The Goons: Minnie and Henry, "There's somebody knocking at the door..."

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13 жыл бұрын

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This extract features Neddie Seagoon, Minnie Bannister and Henry Crun, as remembered by Spike Milligan.

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@robynconway1286 9 ай бұрын

Oh my word I heard this while listening in the 60s sitting with my dear Mum. I was 5. I also remember giggling and wiggling so much. Perfect childhood moment.

@rocketeerPM2500 2 жыл бұрын

The dotty antics of Minnie and Henry Bannister were always one of my favourite Goon Show acts. This insane humour was unique to the Goons, perfect for radio which in the post-war era was king. I'm so glad to have grown up with a weekly fix of Goons on the family wireless.

@rodericstanley2258 5 жыл бұрын

Anyone remember "There's someone taking their boots off in the tent upstairs..". I grew up with this stuff while at school.

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819 4 жыл бұрын

Roderic Stanley thud, thud.....thud.

@stephenrice4554 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that , the international Christmas pudding ? .

@va2011 2 жыл бұрын

@@stephenrice4554 Thank you! I just thought of this bit this morning and wondered which it was from.

@dingopisscreek 2 жыл бұрын

the sheer lunacy of the conversation is brilliant.

@marquonuk 10 ай бұрын

This is wonderful. Only radio can really do this style of situation comedy: a mixture of sound effects, circular dialogue, and perfect timing to generate laughter. Apart from elsewhere in the Goon Show (like the brilliant "What time is it, Eccles?" sketch), another superb one - also coincidentally involving door knocking - is Tony Hancock's The Christmas Club where Tony and Sid argue at length about who should answer the knock on the door. :-)

@douglassun8456 10 ай бұрын

From "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" episode: Caractacus Seagoon: Eccles, stand on my shoulders and pull me up. Eccles: Okay.... [grunts] I'd like to see them do that on television.

@user-jj8zp7nm6y 8 ай бұрын

Brings back wonderful moments of my youth,provided by geniuses.

@phbarnes 9 жыл бұрын

Probably the greatest 3 minutes of radio, ever.

@Hansthatjudicious 3 жыл бұрын

How could anyone not like this? It is priceless!

@RonWylie-gk5lc 5 жыл бұрын

IT never gets old and it never will, even long into the future silly buggers like us will always be around

@Hansthatjudicious 11 жыл бұрын

No one has trouble with doors and windows like Min and Henry. Priceless stuff.

@markanderson6135 2 жыл бұрын

Humour at its best ,Can't beat it. Priceless

@wotireckon Жыл бұрын

Bloodnok and Seagoon phoning the monster warehouse in The Junk Affair is as beautifully brilliant in its futility as this excerpt.

@PeterGriffin-lh6wp 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb.

@WDH59510 12 жыл бұрын

From "The Man Who Tried To Destroy London's Monuments", series 4, episode 2, first broadcast on October 9, 1953. Great stuff.

@dave13dc 5 жыл бұрын

I lost the ability to breathe listening to this......... Genius.

@Ukka68 12 жыл бұрын

Nobody wastes time quite like Min & Hen.

@rocketeerPM2500 2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully put!! They struggled just to cope with the everyday, ordinary challenges in life.

@crankbv1 12 жыл бұрын

One of the funniest little cameos l ever heard was one where Minnie and Henry are in bed together. Minnie says 'Have you taken your male hormone pill Henry? to which he replies,' Yes,Min'...lt gives me the strength to go to sleep! Pure magic.

@markfishburn2549 8 жыл бұрын

this is the cure for everything that is wrong with the world

@ianwallace16 3 жыл бұрын

More so nowadays 😂

@DaiElsan 3 жыл бұрын

Halt who goes there? A shepherd. No your not you are a spy. I am not I am a shepherd. Ah so you are a shepherds spy.... brilliant. Cast adrift in a small boat. We had no oars just two outboard motors so we rowed with those.....