Roth Show is a former short-lived American radio show that aired from January 3 to April 21, 2006, hosted by rock musician David Lee Roth. It was the replacement of "The Howard Stern Show" following its departure from terrestrial to Sirius Satellite Radio. It was simulcast on seven stations across the United States owned by CBS Radio, who launched the show as part of its Free FM radio format. Notably different from Howard Stern's program, or corporate "morning zoo" and "shock jock" formats which dominated morning radio at the time, Roth's show sounded similar to pirate radio, featuring ethnic and non-commercial rock music integrated with personal stories, occasionally uncomfortable debates on intellectual matters, and interviews with people Roth admired, such as guitarist Brian May, baseball player Johnny Damon, and Roth's uncle, Manny Roth.
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Rich Hall Richard Travis "Rich" Hall (born 10 June 1954) is an American comedian, writer, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as "Fridays", "Not Necessarily the News" (popularising the "sniglet" neologism), and "Saturday Night Live".
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Karl Zéro Karl Zéro is the stage name of Marc Tellenne (born August 6, 1961 in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie), is a French writer, actor and filmmaker. Zéro is also a political talk show host/personality ("") who has recorded albums of pop standards of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Nick Doody Nick Doody (born 1972 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British stand-up comedian. He features frequently as a guest on radio broadcasts such as "Political Animal" and vox-pop television shows, although he is known primarily as a live stand-up comic.
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Mija Kulić Mija Kulić is a Serbian satirist and artist from Leskovac. He is most famous for his radio and television show Cirkus M, broadcast on the Niš TV station Belle Amie. The show is characterized with the dialect of Leskovac locals.
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I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (often abbreviated as ISIRTA) is a BBC radio comedy programme that originated from the Cambridge University Footlights revue "Cambridge Circus". It had a devoted youth following, with live recordings being more akin to a rock concert than a comedy show, a tradition that continued to "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue".
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Stuart Henry (DJ) Stuart Henry (24 February 1942, Edinburgh - 24 November 1995, Luxembourg) was a disc jockey on pirate radio station Radio Scotland, then BBC Radio 1 from its start in 1967. Between 1967 and 1969 he was one of the regular presenters of BBC's "Top of the Pops". He left the BBC in 1974 to join Radio Luxembourg.