6/15/2023 0 Comments Spike milligan ning nang nong![]() ![]() Click here to email us your comic poems and please include your name and country.Īnd now, in reverse order, the authors of the UK's top three comic poems read their work.(Reproduced by permission of Spike Milligan Productions Ltd) On the Ning Nang Nong Where the cows go Bong!Īnd you just can't catch 'em when they do! Is it better than Spike Milligan's wonderful nonsense? BBC News Online want to know what your top comic ditty is, be it a cautionary tale to political satire - or even song lyrics. Griff Rhys Jones announced the winner on a special television programme on BBC One.īut its not too late to send us your favourite funny verse. National Poetry Day wanted a laugh on its fifth birthday. Pam Ayres - Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth. The UK's top ten comic poems chart read like this: His nonsense verse came ranked above John Hegley's Malcolm and Roger McGough's Cake.īoth runners up were in the BBC TV studio for the announcement on Friday along with Four Weddings and a Funeral stars Charlotte Coleman and Simon Callow. The former Goon, in a message recorded on Friday, said: "I have an important announcement to make - I believe my poem has been voted the favourite poem of children and adults - and I want to thank you very much for doing it. Spike Milligan has come top in a poll of the UK's favourite comic poems with his nonsense verse On The Ning Nang Nong. Spike Milligan 1918-2002 was born in India, the son of a highly mobile British military officer and spent his childhood in various places in the Far East.
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