Writer for Goon Show & Tony Hancock. Commando Captain. Deaded in 1959 so posts channelled by my cousin.
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PETER: Never will I forget that moment when, balanced precariously on a precipice near the summit, my rope broke.
MIKE: Whatever did you do?
PETER: The only thing that an experienced mountaineer could do.
MIKE: What was that?
PETER: I fell off.
(Crazy People S1E4, 18 Jun 1951 by Milligan & Stephens)
SEAGOON: A stone through my window!
BLOODNOK: It's got a message on it.
SEAGOON: What's it say?
BLOODNOK: Fred Smith, window repairer.
(Goon Show S2 E21, 17 Jun 1952. Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
ADMIRAL TARBUCKET: Gentlemen, sit down please.
MP: What is the position, Admiral?
ADMIRAL: Quite simple. You bend your legs & pull the chair underneath you.
(Goon Show S2 E17, 20 May 1952. Script: Spike Milligan & Larry Stephens. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
BENTINE: Do you speak any foreign languages?
SECOMBE: Yes, I speak several.
BENTINE: Do you speak French?
SECOMBE: No, only Several.
(Crazy People S1 E2, 4 Jun 1951. "Concocted by Spike Milligan. Additions to the mixture made by Larry Stephens. The poison bottled and labelled by Jimmy Grafton."
BENTINE: Gentlemen, the journey is over 3,000 miles of yet unexplored territory. It will have to be covered on foot.
SELLERS: What about the terrain?
BENTINE: There are no trains.
(Goon Show S2 E19, 3 Jun 1952. Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
TIM: What's this I hear about you doing film work?
MICHAEL: Oh yes - you remember The Small Back Room?
TIM: Yes.
MICHAEL: Well I wallpapered that.
(Goon Show S2 E18, 27 May 1952. Script by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens. Edited by Jimmy Grafton.)
SPIKE: Dr Crun inoculated us against the following deadly fevers:
HARRY: Typhoid
MIKE: Malaria
PETER: Sleeping sickness
SPIKE: Black water fever
HARRY: Swamp fever
PETER: Lurgi
MIKE: May 15th. Crun led us into the jungle.
PETER: May 16th. In bed with measles.
(Goon Show S2 E20, 10 Jun 1952)
Friends watching Goon Show rehearsals at Grafton's pub. Mrs Larry Stephens is top centre in the photo!
(Picture Post magazine, 16 Jun 1951)
"Pull your chair up to the ceiling, fill up your glass with potassium cyanide & let the Goons do the rest!" Crazy People - later renamed the Goon Show - was first broadcast on 28 May 1951. Happy 75th birthday, Goon Show!
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