Q9 incorporates the studio audience
into the programme quite a lot, giving us an insight into the sort of people
who would go to a Spike Milligan studio recording forty years ago.
They look like long-term followers of Milligan who know what sort of thing to expect, rather than speculative bookers, I think. It’s slightly unfortunate that they're aware of being recorded and are all looking up at the monitors. The worse the jokes that Milligan tells, the more enthusiastically they respond.
Milligan's resident musical guest, Ed Welch, performs a Gilbert O'Sullivan-type song about things getting better. Something as composed and prepared as a non-funny song comes as a calming relief in the middle of half an hour of thrown-together material performed in a constant manic state, although perhaps Ed Welch doesn't exactly exude the polished charisma of an established musical star.
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