What a wonderful conversation with a very nice man! More please, I'd love to hear Neil talk about Laurel & Hardy too

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NEIL BRAND
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This week's special guest neilkbrand.bsky.social on Goon Show music and how it enlivened & 'structured' the programme, why the Goons with their freewheeling 'jazz comedy' were in harmony with Max, Ray and the boys in the band, and the genius of Angela Morley.

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THE MIGHTY WURLITZER!
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A show in which a massive organ is embroiled in Middle East tensions? Sound familiar?

Seagoon is trying to break the land speed record for a Wurlitzer, meets two arms dealers to Egypt and faces stiff competition in the shape of Crun & Bannister!

Yay!

New Series!
THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER (1975)
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Clouseau returns & with Gary from @thesitcomclub.bsky.social we chat about the film that put Peter Sellers back on top, cast a Panther TV show & expose the King's Canadian caperings.
Also: Viz man meets Victor Spinetti & Zwamm?!

Preferable to her perfume

I loved this film, so glad to hear you're doing a show on it x

Gregory's Girl (1981) | Goon Pod Film Club Get more from Goon Pod Film Club on Patreon

GREGORY'S GIRL 1981)
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This month we look at Bill Forsyth's breakthrough hit & ask some questions - John Gordon Sinclair is superb as the lanky Gregory but who exactly IS his girl? Did Andy & Charlie ever make it to 'Caracus'? What happened to the penguin? Bella bella!

New! CARRY ON CAMPING (1969)
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The Flying Bikini Top That Shook The World!

This month on GPFC we cheer for Betty Marsden, Peter Butterworth and Charlie Hawtrey, boo Sid & Bernie, and feel a bit sorry for some hippies! Listen now at our brand new price of £1 A MONTH!

New! GOON POD FILM CLUB: GREAT NEWS FOR ALL LISTENERS! open.spotify.com/episode/4vPc...

For Kenneth Williams' 100th birthday we've covering Carry On Camping next week and inspired by Mr Fiddler membership of GPFC has dropped to *£1 a month*! Head to Patreon.com/GoonPod & here's some highlights!

Tony Robinson taking notes from Peter Jones in the unaired 1975 BBC colour pilot of The Rag Trade

Friends,
Just wanted to let you know where things are with the podcast. I'm having a break for a while... I was planning on ploughing on into 2026 but the last month or so has left me feeling underwhelmed and lacking the oomph to carry on.
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LISTENERS' TOP 20 BRITISH SITCOMS OF ALL TIME
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No focus groups, algorithms or AI gremlins were involved in the shaping of this list, just a large yet peculiar group of people with highly-attuned comedy radar - you lot!

With Chris Diamond and @donnarees.bsky.social

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Goon Pod Film Club: WHISKY GALORE! (1949)
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A Boxing Day film if ever there was one, this classic Ealing comedy featuring Gordon Jackson & James Robertson Justice is a gently subversive elbow in the ribs of officialdom.
Slàinte!

I have never heard of this film but if its anything like the Twiilight Zone then I'm all in!

CAROL FOR ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (1964)
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Peter Sellers as a cowboy Santa demagogue. Rod Serling, post JFK assassination, at his bleakest.

A Cold War Christmas Carol that imagines nuclear annihilation and the extinction of mankind.

Ho ho ho.

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THIS IS YOUR LIFE: Spike Milligan (1973 & 1995)
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This week John Williams from World Of Telly @worldoftelly.bsky.social examines the awkward compression of an eventful, contradictory life into a half-hour TV format with two contrasting hosts & a highly unpredictable subject!

David Quantick on ONE WAY PENDULUM (1965)
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Eric Sykes in the film adaptation of the NF Simpson play about an ordinary suburban family with unusual obsessions culminating in a murder trial held in their front room. Goonish goings-on with zig-zag sequiturs!
@quantick.bsky.social

I had a an enjoyable half hour chatting with the LOAB lads about a rather unsatisfying full stop to the Blackadder saga. "Sniff my skids" indeed.
Rather bizarrely the conversation briefly veered off into a chat about Roy Hattersley

Agree with Joel that it is better than it had to be or what people expected it to be, the Beatles never short changed their fans

New episode!
YELLOW SUBMARINE (1968) - with Joel Morris
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All aboard the Goon Pod as Beatles tackle Blue Meanies! Could there BE anything more timeless yet still wonderfully Sixties? Joel - @gralefrit.bsky.social - & Tyler explore why this joyous film earns a place on the show!

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THE ODD JOB (Peter Medak, 1978)
w/ Paul Abbott of Big Beatles Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social

David Jason wants to kill Graham Chapman (still sore over being passed over for Python?) and leaves a trail of dead coppers, bouncers & racist caretakers in his wake!
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Me discussing Spike at the movies!

New! THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN - w/Chas Early
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As the title suggests, the race to be the first Scotsman to play the bagpipes at the South Pole!

Also: Spike sings for George Martin, Harry works with Morecambe & Wise and Peter has a day off to spend some time with his cameras.

"So I said, 'I'd only support the death penalty in very extreme circumstances, such as high treason or mass murder, and even then only if it was proven 100% that they were guilty...' what did I say Roy?"
"You said, 'Anybody not wearing a poppy from late August onwards should be taken out and shot.'"

Exactly 50 years ago today, on Thursday 6th November 1975, Spike Milligan's Q6 series began on BBC2.

Pioneering Milligan, unpredictable as ever and looking to try a new direction, included a sketch about the war, one where he was dressed as a tramp and one with a woman with big boobs.

It doesn't seem like twenty years since my wife and I were cast headlong into parenthood, wholly under-prepared yet charged with a solemn trust: the safe care and upbringing of the tiny human being we had brought into the world.

Luckily TV had already taught me one important rule of child-rearing

The dead husband scene and butcher shop are great in this

The Oscar Wilde sketch and Nudge Nudge

Just checked and he's still alive