The Last Goon show of all

For those people who loved listening to The Goons on the radio, this video is definitely for you. For the BBC’s 50th anniversary in 1972,the archives delivered three coffins before a destinguished audience at the Camden Theatre, London. They contained three men of entertainment history. Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error, script-writer and voice of Eccles, Moriarty, Little Jim and Minnie Peter Sellers, alias Major Bloodnok, Bluebottle, and Henry Crun, practising his comeback by whistling a soliloquy from Hamlet. Harry Secombe, bald, toothless, Welsh and weighing 37 stone, the brains and the brawn behind Neddy Seagoon, dressed in a floral cretonne frock. The Goons take their final bow, in their last performance after 12 years of silence. From 1952-1960, The Goon Show spawned a cult of quickfire humour as radios’ most influential clowns, driven by an inspired lunacy which wrenched conventional comedy into a new era. Preserved on video as a lasting tribute to their genius, the combined manic brilliance of Milligan, Sellers and Secombe is as fresh and funny today as it was yesterday.