The Goons ~ Dishonoured

The Goons. 1950's British radio comedy
Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe

[@geoffcrisp7225]

I loved this since I was a kid, now 73 and its still funny. No more curried eggs for me!!!

[@markkernes8814]

I have loved this show for more than 50 years-and it's as good today as it was back then!

[@edwardmather4422]

Spike Milligan was a genius

[@WalletandGrimace]

I've loved this particular episode since I was twelve! At sixty- five it's still a favourite and makes my 13 year old Granddaughter laugh too - a lot !

[@byrongodfrey9232]

Yes, being British, my close colleagues and I were avid fans of the Goon Show in the 50's, listening to it every Tuesday evening on the BBC home programme,

[@nicksmith7498]

one of many amazing radio shows! long live the goons! if only the world had more of this! TV rots the eyeballs, bring back classic talent! fear not little shivering nut!

[@synthonaplinth5980]

I grew up on American radio slapstick, but the Goons are just side-splittingly funny on another level.

[@sameyers2670]

"How long have you been with us?" "Twenty minutes" "What a splendid record of devotion and honesty" Classic.

[@guarachiguarocuba9847]

I must have listened to this a hundred times but it never ceases to hit the spot! nice one thanks..

[@WalletandGrimace]

Loved this episode since I was twelve and introduced to The Goons by Brother-in-Law in '63. Granddaughter enjoys it equally today.

[@myke49]

Back in the 1950s when I was quite small, I was given a Crystal Set Radio for my birthday. It worked best with the Australian Broardcasting Commission's large AM transmitters and I discovered that the Goon Show was played every week. So I listened. I loved Eccles and Blue Bottle in particular. I could not really understand what was going on but I listened to it every week. I particularly liked the episode where the Goons climbed Mt Everest from the inside. Many years later I was not long married and the ABC again started broadcasting the Goons every Saturday at Noon on their new FM transmitter. Now I listened again and started to realise just how wonderful the Goons were. They were the foundation of British humour with the Monty Python mobcarrying the tradition on.

[@baconsandwich2007]

Probably my favourite Goon Show..................ever! I love the line, "The wick in the engine's gone out!"

[@johnsturdy5143]

+Mike Paull no more curried egg for me....

[@5spdstang]

Bluebottle & Eccles always kill me...My sides hurt!

[@GirGir183]

I think when he said "Liquourish gives you a good run for your money" he meant that it acts as a laxative.

[@williamparker1085]

no kidding genius

[@andyjay9346]

The Dreaded Batter Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea has gotta to be the funniest Goon Show for me.

[@HrhFish]

In my youth one of the guys who I shared accommodation with broke into Sainsbury's supermarket. I don't know the specifics but for some reason he and his mate got their hands on a load of eggs. We ate eggs every day for at least a month. My mate Andy made curried eggs. I remember being on a train the following day and we stank the carriage out as we could not stop breaking wind. I told a lady who was on the train this story after she complained about our very smelly farts and she doubled up with laughter.

[@peterclinch6740]

Fart jokes are usually funny here's one...whats the definition of A PUFF ADDER ...someone who farts in the bath and counts the bubbles.😂😎

[@petertancred3507]

The comedy trinity....the holy spirit must be lifao!!!

[@richardgreene5145]

That's cause your lying on me. Brilliant.

[@dabedwards]

....Christmas Eve, and still no offers of pantomime! .....No, I'll join the army. It's too darn noisy in the Navy! .....No more curried eggs for me! .....Do we have nothing in common? Glorious lines in possibly the Best Goon Show of all!

[@RanmaNene]

.....I got to make a livin' too y' know. .....Aw, nobodies perfect! .....I wonder if he's the right man for the job? I add and totally agree with your comment.

[@dabedwards]

"Give myself up? I can't quite break myself of that habit" Judging by the stony silence that follows, it would seem that in the 1950s nobody (even loyal fans) could believe that Neddy was referring to THAT SUBJECT! In fact, Harry seems slightly thrown by the lack of response.

[@stephenkerensky710]

Everybody`s gotta be somewhere.

[@rogernicholls2079]

The Indian quarter of Bombay lol.

[@SacrynHill]

...and this is where the story really starts!

[@khent712]

Liquorice is a very good laxative:), thats why it gives you a good run for your money

[@HrhFish]

It doesn't matter how much you pay, where you eat, who cooks it,how poncy the critics say it is, how much preparation and love goes into it food all ends up the same colour in the end. ;^)

[@eliotmccann2589]

7:27 is one of the funniest sounds from the 1950s.

[@jrgboy]

The songs were removed because of copyright problems along with anything that was deemed offensive, they often referred to Ray Ellington's heritage...

[@blueslsdable]

I think we all have the Goons in common Ha

[@flimpkin5]

Thanks for posting this -- and for removing the only dated part of the Goon Shows -- the music.

[@stephenkerensky710]

I know what you mean. I just saw Hard Day`s Night again. Sadly they kept all all the old music in. I mean, that stuff is nearly 50 years old.

[@dabedwards]

This episode is one of four which were released on LPs by EMI/HMV in the early 1960s. The songs were removed from them then, perhaps to reduce the time needed on one side of an LP, or more probably because of additional contractual costs that would have arisen in clearing the music and musicians. It may be that the BBC sold the publishing rights to these four great episodes, and they can longer be heard in their entirety, with the songs, except when broadcast on radio.

[@cswvna]

The songs were definitely removed to reduce the time, LPs were about 22 or 23 minutes per side. When my father copied a double LP set (Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds) onto a C-90 cassette ( to play in the car) he had to splice in an extra minute of tape (give or take) to make it all fit.

[@eddyfinkful]

I have it on a cassette, & the songs are still there, as original!

[@blueslsdable]

Completely agree Adrian

[@DaveYostCom]

This version has cuts. It's from EMI Comedy Classics release.

[@rollomirfino6295]

😂BRILLIANT ❤🎉😂

[@stephenkerensky710]

Why oh why is this not on Mr Gove`s new History curriculum? Our children must know the truth about Empire.

[@stephenkerensky710]

How dare you call Eccles a cardboard replacement? He is made entirely of balsa wood and string.

[@max23245]

And/or time.

[@loumcconnell503]

What about "well known in concentric circles ! "

[@eddyfinkful]

I still use most of these! Watch people's faces, if they dont know them!

[@peterclinch6740]

Watch people's faces? The hairs on my wrist say it's 8thirty.....

[@siltom1962]

"From the book, I Knew Terence Nuke, by Eileen Beardsmore-Lewisham, tiddley-doo spot..." Tiddley-doo spot? What does that mean?

[@khent712]

It doesn't mean anything, just silly gibberish.

[@Skuu]

Anyone wanna explain the liquourish joke at about 18 mins? Everyone found that hilarious x)

[@stephenkerensky710]

To get the runs means having diahorrea - licorice was a laxative.