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On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for The New York Times. He wrote: "I was 12 when The Goon Show first hit me, 16 when they finished with me. Their humour was the only proof that the world was insane.
The Goon Show Companion – A History and Goonography. Robson Books. p. 88. ISBN 0-903895-64-1. Character descriptions were given in two of Milligan's books of scripts (he has written a back story to his characters which is not always consistent with the scripts) : Milligan, Spike (1973) [1972]. "Introduction". Goon Show Scripts. Sphere Books.
Several of his radio scripts for The Goon Show were later adapted by Wiltshire for the TV puppet version, The Telegoons. According to a BBC Radio 4 programme on Stephens' life, it was while working on the second season of The Goon Show that Stephens, doubling both as a key contributor and as Milligan's agent, began to drink so heavily it ...
The fact that Ray Ellington was black was commonly joked about. Most of these "politically incorrect" statements and jokes were later edited out, and were consequently lost. However, the above episodes are broadcast on Goon Show Radio, and (with the exception of "The Affair Of The Lone Banana"), contain the supposed cuts outlined below.
Associated London Scripts (ALS) was a writers' agency organised as a co-operative which involved many leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. [1]In the early 1950s, as The Goon Show was gaining popularity, its main writer Spike Milligan accepted an invitation from Eric Sykes to share his small office above a grocer's shop at 130 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush.
In The Goon Show Scripts, published in 1972, it was posthumously revealed that Hercules Grytpype-Thynne was homosexual. [3] The same authority also intimated that he was the half-brother of Willium "Mate" Cobblers, having the same mother, a certain "Vera Colin". In some of the early episodes, the "y" in "Thynne" was pronounced as a hard I.
Volume 1 of The Goon Show Compendium, containing the first 13 episodes of series 5, was released on 7 April 2008, starting a comprehensive release programme of all extant Goons material. In 2015 three of the EMI-licensed episodes were included without the cuts, in their original chronological order, on The Goon Show Compendium Volume 11 ...
The show ends with him poking Neddie in the stomach, as a cacophony of pre-recorded lines from previous parts of the show rise up, followed by a recording of an explosion, a common end to a Goon Show. Andrew Timothy finishes the show with "The next Goon Show will be on July 7th, 1982. [8] And from Goon Show number 167, farewell. P.S.: Forever".