A joke from another episode, Eccles is shut in a room and can't get out. Bluebottle shouts through the keyhole 'Turn the knob on your side!' 'Eccles.... ' I haven't got a knob on my side!'
As the great Spike once said.." A Peanut sat on a railroad track, his heart was all a flutter, the Five Fifteen came rushing by 'TOOT TOOT', Peanut Butter!"
The musings of Spike: Things that go bump in the night, Shouldn't give you such a fright, It's the hole in each ear That lets in the fear, That and the absence of light!
I missed the Goon Shows because I was too young. I was 11 years of age when the last one was broadcast. That's not the one that you reacted to. That wasn't representative of the Goon Shows proper. Any way I got the bug when I was about 13 and started collecting them. I've got all of the albums and there were cassette tapes as well. I searched the local library stock in the 90s and they had some shows that I didn't have. So I went to my local library and had a word with this rather formidable old lady behind the counter. I asked can you get these tapes for me and she asked what they were called and I said "What Time is it Eccles" and she said in a PERFECT Eccles voice " I've got it written down on this piece of paper". I just stood there with my mouth open for a second and then had an uncontrollable laughing fit. They must have done this sequence more than once because the piece that you just played was slightly different from what I remember. My library consists of around 95 perfect quality shows and many more from the early fifties that can only be described as telephone quality. I suggest Squirrel that you find "Tales of Old Dartmoor" or perhaps "Foiled By President Fred". Easy ones to start with. I love your videos. Keep them going please.👍
You really need to see Spike Milligan getting his lifetime achievement award at the Comedy Awards. I remember watching it live and having gut ache from laughing so hard
You should hear the routine on The Goons in which Minnie Banister tells Henry Crun repeatedly that someone is knocking on the door, and Henry says he can’t hear her because someone is knocking on the door.
The "Teasmade" joke reminded me that my older brother always used a Swans Teasmade. It was an alarm clock, light, electric kettle and teapot. All in one unit, to put on your beside cabinet. So you got woken up to a pot of freshly made tea. They are still available to buy new, but made in China now.
My mate Phil always had a full pint of tea from a teasmaid at about 5am before the 2 bus trip to work for an 8am start. I have been meaning to get one for myself ever since
So glad you loved it. One of my favourites from when I was a kid and borrowed the Goon Show LP records from Birmingham Central Library. Now we are spoilt with being to hear the Goons and so many others on BBC radio 4 extra..
I remember listening to the goons on the radio as a very young kid. My brother sister and I used to drive our parents crazy by speaking to each other in Eccles and Bluebottle’s voices at the dinner table! 🤣🤣🐿🏴
Dare I say this sketch is timeless. I´m now 80 and when I was a boy i/we lived for the goon show. There is actually film of the goons doing this stuff in the radio studio. Still funny all these years later.
The Mysterious Punch-up-the-Conker - from which came this clip - and many others are available via a sixpenny stamp, a picture of Queen Victoria and a slightly buffed statue of Frankie Vaughn doing high kicks on a pair of bamboo stilts. The truth of this doesn't bear imagination. Although I write this stuff, I haven't read it. Proooom! Failing all other methods, they are available at good audio outlets!
Spike told a story on a couple of chat shows, about Peter Sellers knocking on his (Spikes) hotel-room door, & upon opening the door, finding Sellers standing there, naked, except for a top hat, asking Spike, "Could you recommend a good tailor"? 🤣🤣🤣
Great to see you reviewing this, following on from the Last Goon Show. The pictures shown in the clip are from original sketches of the characters (Eccles, the stereotypical idiot character, and Bluebottle, the spotty schoolboy/boy scout) that Spike made. The Goon Show was a ground-breaking radio comedy show that is often overlooked today in favour of the likes of Monty Python, when in fact The Goons (Spike, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe in particular) were doing surreal stuff long before the Pythons (most of whom also grew up on The Goons). Hard to review of course, because there are no visuals, but it's well worth checking out the rest of the Show, especially if you are a fan of British comedy in general, and Spike and Sellers in particular.
The Goon Show was slightly before my time but I did listen to it. The show which took over from them was I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (ISIRTA - to the fans). The cast included John Cleese, who went on to Monty Python and Graham Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie who created 'The Goodies'. All of the broadcasts have been archived online. They were the first to do full-frontal nudity - on radio!
Spike Milligan did Eccles, Peter Sellers did Bluebottle. There's a lovely story how Sellers found the bluebottle character - he was an actual person. I'll try and post the link. It is a great story. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0swIJIp9ao0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LBz3e9zs-38.html
Loved listening to the Goon Show, on the wireless, all through my early childhood. We finally got a TV when I was 8 because my dad said it would be worth it now that there was a choice of viewing - that's when a second channel, ITV, started.
That's what I keep asking myself. If only we knew, we could tell a policeman. We must try and capture one of those naughty nothings and find the nationality of it's body!
There must a you tube somewhere of the "Telegoons". I can picture both of these in my head from years ago which makes it even funnier. I must search for it. I can see Henry and Min, Moriarty, Captain Bloodknock, Neddy Seagoon etc.
There are Telegoons videos on You Tube. The ones that I found were uploaded by the last remaining puppeteer who made them. I used have some DVDs with the whole series and I can't find them😪. When I listen to the shows the Telegoons characters are what I see in my mind.
used to listen to repeats of the Goon Show as a teen in the 80's (the music in the middle was cut out, just the jokes). one of the Pythons said that without the Goons, you would not have Monty Python. think this a Goons Joke. Eccles, what is Gravity? I don't know. Well, when you jump up, why do you come down? I live here
Well I am in a very happy mood, watched Ant-Man: Quantomania today & have just heard that WB are selling a DC character to Netflix so they might be interested to restore the Snyderverse (fingers crossed)
Oh Great you found it this a perfect example of circular comedy the two characters in this clip, the famous Eccles and Bluebotte (the boy wonder) are the two Real Idiots in the varied cast Honesty the Goons are worth a deep dive on the Web especially when you realise they started in IIRC the late 1950s you can visualise the generations of British comedy that followed
