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The Goon Show
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Under pressure to write The Goon Show to end all Goon shows, Spike Milligan (Geoff Kelso) is planning his escape from a mental institution dressed only in his pyjamas. After applying to the BritishMuseum to get his marbles back, he starts to lose his grip on reality and threatens to kill Eccles, the most famous Goon character. Will his partners in Goon, Harry Secombe (David James) and Peter Sellers (Jonathan Biggins), be able to stop him?
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The Goon Show was the first real "Alternative Humour". It was truly different from the normal Music Hall type comedy that was recycled for British radio. It didn't pander to the naiveté that inflicted the funny bones of post war Britain. This was cerebral humour in it's truest sense. After all, the imagery of the crazy situations had to be present in the listener's mind before the humour struck home.
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The Goon Show plots, such as they were, often parodied Buchanesque spy stories, stiff-upper-lip imperial adventures, or gallant wartime heroics. Though direct political satire was rare, the tone was irreverent and subversive, a derisive view of a disintegrating British Empire. Goon humour was wild, alogical, and erratic, often straying into surrealism and making ingenious use of ludicrously prolonged sound effects. Secombe invariably played Neddy Seagoon, the naive young hero, while Sellers and Milligan took all the other roles.
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To be fair, The Goon Show was democratic in its ribbing of the races. Milligan was no Evelyn Waugh: he found everyone laughable, whatever their colour. Whatever their class, too. Although it is now nearly impossible to find this stuff funny, there is no doubt that in the fetid, stifling world of austerity-era Britain the Goons' high-blown cacophony must have seemed like fresh air.
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In America "The Goon Show" is mostly known as the show that made Peter Sellers famous. What? Peter Sellers is the guy in the "Pink Panther" movies. No, he wasn't FRENCH! Peter Sellers used to be The Biggest Comedy Star In The World but now he isn't nearly as well known as Adam Sandler or Ben Stiller. Even worse than that, he's dead.
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A Goon Show called 'The Man Who Never Was' was a spoof of the 1956 film of the same name. Peter Sellers performed the voice of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the actual film. He ... performed the voice in some Goon Shows.
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