Post by Cato on Jul 14, 2006 18:27:44 GMT
So, any fans of The Goon Show out there...?
You know, the wacky, ridiculous and incisively brilliant BBC radio series of (mostly) the Fifties, in which the magisterial Spike Milligan and the genius that is Peter Sellers, along with Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, launched their not inconsiderable talents upon the world, with wonderfully silly and funny characters living out ludicrous, often very surreal situations?
I'm, admittedly, not a Goon nut, but this part of PP hero Peter Sellers' career is perhaps the most unequivocally successful in many people's eyes who are familiar with much of his work, I'd say.
The Goon Show for those not quite in the know was borne out of the four performers' experiences in British Army theatre during WWII and could certainly be said to have fundamentally influenced the surrealistic tangent comedy took in the later half of the Twentieth Century right up to this day. Without it there would have been no Monty Python and no Saturday Night Live and certainly no 'alternative comedy'.
More on it here...
You know, the wacky, ridiculous and incisively brilliant BBC radio series of (mostly) the Fifties, in which the magisterial Spike Milligan and the genius that is Peter Sellers, along with Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, launched their not inconsiderable talents upon the world, with wonderfully silly and funny characters living out ludicrous, often very surreal situations?
I'm, admittedly, not a Goon nut, but this part of PP hero Peter Sellers' career is perhaps the most unequivocally successful in many people's eyes who are familiar with much of his work, I'd say.
The Goon Show for those not quite in the know was borne out of the four performers' experiences in British Army theatre during WWII and could certainly be said to have fundamentally influenced the surrealistic tangent comedy took in the later half of the Twentieth Century right up to this day. Without it there would have been no Monty Python and no Saturday Night Live and certainly no 'alternative comedy'.
More on it here...