I first heard them when I was about 25 years old in Missouri of all places in Mount Vernon Missouri I was there on a job for about nine months and the local station of Springfield played a gun show every Saturday night I was stunned I never heard of them before Then when I get back home near Los Angeles about 10 years later I got all the CDs all the radio shows on CDs and eight converted them to a thumb drive up on the computer so I got all of them on a thumb drive on a computer they’re amazing you know the influence Monty Python and the influence the Beatles and the influenced the firesign theater
Sheer comic genius. I heard my first Goon Show in 1955 or 1956 and have been a fanatic since! I shall be 70 in June 2018 and the magic is still fresh. I listen to the shows regularly. A LAAAAARGE Scotch or few, a joint or two and aural hilarity and bliss!!
i have listening to them since i was in boarding school in the fifty's have always have about 6 c.d s in the car and am always listening to ,i am listening to the red fort as i write this .with tears rolling down my face
They did get the Goons broadcasts in the States. Mel Brooks who's a big fan recycled that one in History of the world. The walk this way gag in Young Frankenstein he plagiarized from a Daffy Duck cartoon Super Snooper. It's good to be the King....
I heard the goon shows in the 1950 and it has affected my humour ever since. Maybe why I don't find modern comedians very funny. Thank goodness for You tube I can listen to them all over again.
The last Turkey in the shop is a trick gentlemen can do by grasping the bellend and pulling up so the whole package looks like a scrawny Turkey. Hence, the last Turkey in the shop. Also, Hugh Jampton = huge Hampton. Hampton wick is rhyming slang, you can look it up
The 50's was a tough time for Britain. The Goons are a very unique cultural response to the collapsing empire at the time. Two of the goons were WW2 veterans and knew first hand about military adventures abroad. It is surprising, re-listening to the Goon shows, how many of them were about collapse of failed schemes abroad, empires falling apart, loss of British prestige. And doing it with humor. I like to think that psychological, such cultural production helped some English people accept and cope with losing an empire. Compare/contrast with American media production today. I do not see any equivalent popular show in American media to the Goons. What we get is insane pro-spy, pro-military, pro-might propaganda in our popular media; all while it seems clear our empire and military power is crumbling, and domestic situation deteriorating. I worry that we Americans are not going to go gracefully from the world stage.
Lets not forget the Peruvian Goon, Major Bentine(who once claimed to have fought at Little Big Horn). Easily as potty as Milligna (the well known spolling mistake) Crazy People..
Mike Bentine was primarily a writer, tho he did perform occasionally in the early shows However the regular unsung bit part gongs have to go to Ray Ellington (Red Bladder here) & ofc Wallace Greenslade!
They don't repeat Spikes Q series because its un PC. Sad that the few small minded individuals inflict their standards on the rest of us. I am a professional Black and White Minstrel and have been unemployed since 1978. BASTARDS. For those that don't work try that at the unemployment office. ;^)
milligand and sellers as two indian men was always my favourite part
Genuine alternative comedy.
Can still cause ructions in the nethers...even after all these years...
Glorious!
I first heard them when I was about 25 years old in Missouri of all places in Mount Vernon Missouri I was there on a job for about nine months and the local station of Springfield played a gun show every Saturday night I was stunned I never heard of them before
Then when I get back home near Los Angeles about 10 years later I got all the CDs all the radio shows on CDs and eight converted them to a thumb drive up on the computer so I got all of them on a thumb drive on a computer they’re amazing you know the influence Monty Python and the influence the Beatles and the influenced the firesign theater
Oh man. They are bonkers. I'm in tears. They are still the best
It's this insanity that keeps me sane...
Sheer comic genius. I heard my first Goon Show in 1955 or 1956 and have been a fanatic since! I shall be 70 in June 2018 and the magic is still fresh. I listen to the shows regularly.
A LAAAAARGE Scotch or few, a joint or two and aural hilarity and bliss!!
i have listening to them since i was in boarding school in the fifty's have always have about 6 c.d s in the car and am always listening to ,i am listening to the red fort as i write this .with tears rolling down my face
its not charlie but his grandad frank
What nonsense, you'd have to be at least 77 now to have first listened to and appreciate the Goons!
@@stephenking3017 He was 7. What's the problem?
Did you know Milligan tried to kill Peter sellers with a bread knife?
'The natives are revoilting!'
'I dunno Sir, they're nice chaps...'
hahahahaha
They did get the Goons broadcasts in the States. Mel Brooks who's a big fan recycled that one in History of the world. The walk this way gag in Young Frankenstein he plagiarized from a Daffy Duck cartoon Super Snooper. It's good to be the King....
I wonder what the 'walk this way' joke's origin was...it might have come out of Vaudeville....
I heard the goon shows in the 1950 and it has affected my humour ever since. Maybe why I don't find modern comedians very funny. Thank goodness for You tube I can listen to them all over again.
I love Major Dennis Bloodnok!
Indian Army retired.
Very, very funny. "yes, don't shoot me!"
Jim Spriggs just cracks me up
Pure genius.
Absolutely brilliant!
Hugh Jampton! Superb....
The last Turkey in the shop is a trick gentlemen can do by grasping the bellend and pulling up so the whole package looks like a scrawny Turkey. Hence, the last Turkey in the shop. Also, Hugh Jampton = huge Hampton. Hampton wick is rhyming slang, you can look it up
Had forgotten how good they were !!!!!!
One of Bloodnok’s best
‘Any last requests Bloodnok?
Yes - don’t shoot me!’ 😂
The 50's was a tough time for Britain. The Goons are a very unique cultural response to the collapsing empire at the time. Two of the goons were WW2 veterans and knew first hand about military adventures abroad. It is surprising, re-listening to the Goon shows, how many of them were about collapse of failed schemes abroad, empires falling apart, loss of British prestige. And doing it with humor. I like to think that psychological, such cultural production helped some English people accept and cope with losing an empire.
Compare/contrast with American media production today. I do not see any equivalent popular show in American media to the Goons. What we get is insane pro-spy, pro-military, pro-might propaganda in our popular media; all while it seems clear our empire and military power is crumbling, and domestic situation deteriorating. I worry that we Americans are not going to go gracefully from the world stage.
18 people are dining in the style to which they have become accustomed.
"But would it not be more advantageous to stand the door upright?"
Lets not forget the Peruvian Goon, Major Bentine(who once claimed to have fought at Little Big Horn). Easily as potty as Milligna (the well known spolling mistake)
Crazy People..
Micheal Bentine the only Anglo-Peruvian born In Watford!!
Only a couple of the shows with Mike Bentine exist & they appear to be in poor condition, at least the excerpts I heard were..
Mike Bentine was primarily a writer, tho he did perform occasionally in the early shows
However the regular unsung bit part gongs have to go to Ray Ellington (Red Bladder here) & ofc Wallace Greenslade!
14.14 - pure genius.
Bluebottle was the best
thats funny
Genius!!!!!!
The Red Bladder!
Go away or I'll take me with off!!!
'I can't say, but they'd never allow it on television, that's all I can say.'
Makes you wonder how they got away with it.
Easily. Some televisions had wheels back then.
They don't repeat Spikes Q series because its un PC. Sad that the few small minded individuals inflict their standards on the rest of us. I am a professional Black and White Minstrel and have been unemployed since 1978. BASTARDS. For those that don't work try that at the unemployment office. ;^)
But they did, have you never heard of the Telegoons?
The last goon show of all - On TV - 1972
It's all in the mind, you know.
DOG HAIR SANDWICHES.....