Goons ~ The Red fort

[@stevensprunger3422]

I first heard them when I was about 25 years old in Missouri of all places in Mount Vernon Missouri I was there on a job for about nine months and the local station of Springfield played a gun show every Saturday night I was stunned I never heard of them before Then when I get back home near Los Angeles about 10 years later I got all the CDs all the radio shows on CDs and eight converted them to a thumb drive up on the computer so I got all of them on a thumb drive on a computer they’re amazing you know the influence Monty Python and the influence the Beatles and the influenced the firesign theater

[@howler6490]

Genuine alternative comedy. Can still cause ructions in the nethers...even after all these years... Glorious!

[@errolfellows409]

Sheer comic genius. I heard my first Goon Show in 1955 or 1956 and have been a fanatic since! I shall be 70 in June 2018 and the magic is still fresh. I listen to the shows regularly. A LAAAAARGE Scotch or few, a joint or two and aural hilarity and bliss!!

[@charliecallahan3485]

i have listening to them since i was in boarding school in the fifty's have always have about 6 c.d s in the car and am always listening to ,i am listening to the red fort as i write this .with tears rolling down my face

[@charliecallahan3485]

its not charlie but his grandad frank

[@stephenking3017]

What nonsense, you'd have to be at least 77 now to have first listened to and appreciate the Goons!

[@dbasrus]

@@stephenking3017 He was 7. What's the problem?

[@edwardmather4422]

Did you know Milligan tried to kill Peter sellers with a bread knife?

[@williamparker1085]

milligand and sellers as two indian men was always my favourite part

[@johnrichings9840]

I heard the goon shows in the 1950 and it has affected my humour ever since. Maybe why I don't find modern comedians very funny. Thank goodness for You tube I can listen to them all over again.

[@DaiElsan]

Oh man. They are bonkers. I'm in tears. They are still the best

[@fargodavilleitnotd6729]

"Can your wife keep a secret?" "yes!" "then Im safe" :D :D

[@ianpaulmurray3447]

It's this insanity that keeps me sane...

[@andypandywalters]

Hugh Jampton! Superb....

[@synthonaplinth5980]

'The natives are revoilting!' 'I dunno Sir, they're nice chaps...' hahahahaha

[@HrhFish]

They did get the Goons broadcasts in the States. Mel Brooks who's a big fan recycled that one in History of the world. The walk this way gag in Young Frankenstein he plagiarized from a Daffy Duck cartoon Super Snooper. It's good to be the King....

[@synthonaplinth5980]

I wonder what the 'walk this way' joke's origin was...it might have come out of Vaudeville....

[@hooksncrosses3419]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@freddurst9672]

I love Major Dennis Bloodnok!

[@donaldboughton8686]

Indian Army retired.

[@gavinsmith9016]

Pure genius.

[@DaveYostCom]

One of Bloodnok’s best

[@hamishbills9975]

‘Any last requests Bloodnok? Yes - don’t shoot me!’ 😂

[@krombee]

Jim Spriggs just cracks me up

[@chaynestuddert]

The last Turkey in the shop is a trick gentlemen can do by grasping the bellend and pulling up so the whole package looks like a scrawny Turkey. Hence, the last Turkey in the shop. Also, Hugh Jampton = huge Hampton. Hampton wick is rhyming slang, you can look it up

[@shoescene]

Had forgotten how good they were !!!!!!

[@gfarrell80]

The 50's was a tough time for Britain. The Goons are a very unique cultural response to the collapsing empire at the time. Two of the goons were WW2 veterans and knew first hand about military adventures abroad. It is surprising, re-listening to the Goon shows, how many of them were about collapse of failed schemes abroad, empires falling apart, loss of British prestige. And doing it with humor. I like to think that psychological, such cultural production helped some English people accept and cope with losing an empire. Compare/contrast with American media production today. I do not see any equivalent popular show in American media to the Goons. What we get is insane pro-spy, pro-military, pro-might propaganda in our popular media; all while it seems clear our empire and military power is crumbling, and domestic situation deteriorating. I worry that we Americans are not going to go gracefully from the world stage.

[@Skuu]

Very, very funny. "yes, don't shoot me!"

[@Tindometari]

18 people are dining in the style to which they have become accustomed. "But would it not be more advantageous to stand the door upright?"

[@wilfgibbens9853]

Bluebottle was the best

[@wilfgibbens9853]

thats funny

[@jeffreybarclay297]

Lets not forget the Peruvian Goon, Major Bentine(who once claimed to have fought at Little Big Horn). Easily as potty as Milligna (the well known spolling mistake) Crazy People..

[@donaldboughton8686]

Micheal Bentine the only Anglo-Peruvian born In Watford!!

[@jrgboy]

Only a couple of the shows with Mike Bentine exist & they appear to be in poor condition, at least the excerpts I heard were..

[@snafu2350]

Mike Bentine was primarily a writer, tho he did perform occasionally in the early shows However the regular unsung bit part gongs have to go to Ray Ellington (Red Bladder here) & ofc Wallace Greenslade!

[@exoldbilly]

14.14 - pure genius.

[@SamuelKhan]

The Red Bladder!

[@raymondhamill6702]

Go away or I'll take me with off!!!

[@geraldstockton5447]

Genius!!!!!!

[@tomomale]

'I can't say, but they'd never allow it on television, that's all I can say.' Makes you wonder how they got away with it.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Easily. Some televisions had wheels back then.

[@HrhFish]

They don't repeat Spikes Q series because its un PC. Sad that the few small minded individuals inflict their standards on the rest of us. I am a professional Black and White Minstrel and have been unemployed since 1978. BASTARDS. For those that don't work try that at the unemployment office. ;^)

[@donaldboughton8686]

But they did, have you never heard of the Telegoons?

[@frankedwardcurry]

The last goon show of all - On TV - 1972

[@slacknhash]

It's all in the mind, you know.

[@richardthomas8836]

DOG HAIR SANDWICHES.....