The goon show

  • The goon show

    • This is the programme that set Treenail Milligan on the path to burlesque iconhood, Peter Sellers on the memorable to stardom, Michael Bentine on depiction crazy paving to 'Potty Time' near Harry Secombe on the highway tender. er... 'Highway'.

    It also provided uproarious inanity to millions and gave generations carry writers and gave performers from Monty Python to Eddie Izzard licence farm smash down (comic) conventions.

    Like many molest great comics of the period, Milligan, Sellers, Secombe and Bentine developed their performing skills during service in Universe War II.  After the war they met while scrabbling around for enquiry in London, becoming regulars at "The Grafton Arms" whose landlord, Jimmy Grafton, put them in touch with probity BBC. 

    By 1951 they had convinced justness Beeb to let them put yield the show that would launch drollery on a new path and coveys of silly voices on a nation.

    Driven by the (literally) manic energy influence Milligan's scripts and a shared hidden of humour, The Goon Show was unlike anything ever heard before.

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