Jordan 23 The Goons; A Wellspring of Alternative C

Anarchic and surreal
To say that the Goon Show was anarchic and surreal would be doing it a disservice. Which other show could offer episodes entitled The Mysterious Punch up the Conker, The Stolen Postman, The Affair of the Lone Banana or The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler (of Bexhill on Sea)? These titles may sound quaintly British but they reflected a time when the country was just coming our of post-war rationing and it is telling that the four original Goons all served in the military. They were Peter Sellers (1925-1980), Spike Milligan (1918-2002), Harry Secombe (1921-2001) and Michael Bentine (1922-1996).
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The Goon Show was a British radio comedy which ran on the BBC between 1951 and 1960. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that it influenced comedy performers such as the Monty Python crew and that the Goon Show Preservation Society has Prince Charles as its patron.
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Originally written by Milligan alone, he was eventually joined by such as Eric Sykes and slowly a cast of eccentric characters began to appear, many of whom can still be quoted by fans to this day.
No wonder the BBC made at least 30 attempts to stop the show, citing among other things ‘rank bad taste’.
Through various machinations they found themselves at the BBC performing a show which was originally called Crazy People and was soon moulded by a series of brilliant producers into the nations’ favourite. The best description of the Goons, perhaps,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], can be found from one of these. In his introduction to The Book of the Goons (Robson Books, 1974) producer Peter Eton said, ‘Unlike any other comedy programme of its time The Goon Show was less a criticism of any social system than a bold and melodramatic rearrangement of all life. It was obliged to create a nightmare landscape of its own and to people it with men, beasts and machines terribly at variance with the observable universe’.
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