Goon Pod
@goonpod
A podcast which celebrates the work of Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine - and great comedy in general! Goon Pod: Goon Pod Film Club:
Remember that Happy Days episode when Mork from Ork visited the Cunninghams? I'd say THAT was the episode that jumped the shark, except...
This week on the show we're talking about How I Won The War from 1967. Apparently John Lennon and Michael Crawford became great mates during filming and Crawford even claimed some credit for the composition of Strawberry Fields Forever…🤔
HOW I WON THE WAR (1967) pod.link/1569929507 Following last week's show with Samira Ahmed about A Hard Day's Night we continue the Richard Lester theme with a look at his comic absurdist war satire featuring Michael Crawford, Roy Kinnear and John from the Beatles. With @adamsleslie.bsky.social
I asked ChatGPT to tell me about the Goon Show character Inspector Tittinmangle. This is what I got: "Inspector Tittinmangle is one of The Goon Show's many inept authority figures. His ridiculous name perfectly reflects Milligan's love of mocking officialdom and turning authority into absurdity."
As a big fan of classic British comedy I live in a state of anxiety that a member of the family will walk in the room right at the moment I'm watching something like this
On this day 55 years ago... "An Apple A Day", a TV play by John Antrobus, featuring Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Spike Milligan, Tracy Reed & Kenneth Griffith. Moore plays Clive Eastwood, a young accountant with dreams of becoming a doctor. Broadcast on BBC1 at 11pm on Friday 9th July 1971.
This week, special guest Samira Ahmed talks about A Hard Day's Night and the connecting thread back to the Goons: Richard Lester. How did his early work with Sellers and Milligan shape and influence the Beatles' first feature film, and how did it help him bond with the band? pod.link/1569929507
New! SAMIRA AHMED on A Hard Day's Night podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s... @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social talks about her new book on A Hard Day’s Night & its roots in the world of the Goons; Wilfred Brambell; favourite bits & scenes that never made it; & was Paul Rodney Bewes to John's Tom Courtenay?
Spike Milligan's copy of a Goon Show script from November 1956 with (presumably) a scribbled self-portrait
I took this picture without the aid of Meta glasses, just good old-fashioned 'pretending to photograph my kids having fun' Snooker player Ken Doherty exiting the toilets in Legoland Windsor in 2013.
We're watching a film and it's got Colonel Sanders in it and it's not The Kentucky Fried Movie
We’re doing a show on Puckoon soon. I’d like any memories or moments from the book that particularly resonate with you that we can include. (If you’re like me you discovered it in your dad’s drawer (along with My Secret Life by ‘Walter’) and had never read anything like it before. Or since.)
On this week's show we're talking about the series 8 Goon Show 'World War One', which showcases Harry Secombe's chameleon-like ability to inhabit multiple wholly distinctive characters. <side-eye> pod.link/1569929507
This MP's wife is allegedly being questioned by police over the strange disappearance of Cookie Monster
New! WORLD WAR ONE (aka "________!") pod.link/1569929507 In which your genial host opines that the show contains one of Milligan's career-best performances. We also wonder why Sellers thought Spike was better looking, why Harry played seven parts, and WHY Hughie Green? With @graemelf.bsky.social
We live in a world where there was once a Commodore 64 game of Give My Regards To Broad Street. One for McCartney completists or masochists (Maccochists?) only
It's 70 years since I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas/The Bluebottle Blues was released as a single
Early Donald Duck and Porky Pig look like Donald Duck and Porky Pig as seen on the side of knackered ice cream vans
I can’t remember the dialogue from this scene but I’ll bet the farm it includes a few leery yuks
“You are house broken?” “Er... woof!” “Gut!” This week on the show we're celebrating the mighty Jim Dale, seen here with Spike in Digby The Biggest Dog In The World (1973) pod.link/1569929507
PETER SELLERS CENTENARY BOXSET BLU RAY Out 17th August, just in time for his 101st birthday
I've just been told by someone that she and her family are going to New York and will be spending the equivalent of £320 to walk around a mock-up of the coffee shop from Friends.