A podcast which celebrates the work of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine - and great comedy in general!
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God this was me years ago when I used to take my kids to parties and all the other dads were talking about football
Friends watching Goon Show rehearsals at Grafton's pub. Mrs Larry Stephens is top centre in the photo!
(Picture Post magazine, 16 Jun 1951)
Goon Pod
This week we're talking about an LP Peter Sellers made in 1963 with Anthony Newley, Joan Collins and Leslie Bricusse:
FOOL BRITANNIA, which satirised the then very topical Profumo scandal, the Royal Family, the Macmillan government and the British Establishment in general:
pod.link/1569929507
Just reached for Matthew Sweet's excellent Shepperton Babylon and opened a page at random. On Kenneth More:
"More's first job was at the Windmill Theatre, where he monitored the audience for telescopes, binoculars, opera glasses and unauthorised masturbation."
What do you get if you cross Ringo with the Goons?
What What What What What What Goes On
Are there any films in which *everyone* dies at the end?
I know it was nearly 20 years ago but I'm still irritated with what Jonathan Ross and Creepy Timothy Claypole did to Andrew Sachs
65 years ago today: Spike Milligan being a great dad with his daughter Sile
