ROK Entertainment Group Inc. brings Spike Milligan to Mobiles

The work of Spike Milligan, the writer, poet, musician and comic
genius who revolutionised comedy after the Second World War, is now
available on the web and for mobile phone users through ROK
Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB: ROKE), the global mobile entertainment
group

Norma Farnes, his
agent and manager for 36 years said “Ironically, Spike, born in India
in 1918, distained all gadgetry, including radios that didn’t have just
three knobs – one to turn it off and on, one for tuning and one for
volume – together with cars that had automatic gears, computers and
mobile phones, but he would have been delighted that his work was being
made available to a wider audience”.

Spike is famous for founding the Goon Show which he wrote and then performed with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

Now
for the first time Spike’s work can be downloaded and mobile phone
users can purchase Goon Show tapes and songs as well as the hilarious
seven volume War Memoirs including ‘Adolf Hitler My Part In His
Downfall’, ‘Rommel? Gunner Who?’ and ‘Monty: His Part In My Victory’ as
audio books. Spike’s original drawings which were turned into Greetings
Cards, the biggest sellers in the UK, are also available in animated
form from www.spike-milligan.com [1] and are priced at £1.50 per ringtone or realtone and £4.50 per audio book.  

“Spike
was a truly unique comedy genius and much of what he created is
timeless,” added Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman of ROK “so I’m delighted
we’ve been able to work with Norma on creating this service for all his
fans worldwide and to help showcase his brilliance to a whole new
generation by packaging it for mobile and the web.”

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About Spike Milligan:

Born in India in 1918, Spike's comic skills were honed by performing sketches and shows for fellow troops during WWII.
Back in Britain after the war, Spike worked as a trumpeter and jobbing
scriptwriter with his breakthrough coming with The Goon Show, the
surreal comedy that dominated the airwaves for nine years.
He wrote most of the 250-odd episodes single-handed, a task which
contributed to a series of nervous breakdowns.
Spike's next triumph was his Q programmes for TV, which invented a
whole new comic genre, often abandoning punchlines and allowing
sketches to morph seamlessly into each other.
He also wrote many books, including a series of much-loved army memoirs. 
Spike died in 2002.  A comic genius to the last.

Classic One-liners from Spike:

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?"

"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."

"How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven."

"I can speak Esperanto like a native."

"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge."

"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."

"I'm a hero with coward's legs."

"I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic."

About ROK Entertainment Group Inc.

ROK Entertainment Group Inc., founded in 2004, is a global mobile entertainment group.

www.rokent.com [2]

With
approximately 200 staff worldwide, ROK has filed more than 40
international patents for its suite of innovative mobile technologies.

With 3 billion mobile handsets in use worldwide, the mobile content industry is a multi-billion dollar business.

ROK TV enables the streaming of live and on-demand TV to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G, as well as over 3G and Wi-Fi.