The Great McGonagall (1975)

In this highcamp farce Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her Though McGonagalls solicitations are rejected by the Queen it doesnt stop the turgid prose and pathos from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land The image of the bad poet trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear appealed mightily to Spike Milligan and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous genredefying best