Nick Newman
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Spike review
An entertaining if chaotic exploration of Spike Milligan's trials and triumphs during The Goon Years, starring John Dagleish.
The Stage, 2nd February 2022Spike, Watermill Theatre, review
This Milligan portrait lacks hilarity and heft.
i Newspaper, 2nd February 2022Spike review
This affectionate and spirited tribute similarly lacks surprise - although it will serve as nostalgia for those who remember the show, as the age demographic of the audience attests.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 2nd February 2022Spike review
Fast-paced portrait of Spike Milligan hurls us between the comic's anarchic Goon Show sketches, cartoonish clashes with the BBC and the trauma of war.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 1st February 2022Spike, review
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's show about Spike Milligan, at the Watermill, should delight his many fans but may not recruit new ones
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 1st February 2022Spike review
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman capture Milligan's genius.
Clive Davis, The Times, 1st February 2022Paying homage to the comic genius behind The Goon Show
As a new play based on the life of Spike Milligan opens 20 years after his death, Nick Newman tells Nick Smurthwaite the BBC did not initially understand The Goon Show and failed to recognise that Milligan was the brains behind it, and how he and co-writer Ian Hislop used Milligan's protracted battle with the Corporation to form the backbone of the piece.
Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage, 31st January 2022Why Spike Milligan is still the godfather of British comedy
He was forever at war with the BBC -- and his own demons -- but for Sunday Times cartoonist Nick Newman and Ian Hislop, he is a hero, and the subject of their new play Spike.
Nick Newman, The Sunday Times, 30th January 2022Today's comics on Spike Milligan: the godfather of alternative comedy
He was the shellshocked genius who channelled his anarchic brilliance into The Goon Show. Ian Hislop and Nick Newman explain why they've written a play about Spike Milligan - while comedians remember a legend.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 27th January 2022