Glad you enjoyed .....May I recommend if you haven't already heard it that is "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest" just as funny with Charlotte Mitchell in a guest appearance
I really really enjoyed this, this Gooniness, We are all in middle of this Crazy Covid pandemic and this Mad Goons show.. Is the perfect antidote. Thank you Spike Milligan(you Irish Genius) and thanks to all your mates and wonderful cast.
Glad you Enjoyed - They really do not write them like this anymore...More's the Pity , I Recently Uploaded "The Last Goon Show of All " Where they all got back together on the BeeB's 50th Anniversary which I think you may enjoy
Do you know they influenced Monty Python and the Firesign theater as well as many other incredible comedians… As well as the very famous Beatles…. All of them used to listen to the goon shows Ringo Starr are used to hang with Peter Sellers and Ravi Shankar Ringo Starr starred in the magic Christian with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr bought Peter Sellers castle which Peter Sellers named “Fred”
I was born in 1970 so missed out when they were first aired but have spent years collecting and listening since and by far Goons and Kenneth Horne were the funniest , I have the complete Around the Horne series but have never got round to uploading them here
May I recommend "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest" One of my personal faves with Charlotte Mitchell it was a show which Spike re-wrote for a Xmas special which Eric Idle helped him do
My favourite Goon Show exchange (from Insurance - The White Man's Burden) FX: Knock at the door Grytpype-Thynne - "Quick, Moriarty - cover the soapdish!" Moriarty - "But it's empty!" G-T - "But we don't want people to know that!"
Surrealism at a level that puts Dali & co to ignominious shame. You'd have to go to Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament to find anything like it today.
Incorrect picture, Michael Bentine was not in the Goons, at this time. It's Called; The Goon Show. Misleading information.( In your description) The Goon Show ran from 1951 to 1960. Milligan had regularly collaborated with other writers.
You Are correct Mr Bentine as Crackticus Potts (or something very close) was only in the Very Early shows and in fact is extremely hard to get an material of those shows now and left very early on as his ideas and Spikes ideas clash so they amicably split and Mr Eric Sykes was a regular helping hand in writing for Spike on his bad days of depression. But I used this piccie in my Album of Stuff as I thought it gave Mr Bentine a light Airing 😉
@@MrSlartibafast Michael Bentine was a sublimely intelligent and creative humorist, remembered for his radio reminiscences, during which he tried desperately to join the Royal Air Force, and was subsequently arrested for failing to respond to his calling-up... His later childrens' BBC TV programme, "It's A Square World", b/w, was enchanting... Especially, the running gag, about the imaginary "Doomsbury LifeBoat", in which, somebody would shout the alarm, "Shackles away, Samuel"....and the entire back wall of the pub would slide away down the imaginary launching ramp....
Great to rehear some of the best comedy ever, real comedy!!👍👍
Glad you enjoyed .....May I recommend if you haven't already heard it that is "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest" just as funny with Charlotte Mitchell in a guest appearance
@@MrSlartibafast I love that one!
Eccles kills it in this episode. I love his bridge song.
You can never get too Much Eccles
@@MrSlartibafast Good thing too, because apparently there are lots of him. :-) Remember the Christmas carolers?
I love the Goons❤️
They are excellent Spike was definitely one of a kind and no one writes material like that anymore which is a crying shame
I really really enjoyed this, this Gooniness, We are all in middle of this Crazy Covid pandemic and this Mad Goons show.. Is the perfect antidote. Thank you Spike Milligan(you Irish Genius) and thanks to all your mates and wonderful cast.
Glad you Enjoyed - They really do not write them like this anymore...More's the Pity , I Recently Uploaded "The Last Goon Show of All " Where they all got back together on the BeeB's 50th Anniversary which I think you may enjoy
Do you know they influenced Monty Python and the Firesign theater as well as many other incredible comedians…
As well as the very famous Beatles….
All of them used to listen to the goon shows
Ringo Starr are used to hang with Peter Sellers and Ravi Shankar Ringo Starr starred in the magic Christian with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr bought Peter Sellers castle which Peter Sellers named “Fred”
@@stevensprunger3422 Yes I certainly do.
At school in the '60s, we could recite whole episodes verbatim, and would seamlessly adopt the characters when speaking among ourselves..
I always wonder around saying stuff in the Voice of Eccles and no one has the foggiest who he is !!
@@MrSlartibafast fine, fine, fine..
@@MrSlartibafast How's yer old dad?
The Goons dominated social life in the 1950's when radio was dominant over television.
Half the 6th form at Penistone Grammar could do the characters.
I was brought up listening to this insanity. This and Around The Horne were probably the funniest shows ever broadcast on British radio.
I was born in 1970 so missed out when they were first aired but have spent years collecting and listening since and by far Goons and Kenneth Horne were the funniest , I have the complete Around the Horne series but have never got round to uploading them here
May I recommend "Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest" One of my personal faves with Charlotte Mitchell it was a show which Spike re-wrote for a Xmas special which Eric Idle helped him do
My favourite Goon Show exchange (from Insurance - The White Man's Burden)
FX: Knock at the door
Grytpype-Thynne - "Quick, Moriarty - cover the soapdish!"
Moriarty - "But it's empty!"
G-T - "But we don't want people to know that!"
Ray Ellington's number in this is excellent! I'm working my way through all the episodes...
Glad you Enjoyed - I do actually have some more shows which I have been meaning to upload here
I enjoyed hearing the interplay between him and Geldray; I wish they'd had more times that the musicians shared scenes.
Surrealism at a level that puts Dali & co to ignominious shame. You'd have to go to Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament to find anything like it today.
Glad you enjoyed
07:00 find one of the best lines in the show. Applies today.
There's only applause at that point.
Incorrect picture, Michael Bentine was not in the Goons, at this time. It's Called; The Goon Show. Misleading information.( In your description) The Goon Show ran from 1951 to 1960. Milligan had regularly collaborated with other writers.
You Are correct Mr Bentine as Crackticus Potts (or something very close) was only in the Very Early shows and in fact is extremely hard to get an material of those shows now and left very early on as his ideas and Spikes ideas clash so they amicably split and Mr Eric Sykes was a regular helping hand in writing for Spike on his bad days of depression. But I used this piccie in my Album of Stuff as I thought it gave Mr Bentine a light Airing 😉
@@MrSlartibafast Michael Bentine was a sublimely intelligent and creative humorist, remembered for his radio reminiscences, during which he tried desperately to join the Royal Air Force, and was subsequently arrested for failing to respond to his calling-up...
His later childrens' BBC TV programme, "It's A Square World", b/w, was enchanting...
Especially, the running gag, about the imaginary "Doomsbury LifeBoat", in which, somebody would shout the alarm, "Shackles away, Samuel"....and the entire back wall of the pub would slide away down the imaginary launching ramp....
It's William T McGonagall not William J.
Only in your reality...
Coooool
Glad you enjoyed 🤓