By 1951 they had convinced the Beeb to let them put on the show that would launch comedy ... and, of course, squeaky-voiced boyscout Bluebottle ("Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard ...

Seagoon, Eccles, Bluebottle and Major Bloodnok. If you recognise these names, then you will have heard The Goon Show, which rewrote the rules of comedy during the 1950s. The mad brilliance of ...

Secombe, whose fine tenor voice and tireless good works were almost as famous as his “Goon Show” radio antics, died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital in Guildford, England. The native Welshman ...

Spike Milligan, 83, the last surviving member and chief writer of the pioneering and abundantly absurdist British sketch comedy program "The Goon Show," whose cast included Peter Sellers ...

1st GOON: And the target of choice of our himsa are minorities. Particularly that minority known as women. Show us a woman – any woman, from six to 60 – and before you can say Nirbhaya we’ll ...

May 28 marks the 70th anniversary of the influential British radio comedy program “The Goon Show,” which inspired fans from the Monty Python group to John Lennon. The Jewish content of The ...

There was also Bluebottle (Sellers), a young boy who always ended up ... The show was notable for the use of sound effects. When The Goon Show started, most sound effects had to played live on ...

Bluebottle is a boy scout from East Finchley, who spends most of his time on the show reading out the stage directions he is given. Nearly every time he appears on the show, he ends up being blown up ...

Crazy People, the first programme of what became The Goon Show, aired on 28 May 1951. The stars - Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine - were billed in the Radio Times ...